Unless you’re ready for full-immersion fantasy inside baseball, please stop reading now. You heard what I said! Go away! Okay, stud, here’s the deal: House Speaker John Boehner’s recent decision to finally allow the creation of a House Select Committee to “investigate,” for the fiftieth time, the bloody raid on the American compound in Benghazi…
The Economist: Not quite as dumb as the Wall Street Journal? Perhaps!
The bright young lads in three-piece suits* who write the editorials for the Economist have come up with a stunner, *What would America fight for?* Listen to their jive: [W]hen America’s president speaks of due caution, the world hears reluctance—especially when it comes to the most basic issue for any superpower, its willingness to fight….
Roy Haynes—“Blue and Boogie”
Leisure suits and great jazz? Believe it! From Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights in Jazz Charlie Parker Tribute, April, 1973 with Roy Haynes on drums, Howard McGhee and Jimmy Owens, trumpet, Cecil Payne and Lee Konitz on sax, Ted Dunbar, guitar and Richard Davis on bass.From the Jazz Video Guy
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Apparently, it’s only the drier that’s solar powered.” “We have two options: either a very long hose or a combustion unit linked to tanks of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. So I guess traveling light wasn’t such a good idea.” “Well, I can pretend to read this manual as long as you…
James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide
INTRODUCTION This is the ninth 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 9 continues discussion of Thurber’s “slender masterpiece,” My Life…
Joe Lovano—“Ask Me Now” & “Think Of One”
Joe Lovano, sax; Danilo Pérez, piano; Richard Bona, bass; and Jack DeJohnette, drums. Posted by a7dana7
Peace in the Middle East: Who Needs It?
Secretary of State John Kerry has just realized that he ain’t be going to get no Nobel Peace Prize any time soon. Because, basically, who needs peace in the Middle East? Not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s got a nice little Cold War going, which, to mix metaphors a bit, he’s confident he can…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “The fixtures in this place have a mind of their own.” “Apparently, there’s a five-minute time limit on everything.” “As a matter of fact, this is the last of the hot water. And I’m damned well going to keep it, too!” “If it has feet, stay away!” “Lady, you can get my…
NYT reports on “intense debate” within the Obama Administration by quoting Republicans
There’s an “intense debate” going on within the Obama Administration over how aggressive the U.S. should be in countering Vladimir Putin’s semi-invasion of the eastern Ukraine, according to New York Times reporters Peter Baker and C.J. Chivers. Should the U.S. continue to “coordinate” with European nations, or should it act alone? So far, Mr. Obama…
James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide
INTRODUCTION This is the eighth 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, unless I happen to be pushing something of my own or I happen to write something extra long on Thursday, which is why this…