Posts by Alby

Donald Trump has been telling his "sir" stories for a long time. Back in 2020 someone counted 173 of them, and that was before he lost to Joe Biden. They've…

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer whose husky vocals made "Total Eclipse of the Heart" a No. 1 international hit in 1983, died yesterday, weeks after emergency surgery to repair a…

Mitch McConnell has become Schroedinger's senator: He will be both alive and dead until somebody checks on him. All we know is that EMTs found him unconscious after suffering an…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona There was an ill-starred British music festival in 1970 called Pfun City, “dedicated to the needs and desires of the Freak.” (Freaks were groovy in…

Victor Willis, the lead singer of Village People, died last week at age 74, more evidence that everything Trump touches dies. "YMCA" is, as most people have seen even if…

Just about a quarter of the American population is 60 and older – old enough to remember the Bicentennial. Those people naturally are comparing the mood of the country at…

America is turning 250, and it's as spry and sprightly as you'd expect anybody turning 250 to be. I think the semiquincentarian will need help blowing out all those candles.…

The Trump administration is plumbing new depths in reality denial, claiming 150,000 people have visited the sad, shabby Great American State Fair when everybody can see the acres of unoccupied…

I knew Alan Jackson was a big name in country music – since his debut in 1987 he released 35 singles that topped the country chart – but I found…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Three fine songs hit the charts about the same time just before the Beatles era. Listeners could hardly be blamed if they got them a…

Not that it matters – the banal triviality is part of the story's appeal – but the New York Times thinks it's gotten to the bottom of what caused the…

H/t El Somnambulo Cape Verde is a small chain of islands about 400 miles off the westernmost point of Africa. It's home to about 590,000 people, though it has a…

Are Republicans starting to figure out that Trump's popularity has cratered? A good sign: The shouting match between Trump and lame-duck Sen. Bill Cassidy over the botched attack on Iran.…