A couple of years ago, I took a wistful, backward glance at the hapless schmo I once was back in the day, while working (briefly) as a file clerk for the Washington, DC law firm of Arnold & Porter circa 1976, a retrospective that tangentially included information on the “White & Case case”, which I…
B3 Groove—“Rhythm-a-Ning”
The New York Times, searching for metaphors in the Suez Canal
In the past few days, the New York Times has run three articles—In Suez Canal, Stuck Ship Is a Warning About Excessive Globalization by Peter S. Goodman, Why the World’s Container Ships Grew So Big by Nirja Chokshi, and The Stuck Container Ship on the Suez Canal Was a Metaphor by Marc Levinson—all claiming that…
What’s emptier than a DC bike lane? The new Falls Church bike shed!
It’s true! Check out the abfab, brand-spanking new, state of the art bike shed at the East Falls Church Metro Station, where high tech elegance and environmental correctness blend in perfect harmony, offering safe and secure storage for a hundred bikes, at a cost of, well, $20,000 a bike. Sure, when I visited the shed…
Yo, Harvard! Some little girl needs her nose wiped!
Yeah, Snotty Little Lizzie needs her nose wiped. As you may have heard, Massachusetts Senator and Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren got into a bitch-slapping Twitter fight following a senate hearing devoted to the iniquities of Silicon giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. After Lizzie posted a clip from the hearing, complaining about folks like Amazon…
Danny Zeitlin—“Rhythm-a-Ning”
Biden’s foreign policy is sliding into a Blobby bog
Sad, but unsurprising, not to mention scary as shit: Uncle Joe is letting the military intellectual complex put both hands on the wheel when it comes to the U.S. and the outside world. Consider the following: – In a recent meeting with Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi in Alaska, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony…
Socio-cultural-politico-judicio notes from all over
Dr. Seuss and the New Iconoclasts The recent sturm und drang regarding Dr. Seuss leaves me a bit on the outside of things, because, unlike most people, to me the “old” Dr. Seuss is the real Dr. Seuss. I loved the outrageous creatures that populated If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That I…
When Jennifer Rubin Does the Cuban
Okay, unless you’re familiar with the swing-band classic “When Reuban Swings the Cuban”—and you probably aren’t—you’re probably guessing that I’m accusing Jennifer Reuban of going communist, and I’m not. There was a time when I spent so much time making fun of Jennie for her passionately Likudist psyche—she once denounced Sen. Rand Paul for not…
New York Times, Pentagon Shrill and Pentagon Shill
A recent editorial in the Times, The Fighter Jet That’s Too Pricey to Fail The F-35 is a boondoggle. Yet we’re stuck with it., strikes a welcome chord with me, since I just ran a similar piece, The F-35 Flying Turkey, Fiercely Flapping Its Wings, last week. Yet, as the second sentence of the subhead…