Last Sunday, Ross Douthat ran a column, “Three Paths to Containing Trump”, acknowledging in a fairly straight-forward manner that Donald Trump was a monster, that the danger that he would be the Republican nominee in 2024 was a real one, and that a “strategy” was therefore needed to forestall this danger. The three strategies Ross…
Shorter Joe Biden: I cans so be as stupid as Donald Trump! Even stupider!
Politico has the bad news: “Biden goes ‘full steam ahead’ on Trump’s nuclear expansion despite campaign rhetoric”. An article by Lara Seligman, Bryan Bender, and Connor O’Brien quotes Biden as telling the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a speech given just before the close of the Obama administration in January 2017, the following: If…
Hell freezes over; Satan furious.
Well, who can blame him? The dude gets up in the morning and falls hard on his big red ass—on a floor which is freezing, by the way—all because National Review dude Charles Cooke told his National Review brethren that they should believe the New York Times! Yeah, I know you don’t believe me, so…
Chick Corea with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra—“Rhythm-a-ning”
Chick along with special guests Dan Nimmer (piano) and Alexa Tarantino (sax). No information on the date or the specific personnel, as far as I can tell. Posted by Antonio Crea
Terror From The Skies! Well, sort of.
“Iran-backed militias turn to drone attacks, alarming U.S. forces in Iraq” bellows the headline in the Washington Post. Louisa Loveluck and John Hudson unload a pulse-pounding narrative that is heavy on atmosphere, speculation, and innuendo, but short on, you know, facts, not to mention casualties. Because all this shrieking about those devilish Iranian devils and…
Lest we forget: John Boehner was a sh*t.
Okay, seriously “late” with this one, but I refuse to let my own incompetence mar the historical record, to wit: John Boehner was a shit. Big John got a lot of praise last month with the release of his tell-a-lot reminiscence, On the House, the title reflecting his fondness for, you know, potent potables. The…
Anais Drago—“Rhythm-a-ning”
Posted by Anais Drago. Special bonus feature: Anais plays John Coltrane’s solo on “Giant Steps”: Second special bonus feature! Anais sings legal advice to musicians in Italian, to the melody of John Coltrane’s solo on “Giant Steps”:
I wonder if Daniel Drezner even knows what “pessimism” means
Well, I certainly do. I mean, I wonder about a lot of things, and one of the things I wonder about is Dan’s article in the WashPost from a month or two back, which he called “The most pessimistic article I have read in 2021”, a “depressing read” (says Dan) found in a recent issue…
Joe Biden does something right, and no one notices
Okay, all Uncle Joe and his State Department did was recognize that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia with western Europe was a done deal (95% done, in fact) and thus will not impose sanctions on the Europeans for defying us, but in today’s xenophobic mindset, where everyone, but everyone, likes to hate…
Spin, Span, & Spun, political notes from all over: Glenn & Jen do Liz, and NR does Elise, the Whore who went to Harvard
Glenn smears Liz for smearing Russia Glenn Greenwald, amoozin’ yet confoosin’ as ever, launches a furious attack on the recently defenestrated Liz Cheney, claiming that Cheney lied about her perpetration of the “Russians paid for dead Americans in Afghanistan” hustle cooked up by the CIA and used by Cheney and other various assorted warmongers to…