What is the deal with lying liberal media these days, those bad old legacy networks like CBS and NBC, filling the air with their bullshit lies? Deceit is the deal, and the Weekly Standard’s Gregg Easterbrook is on the case. Unfortunately, Gregg, in his role of “Tuesday Morning Quarterback,” tends to hide his epistemological light…
Author: Alan Vanneman
God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world: Magnum, P.I. is back on the air!
Okay, that’s a little too cheerful, isn’t it? Well, when God gives you lemons, pour yourself a double shot of Tequila, I always say. It’s sure as hell better than lemonade. No, the return of Magnum, P.I. to television won’t compensate for much of anything, but the “good news” is that’s significantly less irritating than…
Donald Trump is a bad man, General Colin Powell discovers.
“My favorite three words in our Constitution are the first three words: ‘We the People’,” [General Colin] Powell said on Fareed Zakaria’s ‘GPS’ on Sunday. “But recently, it’s become ‘Me the President’ as opposed to ‘We the People.’ And you see things that should not be happening.” So reports Mary Papenfuss in the Huffington Post….
Is It Always Wrong To Hate Someone With An English Accent?
Well, yes, of course it is. We shouldn’t judge someone simply on the basis of the way they speak. In any event, we cauliflower-eared Americans can’t tell the difference between an English, Irish, Scottish, Australian, or even South African accent in the first place, so we are, in all likelihood, often “rejecting” people who hate…
John McCain, Paul Ryan, and the Myth of the Virtuous Republican
John McCain is one of those guys who, when he dies, people say “he was the last of a dying breed.” No one will ever say that about Paul Ryan. John McCain was a genuine war hero, a man who preferred to face hardship, torture, and even death rather than abandon his comrades. Paul Ryan…
Max Perov—“In Walked Bud”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k14KqXJQ0wY Monk on flugelhorn is definitely a treat. Posted by MaxPerov
Peter Beinart: Cogent, with a caveat
Actually, more than cogent. Beinart, a chastened former liberal hawk who supported George’s W. Bush’s massively flawed and fraudulent invasion of Iraq, has learned his lesson pretty well, setting forth his conviction that “America Needs an Entirely New Foreign Policy for the Trump Age”, though I would much prefer another term for “the present” than…
Thought Police No, What Were They Thinking Police, Sort of
No, New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma shouldn’t have been bounced from his job for running “Reflections From a Hashtag”, an article by former Canadian broadcasting host Jian Ghomeshi, explaining, and explaining away, his multiple problems arising from complaints by more than twenty women of various forms of sexual abuse. It was particularly…
Thomas Fraioli—“In Walked Bud”
Shades? Check. Porkpie hat? Check. Ax? Check. Thomas Fraioi is ready to rhumba.
Sebastian Mallaby, shamelessly—nay, nakedly—covering Alan’s ass
(Author’s note: What started as a brief headslap directed at Sebastian Mallaby turned into a 3,000+ word semi-diatribe on the subject of the multiple sins of Sebastian, Alan Greenspan, and a few other big-wigs. Read at your own risk.) Okay, not my ass, the other Alan’s ass—Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. The…