In a recent article appearing in Politico magazine, Charles Lewis, founder of the grandly titled Center for Public Integrity, an outfit dedicated to aggressive investigative journalism, tells a tale from the 1980s about his less than grand experiences with the legendary CBS TV show 60 Minutes. My last 60 Minutes segment, “Foreign Agent,” featured well-known…
Time is Running Out! Again!
Time is running out, Secretary of State John Kerry writes, in the June 30 Washington Post: July 20, the deadline to negotiate a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, is fast approaching. All along, these negotiations have been about a choice for Iran’s leaders. They can agree to the steps necessary to assure the world…
Marcus Roberts—“Bolivar Blues”
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. All cartoons here. “Okay! One more ‘That’s what she said,’ and Story Hour is over!” “If you had learned to fetch in the first place, you wouldn’t get caught out like this.” “Okay, you never met a captain named Ahab. Neither did I. And I never met a white whale named Moby…
James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide, Part 16
INTRODUCTION This is the 16th 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 16 continues my discussion of the pieces contained in…
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis—“Four In One”
Appearing at the 2013 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Posted by sortiesjazznights All jazz videos here
Nancy Pelosi is a fucking cunt, Barbra Streisand, not so much
Gary Oldham, wishing he hadn’t opened his fucking mouth quite so wide in a recent Playboy interview, takes back all the stuff about the Jews running Hollywood. As it turns out, Gary pretty much luvs Jews. Who knew?
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. All cartoons here. “Damn straight it’s a camera, and its message is simple: Keep your hands to yourself, missie.” “Yeah, I’m uplinking the whole schmear to Harvard. Because, basically, Harvard thinks I’m a happening dude.” “When the booze starts flowin’, and the party starts goin’, I like to have a permanent record…
Ross Douthat goes there
Throughout the life of this blog, I have made intermittent yet persistent sport of Timesman Ross Douthat, to the point, on several occasions, of referring to him as “Ross Dumb Fuck.” Well, perhaps I haven’t matured, but Ross has, recently turning in a stunner of a column in which he admitted, as a Republican, that…
George F. Will, finding that elusive middle ground for right-wing hypocrisy
In a column largely, and justly, devoted to pointing out that President Obama’s excellent Libyan adventure, like his predecessor’s Iraqi incursion, was based on false pretences and has resulted more in chaos than democracy, Georgie F then launches as remarkable a series of non sequitur, false assumption, and disingenuous innuendo as I’ve seen since, well,…