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Song of the Day 3/15: The Who, “Pictures of Lily”

By Alby March 15, 20195 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 3/14: Van Morrison, “In the Days Before Rock and Roll”

By Alby March 14, 20192 Comments

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…

If Two Years Wasn’t Such a Long Time

By Alby March 13, 201936 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 3/13: Minus the Bear, “Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse”

By Alby March 13, 20192 Comments

I'm not an absinthe drinker, but the lyrics of this song from Minus the Bear's first album speak directly to my present situation: Hey, let's cross the sea and get…

Song of the Day 3/12: Sugar Stems, “We Only Come Out at Night”

By Alby March 12, 20195 Comments

I'm invoking our new Earworm Warning for this one, which I first heard when it was released in 2014 and not much since. Yet it popped into my head unbidden…

High Praise for Kathleen Jennings’ Reforms

By Alby March 11, 20193 Comments

El Somnambulo wrote weeks ago about Attorney General Kathleen Jennings' bold prosecution and sentencing reforms. Now her program is gaining national attention. Shaun King, the social-justice activist, journalist and author,…

Even If Justice Is Blind, It Knows the Smell of Money

By Alby March 11, 20191 Comment

The light sentence a federal judge handed to Paul Manafort infuriated people who saw giving him only 4 years after his execrable behavior as a travesty of justice. But the…

Climate Change Won’t Wait for Your Incrementalism

By Alby March 11, 2019

Today's Tom Tomorrow strip sums this all up nicely: Behind all the criticism of the "New Deal of Greenness" lies an inescapable truth: Doing only what is "politically possible" dooms…

Song of the Day 3/11: AC/DC, “Hard as a Rock”

By Alby March 11, 20191 Comment

Can someone please explain why Viagra hasn't used this as their theme song? The Young brothers didn't even bother to disguise it a double entendre -- it's crystal clear what…

Song of the Day 3/10: The Outsiders, “Time Won’t Let Me”

By Alby March 10, 20193 Comments

The American answer to the British Invasion was in full swing by 1965, when a Cleveland R & B outfit called the Starfires got signed to Capitol Records and changed…

Song of the Day 3/9: Lloyd Williams, “Shama Lama Ding Dong”

By Alby March 9, 20195 Comments

Anybody who's seen "Animal House" remembers the scene at the Dexter Lake Club -- "Otis! My man!" -- and the song Otis Day and the Knights launch into as it…

My Mr. Ed Standard for Presidential Candidates

By Alby March 8, 201913 Comments

Centrist presidential candidates are going to hype their electability, which is cheating of a sort -- put any Democrat up against Donald Trump and that Democrat will look electable. And…

Will Caring About the Issues Help Elizabeth Warren?

By Alby March 8, 201920 Comments

People always say they wished campaigns would focus on serious issues and media should cover those issues rather than highlighting candidates' missteps and updating the tote board. Elizabeth Warren is…