If they gave prizes for walking corpses—and maybe they should—the Castro brothers’ brutal farce in Havana would certainly win at least an honorable mention—“ugly but ambulant for more than two decades!” has a nice ring to it. But the Republican mainstream seems determined to prop up the beast. Reason’s Matt Welch gives a nice rundown…
Nothing about Samantha Power in this posting
I’m getting tired of yelling at Samantha Power—for one thing, she doesn’t appear to be listening—so today I’ll go in another direction. Yesterday I was cleaning out some of old folders on my computer and I came across something I wrote close to 20 years ago, a rap on all-night DC TV back in 1996….
Greg Osby—“Ask Me Now”
Greg Osby, sax; Marc Copland, piano; Nir Felder, guitar; Joseph Lepore, bass; Terri Lyne Carrington; bass. Posted by li9one
Over 100 innocent children slaughtered in Pakistan. Is that “iconically heartbreaking” enough for Samantha Power? And, if so, what does she intend to do about it?
Surely there’s a “moderate” rebel group we can send arms to, isn’t there? Perhaps we can declare a “no fly zone” of some sort, which we can use as an excuse for further involvement, the way we did in Libya, which, if we’re really lucky, could lead to some boots on the ground thing. Any…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I’ll count if I want to, goddamn it. It’s not like they can see my lips.” “Now, don’t be a pushover. Remember, you’re proud, tempestuous. You have to be won.” “I told you Springsteen wouldn’t work in a venue like this. We need something bold and brassy. And repetitive.” “Hey, tight pants!…
Samantha Power, presumably not a biologist
Over at the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has a fascinating though not very encouraging long-read re Samantha Power, our UN ambassador and President Obama’s whom-shall-we-invade-next gal about town. Amidst much seriousness, Osnos also records this scrap from Samantha about how refreshing it is to get out of DC and into the field (in this case,…
Samantha Power, definitely a casuist extraordinaire
Recently (well, yesterday), I commented on a long article in the New Yorker by Evan Osnos on Samantha Power, our ambassador to the UN, whom I described unkindly as “President Obama’s whom-shall-we-invade-next gal about town”, making further fun of her (as who would not?) for not knowing that plants “breathe” carbon dioxide rather than oxygen….
Columbia law school: Overprivileged white students protest being overprivileged white students
It’s tough being white at the Columbia University School of Law. You hang with your hip minority friends, crowded four to a room in Yonkers and then go home to the mid-town duplex your aunt is lending you. Guilt! You eat out at hip ethnic restaurants1before they become trendy and notice that your hip ethnic…
Margaret Hartmann, Margaret Hartmann!
New York magazine’s Margaret Hartmann gets my cheer of the week for noting the resurgence of “Mittmentum” as my man Mitt makes it known that he’s unimpressed by the emerging Republican field for 2016, something that he’s been doing on a monthly basis since last summer. Back then, Mitt allowed as how he might run…
North Texas Jazz Chamber Music—“Brilliant Corners”
Fuzzy widescreen, nice sound. Chris Reardon, tenor sax; Patrick Carr, piano; Rasmus Blixt, drums; Jimin Lee, vocals: Brian Casey, contrabass. Kenton Hall, University of North Texas on September 19, 2012. Posted by Brian Casey