It’s become a “thing” for left-thinking “progressives” to exclaim, with suitably “passionate” outrage, “Did you know that Uber and Lyft drivers receive only 25% of price of a trip?” Well, I do now, of course, but here’s the good news for the righteously enraged: You can do something about that all by yourself! Yes, yes,…
Yo, Megan McArdle! Haven’t you heard? A deceitful inconsistency is the hobgoblin of very little minds! Very little minds like yours!
In a recent column, Some mortgage fraud is inevitable. But Lisa Cook needs to come clean., WashPost opinionator Megan McArdle had this to say about the recent uncovering of apparent “mortgage fraud” (a federal felony) on the part of Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserves Board of Governors, whom President Trump is currently…
Marta Giulioni—“I Mean You” Can Marta cook in the kitchen? Oh yeah!
Marta with Nico Tangherlini, piano, Riccardo Trasselli, bass, and Jacopo Ausili, drums. Posted by Marta
Coming soon, to a theater (of war) near you! I feel safer already! Unfortunately, I am safer.
I live in Washington, DC and I can assure you that our mayor, Muriel Bowser, can be usefully compared to water, in that she always follows the path of least resistance. See, Mayor Bowser would like to do more about DC’s falling yet still sky-high murder rate (down from 274 murders in 2023 to 187…
Political Notes from All Over
Vive Le Résistance! But what is it? And where is it? And who is it? Good questions! Maybe too good! According to reports from, well, you know, “around”, many Democrats are licking their chops looking forward to the 2026 mid-term elections, anticipating another “Blue Wave” election, similar to the big win in 2006, which presaged…
Much Ado about Béatrice et Bénédict. Can Berlioz Beat Bill? No, but it’s closer than you might think!
(Editor’s note: The performance shown above was taped back in 1977. Go here for a contemporary performance— Béatrice strips down to her slip for this one—but with French subtitles only. My review is based on a 2016 Glyndebourne production available via subscription from “Marquee TV” on Amazon Video. I particularly liked Stéphanie d’Oustrac in the…
Zohran Mamdani is full of ideas, and every single one of them is bad. Who’s worse, Andy, Eric, or Zohran? Is it OK if I just move to Hoboken?
Over at the New York Times, the ever-talkative Eric Klein has a loong and generally quite informative interview with MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes under the title Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics. And so we know where Zohran is coming from: free buses, government-run grocery stores, rent control, and universal child care,…
Sit down by the waters of Washington and weep, for America has fallen The worst man in American history is the most powerful man in American history.
Unlike any other president in American history, Donald Trump faces both an utterly supine Congress and an utterly supine Supreme Court. Never before has either branch come close to defaulting so thoroughly in the performance of its constitutional duties as an independent branch of government as both have today. One would find more defiance—and more…
What is the sound of a spine dissolving? Whatever it is, the Supreme Court made it yesterday
Well, that didn’t last long. Just a couple of days ago, gullible me was believing that Federalist Society types like U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett were capable of more than just parroting whatever riff His Orangeness was demanding. Well, that was so 72 hours ago. Yesterday, the Supremes handed down…
The tragedy of war—one of them, at least: We have to hope that Trump and Netanyahu are “lucky”.
Let’s hope they didn’t start us down the road to World War III! Yes, we hapless Americans have to hope that our dictator in chief, in waging unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, unjustified war against Iran will not touch off a train of events similar to all the other “once and for all” Middle Eastern invasions engineered…