“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.”
Pseudo New Yorker
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,…