I rarely write in anger as I did earlier today. It was quite therapeutic, so it’s time for some Gershwin. Here are Ella and Nelson Riddle followed by the divine Diana Krall: Finally, the Chairman of the Board does Gershwin with Nelson Riddle along for the ride: Continue reading Wednesday Night Music: They Can’t Take That Away From Me
In which Adrastos confesses to being a stooge of the corrupt establishment. Whatever that means. Continue reading Speaking In Dudebromides
Rick Wakeman meets Henry Tudor. Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Just as soon as Paul Ryan is satisfied that enough people are talking about Paul Ryan being a good enough and brave enough and strong enough and Conservative Principle-d enough person not to endorse Trump, Ryan hauls out the non-endorsement endorsement. He Distinctions Without Difference Trump: Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday said he agrees with a new poll showing that GOP voters trust Donald Trump rather than himself to lead the Republican Party. “I hope it’s Donald Trump. He’s getting the nomination,” Ryan, the highest-ranking elected Republican in the country, told reporters at a news conference. An NBC News/SurveyMonkey online … Continue reading There Will Be No PUMAs in the GOP
SHUT UP, PACK YOUR THINGS, AND GET OUT, RON JOHNSON: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) insisted Monday that he wasn’t comparing the 9/11 terror attacks to his re-election bid in comments he made over the weekend, instead blaming his opponent for trying to “politicize” those comments. Johnson praised the passengers of United Flight 93 while addressing the Wisconsin Republican Party on Saturday, saying that it was “American” of them to hold a vote before confronting hijackers and taking down the plane on 9/11, The Associated Press reported. “November 2016 we’ll be taking a vote. We’ll be encouraging our fellow citizens to … Continue reading What’s On the Table for This Fight
Trump-Dukkke 2016: Doubling Down on Bigotry. Continue reading Tweets Of The Day: David Dukkke Edition
Well, wouldn’t ya know it. The loading dock has been pretty empty of late – the occasional drop-off of a single barrel of interesting Freepitude, but mostly just Jim Rob’s endless whimpering for more money so he can get new batteries for his Hoveround.
The Trump / Cruz wars are over, the Freeperati have disowned all of their former media heroes, and the election year purges won’t start for another month or so yet. BOR-ING!!
I guess it’s a good time to take the airlock doors off the iso chamber and give everything a good going…….
WAITAMINNIT !
Trump: Muslim Ban ‘Just A Suggestion’
Trump: Muslim Ban ‘Just A Suggestion’
CNN ^ | 05/12/2016 | David WrightPosted on 5/12/2016 2:55:23 PM by Cyberman
Donald Trump, who issued a December press release “calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” said Wednesday such a ban “hasn’t been called for yet” and it was “only a suggestion.”
It’s the latest lightning-speed evolution for the real estate tycoon as he pivots from the provocateur who upended the Republican primary to a general election candidate….
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Trump: Muslim Ban ‘Just A Suggestion’
It’s like deja vu all over again….
To: CybermanOH BOY here goes Clinton News Network at play again…WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
Do not believe anything you read from CNN…they support Hillary and Hillary only and her ilk….
Yeah! If there was only some reputable right-wing news source to debunk this!
Trump: Save America…
Hillary: Screw America…
5 posted on 5/12/2016 2:59:17 PM by HarleyLady27 (‘THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!’ Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
To: Cyberman
More exciting reactions to the new dolchstosslegende, nach der falte in dem artikel !
