You’re Anna North and you have to write an “Op-Talk” for the New York Times called “If You Read This, You Might Never Drink a Latte Again” So how the hell are you going to fill up a column with that? If you’re smart, you’ll talk to Kyla Wazana Tompkins, a professor of English and…
Why is Obama so unpopular?
It’s official: President Obama is the people’s choice for the worst president since WWII. And his popularity is dropping faster than runoff in the Dead Sea.1 The first part is easy to explain. Any Democratic president is going to be picked as the “worst” president because Republicans hate Democratic presidents so much. Some fringe Republicans…
Piotr Wyleżoł Trio—”Skippy”
Piotr Wyleżoł, piano, Michał Barański, bass, and Pedro Segundo, drums, Appearing at Ronnie Scott’s Oct. 12, 2012. Posted by Piotr Wyleżoł
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. All cartoons here. “Let it be said that the battle against global warming began today at 9 AM in this very room.” “Do I despise them? No. Do I think them capable of far more than they are giving? Yes.” “Some day they will be free as we are free. But not…
Can Henry M. Paulson, Jr. predict the future?
Several weeks ago,1 former Wall Street big shot and Treasury Sec Henry Paulson held forth on the urgent need for action on climate change, predicting “a future with more severe storms, deeper droughts, longer fire seasons and rising seas that imperil coastal cities” if we, and the rest of the world, fail to take dramatic…
“Many of Obama’s best advisers on Iraq”. And many of his bitchiest as well!
Eli Lake is a guy who has cashed checks from both Marty Peretz and the Reverend Moon. He now holds forth at the Daily Beast and if you read his column “Why the White House Ignored All Those Warnings About ISIS,” you’ll find out why President Obama is so afraid of going up against the…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. All cartoons here. “Yeah, you should have seen it. All the king’s horses, all the king’s men. It was a real madhouse. But somehow yours truly made it out of there in one piece.” “Okay, Mr. Crisp, it was an unresisted impulse, not an irresistible one. Is that enough moral responsibility for…
Al McLean & Jaleel Shaw: “Bemsha Swing”
Al McLean – Tenor Saxophone, Jaleel Shaw – Alto Saxophone, Bryn Roberts – Piano, Jason Davis – Bass.Posted by Randy Cole
James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide, Part 17
INTRODUCTION This is the 17th episode of “James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide,” a rambling consideration of Thurber’s works, examining his life and work in some detail. The links to the first part and the most recent part are given below. Part 17 continues my discussion of the pieces contained in Thurber’s My World and Welcome…