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Kathleen Davies Vindicated Again

By Alby March 5, 20197 Comments

The State News is running a story by AP's Delaware reporter, Randall Chase, that no local news-gathering organization had the staff to cover. The Merit Employee Relations Board voted 2-1…

Song of the Day 3/5: Brewer & Shipley, “One Toke Over the Line” b/w “Oh Mommy (I Ain’t No Commie)”

By Alby March 5, 20194 Comments

This 1971 stoner classic is the answer to the trivia question, "What's the only song covered by both the Grateful Dead and Lawrence Welk?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVxA1MkEkyo Folk duo Mike Brewer and…

What’s Unique About AOC — It’s Not What You Think

By Alby March 4, 201944 Comments

It's unfair to say Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has unhinged Republicans, both among the base and in elected office -- many of them have been unhinged for years. But her mere existence…

Song of the Day 3/4: Bob Rivers, “An Ignorant Man”

By Alby March 4, 20191 Comment

When Donald Trump proclaimed Sunday via Twitter, "I am an innocent man," was I the only one whose mental jukebox immediately jumped to Billy Joel singing that line? But I…

Song of the Day 3/3: Bruce Springsteen, “My City of Ruins”

By Alby March 3, 2019

Springsteen sang this at the 9/11 memorial concert, and its gospel inflections and its message of hope amid the wreckage fit the moment so well that most people thought it…

The Race Hasn’t Even Started and Biden Is Already Gaffing It Up

By Alby March 2, 20193 Comments

This is why Joe Biden's final campaign is doomed: He's too easy a target. Biden is running on his foreign policy credentials, so there he was Thursday at the Chuck…

Song of the Day 3/2: Rod Stewart, “Gasoline Alley”

By Alby March 2, 20192 Comments

It's hard to remember now, after decades of listening to him sing shlock, that Rod Stewart was once an artist who mattered. He could rock as raucously as the Rolling…

Song of the Day 3/1: Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, “Cantaloupe Island”

By Alby March 1, 20191 Comment

You learn something new every day, and what I learned the other day blew my mind. Jeff Goldblum -- yes, Jeff Goldblum the actor -- is also a jazz pianist,…

The Big B Prepares to Enter the Race

By Alby February 28, 201915 Comments

Not Joe Biden, whose Delaware-sized ego is going to convince him to run again, despite the cries of a majority of Democrats. No, I mean Beto O'Rourke, who appears to…

Song of the Day 2/28: Talk Talk, “It’s My Life”

By Alby February 28, 2019

The music world is mourning the death of Mark Hollis, founder of the British band Talk Talk, best known for a string of synth-pop dance hits in the early '80s,…

Song of the Day 2/27: Randy Newman with Mark Knopfler, “It’s Money That Matters”

By Alby February 27, 2019

You say you're confused by life in modern America? Let Mr. Randy Newman explain things for you. With the help of Mr. Mark Knopfler, he will decode the mystery of…

Confidential to Puck

By Alby February 26, 20192 Comments

Your email address is the problem.

Who’s Afraid of the Green New Deal?

By Alby February 26, 20197 Comments

Lots of people, it seems, even some of the 81% who tell pollsters they support it. Republicans consider it the spawn of Satan or, worse, Lenin. Democrats fret that it's…