Todd Akin—“If you’re pregnant, then you weren’t raped.” Obama—“If you’re dead, then you were a militant.”
Jessica Williams—“Nutty”
https://youtu.be/pFFDkqFeBV4 In an earlier review of several dozen albums devoted to Thelonious Monk’s music, I wasn’t too crazy about Jessica Williams’ In the Key of Monk. But her new one, Deep Monk, sounds pretty good. Catch up with Jessica at her website here.
Niall Ferguson, Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball
Last week, I praised Niall Ferguson for having the chops to quote Thelonious Monk in his recent book, Civilization. Well, don’t buy the book. Niall is an arsehole, as Matthew O’Brien explains here. Hey, the Nazis listened to Mozart. Listen to Thelonious, not Ferguson.
Republicans, so not walking on water
Well, what would you do if you were walking by the Sea of Galilee? Cut loose! Foot loose! And trousers loose too, if you were Kansas Republican Kevin Yoder, who jumped nude into the sea, along with about 20 more inhibited Republicans, according the latest mega-scoop from Politico. For some reason, the FBI took it…
Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Jennifer, I thought you were the one who wanted to give up hydro-carbons.” “Well, if you don’t, you’re going to hurt their feelings.” “The Romans were not just a bunch of money-grubbing imperialists. Anyway, the Pines will give us a 30% discount if we show up in this thing.” “You can fertilize…
Quote of the Day? Walkback of the Week!
Via Brad Delong, Daniel Kuhn, at his site Facts and Other Stubborn Things, brings us the “quote of the day” from libertarian economist Mario Rizzo, after learning that his signing of a document headed “Economists for Romney” proved to be a source of amusement in some quarters: I interpreted signing as restricted to economic policy…
President Obama, learning you can’t please all the psychos all the time
God knows he’s tried. President Obama has ordered more hits than Al Capone. The problem is, he wants to take credit for them! And that’s pissed off a gang of ex-spooks and SEALS and other wet work types, who have formed a little gang that calls itself the Special Operations Opsec Education Fund, set up…
Biden’ his time
Hey, it’s an election year, maybe Joe’s last. Big Joe is going to be talking a lot. And if his latest “gaffe”— “Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street. They’re going to put…
Nuns die, Rod laughs
What’s funnier than a truckload of dead nuns? Absolutely nothing, according to Rod Dreher, in a recent posting headlined “Why Liberal Nuns Are Dying Off,” busting a gut if not peeing in his pants over a recent confab of nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, who, if you haven’t been keeping up, have been…
Oh, those arrogant Chinese!
Over at the Dish, Andy free during August, Gwynn Guilford posts a rap bemoaning China’s “insularity and paranoia,” giving as an example the reasonably believable “fact” that everyone in China believes that 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by U.S. forces was deliberate. Well, that does sound a little insular and paranoid, but,…