My brother bought me Jason Wilson’s Boozehound for Christmas. In the introduction is a 1959 quote from A.J. Liebling that should be good for a few comments here: The standard of perfection for vodka (no color, no taste, no smell) was expounded to me long ago….and it accounts perfectly for the drink’s rising popularity with […]
Year: 2012
Another horrible massacre, another high-powered rifle supported by the NRA used for the killing. Chief Pickering also said that it was likely that the gunman used a semi-automatic rifle, one of three
What better way to celebrate the season than some well-turned snark about a legendary-in-its-own-mind football team? At this point, the sad-sack New York Jets aren’t a circus, as the New York Po
Happy Holidays, if it’s your thing. Or if not. Be safe out there, enjoy friends and family, get wasted, whatever. If you’re truly bored, check out: Old Hoss Radbourn reminiscing about Wars on Christmases Past. Giulio Douhet raging against NORAD, and reviewing “Peace on Earth.” Blog Tarkin doing the Santa Clausewitz thing. Thanks from all […]
Shorter verbatim son of Mittens: “[Willard Romney] wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life.” Yes, clearly this always unambitious man was in it for the principle, and
Clearly, the problem is that not every American firefighter is armed, preferably with another armed guard for when they’re actually firefighting. We can pay through all of this with minor reduct
This Tom Scocca piece is pretty much brilliant from soup to cappuccino — I’m not even sure where to start excerpting. Here’s a couple of teasers: Guns kill people. More guns kill more people. What the NRA gets wrong—intentionally or delusionally or, in the psychologically and financially profitable zone where intention and delusion overlap—is its […]
It’s been almost seven weeks since the 2012 general election, but I have yet to grow weary of tales from the Romney campaign: Rich Beeson, the Romney political director who coauthored t
This amusing piece by Charles Davis on how he went to capitalist summer camp and became a communist reminded me of this old Yglesias approval of a pretty cheap shot at Pete Seeger’s communism se
I finally saw Lincoln last night. I doubt what I have is to say is anything others haven’t verbalized. But a couple quick points. As a film, it’s classic Spielberg. Well made entertainment in the broad and often obvious populism of D.W. Griffith and John Ford. Several eye-rolling lines, BIG music. It’s also hard to […]
This is the set of facts that the Iowa Supreme Court did not see as constituting sex discrimination: During the last six months or so of Nelson’s employment, Dr. Knight and Nelson started texting ea
OMG, someone alert the authorities. Dr. Erik Loomis of the University of Rhode Island has Buster Keaton’s head on a stick. He is responsible for the murder of said actor. Nevermind the fact that