Posts by Alby

H/t to Joe Connor, who left a comment a couple of weeks ago mentioning the 1969 Atlantic City Pop Festival. It was the first I ever heard of it, and…

No matter how incompetent you think Trump's minions are, they're actually worse than that, and his State Department proved it the other day at a global AIDS conference in Brazil.…

Donald Trump finally got me to listen to Noah Kahan. The singer-songwriter from Vermont has steadily increased his audience since his first release in 2019, to the point that his…

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…