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Song of the Day 5/18: Stevie Nicks, “Stand Back”

By Alby May 18, 20202 Comments

This is the theme song for my mandatory two-week quarantine. I play it for anyone who wants to visit, right after I explain to them that for some reason two-thirds…

Song of the Day 5/17: Linda Ronstadt and Chuck Berry, “Back in the USA”

By Alby May 17, 2020

There's quite a backstory to this live performance from 1987 in St. Louis, Chuck Berry's hometown, at the first of two concerts to celebrate his 60th birthday. "Back in the…

How the Counties Have Screwed the Schools By Failing to Reassess Property

By Alby May 14, 20203 Comments

Property taxes in Delaware are a mess. Everyone who pays any attention to this wonky subject knows that it's been more than 30 years since any of the state's counties…

Song of the Day 5/14: Thompson Twins, “Doctor! Doctor!”

By Alby May 14, 20204 Comments

Dr. Anthony Fauci has gotten on Trump's nerves for weeks now, and even a reporter for the Associated Press noticed that it's making the Man-Baby Menace furious. Has Fauci noticed?…

Song of the Day 5/13: Ice Cube, “Your Money or Your Life”

By Alby May 13, 20201 Comment

Pollsters asked people whether they were more worried about public health or the economy. Among Democrats, public health was more important by a 72-16 margin. Republicans, the economy won out,…

Song of the Day 5/12: Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, “Forget About Georgia”

By Alby May 12, 20201 Comment

Though a few states never shut down to deal with the coronavirus, Georgia was the first to ease its lockdown restrictions. Gov. Brian Kemp apparently thought he was doing it…

Song of the Day 5/11: Roy Zimmerman and the ReZisters, “Vote Him Away (The Liar Tweets Tonight)”

By Alby May 11, 2020

I can't even count how many internet wags have repurposed "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the Trump era by singing "The Liar Tweets Tonight." Roy Zimmerman released a different version…

Song of the Day 5/10: Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti”

By Alby May 10, 2020

Many critics consider this song, released in 1955, as the first rock 'n' roll record, and while Richard Penniman rarely got as much credit as Chuck Berry or Bill Haley,…

Song of the Day 5/9: Trout Fishing in America, “The Window”

By Alby May 9, 2020

There's an apocryphal story about the Russian space program. The United States, according to the legend, spent millions of dollars trying to invent a ball-point pen that would work in…

America Doesn’t Apologize, It Just Embarrasses Itself

By Alby May 8, 20204 Comments

Anyone who reads tweets or comments from Trumpists can come away with the impression that someone's sense of reality is seriously askew. Read enough of them and you might become…

Song of the Day 5/8: Bob Dylan, “False Prophet”

By Alby May 8, 2020

Bob Dylan dropped another new song last night, this time with an announcement that it's a cut from a new album, "Rough and Rowdy Ways," set for release June 19.…

Song of the Day 5/7: The Rolling Stones, “Paint It, Black”

By Alby May 7, 20202 Comments

As both puck and El Somnambulo have noted, the Orange Offal in the Oval, in yet another fumbling attempt to change the subject from his staggering ineptitude, has decreed, apparently…

Most Punchable-Faced Republican Senator

By Alby May 6, 202010 Comments

Thanks to everyone who helped determine that Trump lickspittle Ron DeSantis of Florida has the most punchable face among America's Republican governors. Condolences to Georgia's Brian Kemp, who ran even…