Now that Bari Weiss has left the New York Times (“scorching” resignation letter here), the Times will almost assuredly be both woker and broker—not “broker” in the sense of financially poorer, but intellectually so. The Times is almost guaranteed to be more predictably “correct” in its coverage of the passing scene and—okay, this is going…
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New York City to Amazon: Drop Dead
In a better universe than ours—there must be one—the provincial New York politicians and union leaders who cut off not their own noses but that of the city’s poor, and (to thoroughly manhandle the metaphor) not to spite their faces but to protect their power, would be punished—very indirectly—by a slow decline in the Great…
Shorter New York Review of Books: Some Neocons are Jewish? Go figure!
Yes, I know I should be moralizing about teenage white boys from Kentucky, but I’d rather be writing about New York Jews. Because I gotta be me! My kvetch du jour is a lengthy piece by Columbia University professor Stephen Wertheim appearing a few weeks ago in the New York Review of Books’s NYR Daily,…
Shorter Donald Trump: What’s the deal with evil? It ain’t so bad! Hell, sometimes, I feel a little evil myself!
Yes, the lion lay down with the lamb in Singapore, with the meeting of El Donaldo and Kim Jong-un. The only problem was, no one could tell which caudillo was which. Okay, I’m being unkind to El Presidente, as is more or less my wont. He rips children from the arms of their parents, but…
Only in New York? Maybe not.
Or maybe so. Both New York magazine and the New York Times are a bit ga-ga over the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City, one of the turn of the millennium shows, along with the more conventional Friends and Seinfeld, that convinced more conventional Americans (more totally conventional Americans) that the Big Apple was…
We now interrupt this regularly scheduled bad news to bring you much much worse bad news
Several weeks ago—about a decade in Trump years, I would estimate1—I planned to write yet another article ridiculing our nation’s massive addiction to wasteful military spending, category “Star Wars”, springing off an article in Bloomsberg, by “the Editors” themselves, no less, “How to Blow North Korean Missiles Out of the Sky”, bemoaning the fact that,…
The Post? What about The Times? What about The Truth?
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks seem to be involved in a conspiracy to bore us to death with virtuous films, first with Bridge of Spies and now with The Post, films that consist almost entirely of old white people standing around and talking, a lot. Bridge of Spies is about one honest man who makes…
Yo, Kevin Williamson! New York still not “sliding back into pre-Giuliani chaos”!
Yo, Kevin Williamson! Yeah, you! Remember two years ago, when you wrote, and I quote “New York is sinking back into pre-Giuliani chaos”? Do you? And do you remember when I wrote, one year ago (not too politely, I admit) the following: “Uh, Kevin, you lying sack of shit, crime in the Big Apple declined…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Let’s get one thing straight, Larry. Yeah, we act alike, we dress alike, we even look alike. Sure. But we don’t think alike. Upstairs, I’m my own man, you got that? I’m my own man! Like, totally.” “So, anyway, a priest, a minister, and a rabbi go into a bar, and the…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Yes, dear. I know Seth Curry couldn’t carry your jock. Now give it a rest.” “Of course he looks like a midget. Compared to you, everyone is a midget.” “No, I don’t think the first network honcho who programs ‘Giraffe Week’ will be sitting on a gold mine.” “Face it, honey. Knobby…