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…
Paul Ryan says he wants to end poverty. He doesn’t. He wants to end government spending on poverty
The public image of poor Lyin’ Paulie Ryan has taken a bit of a beating these days, as Ryan worshippers have to explain why a man who supports the White House aspirations of a man who makes racist statements is still a saint. So they’ve got a new rap: Sure, he supports Donald Trump, but…
I hate to kvetch, but …
Jay Nordlinger takes a hike
The National Review’s Jay Nordlinger has pretty much made a career out of being a right-wing prick. But when a little prick meets a colossal prick, it seems, the little prick takes a hike. Actually, Jay takes his farewell to the GOP in a pretty impressive, not at all pricky, farewell titled #ExGOP, explaining exactly…
Bernie Sanders, the White Man’s Candidate*
Schönegg/Berger/Khabirpour—“Light Blue”
“Monk & More”, aka Riaz Khabirpour, guitar, Stefan Schönegg, bass, and Leif Berger, drums, play one of Monk’s lesser known tunes at a REAL LIVE JAZZ concert in Cologne. Posted by Love Music
Left and Right: The Ugliness of the Antipodes
Extremism on both the left and right have emerged with startling immediacy and intensity this year, as an entirely unintended result of the presidential primary process, which was largely “intended” to produce a near re-match of both the 1992 and 2000 elections, featuring Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton. Apparently, that was just too goddamn boring…