It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and the latest fake news regarding “Solar Winds”, the Russian super hack that wasn’t, is a good example. It’s just coincidence, I’m sure, that a sudden leak regarding Russian perfidy should emerge just as Joe Biden was taking office. The odds were already roughly 1,000,000,000,000,000 to 1…
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Articles of Lasting Interest: Jazz: I post a jazz video every week, usually but not necessarily featuring a performance of a composition of Thelonious Monk. These videos can be accessed as a group here. “Harvard douchebaggery not exclusively a left-wing phenomenon, study reveals” is an unfriendly take on Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s disingenuous claim that…
Mote and Beam Dept: WashPost does CNN
“CNN’s Russia story debacle came at the worst possible time for the network”, Paul Farhi reports for the Washington Post, describing the embarrassing collapse of CNN’s “exclusive” on a supposed Senate investigation of Wall Street bigshot/Trump insider Anthony Scaramucci’s supposed suspicious links with Russia: “When challenged on the particulars of the story, CNN acknowledged that…
Michael V. Hayden seriously full of it, says Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Never piss off a United States senator. There once was no greater advocate of the “War on Terror” than California Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee until the Republicans took over in 2014. But the CIA, in a classic case of compulsive over-reaching, tried to strong-arm her and her committee, turning a…
Neocons at the end of their tether
Over at the National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a second, and more anguished, cri de cœur—I discussed an earlier one here—remarking, not simply on the horror that is Donald Trump, but on the horror one feels when one observes one’s friends proudly embracing that horror—if one has such friends as Kevin Williamson, Charlie Cooke, or…
Hillary Clinton, campaigning like its 1984
Sorry if I scared you, kids, but I’m talking Walter Mondale here, not George Orwell. It’s a sad commentary on contemporary liberalism that going “left” in 2015 consists of embracing the Democratic platform of 1984, the year in which the Democratic presidential ticket won precisely one state, the worst drubbing in Democratic history. Hillary’s domestic…
Charlie Hebdo is sooooooo vulgar!
Well, that seems to be the new rap—the new, improved rap—on Charlie Hebdo, the no-holds-barred French satire magazine, nine of whose staff were recently murdered by Muslim terrorists. A number of prominent lefties, including renowned Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau and anti-Bush/Obama war crimes crusader Glenn Greenwald, are suddenly deciding that there should be limits to…
John Kerry: Yes, I am beneath contempt and unworthy of high office. Why do you ask?
I guess John Kerry wants me to hate him. Here’s what our secretary of state has to say about Edward Snowden, the dude who exposed massive and ongoing illegal and unconstitutional spying by our government: ““Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to…
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…
Jeffrey Toobin: Yes, I am an asshole; why do you ask?
I used to not subscribe to the New Yorker because I couldn’t stand its snotty, Upper West Side Jacobinism. Now I don’t subscribe because of its snotty, Upper West Side neo-fascism. At least, that seems to be the case, thanks to NY staff writer Jeffrey Toobin’s new “theory” that journalism is a crime. Toobin, who…