Café Django, May 26, 2011. Sadie, Sam, and Joe. Posted by cjand2manygals. Go to the website and hear Sadie imitate Robert Johnson.
Disproving Mitt: Why bother?
Josh Barro has a column explaining why none of the six “studies” cited by Mitt Romney as “proving” that his tax “plan” to cut rates by 20 percent is “feasible” actually do the job. The mountain that all six of the pro-Mitt studies have to digest is yet another study, this one from the Tax…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Hey, numbnuts. That thing don’t drive itself.” “That’s a ‘green machine’ how?” “You’re going to go to sleep and you’re going to wake up President? Walter, there’s a lot about you that I just don’t understand.” “Well, does your ‘big concept’ include getting off your big fat ass and driving that thing?”…
Yes, Brendan, there is a Santa Claus. You just have to know how to work the son of a bitch
Michael Lewis, just after redefining presidential suck-up with his breathless account of presidential b-ball, relapses from his DC sugar high into enjoyable Wall Street snark. In a recent Bloomberg post, spotted by Felix Salmon, Michael affects to relay advice from 12-year-old texter to fellow sons of former Wall Street geniuses a few ground rules for…
There is no question
I have resolved not to start off this post with a question, such as “Can Obama Come Back?” or “Is Romney For Real?”, with the post concluding “maybe so, maybe no.” At this point, in one night Mitt Romney has energized the Republicans in a way that he very notably hadn’t done in the past…
Jack Welch, double asshole
I just got finished telling you that Jack Welch is an asshole. Well, Jack’s back, on the attack. Margaret Hartman, at New York magazine, alerts us to Jack’s latest and greatest excrescence, in, of course, Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, headlined “Jack Welch: I Was Right About That Strange Jobs Report.” Shrewdly, Jack conflates and…
Jack Welch, asshole
In a rare display of actual, functioning karma, albeit at a very minor level, Jack “BLS cooked the numbers” Welch, former CEO of General Electric, will no longer be contributing to Fortune Magazine and Reuters news service, ostensibly at this own volition, although both organizations may have helped Jack make up his mind by supplying…
The New York Police Department: Not that innocent
At the New York Review of Books, Michael Greenberg discusses some of the near-endless violations of civil liberties that occur in the New York City of Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, focusing on the NYPD’s “Intelligence Division” in particular. Mike saves his “nut graph” for last. David Cohen, the head of the Intelligence…
Chris Potter—“Bye ya”
Definitely dark. Jam Session – Guimarães Jazz 2011, Brazil. Chris Potter – Saxophone; Ralph Alessi – Trumpet; Andy Milne – Piano; Drew Gress – Bass; Mark Ferber – Drums. Posted by João Paulo
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Just keep ‘em coming, sis. Daddy knows when to quit.” “It’s not the coffee, dollface. It’s you.” “Sandra, I’ve been wanting to tell you this for awhile. I don’t come here for the coffee.” “We’re all sine waves, really. I just need damping more than most.” Yes, today was going to be…