Well, Larry is out, and I won’t miss him. Larry was, hopefully, the last of the shameless Wall Street Democrats—at least, the last of the shameless Wall Street Democrats to be considered for a top position in the Obama Administration this year. To a great extent, Larry was pilloried for, in effect, being too much…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I’m guessing, a rough day on the Street. Am I right, sweet cheeks?” “You damn well better use the side window, baby cakes.” “Looks like someone’s little poker game got a little crazy.” “I ordered a stripper, not an accountant. Get the fuck out of here.” “Hmmmm. Someone else who’s decided that…
The Silence of the Hawks
One would have thought that Vladimir Putin’s* end zone victory dance in the New York Times would have produced an outraged chorus of right-wing “I told you so’s” loud enough to be heard on Mars—if, contrary to fact, sound waves could travel through a vacuum. But even they could, they still wouldn’t, because the right’s…
Back to Square One in Syria? Has It Come To This?
We can’t be that lucky. We can’t work out a face-saving, quasi-significant, or even pseudo-significant, deal with bad boys Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that will actually “solve” the chemical weapons “crisis” in Syria, can we? Life isn’t that nice. Well, probably not, but if Congress can delay having to make an unpleasant decision for…
President Obama’s Excellent Syrian Adventure
Was there ever a schadenfreude so multi-faceted? One would think that the Republican Establishment would be roaring with delight as the leading lights of the Obama Administration take turns shooting the President in the foot—Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan Rice in particular lying their bureaucratic buttocks off, frenziedly concocting non-existent…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “It’s called a casting couch, big boy, and I don’t have to tell you what it’s for. Do I get the part, or do I get the part?” Dr. Kronsky abandoned his “standing therapy” with great reluctance. “Because you’re a lousy lay, that’s why.” “It’s kind of like a singing telegram except…
Barack Obama: Not without guile, not without stupidity
What a difference a day, or at least a couple, make. I just finished patting Obama on the shoulder for pulling a fast one on the Republicans. Now it seems he’s doing his level best to live up to the caricature the right wing has drawn of him—an empty suit in search of a teleprompter….
The incredible shrinking Barack Obama
“My credibility is not on the line,” President Obama said boldly. “The international community’s credibility is on the line. And America and Congress’s credibility is on the line.” Yeah, Barack, you’re practically a bystander to all this. Oy, the hypocrisy. How long O Lord, how long, how long will it take to empty the vials…
Barack Obama: Not without guile
Yes, Barack Obama does throw a nice curve, and it’s fun watching the Republicans sputter and fume at the thought of having to hit the damn thing, at the thought of having to actually take, you know, a meaningful position on the president’s poison-pen letter, “let’s attack Syria and any other country I feel like…
SUNY Purchase jazz combo: “Off Minor”
The opening is a bit casual—just a bit—but once the guys get on stage, they cook. No information on who’s playing. Posted by “Momfixit”, who recorded the proceedings on her/his smartphone. Remarkable sound quality, considering the “equipment.”