DC sucks, says geezer Andrew Ferguson, senior editor at the Weekly Standard, so much of a geezer, in fact, that he even has a white moustache to prove it. Ferguson holds forth on Reason TV with “Kennedy,”* seated on the lawn of his “beautiful McMansion” (Kennedy’s term), rapping about how the DC economy is largely…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “The Story of Your Life, fine. The Story of Our Life, not so good.” “Well, for one thing, it’s totally not going to fit on the shelf.” “Jeffrey, if you’re writing about me, I can tell you right now I’ll be editing that thing with a scythe.” “It’s your fucking book…
Yeah, that’s the problem. What’s the solution?
A couple of days ago I ran a brief riff on It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, a brief book by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein whose basic premise is that right-wing Republicans are fucking up America, a premise with which I largely agree. As is so often the case, Mann and Ornstein are stronger…
Felix Salmon wants to spend an old man’s money
We have a bikeshare program in Washington, DC—lots of shiny red bikes parked at various locations around the city, the idea being that you ride one from one location and drop it off at another. A recent survey of ridership discovers what you might have guessed, that only the well-educated (“some college” and up) and,…
It’s Even Worse Than It Looks—fairly short, fairly sweet
Recently, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein got an enormous amount of play with an opinion piece in the Washington Post, “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” Now they’re back with a “book,” It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, which may not be much more than an extended opinion piece, but is worth…
Milt Jackson—“Round Midnight”
https://youtu.be/-5u7TZhL22U With Mike LeDonne, piano, Ira Coleman, bass, and Mickey Roker, drums. Japan, 1990. Posted by diegodobini2
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I’m not luggage, damnit! I’m a human washing machine! It’s totally different, so back off!” “I know I’m supposed to be in the luggage compartment, but they made me buy a ticket and I’m damn well going to use it!” “You don’t have to worry about me, amigo! I float!” “Well, this…
Hillary’s helicopters, and the world-historical moment that wasn’t
It’s been a while now since Hillary Clinton left Wesleyan in search of ecstasy, but she’s still at it, currently auditioning for the title of Joan of Arc for the Middle East, a position eminently available ever since George Bush fell on his Andover-educated ass in its pursuit. Just a couple of days ago she…
Leon Panetta, he who cannot be offended, the cuddly cherub of death.
Last week, I wrote about the willingness of the New York Times to retroactively edit a story that went so far as to point out the gross and blood-stained apparent hypocrisies in Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s handling of our unhappy ally Pakistan, which occasionally frets over our policy of murdering its residents and citizens whenever…
9/11. the last refuge of a scoundrel
Or a sycophant. Andrew Sullivan, whom I often like, runs off the rails in his devotion to President Obama here, praising his indiscriminate use of murder drones and claiming that if the U.S. doesn’t function like an intermational Murder, Inc., well, would you prefer “religious terrorists from mountains in Middle Asia successfully invading and terrorizing…