Well, certainly, I can’t. This painting, “Southern Justice”, was painted by Rockwell in 1965 to commemorate the murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba, Mississippi—Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Cheney. I was entirely unaware of its existence until I read a very long article on Rockwell that appeared recently in Vox, “The awakening…
Neocons suffering withdrawal symptoms in Afghanistan
There are about 13,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Now that number is coming down to about 8,600. Yet from the growls n’ howls emitted by unrepentant neocons like Thomas Joscelyn of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, writing in the anti-Trump Dispatch—“No Deal Is Better Than a Bad Deal”—and Iranian-born Shay Khatiri, writing in…
AMIDSTTHENOISE—“Let’s Cool One”
Felician Erlenburg, alto saxophone; Yussif Barakat, bass; Louis Potal, drums. Posted by franzsendet. Need more Monk? Of course you do, Go to Mostly Monk
Mysterious chuckling reported in the vicinity of Karl Marx’s grave
Yeah, Herr Karl got a lot of things wrong, but his prediction that economic collapses would prove endemic to capitalism has yet to fail. Six months ago, if someone had asked you how likely it was that a mysterious epidemic arising in a major country would give rise to fears of a major global economic…
Bernie versus the Media: An Update
Yesterday I wrote a little piece making fun of Ben Smith, the New York Times’ newly installed in-house media critic, for uncritically endorsing Bernie Sanders’ sweeping (and, in my opinion, banal) denunciation of the “capitalist” media. In my brief beatdown of both Ben and Bernie, I neglected to remark that if Ben wanted to point…
New socialist strategy at the New York Times: We will BORE you! To death!
That seems to be the plan at the “Business” section, no less, of the New York Times, or perhaps it should be the New Woke Times. “What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media” is the latest and greatest from former BuzzFeed dude and now NYT “Media Equation” dude Ben Smith, who loudly champions everybody’s…
Shorter Chuck Schumer: Democrats can so be as bad as Trump!
Politics ain’t beanbag, for sure, but sometimes, when you consider the intellects of the playas involved, perhaps it ought to be. A case in point is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s recent pseudo gangsta-style outburst directed at the Supreme Court, telling the Supremes in no uncertain terms to keep their goddamn hands off of goddamn…
Cutting Ike’s pages, and cutting Ike’s prose
I recently read a new book by Slate’s Fred Kaplan (if a webpub can be said to possess a man)—The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War—which is an interesting read, though I wouldn’t call it “definitive”, unless perhaps when Fred says he’s giving us the “secret history” he implies that he’s…
Gilad Hekselman Trio—“Let’s Cool One”
Gilad on guitar, Jeff Ballard, drums, and Joe Martin, bass. Sundae Jazz Club, Paris, March 2015. Posted by Gilad Need more Monk? Of course you do, Go to Mostly Monk
Well, this is embarrassing! Donald Trump will probably/possibly/maybe do what Barack Obama should have done. Get us the heck out of Afghanistan!
Yes, it’s true! Or maybe it is, as Donald Trump would say. Who knows? Tune in next week! Indeed, the agreement signed between the U.S. and the Taliban contains a lot of if thens and if whens. As Adam Wunische, over at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, explains, in his article “The U.S.–Taliban Deal…