Yeah, at 5’1” and (apparently) 108 pounds, I doubt if the Gaga Girl packs much of a punch, but if you believe the latest reiteration of A Star Is Born, she can send a normal size guy reeling with just one blow.1 This is just one of the many questions raised by ASIB, including “Who…
Cuban Masters of Jazz—“Blue Monk”
Bobby Carcasses, Vocals; Jorge Reyes, Bass; Mary Paz, Congas. Havana, 2014. Posted by the Cuban Masters of Jazz
Cuban Masters of Jazz—“Blue Monk”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZkiivaAJY Bobby Carcasses, Vocals; Jorge Reyes, Bass; Mary Paz, Congas. Havana, 2014. Posted by the Cuban Masters of Jazz
Justice Scalia: Underappreciated Fourth Amendment Defender. For Rich People.
When Old Man Scalia kicked the bucket, the Cato Institute’s Jonathan Blank honored him with a flattering post, “Justice Scalia: Underappreciated Fourth Amendment Defender”: “In addition to his many judicial bona fides, Justice Antonin Scalia was an underappreciated defender of the Fourth Amendment. With his typical thoroughness and deep textualism that reshaped American judging, the…
Max Boot’s The Corrosion of Conservatism: A major mea culpa just a few culpas shy of a load
Max Boot has written another “what happened to conservatism?” book, similar but superior to Charles How the Right Lost its Mind Sykes and Rick Everything Trump Touches Dies Wilson, because Boot, unlike both Sykes and Wilson, is willing to re-examine the historical record and discover, among other things, that, yes, the young William F. Buckley…
Magnum PI, not failing Racism 101, but not passing either.
Is it a sad commentary on my life that I have watched all five of this season’s episodes of the new Magnum, PI?1 Well, yes, it is, but that’s not what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is the new series’ attempts to come to grips with racism, which as…
Andy Martin and John Allred—“Blue Monk”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyvrbIRnt0A No video, just pictures, but I’m making an exception because I like trombones. 2003 Newport. Nothing on the other musicians, unfortunately. Posted by jazzytrib Need more Monk? Yes, you do. Go to Mostly Monk and continue your education.
Elliott Abrams, Easily Appeased
The recent murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi has upset the Washington establishment in a manner that the deaths of tens of thousands citizens of Yemen have not, presumably because those poor souls had the misfortune not to live in Washington. In any event, everyone who is anyone in Washington now has a conscience about…
The New Yorker doesn’t know what “ephemeral” means, together with other considerations
Over at the New Yorker, there’s a long and generally excellent piece by Hua Hsu on that on-going feast n’ farce o’ schadenfreude, the Harvard Asian-American discrimination lawsuit. But there are two sentences near the end of the article that boggle the mind severely, to wit: One of the most ephemeral qualities that admissions officers…
Thelonious Monk—“Blue Monk”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVBv-TzO8lU Monk in 1964 on a Scandinavian tour. Charlie Rouse on tenor. Information on the bassist and drummer isn’t readily available, but (probably) Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums. Posted by inations. Need more Monk? Yes, you do. Go to Mostly Monk and continue your education.