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…
Those Mean Old Disestablishment Blues: Why it’s so hard to put Humpty-Dumpty together again
Dreary old Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by almost three million votes, despite being deeply loathed by millions of voters, many of whom held their noses and voted for snatch snatchin’ Don. Post election, Trump’s poll ratings have never reached the 45% mark, despite a booming stock market and a steadily expanding economy. So why…
It could happen to anyone! Anyone who got drunk and went dancing with a loaded gun stuffed in his waistband
Over at the National Review, Andrew “Mad Dog” McCarthy, stalwart defender of all things Donald, has these words of sympathy for the plight of FBI agent Chase Bishop, who accidentally shot some dude while dancing and, as a consequence, could even lose his job! “It’s a shame. None of us who has a rap sheet…
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…
It was twenty years ago today, more or less
In May 1998, actually, my first post appeared in Gary Morris’ now legendary site, the Bright Lights Film Journal, to wit: “What Kind of a Cowboy Are You? Eddie Cantor Goes West in Whoopee”, a film significantly more politically incorrect than the poster shown above. True, this poster could easily be considered sexist by the…
Ben Goldberg—“Ask Me Now”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-6k5CX6wIQ Solo clarinet by Ben. Posted by BAGProductionRecords
Max Boot explains it all for you
Unintentionally (I guess) funny piece by Max Boot, published by those cut-ups at the Weekly Standard. Max explains, and I would say that there’s at least a 57% chance that he’s right, that our “alliance” with Pakistan isn’t worth the pain: it would be better to have them outside the tent pissing in than inside…
How gay was Tom Wolfe? Well, pretty goddamn gay
Looking at the many pictures that have been published of Tom Wolfe in his white suit glory years, one has the strong sense of seeing something rare: a male anorexic. In what was surely his best book, The Right Stuff, Wolfe paid homage to “real men”, men who didn’t go the opera and couldn’t order…
Dragon Lady 2
Politico has another one of those delicious “Congressmen (and their wives) caught in the act of being themselves” stories, this one involving Virginia Republican Tom Garrett and wife Flanna, who had staff scraping dog shit off congressional carpets, deposited there by “Sophie”, the Garretts’ Jack Russell-Pomeranian mix, among other things. Not too surprisingly, staff seemed…
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mike Boone & Anwar M. Marshall—“Ask me now”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNoKuc_nCJs Guitar, bass, and drums, respectively. Posted by Steve B. Need more Monk? Yes, you do. Go to Mostly Monk and continue your education.