Legal humor here “What do you mean you’re out of goldfish? I crawled twelve fucking blocks and you’re fucking out of fucking goldfish? Jesus fucking Christ!” “No Happy Hour? I am so out of here!” “Two Cosmos, please. On a second thought, make it three.” “You drained my life’s blood, Louie, so you may as…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Ronald Reagan and Abortion
Now that Carly Fiorina is waving the bloody video clip in lieu of actually taking a position on abortion, I’m tempted to go back 48 years to the time in 1967 when Ronald Reagan, governor’s of the nation’s largest state, signed the nation’s most permissive abortion law. Two years ago, Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, who…
“He kept us safe.” Except for the 2,700 on 9/11, and the 5,000 poor shmucks in Iraq
Thus Jeb Bush, still the odds-makers favorite to win the Republican nomination. What fools these mortals be!
The Hillary Clinton email non-scandal scandal: It’s worse than a crime, it’s a whole nother blunder
Over at Reason, Peter Suderman has a take on the Hillary Clinton email thing, coming to the totally unremarkable conclusion that “Hillary’s problem is not so much the email story itself, but how she’s handled it,” which is a way of (silently) acknowledging that the “scandal”, as Pete constantly refers to it, isn’t a scandal…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Can’t we come up with something with a little more depth than ‘Rough day at the office, hunbun?’“ “You should have heard the crowd when I ran him over. Like I’m the bad guy!” “I get to keep the swords! Can you beat it? That’s my reward! I get to keep the…
Hank Jones, Joe Lovano: “Monk’s Mood”
Wonderful shots of Grand Old Man Hank. Posted by vpro vrije geluiden
Truck drivers wanted! Must be willing to work for less than they’re worth!
America needs truck drivers! We’re about 25,000 short right now, and we’ll need hundreds of thousands of them in the future, according to Bloomberg Business. But where are they? Well, they’re all over the place, but they aren’t willing to spend their lives on the road working for about $38,000 a year. If that’s the…
The Republican Civil Wars
Over at Reason, Matt Welch is keeping watch over the continuing Republican kerfuffle/steel cage death match being waged by the Trumpians and the Republican Establishment. Matt found a particularly piquant angle, noting the rage with which the National Review has been treating Trump in recent days, after, well, after saying what great ideas he has…
Why did the Roman Empire fall? The horse!
A few months ago, I ran a seven-part collection of near-random ruminations on Edward Gibbon’s monumental The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, not quite a book report, since I only read about two thirds of Gibbon’s work. Gibbon is famous/infamous for summing up his account of the D&F with the sentence “I have…
Thelonious Monk— “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are”
https://youtu.be/CTijrDIU-m4 Why not hear from the man himself? Thelonious in Japan, 1963, with Charlie Rouse on sax, Frank Dunlop on drums, and Butch Warren on bass. Fuzzy picture, excellent sound, and excellent band. The elaborately phonetic spelling of “Bolivar Blues,” presumably some sort of in-joke, refers to the Bolivar Hotel in New York, sometime home…