Yes, damn you, Rotten Tomatoes! Damn you and your damn “Squish-o-meter” algorithm or whatever it is you used to assign the new Baywatch a miserable 20% rating, thus making it impossible for me to look at myself in the mirror with a straight face and go off in search of some agreeable retro soft-core raunch….
Andrés Hayes Quinteto—“Trinkle tinkle”
With Ernesto Jodos piano, Patricio Carpossi guitarra, Jeronimo Carmona contrabajo, and Andrés Hayes saxo tenor. At the Café Vinilo May 18, 2012. Posted by Andrés Hayes
Donald and the Paris accords—a tale of a tub
Back in the day, as only old-timey English majors would know, a dude named Jonathan Swift wrote A Tale of a Tub, which Swift, wrapping himself in multiple layers of irony, describes as a sort of prelude to a great work of immense learning that will resolve all the tensions of the age. In the…
Mine’s bigger! What the “free enterprise” space race is really about
That’s the mighty, if not almighty, SpaceX Falcon 9 blasting off into space, Elon Musk’s baby and humankind’s first step to the stars, at least as Elon tells it. Right below is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s “Stratolaunch,” the world’s biggest airplane, which hasn’t actually flown yet, but when it does, watch out! Because it will…
Donald Trump, a shande far the Jews
Jennifer Rubin gives us goys a break, and a laugh, by explaining just how many Jewish toes got stepped on by Donald “Big Belly” Trump when the Donald decided he wouldn’t be moving the American embassy to Israel to Jerusalem, as he had promised that he really, really would. As Rubin notes, it’s pretty much…
Donald Trump = American Retreat
Damn straight we’re retreating. We’ve had it with that Europe thing, damn Germans selling us all their damn Beemers n’ Benzes, n’ fuckin’ Audis and won’t buy a damn Cadillac to save their souls. That’s what I like about Russia, you know? They don’t make a damn thing, and if you need a little extra…
2017, the year of speaking dangerously: the Left’s shabby campus record on free speech
Ugh! I’m linking positively to the National Review, to this article by Stanley Kurtz! Actually, I don’t know enough about Stan to know if I really dislike him, but the record he presents of self-righteous leftie rampages is discouraging to say the least. The Enlightenment? We don’t need your lousy, stinkin’ Enlightenment! Who wants to…
Joshua Redman —“Trinkle Tinkle”
Festival Triumph of Jazz at the Moscow House of Music on 19 February, 2011. Joshua Redman (tenor sax), Reuben Rogers (bass) & Gregory Hutchinson (drums). Posted by Taberculat
David French, daring to speak the unspeakable, so to speak
“Make no mistake,” the National Review’s sometimes rational (but not this time) David French warns us in light of the recent Manchester bombing, “there is an emerging bipartisan consensus that a certain amount of terrorism is just the price we have to pay to live the way we want to live. Now, to be clear,…
Jonah Goldberg, taking 10,000 words (more or less) to suggest that he really really wishes Donald Trump wasn’t president
Jonah Goldberg has a weekly (I guess) column at the National Review called “The G-File”, in which he raps, often at no mean length, about what it means to be the G-Man. In the current iteration, Jonah seems to have a lot on his mind, but his thoughts don’t quite come trippingly to the tongue,…