Wash Post columnist David Ignatius is widely regarded as the mouthpiece of the Washington establishment. If it’s conventional wisdom you’re after, Dave is full of it. In a recent column, “NATO’s New Perils, Dave displays, rather despite himself, an awareness that past conventional wisdom is, shall we say, full of it as well. “The NATO…
Ted Cruz, too “oleaginous” to win, says Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat, totally covering (and totally not lubricating) his ass, quotes two unnamed conservatives to the effect that Sen. Ted has just too greasy an affect to resonate with the Republican masses. Is this just a (barely) polite way of saying “This guy sucks”? Dunno, but if Ted comes a-callin’, Mr. Douthat better not bend…
Is New York the New Beige?
Not the real New York, of course, the place located about 220 miles north of DC, but the New York of the mind, and, more specifically, the New York of the movies and TV. The notion that New York is the only place in the world where a cool person could possibly live was due,…
Who are the demeanor police?
Well, Jennifer Rubin, that’s who, who nails Jeb Bush for faulty demeanor—lack of “passion”, to be precise—for his limp-wristed takedown of aging Republican realist James Baker, or “the spawn of Beelzebub,” as Jennie likes to call him. We’re watching you, Jeb, we’re watching! Afterwords Previously, Jennie and other hawk-eyed right-wingers pummeled Rand Paul for not…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Your father calls it his ‘Bird Cave’.” “Children, all I can say is that the line between security and servitude is less than absolute.” “They say it’s the coming thing but it isn’t.” “Never take a worm from him and never give him one either.” “I’ve seen these things come and go….
Ben Williams and Yasushi Nakamura—“Blue Monk”
Alan Vanneman 2, MIT 0
A month or two ago, I acknowledged an email from an old Oberlin classmate, Larry Piper, remarking on a number of issues, including a dispute between Larry and myself as to whether anthropogenic global warming is something we can live with. Basically, I say we can, and Larry says we can’t. I noted at the…
Two-parent families iz da bomb, says Ramblin’ George Will
There is an old saying in journalism: “Always write the same piece three times.” George F. Will has modified that bit to read “Write the same piece on the Moynihan Report seventy-three times.” George’s latest reiteration of Daniel Patrick’s timeless wisdom on prosperity and family structure (which does hold up pretty well) can be found…
John Beasley’s MONK’estra Big Band—”Oska T”
Musicians: SAX: Bob Sheppard, Jeff Driskill, Justo Almario, Tom Luer, Tommy Peterson TRUMPET: Bijon Watson, Willie Murillo, Ray Monterio, Brian Swartz, Gabe Johnson TROMBONE: Francisco Torres, Wendell Kelly, Steve Hughes, Ryan Dragon BASS: Rickey Minor, DRUMS: Gary Novak, KEYBOARDS/MELODICA: John Beasley Other musicians: Dwight Trible, Nayanna Holley, Andy Martin, Tony Austin, Jamie Hovorka, Rashawn Ross…
Liz Mair, not fond of morons
The right, parts of it, at least, are up in arms because GOP presidential aspirant and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker booted DC “digital strategist” and (it would seem) all-around gal about town Liz Mair from his campaign merely because Liz dissed honest Iowa folks for being the welfare-sucking hypocrites that they are. Well, I don’t…