This is the truth the Washington Post thinks you can’t handle. Does Hamas use civilians as human shields? Uh, yeah. Does Hamas indiscriminately murder civilians as a way of making a political point? Uh, yeah. Should this be said out loud? Uh, no. “Explains” WashPost editorial page editor David Shipley, “Our section [of the Post]…
There is some good in all of us, some of the time
Today is Mea Culpa day at the Literature R Us corral, when I pause to stop making vicious fun of people I generally don’t like, like Eugene “Jan. 6? Wasn’t that a Tuesday?” Volokh and Ross “Yeah, I think it was a Tuesday” Douthat because, well, because they impressed me. I’ll talk about Gene first,…
Greg Grisbert—“Played Twice”
Hard to find videos of “Played Twice” for some reason. Greg on trumpet, and featuring Chris Potter, tenor, Steve Wilson, alto, John Campbell, piano, Peter Washington, bass, and Billy Drummond, drums. Posted by Greg Gisbert Sextet.
Megan McArdle is an idiot, a liar, and well deserving of many other harsh and insulting adjectives that my fingers lack the energy to type.
Yes, I am getting awfully tired to yelling insults at Megan McArdle. Why, it seems like I was yelling at Megan only three weeks ago for her arrant hypocrisy in blaming the fall of pro-seditionist Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker on the Democratic Party, because I was!. And now she’s turned around and written the…
Many Jewish University of Pennsylvania alumni are angry, and most of the time they have the right to be.
I will confess up front that this is a “yes but” story, but I would like to emphasize that the “yes” is just as strong as the “but”, if not stronger. A story in the New York Times by Stephanie Saul, Who Decides Penn’s Future: Donors or the University? gives us the backstory: the decision…
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru on House Republicans unanimously electing Mike Johnson as Speaker: “Guys, guys, guys! I have a strong stomach—I have a VERY strong stomach—but GODDAMNIT!”
Yes, poor old Ramesh Ponnuru, whom I have sneered at ever since the Era of Trump began as the Toadie of Toadies, the Toadeater of Toadeaters, the anti anti Trumper of anti anti Trumpers, the man who was never without a “what about”, who always found a way to ingratiate himself with the True Trumpers…
Dan Drezner leaves me bewildered. Strange!
Yes, Dan Drezner, whom I alternately praise and despise, and just finished praising, a lot, yesterday, has come up with a definite “bewilderer”, feeling the need, for some reason, to waste a significant amount of brain cells replying to aging Silicon Valley wunderkind Marc Andressen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”, a ponderous treatise that strikes me as nothing…
Danny Zeitlin—“Played Twice”
Dan Drezner Impresses Me!
Damn straight he does! I’ve often been awfully hard on Dan, but, well, when Dan changes, I change too, and Dan has, in my opinion, served up a real stunner, bouncing off a recent piece by Paul Krugman, The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana, something I did too, but Dan and I bounce differently,…
Ross Douthat, devout Catholic or lying sack of sh*t? I report, you decide.
Writes Ross in his recent column re 9/11 versus present times, regarding our disastrously unnecessary and grotesquely mismanaged invasions of both Iraq and Afghanistan, In each of these case [the two invasions], the achievement of something relatively basic — preventing terrorist groups from existing in the kind of comfort required to pull off another Sept….