That’s the war to start war, you understand, because the Weekly Standard thinks we’re just not killing enough people. The “Editors”, meaning Bad Boy Billy Kristol, demand that we “Stop Calling Russia a Competitor”! You know what Russia does? “Putin’s government invades neighboring states, murders its opponents with impunity on foreign soil, undermines the elections…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Did Dianne Feinstein just make Mitch McConnell look like a p*ssy?
I don’t know. I don’t know if Dianne is shrewd, senile, or lucky. Maybe she sat on the now famous letter because she was afraid to do anything else. Maybe she “arranged” to have herself pressured so that she would have “no choice” but to do whatever it is she wanted to do. But however…
Truffles To Die For
(Preface to Author’s Note: I originally posted this story last Monday, saying that, since it was so long, I’d be posting it in two parts. Well, fine, except that I forgot to make the partition and thus ended up posting the whole thing. If you read the story last week and were expecting further developments…
My advice to other people
Norm MacDonald: Try being funny. Cory Booker: Try being not stupid. If you (and the Democrats) are lucky Hurricane Florence will erase all memory of this self-generated cycone o’ shit that now swirls about you. Fortunately, only political junkies were following the Kavanaugh hearings in the first place, and, even better, even fewer Americans know…
Unthinking the Unthinkable: All of a sudden it’s 1984 again
If you’re as old as I am you’re probably dead, but if not you might remember the strange foreboding that gripped some of us back in the day when the fateful year of “1984” began to loom on the calendarial horizon: It was actually going to be 1984! We had been bred and baked in…
Truffles To Die For
(Author’s note: Some years ago I wrote three novellas in imitation of Rex Stout’s detective novels, featuring his rotund, orchid-fancying semi alter ego Nero Wolfe, as narrated by his wise-cracking assistant Archie Goodwin. They’re available, for free, if you click here and scroll down past all my “pay to read” books to Three Bullets. I…
Thailand Jazz—“In Walked Bud”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhVDcDvysE I don’t have any names, because everything is in Thai script. The tune, and the lyrics, written by Jon Hendricks, do get around. Posted by Nok DekPerdNote
American Catholics and American Jews are not happy campers. And neither, it seems, are America’s evangelicals
This conversation didn’t happen, but it could have: Monseigneur Vivaldi: “Have you read that Pennsylvania grand jury report? Over three hundred priests accused of sex abuse! We’ve hit rock bottom! It can’t get any worse than this!” Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: “Hold my beer.” Yes, Viganò’s now notorious letter is rockin’ the church in ways…
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, getting it so very, very wrong in so many varied ways
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, or “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” as she’s known around town, writes the “Reason Roundup” for Reason magazine’s online site each morning, covering the news that’s hot of the griddle. Usually, she’s excellent—check out last Friday’s riff on the continuing fraud of “sex trafficking”, a joint project of liberals and conservatives to throw people…
Kenny Barron & Elena Pinderhughes—“Shuffle Boil”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVoY1hbnFNg Taking a break from “In Walked Bud” for some fabulous jazz flute, supplied by Elena Pinderhughes. According to online comments, Jonathan Blake is the drummer. The bassist is Kiyoshi Kitagawa. “Shuffle Boil” is a fairly obscure Monk tune. He first recorded it on a date led by saxophonist Gigi Gryce, more or less as…