Legal humor here. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. She isn’t wearing any underwear. Like I could give a shit. Let’s get on with it.” “Okay, Boopsie and Poopsie here, they want to get it on. So which one is which? That’s all I gotta know. Just tell me, okay, and then we’re home free.” “Now, it seems…
TRAVELING 2DAY Back on Monday
Spoiler Alert: “The 4 Dangers Destroying Men” is extremely boring
For the first ten minutes, at least. This is an ad showing a hot chick who looks seriously capable of destroying a lot of men, which I saw posted on the Weekly Standard. (Here, it’s “3 Dangers Destroying Men,” with the same babe. I don’t understand the change.) Anyway, I watched the first ten minutes,…
Sign o’ the Times? New Yorker fact-checkers don’t know the difference between a turbine and a cylinder
The current issue of the New Yorker has an excellent story on the Titanic by Daniel Mendelsohn, but even though Dan has been fascinated by the Titanic from an early age, he comes a cropper while describing a famous scene from James Cameron’s inescapable film: The scene in which the liner puts out to sea,…
Leave the window open, Hillary. Forever
“The window of opportunity will not be open forever,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently warned Iran and the world, demanding that Iran get serious about “negotiating” an agreement that will satisfy the U.S. and Israel that Iran isn’t trying to develop nuclear weapons. Clinton also said she doesn’t think that Iran is serious about…
Penelope Kibby—“Still We Dream” (vocal version of Monk’s “Ugly Beauty”)
What you missed by skipping the 2009 End of year Jazz Vocal Recital, at the New Zealand School of Music. With Kate Fausett (Piano), Callum Goldie (Drums) and Rory Macartney (Bass). Posted by missjazzgirl “zhokandawe” tells us that Mike Ferro came up with the lyrics for Carmen McRae’s 1990 all-Monk album. “Ugly Beauty” is Monk’s…
Cato Cuffs Kochs
At the National Review, more vituperation re the Koch boys, and their determination to teach the Cato Institute a lesson in humility, which has never really struck me as a libertarian virtue. Was Mencken humble? Ayn Rand? Milton Friedman? I’m thinkin’ Dave and Charlie have a tendency to confuse humility with, you know, oriental despotism,…
Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Yeah, I look goatish. But, you know, I don’t feel goatish.” “Horns are a symbol of virility. But only to other goats.” “Yeah, there are days when I would just like to butt someone, really hard. But apparently that would be illegal.” “I think I look a lot like Hell Boy. But…
The New York Times has issues, even if you don’t
Over at Salon, Glenn Greenwald keeps his hair close-cropped, the better to avoid pulling it out in rage and frustration over the manifold lies and crimes of the U.S. government and its frequent mouthpiece, the New York Times. On April 4, the Times ran a breathless piece headlined “U.S. Sees Iran in Bids to Stir…
“Hundreds of rules,” “inconsistent,” “uncoordinated,” still allow JPMorgan to haul in $19,000,000,000
Felix Salmon (actually, Ben Walsh) highlights the woes of JPMorgan, and outlined by Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, moaning in his letter to the company’s shareholders about the iniquities of Dodd-Frank, inflicted on Wall Street by those ham-handed rubes down in DC. Still, the “record” $19 billion the firm hauled in in 2011 was up…