I started this site to promote my unpublished if not unpublishable fiction, but that old mutatis mutandis thing took over—I had a dedicated band of about seven readers, plus the ebook thing was coming along, plus President Obama was turning himself into Cheney Light, so now I’ve rearranged things, going the self-publishing route for my…
Pete Seeger: If I had a hammer, I’d help Hitler exterminate the Jews
OK, that’s a little harsh, but it’s not inaccurate. Pete, the subject of innumerable hagiologies in the mainstream media, was a communist’s communist back in 1939, supporting the Nazi-Soviet Pact that led to World War II and fighting aggressively against FDR’s efforts to aid Great Britain and, ultimately, prepare for U.S. entry into the war…
Manhattan Institute dude gets War on Poverty half right, most of the time
Scott Winship, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, home of the cop-loving, Sarah Palin-hating Heather MacDonald* and various other assorted right-leaning, tea-sipping double-domes, has a piece in the current Politico magazine that, shockingly concludes, “despite the alarm of the current debate about America’s poor, the country has actually reduced poverty more than we often appreciate—and…
Holden Ross & the Florida All-State Band 2013—“Ask Me Now”
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “No, I know I don’t get paid to whisper in your ear ‘Thou too art mortal’ and I’m deeply sorry if I said anything to suggest that I believed that I did.” “Well, if you aren’t sitting on Madge’s get-well card, who is?” “No, JB, a display case containing the skulls of…
Sean Wilentz, last seen falling on his big, fat ass
It’s totally unnecessary, but I will join the pile-on squishing poor old Sean Wilentz for his attempted take-down of Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden for the terrible crime of telling Sean more than he wanted to know about his government is doing. Andrew Sullivan administers an abbreviated beat-down while Henry Farrell supplies the…
And if pigs had wings, Ross Douthat could fly
Ralph, explaining why things didn’t quite work out the way they should have under Dub-Ya: If the Medicare Part D expansion had been combined the reforms to Medicare the Bush White House originally wanted, if the push Social Security reform hadn’t gone nowhere, and if tax reform hadn’t died along with the rest of Bush’s…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Fuck it. I’m outa here. I did my job.” “It’ll fall when it’s ready to fall. There’s no sense in forcing these things.” “What’s its problem? How should I know? I just chew ‘em, I don’t explain ‘em.” “Damn birches are slower than AOL. I’m going for a swim.” “You wait for…
Two and a half hours of the Roy Hargrove Quintet!
Roy Hargrove -trumpet, Justin Robinson- alto sax, Gerald Clayton – piano Danton Botler – bass, Montez Coleman- drums Posted by “n1ghtprwlr,” which sort of means “nightprowler,” I guess. 1.Commaraderie 2.Style 3.Strasbourg 4.Divine 5.Trust 6.Never let me go 7.Nothing serious 8.Theme 9.Depth 10.Close your eyes 11.A time for love 12.Starmaker 13.Im not so sure 14.Speak low…
Podhoretz Does Disney
Is it always a bad idea to read the Weekly Standard? Well, if you’re unlucky, you may stumble across William Kristol, calling for more world wars, or at least bemoaning the fact that World War I gave mass slaughter a bad name. On the other hand, you may come across John Podhoretz taking a poke…