Over at Politico, Adam Walinsky gives good head with the following: “I was RFK’s Speechwriter. Now I’m Voting for Donald Trump. Here’s Why.” What follows is a depressingly accurate account of Hillary Clinton’s Putin-phobia, her school-girl earnest conviction that Mr. Putin “needs to be taught a lesson.” Mrs. Clinton, with all her vaunted knowledge of…
Pseudo New Yorker
“OK, I should have said ‘I know a deep-sea short cut.’” “Unless he thinks we’re krill I think we’ll be OK.” “I don’t have an irrational fear of the great cetaceans. I have a rational fear of the great cetaceans.” “Well, for one thing, we’re both mammals. That should count for something! “I know they…
Rachel Rodgers—“Straight, No Chaser”
Yes, more “Straight, No Chaser”, this time from a young flautist. Posted by Rachel Rodgers, who also has a site here
Stadia Mania! Why the heart hath reasons that Reason knows not of
It’s no stretch to say that “Reason” magazine does not ♥ public funding of sports arenas. You can get a fair sample of Reasonette bile regarding sports arenas here. And I agree: public funding of sports arenas—most egregiously, the fabled NFL franchises—makes no economic sense. Yet it happens, constantly. So it must make some sort…
Pseudo New Yorker
“I don’t mean to rush you, but the C Train will be here in two minutes.” “Why I don’t I just start you off with a couple of bowls of our Port Authority vichyssoise? And maybe some sardines?” “As a matter of fact, I have heard all the jokes—thank you for asking. But I love…
N. Gregory Mankiw is lower than a snake in a wagon’s track
N. Gregory Mankiw is brilliant and prominent, a professor of economics at Harvard University, author of a best-selling introductory economics textbook, and, under President George W. Bush, chair of the president’s board of economic advisors.1 So why he is talking total bullshit on the estate tax in the New York Times? Well, as Greg tells…
A Wall of Shame for the Party of Shame
Wash Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson has a column up arguing that spending $25 billion for Donald Trump’s “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful” wall is a great idea, because building one would facilitate a grand compromise on immigration reform: “If we could buy an immigration bargain for $25 billion, or even a bit more, it…
Benny Troschel—“Straight No Chaser”
It’s “Straight No Chaser” month at Literature R Us. In fact, I may give this tune of Monk’s a two-month workout, for it seems to be remarkably popular. I guess I wasn’t paying attention. In any case, it’s Benny Troschel working the trompete, with Christopher Olesch on vibraphon, Felix Henkelhausen on bass, Artemiy Kosarev on…
New York Times Obituary Department now wholly owned subsidiary of Rockwell International and U.S. Air Force
Sam Iacobellis, father of the B-1 bomber, the plane that won the Cold War, is dead. Well, that’s what NYT obit dude Sam Roberts tells us, in a stunning outburst of chest-beating Reaganite nonsense. Sam is dead (I guess), so that part of the obit is true, but the rest of it, I strongly suggest,…
Peter Thiel, Dan Grazier, Mandy Smithberger, and I agree: the F-35 totally sucks
Where’s your cannon, big guy? Well, the F-35 hasn’t got one, not yet. Nor does it have the solutions to dozens of other pressing problems, according to reporters Dan Grazier and Mandy Smithberger, who single handedly dismember the $400 billion and counting “Hanger Queen”. This is at least the second extended beatdown Dan and Mandy…