Paul Krugman has explained, several times that he is a very reluctant, though thoroughly convinced anti-Brexit kind of guy. Why so reluctant? Because of the “sad reality” that the EU has become: “The so-called European project began more than 60 years ago, and for many years it was a tremendous force for good. It didn’t…
Meat Loaf still a thing, Bloomberg explains
I check out Bloomberg News largely because I won’t subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. I like to have some information, and, possibly, some insight, on the state of the world’s economy. Not to mention the state of Meat Loaf. Well, Meat, it seems, isn’t doing too well. “CONDITION UNKNOWN” blared the head. “Singer Meat…
Orlando explained! Well, sort of.
Over at Bloomberg, Pankaj Mishra gives a nice take on “The Messy Mind of Omar Mateen”, noting that, among other things, “Mateen was mentally unstable, according to his divorced first wife. His Afghan-born father spoke of his son’s hatred of gays. Obama confirmed that the Islamic State had not directed the attack even though Mateen…
Luis Deniz & Greg Osby—“Ask Me Now”
Luis Deniz and Greg Osby, alto sax, Lorne Lofsky, guitar, Neil Swainson, bass, and Ethan Ardelli, drums. Greg seems to like this tune. Posted by Eugene Beck
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I don’t get it. You loved Curious George as a kid.” “Okay, suppose we cut banana breakfasts back to three days a week. Does that sound like a good idea?” “Because Bob and Betty’s Magic Monkey Menagerie is going to explode all over the Internet, that’s why.” “Think of…
Bob Samuelson, making me feel sorry for President Obama
Yeah, I didn’t think it was possible, not after the president’s too Obama to live statements on the Orlando Massacre, repeating vague calls for gun control measures that would not have prevented the killings and refusing to acknowledge murderer Omar Mateen’s shout out to ISIS. I mean, what’s in a name, anyway? Yeah, I’d had…
The Moral of Omar Mateen
The moral of Omar Mateen is that there will be no early end to the disastrous “War on Terror”, which is painfully damaging our culture and causing us to waste hundreds of billions of dollars on a massive and useless military. These are the fruits of “hegemonisn” or “exceptionalism”, promoted so assiduously ever since the…
The F-35 “Hanger Queen”
I recently stumbled across an intriguing site on the Internet,“War Is Boring”, which featured a necessarily long article—necessarily long because it was titled “Everything Wrong With the F-35”, the F-35 being America’s newest and (of course) most expensive fighter jet. The F-35 is in fact the most expensive weapons project in history, and one that…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Then we’ll be two for dinner?” “If it’s all the same to you, sir, I’d prefer not to be called Igor from here on out.” “I’ll notify the Times.” “The lads in the village are very keen on a striker.” “I am sorry to interrupt, sir, but the…
Bernie Sanders, the White Folks’ Candidate
Issac Bailey has a more than terrific post up at Politico, pointing out what I (very briefly) noted, that the whiter the state, the better Bernie Sanders did. Actually, Bernie did a terrific job uniting both white working-class voters, by promising to basically end imports, as well as white college kids, by promising to cancel…