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Song of the Day 3/22: Stevie Wonder and Tom Jones, “A Place In The Sun/Uptight/It’s Not Unusual”

By Alby March 22, 2019

"Ebony and Ivory," the duet by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, hit the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1982. But it wasn't the first…

Why Wooing Fox News Viewers Is a Mug’s Game

By Alby March 21, 2019

A Democratic polling organization explored whether the party should try to woo Republicans through their propaganda organ, Fox News. The results are sobering evidence of the power of propaganda. The…

Song of the Day 3/21: The Buckinghams, “Kind of a Drag”

By Alby March 21, 2019

In 1965 a Chicago group called the Pulsations was hired as house band for a local TV station's music show. With the British Invasion in full swing, the show's producers…

Beto: Hero or Zero?

By Alby March 20, 2019

Love him or hate him, no candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has polarized the party's voters more than Beto O'Rourke. The only one close is also the only one…

Song of the Day 3/20: Godley & Creme, “Cry”

By Alby March 20, 2019

Kevin Godley and Lol Creme were half of the art-rock band 10cc for much of the 1970s, but left to pursue an invention called the gizmotron, a device that attached…

Man Who Stopped New Zealand Massacre Was Good Guy Without a Gun

By Alby March 19, 2019

The so-far unsung hero of the New Zealand massacre was not, per U.S. gun-sissy lore, a good guy with a gun. Abdul Aziz Wahabzadah, a refugee from Afghanistan, was with…

Old-School Biden Preps Old-School Campaign

By Alby March 19, 2019

CNN has a piece up this morning about Joe Biden's slo-mo campaign rollout. How will Joe sew up the nomination? By naming a vice-presidential candidate quickly plus...ENDORSEMENTS! Biden, who has…

The Center Cannot Hold Water

By Alby March 19, 2019

Corporate journalists are typing furiously to try to convince people that a majority of the country wants centrism and unity. Bullshit. Damon Linker at The Week goes after this notion…

Song of the Day 3/19: Michael Jackson, “Black or White”

By Alby March 19, 2019

As long as everybody is arguing about racism, let's listen to what was intended as a condemnation of it. Here's the song alone, stripped down to just the music --…

Calls for a Global War on White Nationalism Begin

By Alby March 17, 2019

Christopher Dickey, foreign editor of the Daily Beast, is out with a column that calls the devil by his name. The New Zealand killer, Dickey writes, may have been a…

Why Capitalism Sucks, in One Paragraph

By Alby March 17, 2019

Mark Sumner, who writes the Daily Kos Abbreviated Pundit Roundup on Sundays, made this comment after one of his links, and it's hard to make it simpler: I live in…

Song of the Day 3/17: Dropkick Murphys, “The Wild Rover”

By Alby March 17, 2019

If you're reading this before your first green-dyed beer of the day, you probably know this tune, or at least its "no, nay, never" refrain, by heart. It's among the…

Dumbfuck ‘New’ Democrats Oppose Green New Deal

By Alby March 16, 2019

The "New Democrats," the organization Lisa Blunt Rochester has joined, has made clear it disapproves of the Green New Deal. The "new" in the name apparently means lobbyists should send…