War, no matter what anyone wants to tell you, is not a morality play, where one side is ever brave and virtuous, and the other ever sneering and evil. And, to amplify that point a little, we shouldn’t end up fighting World War III just because the Russian invasion of Ukraine is deeply immoral. The…
The Benedict Strategy, Spinoza Edition
I don’t know if you’re up on Rod Dreher, who moans and groans with varying degrees of accuracy regarding the woke folks over at the American Conservative. Rod, a floridly passionate Christian, seems to have undergone several denominational makeovers, rejecting the Catholic Church to settle, I think, somewhere in the fields of Eastern Orthodoxy. Awhile…
Woody Allen’s Autobiography: Words of Wisdom from the Nothing Man
Woody Allen is not large, but he contains multitudes, and some of them show up in his “controversial” autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, which the powers of righteous wokitude finally allowed to be published back in 2020, which I got around to reading in 2021 and am now “reviewing” in 2022. I have read many autobiographies,…
Psycho or senile? Uncle Joe puts his foot in it.
Yeah, Uncle Joe should not have said, speaking of Vladimir Putin, “This man cannot remain in power”. Okay, it appears to have been an adlib, which is slightly less worse than being scripted, and it’s precisely the sort of thing the clearly non-senile Barack Obama used to say as well. But you’d think American presidents…
Andrew Sullivan gets it wrong twice!
Over at Andrew Sullivan’s substack blog, the Weekly Dish, Andy has a strange post, strangely titled The Strange Rebirth Of Imperial Russia, expressing bewilderment over the fact that Russian bad ass Vladimir Putin actually seems to be longing for the good old days, when Imperial Russia styled itself the “Third Rome”, independent of, and superior…
Ginni Thomas is making white people look bad
I am flabbergasted—and, believe me, I do not flabbergast easily—by the lack of response among the chattering class about the fledermaus1 freaky emails exchanged by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows over that horror of horrors, the Biden “coup”. Among other things, Thomas repeated…
Matteo Zaccherini Trio—“Bright Mississippi”
No video, but nice. Matteo Zaccherini, piano; Roberto Bartoli, bass; Lele Veronesi, drums. Posted by Matteo
War! What is it good for? Circulation!
Oh, yeah. There is nothing like a war—in particular, a good guys versus bad guys war—to pump up the circulation, to attract eyeballs—to cable talk shows, network news (OK, I haven’t actually seen one since, well, 2001, but I’m assured they still exist), websites, podcasts, videocasts, etc., etc. etc. I’m told they even have the…
I invented this! Or I predicted it! Or, well, you know.
Okay, I didn’t “predict” this, or anything else. Or invent it. However, a few months back, I wrote a piece, Ben Smith’s latest post for the New York Times is not a column about “misinformation”. It is a column OF “misinformation”, making fun of former NYT media obeserver Ben Smith’s post, Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars,…
Trio On Air—“Bright Mississippi”
Mattia Cigalini, sax; Marc Peillon, bass; Rodolfo Cervetto, drums; Alessandro Collina, piano. Posted by DrumsetMag DrumsetMag