True about Day, but I don’t think Raitt ever tried to be a jazz singer. He stayed in his lane (and was one of the best at it).
True about Day, but I don’t think Raitt ever tried to be a jazz singer. He stayed in his lane (and was one of the best at it).
“overhaul” is a ridiculous choice of words
It was “highly unusual”
I guess “highly unusual” is one way of referring to a shakedown by a governmental official.
“stoked questions”
. . . drawing criticism from his political opponents.
“Pain don’t hurt.”
Also, I liked your circling back with Panico (a wonderful player in her day) to get her perspectives on Italian women’s football.
For someone with basic Italian skills (like many of us) you captured some great insights here.
Sheila Jordan, RIP. Thanks for the memories — including this extraordinary performance. youtu.be/egGsH0iXMNw?...
I didn’t know that capitalist countries confiscated revenues from business transactions. Awesome!
Wow, whoever was president in 2020 must’ve been really incompetent.
Helicopters impose their noise pollution on a great number of people, to benefit just a few.
If you're a jazz fan, then you may also be a fan of singer Sheila Jordan. She's a national treasure -- and she could use your help right about now. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...
Done. Sheila Jordan is a national treasure. We should support her as best we can.
Bob Fosse!!
Wow. Just wow.
I'm in.
Game recognizes game.
Your football team (LFC) just won the Prem. Enjoy that for a while!
I see that "The New Continent" is among the "30 More Essential Big Band Albums" you previously circulated. (Belated thanks for both that list and your prior list).
John Carpenter (famously, "Halloween")
“Celebrating diversity”? Is that allowed?
“Not to be cynical, but to be skeptical,” are words to live by -- whether you're a journalist or just a regular citizen.
A noir with Mickey Rooney? and Louis Armstrong? Sounds crazy!
You deserve some happiness. Have yourself a day!
Thanks, New York GOP congressional members Mike Lawler and Nicole Malliotakis, for not fighting for your constituents www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
My thoughts on the Signal business: "nobody wearing an American military uniform can doubt that if they took details of an ongoing operation off a classified system and transmitted them on an unclassified commercial platform, they would be court martialled and probably go to prison."
Should've been a dance-off between Adam and Tramell.
My Queen.
Defying the lower federal courts is no big deal, apparently.
It wouldn’t be a Jesse Marsch motivational speech without a reference to “being clear.”
Do you get it yet, law firms? What’s happening isn’t an isolated threat to Paul Weiss or Covington or Perkins Coie. It’s an existential threat to the independence of the legal profession. You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next. Say something. Do something.
I saw this when I was a kid, and found the plot to be very implausible.
“Spring is here! Why doesn’t the breeze delight me?”
Fraud is uncovered by trained forensic accountants and fraud investigators — not by computer algorithms.
Johnny Cash put his reputation on the line to pay musical tribute to a Native American war hero. When radio stations refused to play it, he took out a full page ad in Billboard to ask station managers: “Where are your guts?”
The reporter assumes there's a plan, even though Trump and his key economic advisors (quoted here) can't agree on what the "plan" is.
Not the most imminent problem, as you note, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to see how the US can host 2026 World Cup.
A strong statement from the head of Voice of America, who points out that Trump‘s move to silence this important journalistic entity will help the tyrannical governments of Russia, China, Iran, and other repressive states. This is not America First; this is the abandonment of democracy.
"To eliminate these institutions turns our backs on those around the world who have counted on us. It was about America’s integrity. There will be celebrations in the autocratic halls of power this weekend in Moscow, Minsk, Beijing, Pyongyang and Tehran." www.steveherman.press/p/requiem-fo...
The notion that college students arrive on campus as empty vessels, and that Marxist professors convert them into "Maoist cadres," is ludicrous.
It will make Vladimir Putin very happy.
Squashing VOA is another move by our government that will make Vladimir Putin very happy.
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
Trump is killing the Voice of America. VOA has been a global force against authoritarian government since 1942. It broadcast messages of freedom and democracy around the world throughout the cold war. It has been a beacon for truthful news and information ever since. This is an act of sabotage.
Something tells me she's a grifter.
Nope. This is a manufactured issue. Out of 510,000 athletes competing at the collegiate level, there are fewer than 10 who publicly identify as transgender, Charlie Baker, the N.C.A.A. president, said in January. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
If Ms. Welker is really concerned about the debt, she should also be concerned about revenue. Perhaps question her Republican guests about they're so hell-bent on cutting taxes and defunding the IRS?
What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?
This is certainly an about-face. Trump in 2018: “At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction: that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program.” www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...
