Posts by Alby

Guest post by Nathan Arizona A teenage John Lennon used to keep his ears glued to the BBC waiting, like thousands of other British teens, for a skiffle tune called…

Here's a surprise: It turns out that ending the drug trade by blowing up individual boats that might be carrying cocaine is about as effective as eliminating malaria by swatting…

H/t Jonathan Tate. Delaware has joined 44 other states with reported cases of measles, a disease that had been eradicated in the U.S. in 2000. The state health department has…

Yet again, Donald Trump has backed away from yet another threat to bomb Iran even more than before, but this time there's a practical reason: Defense contractors can't build the…

The Eagles will always be associated with the mellow country rock that came out of Southern California in the early '70s. They knew it, too, and as music trends changed…

Whenever a phone number that appears in a song, movie or TV show, curiosity compels people to call it. For example, at one point in Michael Moore's 1992 documentary "Pets…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona “Taj Mahal" is the song Rod Stewart lifted — accidentally! — for one of the biggest hits of his career, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy.”…

The MAGA effort to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr has been a miserable flop, as a sculptor in New York learned the hard way. Sergio Furnari says he spent…

People were afraid Trump would try to make the World Cup presentation ceremony all about himself, and he did try – in a way that highlighted how feeble he's become.…

Even people who don't follow politics are aware that Trump is passing out pardons to criminals who meet his criteria, and that the criteria are pecuniary. So you can understand…

Secretary of Machotude Pete Hegseth has decreed that all servicemen over age 30 will have their testosterone levels tested and, if low, supplemented, as a way of “restoring and optimizing…

If you have to go outdoors today, try not to breathe. Smoke from more than 100 Canadian wildfires, most of them uncontrolled, has produced air quality alerts throughout the Northeastern…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona It’s probably impossible to name the first rock ’n’ roll song, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying. The candidates we hear about most come…