Thank God for Rick Santorum! Just when the punditocracy was reduced to writing articles about pundits writing articles about pundits so desperate for something to write about that they will pretend that someone other than Borin’ George Romney* could win the Republican nomination, the two-term, lost by 18 points the second time around former Senator…
Suppose you gave a war and everybody got so bored they wanted to go home?
That seems to be the way things are shaking down in Afghanistan. As Slateman Fred Kaplan notes, when Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta stated, rather offhandedly, on February 1 that “hopefully” the U.S. would be “transitioning” [that is, getting the hell out of Kabul] in 2013, rather than the previously announced/anointed victory year of 2014,…
NYT TV critic discovers sex, is not amused
Got a column to fill and nothing to fill it with? NYT scribe Neil Genzlinger knows the feeling. Although he claims he enjoys looking at naked women as much as a “crisply turned double play”—which I somehow doubt—he claims to be appalled by the rampant use of strip clubs as settings for TV shows when…
The Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra—“Ask Me Now”
Arranged & conducted by Michael Gibbs, featuring Christian Maurer on tenor saxophone and Primus Sitter on guitar. Recorded on April 16th 2010 in Zagreb at the Vatroslav Lisinski Hall. Posted by UAJO1991
So not the New Yorker
For official humor, go here. “You don’t need a helmet. You’ve got a halo. That takes care of everything.” “Yeah, I was expecting an English racer too.” “Welcome to Hell, dude. Yeah, that’s right, Hell. You didn’t believe in global warming either, did you? Here’s how it’s going to be, for all eternity: only one…
The New York Times, Ethan Bronner, and Israel: Getting very, very desperate
“A senior Israeli official said on Thursday that the missile testing site near Tehran that was destroyed in a huge explosion three months ago was developing missiles with a range of some 6,000 miles aimed at the United States,” according to Ethan Bronner, reporting in yesterday’s New York Times. According to Bronner, the official further…
Just when you thought it was safe to light up a joint in New York (if you were really stupid)
New York City Commissioner Ray Kelly recently told Big Apple cops to stop arresting people for simple possession of marijuana. As Radley Balko has repeatedly pointed out, police in New York routinely trick “suspicious” types into violating the city’s law against “public display” of the drug as a way to boost their arrest records. In…
The agonies of Bill Kristol: très amusant!
Does Bill Kristol enjoy making me laugh? That’s the most likely explanation of his most recent effusion, “Why February could matter,” examining the supposed likelihood of Rich “Rich the Sweater” Santorum plucking the “Anyone but Romney” banner from the trembling, arthritic hands of Newt Gingrich and racing to victory at the Republican Convention in Tampa…
Death?
What’s Next for the Stones?—Headline on the current issue of Rolling Stone, which, I guess, has to pretend that it cares.
If you work for AEI, you may be a redneck
Or maybe just a racist. Charles “I’m not a racist” Murray is back at it, with a hot new book about how those damn hippies ruined everything back in the Sixties, turning us all into muesli-munching, boutique beer-swilling brats and generally sending the whole damn country straight on the road to perdition. The white folks,…