Posts by Alby

Secretary of Machotude Pete Hegseth has decreed that all servicemen over age 30 will have their testosterone levels tested and, if low, supplemented, as a way of “restoring and optimizing…

If you have to go outdoors today, try not to breathe. Smoke from more than 100 Canadian wildfires, most of them uncontrolled, has produced air quality alerts throughout the Northeastern…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona It’s probably impossible to name the first rock ’n’ roll song, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying. The candidates we hear about most come…

Trump's primitive brain sees power as dynastic, and Lindsey Graham had no children. So Trump's choice for Lindsey Graham's replacement is ... Lindsey Graham's sister! Why, it's just like Merrie…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona At the start of the movie “Midnight Cowboy,” the slightly urgent, slightly melancholy song “Everybody’s Talkin’” plays while Joe Buck heads for the bus station…

Seems like the devil's come to collect his due. While everyone puzzles over whether Mitch McConnell is dead or alive – many think Lucifer is biding his time while preparing…

Donald Trump has been telling his "sir" stories for a long time. Back in 2020 someone counted 173 of them, and that was before he lost to Joe Biden. They've…

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer whose husky vocals made "Total Eclipse of the Heart" a No. 1 international hit in 1983, died yesterday, weeks after emergency surgery to repair a…

Mitch McConnell has become Schroedinger's senator: He will be both alive and dead until somebody checks on him. All we know is that EMTs found him unconscious after suffering an…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona There was an ill-starred British music festival in 1970 called Pfun City, “dedicated to the needs and desires of the Freak.” (Freaks were groovy in…

Victor Willis, the lead singer of Village People, died last week at age 74, more evidence that everything Trump touches dies. "YMCA" is, as most people have seen even if…

Just about a quarter of the American population is 60 and older – old enough to remember the Bicentennial. Those people naturally are comparing the mood of the country at…

America is turning 250, and it's as spry and sprightly as you'd expect anybody turning 250 to be. I think the semiquincentarian will need help blowing out all those candles.…