Over at Salon, Steve Kornacki has a nice piece on the endless machinations necessary to decide which college football teams get to become members of the cool conferences and which lose out. If you’ve ever asked yourself why, back in ’94, Texas Tech got into the Big 12, whoever they are, and Rice did not,…
Steve Jobs: Saint or Shithead?
Judging from the outpouring of comment on the Internet, I was touched by Steve Jobs far less than most. I have never owned a single Apple product. Back in the day, when computers were new, I disdained the Mac, thinking that “Apples were for girls,” a judgment that I think still stands up. Back in…
There will always be a New York Times. But why?
Actually, I’m a big fan of the Times, and I even subscribe, but there are times when the Times descends, or perhaps plummets, to self-parody. One of those times occurred in a recent article on South Korean pop, a subject perhaps too rarely visited by Timesmen and Timesbabes. In any event, Timesman Jon Caramanica, referring…
Rummy’s head revisited
Yesterday I had to eat a little crow after, well, after I crowed over the fact that Donny’s Little Hideaway, aka the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, was going to be abandoned now that all U.S. troops are being pulled out of Iraq, when, in fact, it’s being expanded, at least in terms of staff. I…
“Jackie-ing” Times Two
Monk Inc, featuring Ben Higham (trumpet, flugelhorn and tuba), Simon Youngman (soprano and alto sax), Mark Read (bass trumpet and tuba), Ivars Galenieks (double bass), and Geoff Charlton (drums). Posted by tmrn21 https://youtu.be/Sy7tt36LXfs andrew lawrence zach hobin will mason Posted by wmason88
Better never than late? I protest!
Okay, I’m a week late and a dollar short with this one. Who cares? They’re Republicans! Plus, Rick is fooling with the birther thing, Herman doesn’t know if he’s pro-choice or not and he also can’t remember how much he hates gays. So these guys are totally free game in my book. So, why did…
Donald Rumsfeld’s head: It’s Alive!
Last week I ended a post on the imminent (well, end of the year) withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq with a melodramatic flourish, comparing the U.S embassy in Iraq to an empty skull staring out across the desert sands with sightless eyes—the idea being that the embassy, built by the Bush Administration at the…
Centaur talking!
It does look like the analyst is talking here in this New Yorker cartoon. But why waste a centaur? I don’t understand. Go here to see the New Yorker cartoon contest. “Hell yes I blame my parents! Wouldn’t you?” “Recognition I get, but what I want is chicks.” “I shit on this guy’s rug once,…
Look who’s talking, Part II
So who is talking? It seems like both of them are. So what are they saying? As the man says, you pays your money and you takes your choice. Rick: “Save it for the shower, girlfriend.” Rick: “Stop talking and pull my damn finger.” Rick: “That is so not high C.” Rick: “Do that one…
Murder most foul, continued
I seem to spend an unconscionable amount of time making fun of the New Yorker on this blog, but sometimes they nail it. The nailer, in this case, is Amy Davidson, with this blog entry on the Obama Administration’s latest triumph, the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki’s 16-yer-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, which, Amy says, makes her…