Over at Politico, we have the following report on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s view of the recent unpleasantness in the Old Dominion regarding that least interesting and most trivial of subjects, the oppression of tens of millions of Black Americans by their masters for, oh, two and a half centuries or so. ‘Mississippi Gov. Haley…
iAd? Eye Ow! Steve gets the cash, you get the pain
Steve Jobs, black shirt extraordinaire, introduces a brand-new app, the iAd, which makes life a whole lot easier—easier, at least, for people who want to sell you things. Over at Slate, Farhad Manjoo sounds a bit bitter at the prospect of ads “that require me to type in my name, play a game, answer some…
Because he wrote like an idiot, that’s why
Rod Dreher, here, wonders why Catholic novelist/windbag Walker Percy is “almost forgotten” and unwittingly supplies the answer by quoting from a speech Percy gave at Notre Dame (I’m guessing, the Indiana one, but, really, who knows) upon receipt of the “Laetare Medal”—whatever the fuck that is: “It’s no accident that I think that German science,…
Douglas Brinkley pops open a double case of Kiss-Ass
In Sunday’s LA Times, historian Douglas Brinkley describes The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, by “Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist” David Remnick, as a “brilliantly constructed, flawlessly written biography.” I don’t know if I would have read The Bridge if I hadn’t read Doug’s review, but now that I have, I do: I’m not.
Love is all around, and so is evil
Over at the New York Times, Russian novelist Sergey Kuznetsov ruminates on the recent subway bombings in a column called “Moscow Under Attack.” If someone had detonated a couple of bombs in the DC Metro, I think I’d be as upset as Sergey, but his big line, “In the end, nobody knows who is responsible…
Louis Armstrong Jack Teagarden: “Jeepers Creepers”
Fuzzy picture, not bad sound, great performers, Louis playing some awfully sharp trumpet for a 58-year-old man.
The Obama doctrine: Shoot first and ask questions later. Sir, may I ask a question?
Now that President Obama has won a significant victory for improving the health of millions of Americans, he might feel secure enough politically to stop, you know, murdering innocent people in Afghanistan. So far this year, our current “Slaughter the Innocents” policy in the country we are fighting to prevent from having, someday, a government…
Highly selective outrage, Alan Vanneman health care edition
Over at Forbes, Shikha Dalmia works herself into a rage over the passage of ObamaCare via such parliamentary tricks as, you know, majority rule, and offers the following summation: “It is hardly surprising then that Americans are feeling a growing panic as they watch their constitutional republic descend into a banana republic.” Shikha, honey, the…
ICP Orchestra—“Criss-Cross”
Cookin’ in the Bimhuis, a concert hall in Amsterdam, with the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra. 5 September 2009.
Dexter Gordon: “Loose Walk” (or is it “Blues Walk”?)
Dexter, looking very hip and very 1964. No info on the band, unfortunately, except the drummer, who is supposed to be Daniel Humair.