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The Real Reason Trump Probably Will Get Re-Elected
Lots of liberals and Democrats are coming to the realization that defeating the most-hated president since George W. Bush isn’t going to be easy, and just as with W, might not happen at all. Most of them have identified the wrong reasons for that. It’s not the split in the Democratic Party, it’s not the […]
Song of the Day 4/2: Georgia Satellites, “Keep Your Hands to Yourself”
Think they’ll be playing this one at Joe Biden’s campaign rallies? The Atlanta band never had another hit after this song reached No. 2 in 1986, but they’re still at it, though lead singer and songwriter Dan Baird left for a solo career decades ago. He hit the charts in 1993 with “I Love You […]
This Time Biden’s Hands, Not His Mouth, Will Be His Undoing
Joe Biden’s coterie of allies and advisors angling for campaign jobs moved their defense of his hands-on approach toward women into high gear in the past 48 hours, swearing on their rosary beads that Joe has never been anything but a champion of women who has never done a single creepy thing in his life. […]
Song of the Day 4/1: The Doobie Brothers, “What a Fool Believes”
“What a fool believes, he sees. No wise man has the power to reason away what seems to be.” The song is about a long-past love affair, but those words apply to just about any situation. Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins wrote this together, or rather, McDonald started it and Loggins finished it by adding […]
Song of the Day 3/31: Rolling Stones, “Dead Flowers”
The Rolling Stones have postponed their North American tour because Mike Jagger is undergoing medical treatment for an unspecified reason. So for now we’ll have to make do with YouTube videos, like this one from 1972.
Song of the Day 3/30: Shades of Blue, “Oh How Happy”
The sweet soul music of the ’60s was so intoxicating that lots of white groups tried their hands at it, giving rise to what became known as blue-eyed soul. Even those that succeeded were mostly one-hit wonders, but what great hits they were. The Shades of Blue hailed from the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Mich., […]
Judge Clears Cabela’s in Straw Buyer Lawsuit
A Delaware judge dismissed a lawsuit against Cabela’s, which sold a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol that was later used in a murder. The woman who bought it, Brilena Hardwick, promptly gave the weapon to her boyfriend, a felon prohibited from having one — in fact, the lawsuit alleged that she was communicating with him […]
Joe Biden Is a Hands-On Candidate
The case against Joe Biden for president is about to get stronger. This afternoon New York magazine’s The Cut published an account by Lucy Flores, a 2014 Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Nevada, of Joe Biden’s “awkward” and unwanted kiss on the head just before she spoke at a political rally. This is about […]
Song of the Day 3/29: Matthew Sweet, “I’ve Been Waiting”
Let’s cheer things up with a little ’90s power pop, courtesy of one of its top practitioners. “I’ve Been Waiting” was the second single from Sweet’s 1991 album “Girlfriend,” declared the top power pop album of the ’90s by the AV Club. He wrote the songs in the wake of a divorce and the commercial […]
Song of the Day 3/28: The (English) Beat, “Stand Down Margaret”
British pop lost another voice this week when Ranking Roger of the English Beat died of cancer at just 56 years old. The Beat was at the forefront of England’s ska revival, and Roger Charlery’s island-flavored vocals were at the forefront of the Beat. Roger was just 16 and drumming for a band called the […]
Biden Condemns ‘White Man’s Culture’
One of Joe Biden’s quirks is that he thinks nobody notices when he changes. He’s had two hair-plug operations and an eye job, but nobody ever talks about it so he thinks nobody noticed. Now that he’s running for president as the only Democrat in the field who voted for the war in Iraq, he’s […]
Song of the Day 3/27: The Walker Brothers, “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”
UK music critics and fans are mourning the March 22 death of Scott Walker, pop idol-turned-avant garde composer. He’s most widely known as lead singer of the Walker Brothers, a Los Angeles trio that reversed the British Invasion formula by hitting it big in England in the mid-1960s, first with the Bacharach/David classic “Make It […]
New Jersey Harshes the Legal Marijuana Mellow
The road to recreational marijuana legalization was closed for repairs in New Jersey yesterday, when a wide-ranging bill that would have both legalized weed and made it easier to expunge old convictions was withdrawn because it lacked the votes to pass. Lex Wilson at the News Journal tried to assess what it means for a […]
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