"Band on the Run" is a contender for best post-Beatles album by any of the Fab Four. It's full of solid songs beyond the monster hits, especially this grinding number…
Even as the all-but-officially-running Joe Biden got a HuffPo cover piece touting his union bona fides, progressives with long memories and LexisNexis access scored another direct hit on his politics…
I love the good judgment shown by politicians who explored running for president and thought better of it. This week billionaire centrist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg…
I did not watch Donald Trump's two-hour breakdown at the CPAC conference, but it must have been incredibly bad, because more than a few journalists are asking why mainstream news…
They're from New Zealand, they're a bunch of kids who know each other from high school, they're making a splash stateside (they played Philly last week) and the title track…
I think the No. 1 reason is that foreign money in elections was a foreseen consequence of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and I hope I don't have to…
Many progressive pundits have noted the irony: Congressional Democrats rush to condemn alleged anti-Semitic comments by Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, but they rarely protest some of their Republican colleagues canoodling…
Donviti has inadvertently triggered a lot of blues lovers by saying he hates the blues. I don't think he meant it literally, but it reminded me of this song. Most…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…