Roy Haynes, drums, David Kikoski, piano John Patitucci, bass. Posted by emmadetten
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Stop whining! Get it right and we’ll make them forget all about Snooki!” “This is going to be huge. I can feel it.” “Yeah, I was thinking ‘Gangnam Style’ too, but, you know, more intense. Can we hire that guy?” “OK, I know this a lot to take in all at once….
Ross Douthat’s Aura of Deceit
Ross Douthat has a posting, here, titled Obama’s Aura of Defeat. According to Ross, Obama’s campaign is sucking wind: Losing campaigns have a certain feel to them: They go negative hard, try out new messaging very late in the game, hype issues that only their core supporters are focused on, and try to turn non-gaffes…
William Rehnquist, still elusive
Neither John Jenkins nor his new book, The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist, have gotten much respect on the web. Both University of Chicago Law Professor Eric A. Posner at the sometimes liberal New Republic and Kevin R.C. Gutzman, professor of history at Western Connecticut State University, writing for the unconventionally conservative American Conservative,…
Romney tax plan, re-refuted
Josh Barro explains, again!, why Romney’s tax plan—cutting tax rates and eliminating tax deductions (or “preferences”) without hurting regular folks like you and me—won’t work. Because it’s us regular folks who get all the tax breaks! Tax returns reporting less than $200,000 of adjusted gross income (AGI) [that’s us folks] accounted for a total AGI…
How many stupid foreign policy advisors does President Obama have? One less than he used to
Foreign Policy is a pretty serious magazine, right? No Best Bikini Bods need apply. And a job title like “Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy” sounds pretty intense. So why does a recent article in Foreign Policy by Rosa Brooks, former Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy at the…
Artie Zaitz Quintet, “I Mean You”
Artie Zaitz: guitar, Laura Jurd: trumpet, Duncan Eagles: tenor sax, Peter Randall: bass, Andy Chapman: drums. Live from the Hot Dog Jazz stage at Peter Parker’s in London. Posted by JazzHotDog
George and Jeane, not my favorite Democrats
The recent death of George McGovern occurred when I happened to be reading the biography of someone who detested George—Jeane Kirkpatrick. George is very well remembered by his admirers, as is Jeane—and for very good reasons—but I’m afraid that I will always remember George as a “loser” and Jeane as a traitor. McGovern first helped…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “No, we ain’t lookin’ for the Port Authority. Ha, ha, ha. We just want to sell a little wool. Is that such a crime?” “Move it, folks. My gals are tired of your big city lights.” “Damn it, I’m guessing this ain’t the Weehawken Ferry. Please tell me I’m wrong.” “Where’s the…
Barack Obama: The Smell of Failure
There are a couple of interesting write-ups on the web interviewing a couple of well-known, undecided, unrelated voters—Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, and 24-year-old pre-k teacher and “wage gap” questioner Katherine Fenton. What’s particularly interesting is that both these intelligent, well-informed people 1) don’t really know very much about politics and 2) though…