A couple of years back, when, it seems, I was feeling particularly down in the mouth, I wrote an extended piece bearing the title The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party?. Recently, a couple of actual Republicans have written books asking themselves the same question, viz. Matthew Continetti (The Right The Hundred Year War for…
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Barack Obama, wise before the fact, but not, alas, during
Timothy Shenk, a professor of history at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, which is “within” (somehow) George Washington University, has a nice article up at the New York Times, A Lost Manuscript Reveals the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail. What the good professor is talking about is a 250-page…
Political Notes from All Over
George F. Will, critical race theorist par excellance There was a time when I made a virtual albeit entirely unpaid cottage industry out of making fun of George F. Will, working up such labored funnies as Two-parent families iz da bomb, says Ramblin’ George Will, snickering at the twice married, frequently adulterous when married and…
Matt King—“Bemsha Swing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juCD6NxcRTw Matt King (piano, Fender Rhodes), Chico Pinheiro (guitar), Itaiguara Brandao (bass), Mauricio Zottarelli (drums). Posted by Matt King From the album “Monk In Brazil”
Emily Nussbaum, discovering the seamy side of torture
When Dexter, the tale of a sensitive serial killer, first premiered, five seasons ago, the New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum counted herself a fan: Each week, Dexter, played with icy charisma by Michael C. Hall, stalked his victims. He strapped them to a table, sliced their cheeks to collect a drop of blood, then cut them up with a…
Madonna’s private parts highly amusing, IMHO
Just last week I was taking a whack at Conan O’Brien, sneeringly referring to the poor guy as a “Harvard Hustler with the wit of Marty Allen.” Well, now I’ve got to defend Conan, against the likes of New Yorker writer Nancy Franklin, who asserts that “he’ll soon be Fantastic Mr. Fox, his blend of…