A whole week ago I swore off blogging for a couple of weeks in order to engage in some “deep thought”, which I totally have been doing, remarking that I hoped our president would not blow up the world while I did so. Well, Sir Donald isn’t blowing up the world, because he’s so preoccupied…
Author: Alan Vanneman
David Ignatius thinks you’re an idiot (Redux)
Perhaps I should say, David Ignatius hopes and prays you’re an idiot. This is the way Dave begins his latest column, “America is no longer guaranteed military victory. These weapons could change that.” “The fight against the Islamic State may get the headlines. But it’s the military threats from Russia and China that most worry…
The Mooche si, The Mooch no
Some while back, I posted a dismissive note on Facebook regarding the highly welcome departure of Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci, to wit: “The Mooche is mooted and muted. Suck on this, Tony: You’re history.” Well, Tony is history, but I unfortunately misspelled his nickname, as a jazz buff might, because there are two famous “Mooches”…
Jay Nordlinger at the end of his tether
Back in the day, like the Eighties day, and even later, I used to check out the National Review, either at the newsstand or the library, because I don’t remember ever being dedicated enough to buy a copy, just to keep up with what the enemy was thinking. There were a few writers whom I…
“My Feed”
What does “My Feed” have to feed me this morning? What’s “on the Edge”, as we Microsoft users like to say? Well, this morning, it’s Jessica Simpson’s boobs, Jennifer Lawrence’s boobs (on the cover of Vogue, yet), and Mitch McConnell (fully clothed, thanks be to God). My Feed has to cheat a little to get…
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk: Too cute!
Okay, we have changed the name of this website to “Snark R Us”, but bear with me. This is snark, but snark with a thesis. Is Dunkirk an extraordinary visual spectacle? Well, duh. Yeah. I saw it at the Lockheed IMAX in the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, one of the biggest screens in the…
Yes, but
Recently, “informed opinion” has protested the leaking of the transcripts of conversations that President Trump had with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Sure, the transcripts show that Donald Trump is an amazing colossal asshole/amazing colossal dick. We knew that! And now foreign leaders will be afraid to speak honestly…
Pete Siers with the Russell Malone Quartet–“Trinkle Tinkle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e-qRJ3U25A Russell Malone, guitar; Pete Siers, drums; Louis Herivaux, piano; Paul Keller, bass. 1993 Jazz at Vienne, France. Posted by Pete Siers
Yo, Conservatives! Don’t Analyze Trump! Oppose Him!
Right-wing double domes, some of them with hair, have been both generating and garnering pixels with critiques of our president’s character. Too much Woody Allen, not enough Gary Cooper, says Peggy Noonan, who seems to have started the ball rolling. Narcissistic and domineering (ya think?), says Charles Krauthammer. Not sufficiently Greek, says David Brooks. I’m…
“We” married him? John, honey, you created him!
John Podhoretz, like me, wishing the hell that Donald Trump wasn’t president, writes the following: “The issue with Trump is that his approach can only be called ‘the politics of unseriousness.’ He engages with no issue, merely offers a hostile and pithy soundbite bromide about it. He yammers. He describes how wonderful things will be…