INTRODUCTION Several weeks ago I began running the first episodes 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 Part 1 and Part 4 are given below. Part 5 picks up with my discussion of his second book, The Owl in…
Fantastic! Dizzy Gillespie with the T.S. Monk Orchestra—“Little Rootie Tootie”
Gillespie in excellent form, and the band sounds good too! “T.S. Monk,” Thelonious’ son, is on drums. The band plays a version of the Hall Overton arrangement worked out by Monk and Overton for the “famous” Town Hall concert waaay back in 1959, still my favorite “modern” big band sound ever. Posted by “SnoGlider”
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I know it eats remotes. But it eats other things too.” “I think our possessions are starting to possess us. Especially this one.” “I know we got it for the rats. But now I’m starting to miss them.” “Yeah, it’s cheaper than ball and claw. But it’s creepier too.” “Buying a love…
Donald Rumsfeld: “Yes, I am an untrained ape, smearing myself with my own feces. Why do you ask?”
I’m only sorry I can’t make that headline a little tougher. Big Don bemoans the fact that President Obama failed to obtain a “status of forces” agreement with Afghanistan. “We have status of forces agreements probably with 100, 125 countries in the world. This administration, the White House and the State Department, have failed to…
Daniel Larison, still failing to penetrate the depths of the hawkish mind
Over at the American Conservative, Dan gives it his best shot in a post labeled “Almost All Sanctions Are ‘Unserious’”, but still comes up short. Maybe it’s the damn feathers, Dan. In dogged fashion, Dan tries his best to make it clear to hawks why arguing about “serious” versus “unserious” sanctions are a waste of…
Foxy Nate Silver just doesn’t understand the data
Nate “I call ‘em as I see ‘em” Silver is being booted about the Internet for not living up to expectations with his widely heralded new site “FiveThirtyEight,” whatever the fuck that means.* Nate has been roughed up by the likes of Tyler Cowan and Paul Krugman,† not to mention Mike “I’m a putz” Allen,…
James Thurber, A Reader’s Guide, Part 4
Introduction Several weeks ago I began running the first episodes 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 parts 1 and 3 are given below. Part 4 continues my discussion of Thurber’s early life. Part 1 Part 3 Part 4…
Obamamotto: Hate the torture, love the torturer. A lot.
“The creatures outside looked from CIA to Obama, and from Obama to CIA, and from CIA to Obama again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” George Orwell remains unfortunately on-point 30 years after, thanks to the absolute determination of our “most open administration in history” president to ensure that there shall…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Fucking de Blasio? Fucking Chris Christie, I think you mean! “I didn’t cut you off, fuckhead! You cut me off! And now look!” “Just take it back to Jersey where it belongs!” “What’s your beef? The Tri-Boro is always hell at this time of day!” “It’s not the goddamn DDT! It’s the…
Republicans are not the stupid party; Republicans are the evil party.
Give the Fraternal Order of Police a whopping dollop of credit, for pursuing the notion that convicted cop-killers have no rights, and give another whopping dollop to seven—count ‘em, seven—Democrats who bowed to the FOP’s demagoguery and voted against Debo Adegbile, President Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Office of Civil Rights, but give…