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…
Hard Rock, Cocoa, & Joe
Jennie Made Her Mind Up
There’s an amusing though frequently verging on depressing kerflusterfuck waxing and waning on the right, triggered by a column in the National Review by Charles C. W. Cooke, who, in addition to being to being the only person I know to use two middle initials—in homage, one can only assume, to legendary Bonnie & Clyde…
Monkie Painkie—“Bemsha Swing”
By the modest group Monkie Painkie, who provide no information that I can find as to who they are. Need more Monk? Yes, you do. Go to Mostly Monk and continue your education.
La Trahison des Milliardaires
In 1927, Frenchman Julien Benda wrote La Trahison des Clercs (“The Treason of the Intellectuals”), a plea, basically, for a return to Enlightenment thinking. Well, we could definitely do with a little more enlightenment thinking these days—and a little more enlightenment as well—but our real problem is not so much treacherous intellectuals as treacherous billionaires…
James Franco’s The Disaster Artist: Hollywood Caught In The Act Of Kissing Its Own Ass
Greg Sestero’s now reasonably famous book The Disaster Artist, co-written by Tom Bissell, is much better than Producer/Director/Star James Franco’s quite famous movie The Disaster Artist, each telling the story of the making of Tommy Wiseau’s all-conquering cult classic, The Room. Book beats film! Book beats film! Book beats film! Well, not necessarily, but the…
Anat Fort— “Bemsha Swing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7CkzoDTBTE The Israeli pianist live in concert, 2/16/2017. Posted by Yaniv Grady1 If you go to his site, you’ll see some chick doing standup in Hebrew. Jews are funny! Who knew? ↩︎
The silence of the Krauthammer
Long-time WashPost columnist Charles Krauthammer, whom I have usually denounced but sometimes praised for a full decade, is one of the most prominent talking heads on the planet. He has been too ill to write his column since early August. But if you want to know how Charlie is doing, don’t read the Post, because…
Yeah, but can Paul Krugman pull off a pair of black leather gloves?
Or even pull them on, amirite? Yeah, Paul Krugman, and a lot of other wise guys, are making fun of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s one-page nonexplanation of why the Trump Administration’s handout to the rich won’t cost Uncle Sam money—the supposed executive summary of a nonexistent “study” compiled, according to Steve, by the combined labor…
Never-Trumpers, learning to lie back and enjoy it
You can’t blame anti-Trump conservatives—well, you can’t blame them too much—for squirming under the pressure of having to constantly agree with, you know, liberals that Donald Trump is a continuing disaster and disgrace to the United States of America, easily the worst man ever to occupy the White House, a man without honor or scruple….