It’s good to talk! Yes, that’s the word from Trump mouthpiece and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly: “Any information flow into the government and then considered by the government, I won’t criticize that.” Uh-huh. The former four-star Marine Corps general made these comments on the ABC Sunday talk show “This Week”, duly reported for…
Marcus Roberts—“Trinkle Tinkle”
Marcus Roberts, taking Monk for a ride. Michigan State University, 1994. Posted by Shimon-D-I
UPDATE: Clarence Thomas didn’t “vote black”; other conservatives voted “white”
On Monday, I used the time-honored journalistic dodge of “ethically” floating a sensational but unverified allegation by stating it in the form of a question, to wit: Clarence Thomas didn’t just ‘vote black’, did he? Well, according to Mark Joseph Stern, over at Slate, he didn’t. Instead, he voted “Thomas.” “Clarence Thomas Joins Liberals, Shocks…
Shorter Rod Rosenstein: “I’ve always been a pr*ck!”
That’s what 100 senators learned at a special, closed, “classified”1 hearing from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last Thursday. The House held a similar hearing on Friday. From what was leaked, it seems that “R-Rod” couldn’t stop talking about what a shit he is. In fact, we now have Rosenstein’s statement from the Friday meeting,…
Clarence Thomas didn’t just “vote black”, did he?
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is, to put it mildly, known for his scorn for anything resembling “affirmative action”. So why was Thomas joining a bunch of, you know, liberals, in Cooper v. Harris to affirm a lower court ruling overturning a little scheme cooked up by North Carolina Republicans to pack all the black…
The Vials of Republican Wrath
Over at the National Review, the often (though often not) “honest conservative” David French has an interesting post “Stop Making Terrible Arguments For Blind Loyalty”, complaining that he often hears pleas from “real Republicans” to be, in effect, as bad as the Democrats. As French puts it, the argument goes something like this: “The GOP…
H.R. McMaster, a shande far di civilians
Yes, all of us lucky folks who don’t have to salute Donald Trump1 can have a chuckle at the fate of H.R. “Herbie” McMaster, and particularly have a chuckle at his defenders, like Michael Crowley at Politico and Fred Kaplan at Slate, who join in the cry “Say it ain’t so, H.R.!”, reacting to McMaster’s…
Of course, when that happened during the Obama Administration, he threw them in jail
“Some brave patriots in intelligence and law enforcement and elsewhere in the federal government have taken risks to get the facts out.” Thus quoth WashPost columnist Dana Milbank, celebrating the appointment of Robert Mueller as special prosecutor for l’affaire Russe. As Dana sums things up, a little too generously, “With the stroke of a pen,…
David Helbock’s Random/Control—“Trinkle Tinkle”
Tired of Trump? Yeah, baby! David Helbock lets us escape with a multi-instrumental approach to Monk’s music, featuring Dave, Johannes Bär, and Andreas Broger playing, well, a lot of things. Recorded live at the Jazzahead 2015 in Bremen (DE).1 Posted by David Helbock “Bremen (DE)” is German for “Bremen, Germany” (as in “DEutschland”). ↩︎
Gen. H. R. McMaster: I only lie when I really need to
Okay, Gen. McM didn’t really say that. But he has been willing to lie before, when it was, you know, necessary, like when Congress might not give the Army all the money that it really, really needed. When H. R. first got the job as national security advisor, I recalled in a brief post, “Lt….