Well, I did. A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post, “Why Donald Trump will be our very worst president, by a very wide margin”, and, one week in, it’s already true. For the past seven days, Donald Trump has been running around like a chicken with its head cut off, except, you know,…
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Who are you calling a war criminal?
At yesterday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of State to be (or not) Rex Tillerson, Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio puffed out his young chest and demanded of Rex whether he considered Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” on the basis of recent bombing of civilians in Syria. Well, if you’re going to be secretary…
Meryl Steep: Fatuous, yet entitled
Janeane Garafolo is the only human being I have ever heard pronounce the word “œuvre” with a straight face.1 Yes, that’s pretentious, but so what? Janeane gives better foreign policy advice and (probably) better head than Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, and hundreds of other double-dome distinguished fellows and chairs who have spent the past thirty…
Yo, fellow elitists! Enough with the breast-beating!
Yes, I am an elitist. I do not own a car, yet am comfortably nestled in the lower upper-income brackets. I live within walking distance of three live theaters, an internationally recognized art collection (the Phillips), and numerous jazz clubs, not to mention a Whole Foods and more Starbucks than I can count. I don’t…
Hey, Kevin D. Williamson! You’re a total idiot!
Almost exactly a year ago, I riffed on the idiocy of National Review “roving correspondent” Kevin D. Williamson, who was moaning and groaning about New York “sliding back into pre-Giuliani chaos”—pointing out how Kevie D’s “analysis” got the facts so wrong in so many ways. Well, another year has passed, under Kevin’s least favorite mayor…
Vanneman praises Friedman; Heavens sway, just a little
Yes, it’s true. Thomas Friedman—the guy who said we should invade Iraq “because we can”—has written a brilliant column, “Bibi Netanyahu Makes Trump His Chump”, whose first two paragraphs read as follows: “For those of you confused over the latest fight between President Obama and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel, let me make it…
Passing the buck: Smith to DeLong to Krugman
Writing in Bloomberg View, Noah Smith offers Four Ways to Help the Midwest, prompting Brad DeLong to go off on a bit of a tangent, musing about “Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge- and Network-Based Increasing Returns” (aka “the Human Condition”), causing…
Michael V. Hayden, mightily covering ass
Michael V. Hayden, you may be interested to know, is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group and visiting professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, and was formerly director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005 and the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009. He has a…
Army beats Navy! Is the War on Terror officially over?
OK, this is a bit speculative—not Donald Trump “speculative,” but out there—but still. Even though the acceptance rate at Annapolis is only one percentage point below that of West Point’s—8% versus 9%—isn’t it at least possible that top athletes who thought they might have a shot at some sort of post-military service career (like, you…
Sarah Palin and David Ricardo, peas in a pod!
Some time ago, in one of my many railings against our president-elect, I noted that, once upon a time, even echt-dirty fingernail Republican Sarah Palin was a die-hard free-trader. Well, it looks like Sarah’s fingernails are still dirty, and her heart, and her free-trade principles, still true, for she’s risen up in rightuous wrath against…