Posts by Alby

Trump has kicked himself in his ample ass yet again. After he banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House, ABC, NBC, CBS and even Fox News announced…

Duncan Sheik's death last week at age 56 had a lot of Gen Xers recalling the halcyon days of 1996, when the economy was good, we weren't mired in wars…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona “Sally Go ’Round the Roses” might be the weirdest song ever to make the Billboard Top 10, not counting the deliberately gimmicky ones. It’s a…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona When producer Sheldon Leonard was making "The Andy Griffith Show,“ he didn’t want to use the typical generic production music. He wanted a theme song…

Is Donald Trump more unhinged than usual lately? It's a hard theory to prove, given how unhinged he's been for years, but the lunatic pronouncements seem to be coming at…

What started as a kerfuffle and grew into a foofaraw has now become a major ruckus. It started when singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour was scheduled to play at Gillette…

Ending months of speculation, Mitch McConnell was wheeled into the Capitol yesterday, proving that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. It was the first time the 84-year-old was…

Delaware was the first state to adopt the Constitution, but it's the last to hold primary elections. In much of the state, the primaries are the only elections that matter.…

This one's for Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who ran as a hard-fighting progressive and turned out to be a MAGAfied wuss. "You're No Good," Linda Ronstadt's first and only No.…

Master of deflection Donald Trump, in Ireland to watch a tournament at another of his money-losing golf courses, threw the assembled media into a stenographic frenzy yesterday simply by saying…

Can we call it fascism yet? Last night's Trumpapalooza rally in Dallas featured everything but the salute, as Trump asked the less-than-full house, "Please raise your right hand. I pledge…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona The story behind “Friday on My Mind” is an immigrant success story. In 1964, four young guys in Australia met at Sydney's Villawood Migrant Hostel,…

Many critics considered Cassandra Wilson, who died last week at age 70, the finest jazz singer of her generation, but the truth was she could work in any musical context…