Paul on drums, with Jakob Bro and Steve Cardenas, guitars, Chris Cheeck and Tony Malaby, saxes, and Anders Christensen, bass. Chivas Jazz Festival 2003 Directv Music Hall, São Paulo. Posted by chicooceano.
Bob Dole and Fred Hiatt: When pretty good men do pretty bad things.
Speaking ill of the dead? That’s what Literature R Us is all about! At least some of the time. Both former Senator Robert Dole (R-Kansas) and Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt are recently deceased and are the recipients, appropriately enough, of numerous well-deserved encomia, here for Bob and here for Fred. But I’m…
Passive-aggressive hypocrisy hath made its masterpiece: The Volokh Conspiracy’s conspiracy against the rule of law
The Volokh Conspiracy is a website that describes itself as “Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent”. They forgot to add “Frequently Lukidist”. The eponymous founder of said conspiracy is Eugene Volokh. To call Gene’s c.v. “glittering” is probably the understatement of the decade. A bona fide mathematical genius, he…
Hey, hey, President Biden! How many kids did you kill today? Well, not many, as it turns out.
Yes, shocking news reported by The Week’s Ryan Cooper: Joe Biden is a good guy! Who’s all but halted the “blind man’s bluff” approach to targeting “bad guys” and anyone standing next to them initiated by President Barack Obama and heavily juiced by his successor, Donald Trump. Cooper explains how the supposedly fool-proof mechanisms developed…
Ben Smith’s latest post for the New York Times is not a column about “misinformation”. It is a column OF “misinformation”.
NYT Man About the Media Ben Smith has a column up, Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer that goes off on quite a bit of a tangent while discussing the first of a series of meetings organized by Harvard University’s Shorenstein…
Thelonious Monk-FCC Jazz Band—“Brilliant Corners”
Samantha Power’s narrow tailoring becomes increasingly unraveled
You may not remember, though I obviously do, the language that Samantha Power, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, used to try to sell the American people on President Obama’s “plan” to use military force to persuade Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad to behave himself: On the one hand, we Americans share a desire,…
Anne Applebaum sees so much, and misses so much
I originally planned to respond to Anne Applebaum’s new article in the Atlantic, The Bad Guys Are Winning with a super-snarky post, snappily titled “The Ample Ass-Covering of Anne Applebaum Reupholstered,” bouncing off a long-ago post of mine, The Ample Ass-Covering of Anne Applebaum, written back in 2008, when she came back from Afghanistan, telling…
University of Austin, fissioning like a motherf*cker
OK, I promise that this blog will not turn into “I Make Jokes About the University of Austin All the Goddamn Time”. Probably. But, hey, this is funny: Exactly a week after former New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss unveiled the creation of a hypothetical new “university” stacked with advisers united by “a common…
Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University, giving a remarkably convincing impression of a pompous ass
Yeah, Pres Roth has a post up in Politico, commenting on the plans for a new school “the University of Austin”, whose perhaps not overwhelming prospects I commented on here last week. Yet I gave a pretty hearty thumb’s up to new Austin pres Pano Kanelos’ harsh words regarding the curse of political correctness that…