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – trouble in paradise edition”
Back when I covered land use issues I heard this kind of thing all the time: In this second case, out of Arizona, the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court’s finding. In the reversal, the federal court held that local zoning rules could be struck down if they unfairly block housing access for minorities. In this case, the city of Yuma had rejiggered its zoning map after it saw a proposal by a real estate developer to build “moderately priced” units on a parcel next to a mainly white, mainly single-family home area. Uproar over the proposal raised familiar objections, … Continue reading How We Keep People Out
Let’s give Sheldon Adelson the benefit of the doubt and say that he is sincerely interested in bettering Israel. Trump, Adelson told another Times reporter, “will be good for Israel.” Why is Donald Trump his best option to give Israel a hand? The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson told Donald J. Trump in a private meeting last week that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he has to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of Mr. Adelson’s commitment. Couldn’t he just, like, give Israel a shitload … Continue reading Isn’t There An Easier Way to Spend Your Money? or, I Don’t Get Sheldon Adelson’s Strategy Here
Is Reince Priebus, just at the moment: Priebus repeatedly referred to the problems political professionals have had assessing Trump’s candidacy, saying people have been “completely wrong about Donald Trump and the playbook.” Trump seems all but certain to formally become the GOP nominee at the party’s convention, despite his insulting entire voting blocs and personal invectives against many of his rivals. “He’s been trying very hard to be presidential and gracious and I think he’s actually done a nice job of that lately,” Priebus said of Trump, “And I expect him to continue working at it and getting the job … Continue reading America’s Whoopee Cushion
Here’s the current Jayhawks lineup live at the Lockn’ Festival in Arlington, Virginia: Lagniappe time. It’s a January 2015 appearance on KEXP radio in Seattle complete with video. And I thought video killed the radio star: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Jayhawks Live In 2015
It’s starting to feel a lot like summer in New Orleans. It hasn’t quite enveloped us in its full grip but the air is thick and damp. I’m seeing frizzy hair around town. It’s time to put the curling irons away for the duration: nature takes care of that quite nicely on its own. Shit, I sound like a hairdresser. As if I had enough hair to curl in any event….
One of the big local stories is-surprise, surprise-the murder of a former Tulane student who was in town scouting locations for his wedding. The facts of the case are on the hinky side: he allegedly disappeared from Ms. Mae’s bar near Adrastos World HQ. His friends shrugged it off, it’s what bros do. The victim was last seen on closed circuit video in a store in a very tough neighborhood. His body turned up an hour later. My gut instinct is that it was a drug buy gone bad. The local teevee stations have run with it and their coverage only increased when it turned out the dude worked for the 2012 Romney campaign. That led to this world-weary tweet from some internet smart ass:
Nothing makes me more cynical than wall to wall media coverage of the murder of a connected white boy.
— Shecky (@Adrastosno) May 10, 2016
I wish the local media cared as much about black kids getting murdered in that same neighborhood. Typical.
Now that I’ve bummed you out, let’s move on to this week’s theme songs. Notice the plural: they’re two tunes with the same title. We begin with the title track of a 2000 Jayhawks album. Anyone surprised after a week of Jayhawks songs? I thought not. Smile was written by Gary Louris and evokes Brian Wilson with its wistful melody and lush production. Make that Brian Wilson if he lived in Minnesota since it’s set in the wintertime. There’s no surfing involved, y’all:
The melody of the second Smile was written by Charlie Chaplin for his 1936 film Modern Times. The lyrics and title were added in 1954 by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons.
Eric Clapton used Smile as his opener throughout his 1974 comeback tour:
Now that I’ve put a smile back on your face, we’ll try not to turn it upside into a frown after the break. I promise you’ll be smiling as broadly as Kimmy Schmidt in a jiffy. If you’re not an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt fan, here’s what I’m talking about.
