So Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a swaggering, philandering grab-ass who, it seems, did not sexually assault a maid at the swank Sofitel New York in Manhattan. And so Strauss-Kahn’s career is in ruins even though, it seems, he’s not a rapist. And so it seems that in the case of the Duke lacrosse team preppie not…
Day of the Jacobins
OK, my chronology is a bit off, because the Jacobins really hadn’t made the scene yet at the time of the Tennis Court Oath, but the point is, today’s Tea Party crew is a lot like the Jacobins. Why? Because, despite all their talk of fiscal responsibility, what they really want to do is repudiate…
Stan Getz “Out of Nowhere”
President declares victory, decides to stay
Good news! The tide of war is receding, as the President has announced. Just not very fast. Things are going so well in Afghanistan, according to the President, that a year from now we will only have twice as many troops stationed there as we did when he came into office two years ago. Quelle…
Modern Jazz Quartet: “Bag’s Groove”
OK, has Percy Heath metamorphosed into Ray Brown? No matter. Posted by “Behjoh” About forty years ago, I lived in Pittsburgh and stumbled across my dream radio program, “Just Jazz,” with Ed Beach, a two-hour syndicated program that I believe was available seven days a week. Ed’s taste in jazz just about paralleled mine perfectly….
Do we want to elect this man President?
Mitt Romney tells a joke: “I saw a young man over there with the eggs benedict,” says Romney. “He had the eggs benedict with a hollandaise sauce and the eggs, there. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce and hubcaps. Because there’s no place like chrome…
A tub for Petreaus
Over at Slate, Fred Kaplan notes that “The White House debate over how many troops to withdraw from Afghanistan next month is really a surrogate for a larger, more fractious debate over the wisdom and strategy of the war itself.” And Fred, being Fred, also notes that this is really really important and we ought…
Slate Magazine Thinks I’m an Idiot. Or Do They Know I Am?
If you read an article in Slate Magazine, which I often do, you’ll see a column next to it labeled “Recommended for You.” I’m hoping, a lot, that Slate just lists whatever articles some dude is willing to pay them to list there—that is, that this isn’t one of those hip net things where Slate…
Dizzy Gillespie—“Manteca”
A seriously spry Dizzy Gillespie, leading an all-star band at Lincoln Center in 1982. Posted by “Furldman.”
Flying to see your son’s baseball game in a $12.5 million state helicopter? Priceless
Combative lardbutt Chris Christie, New Jersey’s teacher hatin’ governor, may have plunged his ample ass in some hot water by taking a government chopper to watch his son play baseball. Christie split during the fifth inning, apparently to meet with some big-shot Republicans from Iowa who want him to run for President. The New Jersey…