Posts by Alby

Cinco de Mayo, like St. Patrick's Day, is observed more in the United States than in the country it honors, and for much the same reason: Beer. The Mexican military…

I suppose Satan stopped worrying that David Allen Coe would take over, because the cantankerous country singer and songwriter finally got to meet Old Nick last week when he –…

Donald Trump, in another fit of pique against another erstwhile NATO ally, abruptly announced that the U.S. will move 5,000 of its troops out of Germany, apparently because its prime…

For decades, the first weekend in May has been circled on the calendars of Delaware's horse racing fans. The Kentucky Derby is always run on the first Saturday of the…

As the breezy B-side to "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," the most successful single of Steely Dan's career, "Any Major Dude" got some airplay and has long been a fan…

I knew the nation's NIMBYs will use any argument to fight the scourge of wind farms. The most prominent excuses are that they kill birds (true, but in far fewer…

Trump and his immigrant wife are insisting that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel for joking that Melania had the "glow of an expectant widow." They insist this was an incitement to…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Is “Blinded by the Light” a Bruce Springsteen song or a Manfred Mann song? Bruce wrote it in 1973 but people didn’t buy it. The…

H/t El Somnambulo's Sunday magazine item about lithium mining. Rechargeable batteries weren't on Kurt Cobain's mind when he wrote this "Nevermind" track in 1990 – back then lithium was best…

Donald Trump, who likes to brag about going to Penn's Wharton School, is obviously bad at math – how else could he go bankrupt running casinos? He has repeatedly demonstrated…

Dave Mason, the British guitarist who cofounded the psychedelic band Traffic before embarking on a solo career, died Sunday at 79. Mason wrote some classic rock staples that were bigger…

If Kash Patel didn't want reporters to look into his drinking, maybe he shouldn't have guzzled beer with the U.S. hockey team at the Olympics. It would have been a…