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Every man his own film critic
And, yes, every woman too. Thanks to the Internet, we can all rap to our hearts’ delight on what’s cool. I do it at the Bright Lights Film Journal, most of the time, but why be ruled by an editor’s whims when you can just speak your mind whenever you please? The only trick is,…
OK, Dave Weigel not entirely Chris Christie’s bitch
I recently ridiculed Dave for writing a column that basically quoted Chris Christie at length about how much black people love him and how much he loves New Jersey, ending with Dave himself telling us how “grown men” teared up at the big guy’s rap. Well, today Dave redeems himself, pointing out how the lamestream…
No, Chris Christie will not solve the Republican Party’s problems
It’s amusing to see so many establishment conservatives, and establishment liberals, rushing to embrace Chris Christie for “showing Republicans how to win.” In a post written just before the election, Ramesh Ponnuru said that “Christie has also avoided taking unpopular socially conservative stands on issues that aren’t live debates, and taken the occasional opportunity to…
Obama Bubble? Nuh-uh
What’s Obama’s problem? The Wash Post’s Dana Milbank “explains”: In one account of what even administration officials acknowledge is a debacle, the Wall Street Journal reported that Obama’s policy advisers were aware long ago that the president’s promise that “if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it” wouldn’t hold up. “White House policy…
“In a Crepuscule with Nellie”, played twice
Monk’s tune dedicated to his wife, played first by Jason Moran (piano), Tarus Mateen (bass), and Nasheef Waits (drums) and then by Mark Turner (sax), David Virelles (piano), Ben Street (bass), and Paul Motian (drums). Posted by netta07a
Eff-Dee Deification: A (continuing) Democratic Disease
The severe embarrassment on the “Left” by the Obama Administration’s disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act has taken a variety of forms, from the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” approach advocated by Joan Walsh at Salon, aka “The first rule about the Affordable Care Act is ‘Don’t talk about Affordable Care Act’; “The second rule…
Dave Weigel now officially Chris Christie’s bitch
Over at Slate, Dave Weigel devotes about ten column inches to letting Chris Christie tell us how much black folks love him, followed by about three column feet about how Big Chris is going to stomp, stomp, stomp his hapless Democratic opponent into the ground. Which is surely, surely, surely true. But then Dave ends…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Presumably, it’s attached to something bigger than the house. Otherwise, it would make no sense. “I told you they were your kind of people.” “I don’t know why they don’t get rid of that. We haven’t had a theft since the Johnsons back in 2008.” “Too pre-war to live, I’d say.” “Well,…
Saudi Arabia and Israel: A marriage made in heaven?
When will the lion lie down with the lamb? Well, not any time soon. When will Israel lie down with Saudi Arabia? Well, right about now, judging from “warnings” emerging from neo-con windbags gods like Charles “Krautman” Krauthammer, who says that the failure of President Obama to intervene in Syria, plus his obvious desire to…