Ingrid Jensen – trumpet, Dayna Stephens – saxophones, Adam Birnbaum – piano, Yasushi Nakamura – bass, Billy Drummond – drums. Live at Smalls July 30th, 2015. Posted by Adam Birnbaum
Yo Max Boot! Congratulations on exposing Phyllis Schlafly! Now try exposing yourself! (Well, you know what I mean!)
What is the deal with Max Boot and why do I keep making fun of him? Well, for one thing, his name is really short and fits easily in a headline. Another is that, well, he has a habit of falling short of the truth—the whole truth, that is. El Maxo is a very solid…
What would Ronald Reagan do?
Daniel Drezner, who seems to be my favorite straw man/straight man, and maybe even tin man, has a long post up at Reason, “There Is No China Crisis”, which is absolutely gold. As Dan points out, in a thoroughly researched and most convincing manner, the very many sins and crimes of the Chinese government doesn’t…
T. S. Eliot a Prissy Sh*t, studies show
OK, I can’t believe this! I have never, in the history of this blog, made fun of one of le plus noir of my many bêtes noirs, T. S. Eliot. Well, no time like the present to remedy this most grievous fault, because Princeton University has recently “made available” (though not to you)1 over a…
What is Kevin D. Williamson smoking? Find out and send a bale to everyone else at the National Review
Hell yes I’m behind the curve. That’s my wheelhouse!1 Anyway, Kevie D., whom I’ve often trashed, has to be on something to write shtick like “The Passive-Aggressive Superpower”, averring that “Unilateralist tough-guy talk will get us nowhere against China,” and overtly snickering at the puffed-chest prose of two of his fellow NR authors, Rich Lowry…
Monk’s Sphere—“Let’s cool one”
Monk’s Sphere is a Scandinavian jazz group dedicated to guess who. Hailing from Sweden are Dina Grundberg (vocals), Alex Lassila Oscarsson (piano), Anton Berndts (bass), Vincent Hagstöm (guitar), and Henrik Bergström (drums), while Laura Kjeldsen (tenor sax) represents Denmark. Posted by Alex Lassila Oscarsson Jazzlinjen åk 1
So should I just die then?
That seems to be the question. Reason’s Jacob Sullum serves up an interesting summary of a recent roundtable discussion at the New York Times magazine, “Restarting America Means People Will Die. So When Do We Do It?”, pointing out that crippling the entire U.S. economy and blighting the lives of tens of millions of young…
Maine Senator Susan Collins is very, very stupid
At first I thought I would come up with something witty for this head, you know, the way I usually do, but then I figured, why should I bust my ass for the likes of Susan “Dumb Little Bitch from Maine” Collins? Amirite or Amirite? Back in the day, a fairly recent day, Susan said…
Are we having fun yet? Why living at the end of history has become the living end
When I went to first grade, I learned to print my name and hide under my desk in case of a nuclear blast. When I went to the movies, I saw news reels of U.S. above-ground atomic weapons tests in Nevada. (Nobody worried about fallout then.) In 1968, my parents could stand on their front…
Nancy Pelosi, not afraid to look stupid
Well, she isn’t. Back in the Obama administration, in an incident that few but I remember, Nancy insisted that the federal budget was a lean, mean spendin’ machine with literally no fat at all: “The cupboard is bare,” quoth Nancy, back in 2013. “There’s no more cuts to make.” You have to give credit to…