Posts by Alby

The baseball playoffs have entered their second round. In what has become an annual tradition, the Phillies didn't make it past the first round, but one surprising team did: the…

Backlash against Trump's GOP is so strong that Democrats have put ruby-red Texas in play in next month's midterm elections. The headlines have gone to Senate hopeful James Talarico, who…

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt had it all set up to charge Jack Smith with lying to Congress. He made up a poster, the kind you slapped together for a class…

They Might Be Giants did not write this about a certain someone we all wish would ring down the curtain and join the choir invisible – it appeared on their…

This song dates to 1982, when it led off the debut album by The Call, the band fronted by guitarist and songwriter Michael Been. It could just as easily date…

Donald Trump was never an attractive man. In his younger days he fobbed himself off to gossip columnists as some sort of playboy, and in later years bragged that he…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Jazz players are comfortable in their own world, where people don’t often ask "where’s the melody?" or "why can’t I dance to this?” But sometimes…

Donald Trump has tried his hand at many businesses over the years, and not a single one of them has been successful. Beyond the bankrupted casinos, he's managed to fail…

Letting Donald Trump speak at the United Nations is like allowing Satan to speak in church. But there he was yesterday, spewing his usual blustering bullshit about Iran and... Cuba?…

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…