Posts by Alby

I knew the nation's NIMBYs will use any argument to fight the scourge of wind farms. The most prominent excuses are that they kill birds (true, but in far fewer…

Trump and his immigrant wife are insisting that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel for joking that Melania had the "glow of an expectant widow." They insist this was an incitement to…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Is “Blinded by the Light” a Bruce Springsteen song or a Manfred Mann song? Bruce wrote it in 1973 but people didn’t buy it. The…

H/t El Somnambulo's Sunday magazine item about lithium mining. Rechargeable batteries weren't on Kurt Cobain's mind when he wrote this "Nevermind" track in 1990 – back then lithium was best…

Donald Trump, who likes to brag about going to Penn's Wharton School, is obviously bad at math – how else could he go bankrupt running casinos? He has repeatedly demonstrated…

Dave Mason, the British guitarist who cofounded the psychedelic band Traffic before embarking on a solo career, died Sunday at 79. Mason wrote some classic rock staples that were bigger…

If Kash Patel didn't want reporters to look into his drinking, maybe he shouldn't have guzzled beer with the U.S. hockey team at the Olympics. It would have been a…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona “X-Files” Case No. 158: Singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan made an unsuccessful album in 1969 called “U.F.O.” The subject had long fascinated him. Later, he walked into…

Today is the first 4/20 when recreational cannabis is legal in Delaware, and I'm gonna say I told you so: It's been far from the financial windfall for the state…

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2026 has a distinctly British flavor. The only Americans inducted are Queen Latifah, the Wu-Tang Clan and Luther Vandross. Phil Collins,…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Before there was Bob Marley, there was Little Millie Small. Little Millie had the very first Jamaican hit in America with a 1964 ska song…