Please, please, please, somebody tell me something nice about Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner. Did he once save a child from a burning building? When he was in college, did he once stand for hours outside his beloved’s window, crying his eyes out because she rejected him? Does he spend his idle moments playing…
Murmur, Murmur
OK, this is pretty late, like 20 years, but over at Salon Steve Kornacki has an interesting (to me) piece on attempts by various would-be presidential candidates to win their party’s nomination by announcing a choice for vice-president prior to the convention. Back in 1992, Jerry Brown was hounding Bill Clinton in the New York…
Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project
A very long clip, with excellent sound, though with interviews as well, which are (usually) interesting, but not as interesting as the music. Trumpeter Jimmy Owens leads a group with Kenny Barron (piano), Winard Harper (drums), Howard Jones (tuba and baritone saxophone), Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), and Kenny Davis on bass. I’ve…
Yes, Charles Murray is an asshole
The big man, after being wined and lunched by the Financial Times, tries to hit them up for a $350 bottle of wine. (And this after a palate-numbing martini. Très chic!)1 And, in addition to trying to hit up the FT for a $350 bottle of wine, and bragging endlessly about his oenological expertise, Murray…
Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here. “‘If it wasn’t San Andreas fault, whose was it?’ Wow, girlfriend, I walked into that one eyes wide open.” “Did the earth move for me too? Totally.” “No wonder they were so anxious to sell.” “They’re not widening, they’re closing. In a month, you won’t even notice them.” “Why does this shit…
How many libertarians does it take to screw in a light bulb? An indeterminate number, as long as they remember who owns the damn bulb!
Kerfuffle? Brouhaha? Spat? Tiff? Rape? Clusterfuck? Nobody seems to have a handle on le mot juste for whatever it is that’s going down at 1000 Mass. Avenue, home of the Cato Institute’s refurbished pad, where the Koch Boys, Mannie, Moe, and Jack Dave and Charlie, are trying to muscle out long-time prez Ed Crane. The…
The fluke of Fluke
It would be easy to criticize the recent testimony of Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke.* Is it really true that “Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially” because the school’s health insurance doesn’t cover birth control? I guess she means, 40 percent say it costs them money. Does birth…
Obama to Netanyahu: Don’t attack Iran! Let me do it for you!
Yes, that’s the plan of our president, Barack “The Republicans can’t paint me in a corner if I do it first!” Obama, promising that he can harass, and bully, and humiliate a nation of 70 million people into doing exactly what he wants them to do, shutting his eyes to the fact that he will…
Jon Stewart doesn’t deserve this
The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook He doesn’t. Jon Stewart gets paid a lot of money to think up funny stuff about the news. But thanks to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) he doesn’t have to. All he has to do is run clips of…
The Beast that Cannot Die
“There are, perhaps, aspects of my personality of which I am unaware”—William Shatner We’ve all done it—made fun of that great walking ego known as William Shatner. Robert Schnakenberg did so in his brilliant book, Encyclopedia Shatnerica: An A to Z Guide to the Man and His Universe, which I recapitulated here.* Now Scott Brown…