Legal humor here. All cartoons here. and here “This is the perfect car for New York! To the pedestrians who say ‘I’m walking here!’ this car says ‘No, you aren’t!’” “You’ll never need to buy tires, but regularly scheduled manicures are strongly recommended.” “Just keep it away from SmartCars and Mini-Coopers. I mean, that would…
Liar, Liar, Hair’s On Fire
OK, this is not what I signed up for. Andrew Sullivan accurately diagnoses President Obama’s stance on torture as “hate the torture, love the torturer,” linking to this story by Jonathan S. Landay, Ali Watkins and Marisa Taylor in the newsobserver, which tells me far more than I would like to know about the Obama…
James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide, Part 30
INTRODUCTION This is the 30th episode of “James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide,” a rambling consideration of Thurber’s works, examining his life and work in some detail. Generally, these appear every Friday. The links to the first part and the most recent part are given below. Part 30 discusses Thurber’s book-length reminiscence The Years With Ross….
What Hath Obama Wrought?
In 2012 President Obama became the first president to win two terms by a majority of votes cast since Ronald Reagan, back in 1984, and the first Democrat to do so since Franklin Roosevelt, back in 1936, and, yeah, you read that right. Yet now his administration drifts towards the 2014 mid-terms like a rudderless…
Count Basie and the Kansas City Five, 1979 Special
Jimmy Carter, aging gracelessly
What is it about aging former office holders that compels them to get in front of TV cameras and berate President Obama for failing to activate America’s fleet of death ray satellites that ceaselessly circle the globe to wipe out ISIS, along with all other non-“moderate” Syrian rebels, or perhaps for not slipping over to…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. All cartoons here. and here “Now, I know you all have a lot of questions about a lot of things, but first let me assure that retractable and non-retractable will be treated alike by me.” “And, when it comes to butt-sniffing, well, we’re all adults here. No need to be squeamish, but…
James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide, Part 29
INTRODUCTION This is the 29th episode of “James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide,” a rambling consideration of Thurber’s works, examining his life and work in some detail. Generally, these appear every Friday. The links to the first part and the most recent part are given below. Part 29 continues the discussion of stories in the 1953…
Romney 2016: The Dream That Will Not Die
In glittering prose, Mark Halperin tells of a glittering evening, a gathering of GOP moneybags who listen as 2016 hopefuls Chris Christie, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, and Kelly Ayotte all sing for their supper, with official noncandidate Mitt Romney serving as cohost, along with NY Jets owner Woody Johnson. Each of the hopefuls…
Leon Panetta, backstabbing asshole
If the U.S. spends the next 30 years wallowing aimlessly, and profitlessly, in an endless succession of Middle Eastern wars, one of the people you can blame is former CIA Director former SecDef Leon “The Sky is falling and it’s all Obama’s fault” Panetta. I bitched about Leon in the past for a long time…