Yay, Hillary! Okay, that is not something I say easily or often, but our gal’s five to zero sweep of the March 15 primaries over not so smokin’ Bernie Sanders, including a 2 to 1 beatdown in Florida, was welcome news indeed. Bernie’s big mouth had infused enough new blood in the beast known as…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I’m part piranha, girlfriend. Don’t make me prove it.” “Hell, I’ll spawn right here. Like I give a fuck.” “Yeah, we were looking for Salmon Springs. Guess we took a wrong turn.” “Like the rest of the way up it’s bear country? That seems a little extreme.” “You could be eating some…
Neocons at the end of their tether
Over at the National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a second, and more anguished, cri de cœur—I discussed an earlier one here—remarking, not simply on the horror that is Donald Trump, but on the horror one feels when one observes one’s friends proudly embracing that horror—if one has such friends as Kevin Williamson, Charlie Cooke, or…
Francesca Prihasti Trio Four In One
Jodie Michael (drums) and David Groves (double bass). Posted by Francesca Prihasti
Obama, all talk and no action? If only!
Eric Levitz, writing for New York magazine, boils down Jeffrey Goldberg’s 20,000 word interview with President Obama in the Atlantic, during which the president sounds so gosh-darn reasonable that you’ll have a hard time swallowing all the brutal truths concerning the house of state terror that Bush and Obama built (and reinforced) collected by Conor…
Donald and the Bern: What’s a billionaire to do?
The big surprise Tuesday night was not Donald Trump’s wins. “Trump losing momentum” stories have been written so often that when we see one we automatically rewrite it to read “Trump on a roll!” No, the big story was Bernie Sanders’ big, big win over Hillary Clinton, a victory won almost entirely on the basis…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Well, first of all, I’d really like a glass of water.” “All of a sudden it’s against the law to have teeth, is that it?” “What you call bait I call an hors d’oeuvre. It’s the fucking law of the sea.” “Hey, I bite a lot of things. Who remembers…
Arūnė Jonavičiūtė—“Well, You Needn’t”
https://youtu.be/uTHkpTs2XPo Arūnė, totally rockin’ it, with Arnoldas Jankūnas (piano), Paulius Stonkus (bass guitar), and Viačeslav Krasnopiorov (percussion), performing at Klaipėda University Concert Hall, Nov. 5, 2014. Posted by Ku Ma
What Bernie Sanders still doesn’t get about arguing with Hillary Clinton? No, what Bernie Sanders still doesn’t get about arguing with anyone.
Bernie Sanders is getting some flak for getting all “Hey! Man talking, Lady!” on Hillary’s ass during last Sunday’s debate, but, really, it wasn’t a sexist thing. It was just a Bernie thing. Bernie talks to everybody like that, because Bernie lives in Bernieland, where he’s been living his entire life, where he’s right about…
Marco Rubio, Super Loser
Let’s all have a chuckle at the expense of Republican Establishment fair-haired boy Marco Rubio, who can’t understand why the old lies ain’t workin’: “If you had told me a year ago that the front-runner at this stage in the Republican campaign would be a supporter of Planned Parenthood, who says he doesn’t stand with…