Legal humor here. “Trust me, dude. You do not want to elect this guy President.” “Let’s just say that ‘Lost’ was not entirely fiction.” “We’re either going to be very, very rich or else we’ll end up as the set for one dynamite episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’.” “Those Cayman accounts are just pocket…
Best ever?
Slate magazine publishes what Sherlock Holmes used to call an agony column, “Dear Prudence”.* I don’t know if today’s entry is the best ever, but it’s awfully good: “Help! My husband’s mistress hit me in the face with a rock!” I was in a bar once, and a guy at the bar who was chugging…
More from Politico
Mike Allen, Jonathan Martin, and Jim Vandehei explain why Mitt is such a fuck-up. The piece is an extended sop to Republicans, quoting a near-endless series of Romney pals, advisors, and staffers on how Mitt is this fantastic, fantastic guy who would make a fantastic, fantastic president, if only he would stop stepping on his…
James Asher, not knowing nuance though it gnaw him on the ass
“jimomensko.com” points us to a memo issued by James Asher, Washington bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, which included the following warning his staff: Part of our job is to capture what people really mean, not catch them in a gotcha misstatement or an inelegant remark. Nuance matters. To ensure that we don’t leave truth on…
A meme that cries out for wider application
Arts and Letters Daily points us to a lengthy and satisfying review of Donald Weinstein’s Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet at the Lapham Quarterly. The review is unsigned, which apparently is how they do things there. Like not a few religious reformers, Savonarola worked the citizens of a city (in his…
Whither Republicans?
Is it too soon to wonder about what’s going to happen to the Republican Party after the defeat of Mitt Romney? Well, yes, it is, but what the fuck, it’s fun, so let’s do it. Mitt really put his foot in it, or on it, with his now famous though beginning to recede a bit…
As far as the NYPD is concerned, you’re in a New York State of Mind
The New York Police Department girdles the globe, Daniel Larison Philip Giraldi reports in the American Conservative, with agents of its “International Liaison Department (ILP)” in 11 countries, most notably Israel. These self-appointed experts are apparently not much appreciated by the U.S. State Department, but, you know, fahgeddaboutit, this is Noo Yawk, even when it…
Dirk Raulf—“Hackensack” plus “Well, You Needn’t”
Dirk Raulf, saxophonist and composer from Cologne/Germany and founder of bass sax quartet DEEP SCHROTT, with an excerpt of a solo concert at Martin Luther Church, Cologne. Dirk usually plays bass sax, so he really had to tighten up for this one. Recorded live feb. 24th, 2010, by Christian Ebert. Uploaded by Kanal Von Dikajora.
Terrorism never prosper, what’s the reason? If it pass out enough money to the right people, and help murder the “wrong” people, none dare call it terrorism.
Daniel Larison and Glenn Greenwald have long been on the trail of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (“Warriors of God”), or MEK, a terrorist group that now is no longer a terrorist group, thanks to a little magic wand waving by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. MEK has long been supported by “pay me enough money and I’ll…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “We understand that you’re a man of mystery. We’d just prefer that you not be one in our bed.” “Well, Bill, I’d take one in the gut for you too. You know that.” “Neither of us has any idea concerning what happened to Doc Knows in the Fifth at Santa Anita. Now,…