Former Wyoming Senator and Co-chair of President Obama’s deficit commission wants to save Social Security from the greed of old folks, forcing them to listen to reason and show some common sense and not burden their kids and grandkids with an unsupportable financial burden. Except that kids today, they’re so fucked up, who could give…
David Brooks, thinking again
No, nothing’s burning. Dave’s thinking again, and in his new book The Social Animal, he explains exactly what the rest of us should be doing with our lives, which is, basically, doin’ that Fifties thing. As Michael Agger tells it, as Dave tells it, we need to start listening to our unconscious. Back in the…
Wynton Marsalis plays Monk: “Reflections”
Let’s all kill Private Manning
I know you haven’t had a chance to read my cri de cœur regarding the current state of affairs, because I just posted it five minutes ago, but I have to tell you that things have gotten worse. Glenn Greenwald, as usual, fills us in on the latest horror of the Obama Administration, 22 more…
Thoughts on the current discontents
(Editor’s note: The following was intended to be a reasoned, coherent essay on the current state of affairs. Unfortunately, I’m better at ranting.) What’s happening in the Middle East? Damfino. Robert Darnton thinks it’s 1789. Ann Applebaum thinks it’s 1848. If Ann’s right, things ought to be pretty tight all around the Mediterranean around the…
Thoughts on the current discontents
What’s happening in the Middle East? Damfino. Robert Darnton thinks it’s 1789. Ann Applebaum thinks it’s 1848. If Ann’s right, things ought to be pretty tight all around the Mediterranean around the year 2150 or so. Take that, Caesar Augustus!1 But what about the home front? Well, I had hoped to comment on Obama’s State…
Twas a famous victory—well, except for the decapitation. That wasn’t so good.
Over at the Literary Review (definitely English) Adrian Tinniswood (likewise) gives a nice take on John Stubbs’ latest, Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War, 549 pages on the Cavalier Poets, young lads who hung out with an aging Ben Jonson and sought to make a name and a career for themselves by sucking…
Good Newt, Bad Newt? Don’t you mean Fat Newt, Dumb Newt?
Over at the Wash Post’s “FastFIX” (and, baby, it is fast!), fast-talking (of course) Chris Cillizza gives the upside and the downside of the Newtman, something we need to know now that Newt could be our next president (it’s video 80 if you really want to see it). Well, except that, over at Politico, we…
Woodward, covering ass, accuses Rumsfeld of covering ass
Bob Woodward (yes, that Bob Woodward) comes up with a pretty much must read, accusing Donald Rumsfeld of, well, not being a murderer, a liar, or a torturer, but at least a pretty big jerk: “Rumsfeld’s memoir is one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others – including President Bush –…
Kenny Burrell—“All Blues”
Kenny does both the talking and the playing, so I can lay out. Posted by “jazzclarinet2006”.