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…
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…
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 --…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When Cat Stevens converted to Islam in 1977, he changed his name and dropped out of the music industry for almost 30 years. He made headlines in 1989 when he…
The Associated Press reported that Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia governor's office in a race tainted by voter suppression, and Joe Biden held a private meeting in Washington on…
That's not just my opinion. It's what anti-terrorism expert Brian Levin, Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, told MSNBC this morning.…
I've been talking a lot about power pop recently, mainly because it seems Jason330 is a fan of the genre even if he didn't realize what it was called. So…
Everybody is familiar with the Van Morrison canon from his classic period in the '60s and '70s, but he's been turning out often-inspired music without a break ever since leaving…
My wife and I have a friend in Lebanon -- the country, not the Pennsylvania town -- whom we've known since the 1970s, when Lebanon's civil war was still being…