DOJ can “demand” that the court impose a bond, but courts have the discretion not to impose a bond, or to impose a bond in a nominal amount.
Isn't that George Kaplan?
"In determining the appropriateness or amount of a bond, courts take into account the financial wherewithal of the party seeking the preliminary injunction and whether the action seeks to enforce important federal rights or public interests." P.J.E.S. v. Wolf, 502 F. Supp.3d 492, 550 (D.D.C. 2020).
Seems odd to claim that the black leaders who've called upon him to resign are part of a "lynch mob."
Desert Island disks, both of them.
Political correctness run amuck. Expect finger- wagging from Bret Stephens.
Whoa, an autographed John Wooden pyramid!
The Trump Vance performance today was one of the great foreign policy fails in US history, the biggest Oval Office clusterfuck the public has ever had the chance to watch in real time. But it was much worse than that. Another piece from me. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thinks...
Just like 1984's Winston Smith after Big Brother declared "we have always been at war with Eastasia," GOP senators are frantically tossing their past statements down the memory hole
Reminds me of the time FDR made Churchill grovel as a condition for providing England with armaments to fight Hitler.
He's more respectful than President Musk.
He knows his place, apparently. Diplomacy is dead under this administration.
There is no bottom.
Just a few days ago he was promising "radical transparency." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
“It’s the Democrats fault that we only hammer incumbents for high prices when the incumbents are Democrats. Why can’t they message better?”
DOGE is so efficient that nobody knows who’s in charge of it!
FBI “targeting of conservatives”? Nonsense. The FBI has been headed by Republicans for decades (Wray, Comey, Mueller, Freeh, Sessions) — and somehow they’ve been “targeting conservatives”?
Is she proposing permanent oversight of NYC, or just for the period of time when Adams remains mayor?
Only a matter of time before Adams refers to the press as “enemy of the state.”
Who’s to say this government would abide by such a “guarantee”?
He did so knowing that he wasn’t running for re-election, and therefore faced no electoral consequences if he voted no.
Trump is dismantling America's defenses against Russian intelligence and political-warfare operations as he allies himself with Putin against Ukraine and our NATO allies. He is openly inviting a Russian attack on Europe -- and the subversion of American democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
I don’t remember FDR making such an “offer” when Poland faced invasion in 1939.
It’s as if there’s a double standard.
Love how the sounds change as the musicians pass in front of you — first the kid with the shaker, then the drummer in the foreground.
Fraud cases are discovered by auditors - not by college grads running computer programs.
Your political reporters spent months sanewashing Trump and NOW you’re concerned?
Can you think of a better way to say “opened the throttle on blowing through legal limits”?
“Unheard of”? Kareem was 24 when he was traded to the Lakers. Shaq was 25.
And that's not all: "Among those who signed iwere a self-described journalist, a certified public accountant, a firefighter/paramedic, a certified health coach and someone who said they had a bachelor’s degree 'with an emphasis on Jungian Psychology.'”
Thanks for sharing this. And Happy Black History Month, for all who celebrate!
And what do you propose to do about it?
His leaving the door open to using force against a NATO ally isn’t “undiplomatic talk” — it’s madness.
They’re so committed and swing so hard. (And yes, Mimi’s shades are perfect).
But not George Will, who decides today is the day to dump on him.
And for those of you who’d like to enjoy the John Hiatt original version … youtu.be/7aYxMuLb3h8?...
Tough life.
Robert Webber, as the ad executive. (“Let’s run it up the flagpole, etc.”).
This is incorrect. Judge Swain's opinion doesn't say she's considering "federal control" of Rikers, but rather appointing an independent officer (known as a "receiver"). Please re-read her opinion, especially pages 56-58.
Wrong. Judge Swain isn't considering "a federal takeover" of Rikers. Rather, the judge is considering installing a neutral court-appointed officer (a "receiver") to run the jail. Please re-read pages 57-58 of her opinion.
Actually, Judge Swain isn't considering "a federal takeover" of Rikers. Rather, the judge is considering installing a neutral court-appointed officer (a "receiver") to run the jail. Please re-read pages 57-58 of her opinion.
Wrong. Judge Swain isn't considering "a federal takeover" of Rikers. Rather, the judge is considering installing a neutral court-appointed officer (a "receiver") to run the jail. Please re-read pages 57-58 of her opinion.
Didn't know NPR was "nothing but Democrat progaganda." Big, if true!
Glad you're here. Been following you for years; recently became a subscriber of your Substack (Transitional Technology).