What is it with these Republican presidential candidates? Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels decides not to run because of an embarrassing family secret: he and his wife divorced, she ran off to California and married her high school sweetheart, discovered that she was no longer in high school and divorced him, moved back to Indiana and…
Author: Alan Vanneman
The Washington Post—Excavatin’ the Abyss
There’s a new root cellar over at the Washington Post. It’s under the turnip cellar and the storm cellar, below the subcellar under the parking garage. That’s how low the Post had to go in its July 16 warning to the British Parliament (and others) not to go “too far” in their investigation of Rupert…
I know you are, but what am I?
Newt Gingrich owes $451,946.00 to Moby Dick Airways LTD, according to papers Newt’s campaign filed with the Federal Election Commission. That’s almost half of the campaign’s total debt. Of course, at this point in a campaign, the idea is to have cash rather than debt. Naturally, Newt blames all his problems on someone else: the…
Laura Caviani Trio – “Epistrophy”
Laura Caviani on piano, Adam Linz on bass and Phil Hey on drums doing Monk’s Epistrohpy live at thte Artists’ Quarter fro Monk’s 90 Birthday celebration on 10/10/2007. Posted by “donberryman”.
The man who painted this painting once pissed on a statue of Winnie the Pooh in Disneyland
And, yes, the big frog is telling the little frog, “See that bitch? I fucked her.” Well, probably not. But according to New Republic doubledome Jed Perl, in the midst of a tediously extended article mostly intended to let us know how smart he is, and how much he hates “Painter of Light” dude Thomas…
The Lynne Arriale Trio—“Bemsha Swing”
Recorded live at the Burghausen Jazz Festival, Germany, with Lynne Arriale, pianist, Jay Anderson, bassist, and Steve Davis, jazz drummer. Posted by Lynne. Dunno why she only gives us three minutes, so I’m also posting “Blackbird,” with Mike McGuirk on bass. Posted by “uvisni”.
Someone owes Ben Stein an apology (ugh)
So Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a swaggering, philandering grab-ass who, it seems, did not sexually assault a maid at the swank Sofitel New York in Manhattan. And so Strauss-Kahn’s career is in ruins even though, it seems, he’s not a rapist. And so it seems that in the case of the Duke lacrosse team preppie not…
Day of the Jacobins
OK, my chronology is a bit off, because the Jacobins really hadn’t made the scene yet at the time of the Tennis Court Oath, but the point is, today’s Tea Party crew is a lot like the Jacobins. Why? Because, despite all their talk of fiscal responsibility, what they really want to do is repudiate…
Stan Getz “Out of Nowhere”
Stan the Man in Dusselfdorf in 1960. Posted by “BGG1”
President declares victory, decides to stay
Good news! The tide of war is receding, as the President has announced. Just not very fast. Things are going so well in Afghanistan, according to the President, that a year from now we will only have twice as many troops stationed there as we did when he came into office two years ago. Quelle…