For some reason, I’ve got the American military on my mind, on my mind. I’ve got the American military on my mind. And I’m wondering: Did we ever have any good generals? I was launched on this avenue of speculation by a recent book review, “Douglas MacArthur’s Brilliant, Controversial Legacy”, by the National Review’s Victor…
Joe Lovano & Greg Osby—“Ask Me Now”
Joe with Danilo Pérez. Greg Osby with Marc Copland, piano; Nir Felder, guitar; Joseph Lepore, bass, and Terri Lyne Carrington, drums. Posted by a7dana7
World’s Greatest Olympics Movie? Maybe Not. World’s Oddest Olympics Movie? Maybe So!
Charlie Chan at the Olympics! Now there’s a title to send a B movie buff’s heart a-racing. I’m a huge fan of the Warner Oland Charlie Chans, some of the best B movies ever made, and this one has some special twists. For example, it’s the one where Charlie flies to Berlin for the 1936…
Eric Reed Trio—“Blue Monk”
Republican Sen. Susan Collins attacks Trump. The more the Donald’s popularity drops, the more virtuous Republicans become.
Remember Brexit? It still sucks
Remember Brexit? Remember all that “Smash the Bastardly Brussels Bureaucracy” bullshit that was floating around just a few months ago, hyped by everyone from George Will to Jill Stein? Well, now the chickens are coming home to roost, reports Politico’s Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli. It seems that trying to bail out of the global economy isn’t…
Globalism lays an egg. Why?
As unprecedentedly awful as America’s politics are right now, in one way, we’re perfectly normal, because we’re just like everyone else. The monumental disarray of our Republican and Democratic parties is perfectly mirrored in the UK by the Conservatives and Laborites. Donald Trump and Boris Johnson could be twins. The specter haunting Europe these days…
It is a subject we have covered aggressively. Just, you know, not all the time!
Hillary Clinton getting creative with the truth. Okay, maybe it isn’t news, but still, the New York Times might have reported on Hillary’s latest foray into creative nonfiction, when she told Fox News that FBI Director James Comey said she had been like totally truthful about her emails. But they didn’t. And when NYT public…
Summertime, and the climate is sultry
But not as sultry as Brigitte Bardot, shown here in her prime. Why not beat the heat by taking a stroll down memory lane and reading a review I wrote back at the birth of the DVD era (2002) of three not very good yet archeologically interesting BB flicks, to wit: Plucking the Daisy, The…
Liberals, conservatives, and guns. Liberals, conservatives, and guns, and the elephant in America’s living room.
Which elephant, you say? Why, the elephant that’s always there. The elephant of race. It was the assassination of John F. Kennedy that first brought liberals’ long-running distaste/discomfort/hatred of guns to the fore. However, it was the race riots of the sixties, and the dramatic increase in violent street crime among young black men that…