Yeah, a lot of people talkin’ ‘bout Heaven ain’t goin’ there, and two of them are Attorney General William Barr and talkin’ if not squawkin’ head Ramesh Ponnuru. A recent article in the Atlantic by Anne Applebaum, “History Will Judge the Complicit”, has been getting a lot of play, and Ramesh, it seems, is a…
Paul Krugman is smarter than I thought!
Okay, perhaps I should have said “Paul Krugman has a far more sophisticated grasp of the uniquely divided nature of the American working class than he had demonstrated in many of his previous public comments”, but heads like that don’t get the clicks, and I don’t have to tell you that “Literature R Us”, frequently…
When does it stop getting worse?
The good news is, the awareness of the prevalence of police brutality in these United States has reached such a point that even Donald Trump feels compelled to express sympathy for its victims. The bad news is, everything else. Unsurprisingly, El Trumpo stayed on message for approximately two seconds, before veering off to denounce, you…
Daniel Drezner can’t spell
Dan, Dan, that Amazin’ Man, gives me another reason to make fun of him, thanks to the headline he’s given to his latest post at the Post, “Why Mike Pompeo is a colossal prig”. You see where I’m going with this one, right? Mikey, aka our secretary of state, may well be “one who offends…
Hey, Donald Trump! You haven’t just lost Ann Coulter! You’ve lost every self-involved, immigrant-hatin’ bottle blonde in the country! I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY!
I confess that I haven’t been keeping up with Ann Coulter much these days, for the simple reason that I have a life! Shuffleboard season is almost upon us—I refer, of course, to “deck shuffleboard”—real shuffleboard—not that banal travesty known as “table shuffleboard”—and those cues won’t polish themselves. Fortunately, the American Conservative’s Rod Dreher has…
When Molière met Lully: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Hankering for some good, old-fashioned baroque comédie-ballet circa 1670? Well, of course you are, and, fortunately for you, France Telecom has released on DVD an authentic recreation of the ninth and last collaboration between Molière and Jean-Baptiste, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, aka The Bourgeois Gentleman, or The Would-Be Gentleman, first performed back in the day for…
I should grow the hell up, Daniel Drezner? I think maybe YOU should grow the hell up!
Yeah, I got Daniel Drezner—“Obfuscatin’ Dan”, I like to call him—on my mind, on my mind. I got Daniel Drezner on my mind. Again! I just got finished praising ole Obfuscatin’ Dan to the skies in a recent post for his recent post at Reason, “There Is No China Crisis”, calling it “absolute gold”. As…
Girl Talk—“Let’s Cool One”
Bodil Niska, sax, Tine Asmundsen, bass, and Elizabeth Walker, piano. From their 1992 album, Talkin’ Jazz. Posted by kdtchon, who gave zero information about the gals, so I had to sleuth it all down myself, irritating because there is a (fairly) well known dj named “Girl Talk”, an album by Prince, a tune by Neal…
Shorter Bill Barr: “Let it be said of me that in Donald Trump’s first administration I released the guilty. And let it be said of me that in Donald Trump’s second administration I jailed the innocent.”
Over at Lawfare, Robert S. Litt, former associate attorney general (under Clinton) and former general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence (under Obama), makes short work of Attorney General William Barr’s thimble and pea sleight of hand that converted Michael Flynn’s arrant lies into airy nothingness on the grounds that they could not be…
T. S. Eliot, frequently irritating, yet not always wrong
If you read my recent ear-boxing of literary super star T. S. Eliot, “T. S. Eliot a Prissy Sh*t, studies show”, you know I’m not a big fan of the pride of St. Louis, making rather raucous fun of his abysmal mistreatment of his long-time (until he got tired of her) soulmate, Emily Hale, and…