Posts by Alby

It's too bad Johnny Paycheck didn't live long enough to see what Trump and Musk have done to the Internal Revenue Service: A projected $500 billion will go uncollected because…

You probably didn't notice this last week, what with the destruction of the world economy and all, but Donald Trump renewed his war on water efficiency standards. He took time…

OK, from now on the tariff on Chinese goods is ... eleventy jillion percent! Oh, wait, hold on a sec ... um, except for smartphones and computers and stuff like…

Master negotiator Donald Trump claims he lured China into this trade war, which I suppose makes him a master baiter, and I'm not above pointing it out. He thinks he's…

Credit where it's due: Turns out that all sorts of scandals pale to insignificance when you threaten to destroy the global economy, and if you time everything right there's money…

Government-funded science research might be a thing of the past, but private enterprise is there to pick up the slack. Why just this week, the sciencey entrepreneurs at something called…

As nations around the world play tit-for-tat with Trump's tariffs, one American export seemed to bear the brunt of international ire: Bourbon. Kentucky whiskey was removed from shelves to great…

I was all set to go with "Free Fallin'," but the stock markets fluctuated wildly this morning, so the Ohio Players it is. "Love Rollercoaster" became their second No. 1…

This song from the 1979 album "Aja" is unique in Steely Dan's catalog: It's the only one with solos by both Donald Fagen, on synthesizer, and Walter Becker on guitar.…

Randy Newman wrote an advance obit for the USA a while back that seems as if it were written to run today (h/t Lawyers, Guns & Money). It first appeared…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona In a post-Andy Kaufman world, it was perfectly natural for R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe to question the moon landing in “Man on the Moon.” The song…

I'll be traveling today, so I'll be spared whatever freakout ensues from whatever bilious bullshit Trump spews. I am, however, assuming pandemonium as the baseline outcome. Killing Joke's 40-year career…

Stock markets have been wobbly in anticipation of tomorrow's Trump dumbfuckery. Crying or not, there are enough fools running American industry to cover not just today but every day of…