The Bush Twins on their replacements, Sasha and Malia: “They’re a lot younger than we are, cuter than we are. We’re old news.”
Author: Alan Vanneman
Ross Dumbfuck does it again
A few weeks back I took a trivial slap at Ross Douthat for a lame squib he wrote at the expense of poor Adrian Grenier (yeah, that Adrian Grenier) who I suspect is not quite as untalented as Ross says he is. Well, today it’s a lot more serious, thanks to an abysmal post Ross…
Don’t say the Washington Post never granted you any gratuitous and unmerited favors, departing Bush Administration
The Washington Post has been a persistent and aggressive critic of the Bush Administration’s disgraceful violation of the basic laws not only of democracy but of humanity, but somehow it can’t, or at least doesn’t, resist throwing that vicious crew an occasional bone. The editorial page of today’s Post provides a forum for a thoroughly…
Goin’ Postal—Three Things You’ll hate about the Sunday Post
There’s a lot to dislike in today’s Washington Post. The usually reliable Richard A. Clarke slides way off the rails with one of those “this didn’t happen but it could have” imaginative reconstructions of what Osama et al. might be talking about these days, what they might be talking about, that is, if Muslim terrorists…
The Art of the Dick
“What could I have done differently? In certain conversations, what should I have said, what could I have done?” This is what Richard Fuld, lately CEO of the late Lehman Brothers, asks himself a lot these days, according to Steve Fishman’s excellent article in New York magazine. Since there’s nothing I enjoy more than helping…
Alan Vanneman has a heart of gold, part II
Well, I do, and to prove it, I’ll link to someone I really don’t like, Mickey Kaus, who has some really smart things to say about the hideous terror attacks in Mombai. The massive death toll was in large part due to the utter incompetence of the Indian police. Quoting from an article in the…
Forget the high-speed rail—there’s a brand-new way out of Folsom!
Readers of either Matthew Yglesia’s liberal blog or Reason’s libertarian one know of the liberals’ passionate love of high-speed rail (why can’t we be more like Europe?) and the libertarians’ detestation of the same (because Europe sucks, that’s why!). Well, James Fallows, inspired by the burgeoning air-taxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area, may…
Broderfreude
The classic earmark, so to speak, of the classic Washington weenie is the pleasure one gets in seeing David Broder fall on his self-important ass. It’s an odd sort of pleasure, because Broder himself never feels the impact. For an old Washington hand like Dave, error isn’t a cause for embarrassment. Rather, it’s an opportunity…
Thanksgiving Day Special: Live from the Colonial Room—it’s Joey Standish!
What a crowd, what a crowd. I haven’t seen so many buckle shoes since John Milton’s bar mitzvah. And I want to tell you. John Alden is here with us tonight. Is this an ugly Puritan? Seriously, John. Lose the pointy hat. Seriously. Why do Puritan men die before their wives? Because they want to!…
P.G. on the Web
Josh Frost has a terrific cartoon version of the first half of an early Bertie & Jeeves story here. For more Frost, check out the Adventures of Nathaniel Bright, here. If you want to know more about P.G. Wodehouse, the creator of B&J, go here. Like many writers, I’m a P.G. Wodehouse addict, though a…