Andrew Breitbart was another in a long line of cigar-chomping bad boys, starting, I guess, with William F. Buckley, Jr., and including such dubious characters as Newt Gingrich, Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., P.J. O’Rourke, and Rush Limbaugh,* propelled into political combat by the pomposity, sanctimony, hypocrisy, and incompetence of the Liberal Imagination, still reigning in many…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Larry Lindsey, looking for work?
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Lawrence Lindsey, briefly director of the National Economic Council under George Bush, goes ballistic on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for saying that wealthy Americans should be willing to pay higher taxes for the “privilege of being an American.” According to Larry, “Mr. Geithner’s argument highlights an unfortunate and very…
Chris Christie, not really such a bad person
And not nearly as fat as I keep saying he is. And, even if he is as fat as I keep saying he is, Big Chris still had the class to denounce the New York City Police Department for spying on law-abiding Muslims in New Jersey. Granted, much of what Chris said amounted to “Stay…
The Obama Administration: Once the failure of our policy in Afghanistan becomes obvious to the American people, they’ll be more willing to pretend that it’s a success
Yes, that seems to be thinking around the White House these days, if you can believe the New York Times—and on this occasion I can. According to Mark Landler “The killing of two American servicemen and the eruption of deadly anti-American protests in Afghanistan confronts President Obama with a potential political weakness in a foreign…
David Brooks, getting all meshugana because no one will save his fat ass
Over at the NYT, David Brooks gives forth with this primal scream of primal hypocrisy, suddenly noticing that the forces of modern conservatism, which he has aided and abetted for the past twenty years to great personal profit, constitute little more than a mob of know-nothing gangstas. Here’s Dave’s thumbnail of how we got to…
“Deservedly slain.” Indeed.
I have come into the possession of an old—very old—little book of nursery rhymes, “Aunt Friendly’s Book of Nursery Rhymes,” which surely dates from before 1900, and quite possibly well before that time. It has wonderful four-color illustrations, printed on only one side of a full sheet, so that when the book was bound there…
Thelonious Monk—“Nutty”
https://youtu.be/vAZSc1wT8Mo Thelonious in London, sometime. Surely Charlie Rouse on tenor. Maybe someone can identify the drummer and bassist, based on Thelonious’ hat. Dunno. Looks mid-sixties-ish, with nice sound. Posted by CrimsonPenguin
Newt Gingrich confesses
“I’ve fallen short of the glory of God.” But surely not by much, Newt, surely not by much. Via Reason and Breitbart TV.
Ten Years After
Ten years after the U.S. began its occupation/liberation of Afghanistan, we still haven’t figured out how to relate to a nation of poppy-growing Muslim fundamentalists. It might seem “obvious” to some that burning Korans is not a good idea when you’re trying to teach Muslims how enlightened you are and how much you respect their…
Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here. “What did I tell you? Ten years ago, this car would be nothing but ‘gators. The Bronx has totally gone to hell.” “Don’t worry, folks. My buddy and me, we’re out for fun, not for food. But if you could help us score a couple of tickets to “The Inexplicable Redemption of…