The dude above, in full 1965 black and white, is one Sonny Bono, once married to a woman named Cher, whom you may remember. Back in 1965, Sonny’s hair, clothes, and general assemblage were considered risible among the geriatric set, causing Sonny to protest. Today, since its selection as a co-site for almighty Amazon, Crystal…
Luxury Hotels know how to raise prices, but not wages
If you’ve ever even thought of staying in a luxury hotel, you know they aren’t cheap. Well, yes they are. Bloomsberg has a bit “Chinese 5-Star Hotels Apologize After Video Reveals Hygiene Horrors” suggesting that these videos show up from time to time, because “Worker shortages and low pay make it hard for hotels to…
Imagine how rich we would be if we didn’t pay taxes!
Well, it would be cool, wouldn’t it? How about if we just stayed home from work and did whatever we wanted? Our employers would be totally screwed! Yeah, and what if we bought a car on time and then didn’t make any payments! A Beemer for free? Yeah, I’d take that deal! That sort of…
The Evil that White Women Do
Conor Friedersdorf takes a deep dive into dangerous waters, the furious controversy among the woke folks on the left regarding the culpability of white women for Democratic losses in the recent midterm elections, and particularly the assumption that the failure of (many) white women to vote “correctly” proves that they’re, you know, TOTALLY RACIST! Well,…
Special Brexit edition: Pay Now AND Pay Later
If you’re not a frequent reader of this blog, and, if you’re at all normal, you most assuredly are not, you’re probably not aware that I make sort of a point of ignoring a lot of the big stories of the day, figuring that a lot of, you know, important people will be commenting on…
Dessy Tileva—“Blue Monk”
2015, somewhere east of the Elbe (I’m guessin’). Dessy Tileva, vocal; Martin Markov, piano; Emil Pehlivanov; drums; Dimitar Karamfilov, bass. Posted by Desi Tileva
Omigod! Are those monkeys flying out of Albert R. Hunt’s butt? Okay, I guess not.
“There is a simple way Republicans can show some mettle [and defy Trump]: if five senators — starting with Maine’s Susan Collins, who complains it’s unacceptable to impede Mueller but does little about it — say they won’t vote for anther federal judge until legislation is enacted guaranteeing the independence of the special counsel. The…
Thanks to Donald Trump, American combat troops now receiving gritty, invaluable training in “whatnot”
Sure, that Central American “caravan” is hundreds of miles from the U.S. border, and it doesn’t present the slightest sort of military threat to anyone, except the fevered imagination of our national headache, Donald Trump. So why deploy thousands of troops, at a cost of several hundred million dollars, against a non-existent threat? Good question,…
Can a half-assed, two-headed Democratic Party get its act together? A question to be asked
Yes, it is a little late in the game to be asking this question, or it would be if I had any expectation of being able to influence the answer. The day of the neolibs is done, but who and what will replace it? Hard to say. President Obama, by selecting Tim Geithner as Secretary…
Ray Brown Trio—“Blue Monk”
Ray Brown, bass, Benny Green, piano, Greg Hutchinson, drums. From 1997. Posted by Face 202. Neither the sound nor the picture is that great, but if you want to hear the greatest Monk bass solo ever, if not the greatest arco jazz bass solo ever, click below for Ray’s performance of “Round Midnight”, from the…