Legal humor here. “He says a dame like me should be going places, and, frankly, Ogg, I’m beginning to think he’s right.” “Well, of course he’s from that new tribe across the river. Where did you think he was from?” “He says it’s time we started monetizing our assets.” “I’m not making a comparison. The…
The President’s policy on Syria is useless and a disappointment to everyone. Maybe that’s the idea!
Hey, it’s August! Things are slow, and it helps to have something—anything, really—to talk about. So administration officials utter proclamations, explanations, and recriminations, while the chattering class chatters in chattering class heaven. How entertaining it is to see our war leaders, General William “Wild Bill” Kristol and Admiral Leon “Bull” Wieseitier in particular, strappin’ on…
Ross/Fowler Myth Exposed!
OK, normal people can stop reading this post right now. If you do not know who Harold Ross and H.K. Fowler were, you are a normal person and should go to Facebook or You-Tube or whatever it is that you kids do now besides drugs and sex. OK, with that out of the way. let’s…
Let’s kill some people, goddamnit! Now!
That is definitely the mood and the fashion in our nation’s capitol these days. John Kerry, of whom I expected much better, seems to have decided that in order to get himself noticed as secretary of state, he’s got to have a war. Kerry’s maudlin “moral obscenity” speech warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he’s…
Woody Shaw: Bemsha Swing
Woody Shaw, trumpet, Stanley Cowell, piano, David Williams, bass, Terri-Lyne Carrington, drums. Aug. 21, 1985, at the Charles Hotel, Cambridge, Mass. Posted by Steve Proviser
New at Bright Lights
I have two reviews in the new edition of the Bright Lights Film Journal—a non-exhaustive survey of films based on the plays of Noël Coward and the last of my reviews of the films of Charlie Chaplin, A King in New York. The issue itself, NSFW as always, is here. My previous reviews of Chaplin’s…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Okay, we all remember this one, don’t we? The First National heist. Sure, we’d like to forget it, but let’s ask ourselves, what did I do then that I wouldn’t do now?” “I think the fact that profits have only declined by 40 percent since out incarceration augers well for renewed growth,…
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…
Chris Christie, everyone’s favorite fat fascist
“I think we have some folks who believe that our job is to be college professors. Now college professors are fine I guess. Being a college professor, they basically spout out ideas that nobody does anything about. For our ideas to matter we have to win. Because if we don’t win, we don’t govern. And…
The “Golden Hour” that wasn’t; an old Iraqi hand pretends that we could have gotten it right
James Clad is an adjunct fellow at Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. According to NDU’s website, “Before joining the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies James Clad was U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia from 2007-09. He also served as…