Legal humor here. “Your master is going to keep on feeding you cookies as long as you keep eating them. They’re programmed that way.” “I know you miss chasing cats. But in dog years you’re a hundred and ten, and that puts a limit on a lot of things.” “Lyndon Johnson said that the only…
Heritage Foundation not entirely a Republican shill machine
Yeah, I’m surprised as you are, but Heritage staffer Daren Bakst puts the wood to House Republicans for passing a farm bill that, in both style and substance, violates just about everything the “new Republicans” are supposed to stand for. The Republican leadership brought the new bill, a mere 600 pages* long, to the House…
Rot at the Top: Why U.S. foreign policy seems unlikely to improve any time soon
Wouldn’t it be nice if the U.S. had a Middle Eastern expert who was, you know, actually from the Middle East? Someone who understood Islamic culture from the inside out, someone with wide experience and education in western academia but also well-traveled throughout the Islamic Middle East and Asia, someone with long years of hard…
Republicans to Hispanics: Hell yes we love you! Just not right now!
Did I predict this? Well, probably not, but, anyway, Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry, two of the biggest DC dicks going, have joined forces to take out the immigration-reform bill, which was likely 99.44% dead in the House of Representatives already. As about a million people have pointed out, Kristol is playing the same game…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I hope you’ll agree with me that this needs to be resolved to Mr. Roberts’ satisfaction as soon as possible.” “Now, a Halloween’s Day Parade may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but you can’t deny that this will get us way ahead of Macy’s in the public eye.” “On the plus…
Reflections plays “Nutty”/ Monk plays “Nutty”
Bill Douglass, bass, Al Brent, trombone, Darius Babazadah, sax, Scott Collard, piano, Barry Eldridge, drums. Posted by Stonehouse Brewery https://youtu.be/vAZSc1wT8Mo Thelonious Monk, piano, Charlie Rsouse, sax, Ben Riley, drums, Larry Gales, bass. Posted by Michael Kucek
Rich people like Kevin Roose threaten America, says Kevin Roose
Former New Yorker, and thus writing for New York magazine Kevin Roose exposes the horror by the Bay—San Francisco Bay, where ubiquitous Uber cars and other forms of high-end transportation, financed by dotcom mega-billionaires are undercutting support for public transportation, to the extent that a strike of BART employees shutting down the city’s subway system…
Happy Fourth! Back on Monday!
Russian Jazz: “Think of One”
Конкурс “Рояль в джазе” Исполняет Юлия Пенязь 11 лет Педагог Алексей Подымкин Got it? Posted by mmcrvr149
Gregory Mankiw: Clever? Yes. Honest? Not so much.
Harvard big shot economist Gregory Mankiw* has gotten a lot of mileage out of his recent screed, “Defending the One Percent,” basically claiming that rich folks should get the “just deserts” of their labors, which most wondrously enrich the lives of the rest of us uncreative schmucks, and arguing that the more we uncreative schmucks…