Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., is widely assumed to be a very smart man, as well as a very rich one. BloombergPolitics catches up with Jamie on his way back from a trip abroad to Israel, Ireland and France and reports the following: “It’s almost an embarrassment being an American traveling around…
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For the Right, All Roads Lead Through Russia. Unfortunately.
For the “Respectable Right,” I mean—the Wall Street Journal Right, the National Review Right—the “Thoughtful Right”—I guess you could call them, Big Donnie’s recent speech in Poland, which I, uh, didn’t like, made their little hearts beat faster than Max Roach’s Night in Tunisia drum solo from the Jazz at Massey Hall album (which you…
ii-v-i orchestra–“Trinkle Tinkle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7gJ2DehqE From five years ago. The ii-v-i was once an Ann Arbor fixture, but seems to have fallen on hard times in the last two years.No personnel available, unfortunately. Posted by David Swain, who has more performances by the group.
Donald Trump, Defender of the Faith
Donald Trump’s recent semi-hemi-demi blood and soil speech, delivered during his visit to Poland, has provoked an hilarious outpouring of “thought” on the part of the Right, everyone from the National Review’s David French to Noah Millman at the American Conservative, to name two writers whom I frequently read without extensive sniggering. I’m not going…
Baby Driver: Jon Hamm doesn’t know Shakespeare
Actually, that should read “Edgar Wright, writer/director of Baby Driver, doesn’t know Shakespeare”, but Big Jon said it in the picture, and who knows Edgar Wright, amirite? But it’s all Edgar’s fault that poor Jon (aka “Buddy”) is stuck with the line “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?” when it should be “Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore…
Cass Sunstein, talking truth to no one in particular
Cass Sunstein doesn’t always get it wrong, so I’ve been told, but over at Bloomberg he can be observed lecturing Donald Trump on his manners—“A Graceless President, a National Betrayal”—which is rather like faulting a vulture on its breath.1 In the course of his peroration, Cass contrasts Trump unfavorably—as how could he not?—with Ronald Reagan….
Donald’s got a brand new tub!
A few weeks back, I noted that Donald Trump’s rejection of the Paris accords on global warming amounted to a “tub”, a high-visibility, low-significance virtual non-issue that would nevertheless promote much angst and heartburn among the liberal commentariat, both printwise and in talking-heads land, accompanied, in both media, by endless shots of El Donaldo’s great,…
University of Kentucky Mega-Sax Ensemble—Thelonious Monk’s Trinkle Tinkle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb9VQNuWwGE Different, right? Happy Fourth! Arranged by Dieter Rice. I can’t find personnel for the ensemble listed anywhere, but you can catch up with the guys here. Posted by Miles Osland
Communism still sucks, Chait explains
Well, it does, and it always did. Not only Stalin but Lenin and Trotsky were hungry for absolute power from the get-go. Trotsky bragged about the murder of the Romanov family, when the Tsar Nicolas II, his wife and five children and a handful of servants were shot, stabbed, and beaten to death by a…
Ramesh Ponnuru, not really up on the Constitution thing
Trump Derangement Syndrome! It’s everywhere! Not among Democrats, but among Republicans! Yes, it’s dismaying when “your president” acts like a two-year-old—because he is a two-year-old! So what’s a pundit to do? Well, “I know you are but what am I?” seems to be what may be called the “Ramesh Ponnuru defense”. Ramesh, writing in the…