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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…

Song of the Day 5/6: Guns N’ Roses, “Live and Let Die”

By Alby May 6, 20202 Comments

Donald Trump visited a factory that makes medical-grade face masks yesterday. He got lots of scolding for not wearing a mask during his tour, but I thought the more noteworthy…

Song of the Day 5/5: War, “Low Rider”

By Alby May 5, 20202 Comments

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, a holiday more celebrated in El Norte than in Mejico, I give you War's tribute to one of the symbols of California's Mexican-American culture.…

Song of the Day 5/4: Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, “Cantina Song”

By Alby May 4, 2020

It's Star Wars day, so who better to deliver the song of the day than Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes -- the band featured in the cantina scene in…

They Rage, Rage Against the Light

By Alby May 4, 20204 Comments

Donald Trump, who hears -- mostly from the voices in his head -- that he's the hardest-working president in history, erupted in another ragefest on Twitter this morning, triggered by…

Song of the Day 5/3: Harry Nilsson, “Coconut”

By Alby May 3, 2020

With Trump grasping at every coronavirus miracle cure that crosses his diseased mind, I think it's time he looked into Dr. Nilsson's remedy. I tend to think that adding a…