The old adage goes that there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. In the wake of yet another “no confidence” vote against Gov. Scott Walker’s handpicked board of cronies regents and his “please don’t hit me, I won’t burn the roast again” system president, Ray Cross, Ol’ Deadeyes came out swinging this week. In advance of the UW-Milwaukee vote on a no-confidence measure, Walker issued a press release that was packed with numbers and data to show that faculty are out-of-touch crybabies who lack a sense of reality. He then peppered it with a couple great … Continue reading Fun with statistics: Scott Walker Edition
Della Street meets The Jayhawks. Continue reading Friday Catblogging: The Devil Is In Her Eyes
Tonight on Adrastos’ obsession with the Jayhawks: It’s another song from Paging Mr, Proust that continues the theme of the day, LIES. In this case, in black and white: Continue reading Thursday Night Music: Lies In Black And White
Adrastos on Trump: He’s not only the braggingest braggart who ever bragged, he’s the lyingest liar who ever lied. Continue reading Tweet Of The Day: Worse Than Nixon Edition
Holy racy Confederate spy fiction, Batman. Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: She Wouldn’t Surrender
Our informal Jayhawks week continues with the first single from Paging Mr. Proust: Continue reading Wednesday Night Music: Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces
https://media.giphy.com/media/IXbFF6uMX3VVS/giphy.gif I never thought I’d have Bob Knight to kick around again; until, that is, he oozed out of whatever hole he’s been hiding to endorse Donald Trump. As far as I’m concerned, the former Indiana Hoosier basketball coach epitomizes everything that’s wrong about the old school hard ass coaching style that has mercifully become less common in recent years. He’s the perfect Trump supporter: an angry old white dude looking to rumble with uppity women and minorities. Knight thinks he knows best, and that is why Bob Knight is malaka of the week. The chair throwing incident pictured at the … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Bob Knight
Introducing the Unknown Insult Comic. Continue reading The Nominee With No Name
No, I’m not shushing the obnoxious Dudebros, of both the left and right, who are making Campaign 2016 so annoying. I’m talking about Ten Years After’s 1969 album of that name. I’ve never been much of a fan of TYA’s music, … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: SSSSH
Just look at this crap: Eric Barron, who replaced Erickson as Penn State’s president, immediately issued a powerful apology to these victims and vowed to redouble the university’s efforts…OK, who am I kidding here? In reality, Barron came out with only token remorse for victims and certainly no promise that the entire Sandusky cover-up story will ever be bared. Instead, he said that Penn State had no evidence of wrongdoing by Paterno and other coaches and school officials (how could it, since it didn’t seem to look very hard?) and he then took the 21st Century coward’s way out, blaming … Continue reading Penn State’s Reputation is Not Important
NICE: On Thursday, Ioffe answered a phone call from an anonymous caller who played a Hitler speech. She received another call from “Overnight Caskets”. On Twitter, users posted photos of her face superimposed on a mug shot from Auschwitz. The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist site, attacked Ioffe in a blogpost titled: “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!” Earlier in the story: The harassment from Trump supporters is not directly linked to the candidate. Yet he has fomented a culture of violence at his rallies, encouraging supporters to retaliate against protesters. He once offered to … Continue reading Trump’s Supporters are Anti-Semitic Pricks, Big Surprise
Right? Let me also speak directly to the transgender community itself. Some of you have lived freely for decades. Others of you are still wondering how you can possibly live the lives you were born to lead. But no matter how isolated or scared you may feel today, the Department of Justice and the entire Obama Administration wants you to know that we see you; we stand with you; and we will do everything we can to protect you going forward. Please know that history is on your side. This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for … Continue reading There’s No Difference Between the Parties So Just Stay Home
The Jayhawks have a new album out, Paging Mr. Proust. Here’s one of my instant favorites: Continue reading Monday Night Music: Lovers Of The Sun
I haven’t written about one of my quirkier hobbies-British politics-for quite some time. But history was made in last week’s local election when Labour MP Sadiq Khan, a Muslim of Pakistani heritage, was elected Mayor of London. The world media haven’t quite known what to do with Khan’s triumph but it *is* genuinely significant both because of who he is and the election’s impact on the future of the Labour Party. Mayor Khan survived a loathsome racist and Islamophobic campaign to crush Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith who was trying to replace Upper Class Tory Twit Boris Johnson in the job. Here’s how … Continue reading Tory Khan Job Fails
I was a big fan of the Dana Carvey-Jan Hooks-Phil Hartman era on Saturday Night Live. Hell, even Dennis Miller was funny before he became a raging monster loony wingnut. Dana Carvey remains a brilliant impressionist but my favorite Carvey … Continue reading The Church Lady Meets The Insult Comedian & Lucifer In The Flesh
Well, Freepers – you got what you wanted. Or did you? Behold the Nominee: Will the GOP Embrace Its Trump Nightmare or Walk Away? New York Magazine ^ | May 3, 2016 9:09 p.m. | Ed Kilgore Posted on 5/3/2016 9:04:11 PM by Milhous Well, so much for suspense. The networks called Indiana for Donald Trump about five seconds after the polls closed, and within two hours Ted Cruz announced he was suspending his campaign. Trump is winning a majority of the vote and will likely win all 57 delegates. Even if a few delegates stray back across the line, … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – vulgarian at the gates edition
