2014-2015 is definitely shaping up as “The Great Death to Comedy Winter.” The basic premise of both the North Koreans and the Muslim terrorists is that no one can say vicious, funny things about them because they only say vicious, unfunny things about us. This leaves the Obama Administration in the awkward position of saying…
Libertarian Rag attacks Obamacare for applying free market principles to health care
“Reason” magazine is in fact one of my favorite sites, and I urge all 17 of my readers to check it out, but sometimes one’s schadenfreude can run ahead of one’s “reason.” Here, Reasonette Robby Soave chuckles over the plight of Harvard profs who suddenly discover that, thanks to their man Obama, they have to…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Lemme put this way, kid: diehard Freudians die hard. Just keep your head down and keep talking.” “Don’t worry, kid. If they nick you, the session’s on me.” “Okay, so how does this make you feel?” “So what did your boyfriend say when you told him your analyst told you you were…
Just This Once—“In Walked Bud”
Steve Seifert, saxophone; Chad Scheer, bass; Sam Negri, keys; Donnie Frank, drums. Posted by Donnie Frank
Kevin D. Williamson, kind of an asshole
I’m sometimes tempted to consider National Review “roving correspondent” Kevin D. Williamson a “thoughtful conservative,” but then sometimes Kev, as in his Jan. 1 “2015 Non-predictions”, thinks like this: “The Iranians will almost certainly continue pursuing nuclear weapons, and the United States will almost certainly continue doing nothing very credible to dissuade them. It won’t…
New York City cops, fearing, not for their lives, but for their jobs
For more than twenty years, ever since the latter part of David Dinkins’ administration in the early nineties, crime has been declining in New York City. With fewer and fewer real criminals to catch, the New York City Police Department was starting to get nervous. Can things be “too quiet”? You bet your ass! The…
Collettivo T. Monk del conservatorio Verdi di Milano —“Let’s Cool One”
https://youtu.be/IJSxVDFEy8M Arranged and conducted by Dario Trapani Personnel: Dario Trapani – Guitar, Arrangements and Conduction Simone Maggi – Trumpet Paolo Lo Polito – Alto Sax Nicolò Ricci – Tenor Sax Rudi Manzoli – Tenor Sax Andrea Baronchelli – Trombone Giovanni Agosti – Piano Marco Rottoli – Double Bass Riccardo Chiaberta – Drums
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “It don’t look like Heaven cause it ain’t. It’s Purgatory. Keep your nose clean, stay in line, and you’ll do just fine.” “Hey, don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for de Blasio.” “‘So high you can’t get over it’ ain’t just the title of a song.” “No jumpers in New York, no…
Charlie Hill, looking for work
Charles Hill, billed at Politico as “a diplomat in residence and lecturer in International Studies at Yale University,” is not a dude I’ve ever heard of before, but I’m guessing he thinks he deserves a better job, because he’s written shabby, underhanded political diatribe thoughtful piece for Politico Magazine titled “Why Political Islam Is Winning,”…
What should Republicans say now that the GDP is growing, the deficit is shrinking, and gas prices are falling? Reihan Salam has no fucking idea.
What should Republicans say now that the GDP is growing, the deficit is shrinking, and gas prices are falling? Well, says “thoughtful” Republican Reihan Salam, well, this is what Reihan said: According to Texas State University economist David Beckworth and National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru, the chief problem with the Republican worldview in the post-crisis years…