Well, in case you were wondering, we now know why Danielle Pletka, distinguished senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, hasn’t been found in an alley with a bullet in her head: she isn’t important enough to kill! Because murder works! Okay, Danielle isn’t quite that brazen. In her recent, unfortunately (or not) paywalled article…
Haters gonna hate. Ignore them. Jurassic World Dominion is pretty damn good!
OK, if you missed Jurassic World Dominion in IMAX (I did not) thanks to my laziness, well, I apologize, but, really, it’s your own damn fault for letting the bi-coastal blue state big mouths do your thinking for you. In the future, if you get the chance to see big dinos on the big screen,…
Shorter Joe Manchin: “I’m as dumb as Susie!”
Poor old Joe Manchin is feeling a little hurt, in the matter of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has…
OK, this is REALLY bad news: I won’t have Dan Drezner to kick around any more!
Yes, it’s true. The Washington Post, in its infinite wisdom and general gutlessness—though I’m sure “pussy-whipped” is far too strong a term—has decided that diversity trumps quality, and Dan, as he reports in his last post, Goodbye, farewell and adieu to Spoiler Alerts, is being eased out, for the greater good—though, frankly, I’m not sure…
Branford Marsalis Quartet with Marshall Keys—“I Mean You”
Branford Marsalis – tenor sax Marshall Keys – alto sax Kenny Kirkland – piano Delbert Felix – bass Lewis Nash – drums, Kennedy Center 1986. Posted by Josh Paxton
Do I LOOK like I’d fall in love with a small-town girl?
Well, frankly, dude, you don’t. You look like your name should be something along the lines of “Russ Trayed”, and you look like you stepped out of the pages of gay cult artist “Tom of Finland”, who specialized in throbbing black and white illustrations of strapping young lads in motorcycle jackets and shades and nothing…
Socio-political notes from all over
God Bless Niall Ferguson! (Pretty much) It’s hard to think of anyone I have trashed so consistently and so contemptuously as Niall Ferguson, whom I once grudgingly praised with a thoroughly uncivil leer as a Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball, while also urging readers not to read his then most recent book, whose title will go unmentioned…
Egor Uzhva—“I Mean You”
Jazz from Kyiv! Featuring Egor Uzhva (apparently from Dubai), sax, with Oleksiy Bogolyubov, piano, Nikita Kovtunenko, drums, and Egor Abramov, bass. Kyiv Glier Academy of Music, 2020. Posted by Serge
Washington Post columnist empties his bladder on Washington Post column
Yeah, it’s not really a question of what WashPost Media Critic dude Erik Wemple had been drinking, but rather how much, and, judging by his recent offering, Depp-Heard case hinged on the world’s worst #MeToo op-ed, I’d say a good two liters at a minimum. It’s true that I beat Erik to the post, so…
Ilya Shapiro: Sometimes he looks like a martyr, sometimes he looks like a dick.
Well, he does! My Cancel-Culture Nightmare Is Over, writes Ilya in the Wall Street Journal, which, I’ve discovered, lets you read a “limited” number of articles for free, which I find convenient, since I would never support such a nauseatingly right-wing rag financially. Sez Ilya My long public nightmare is over. Tomorrow I assume my…