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Song of the Day 11/14: Warren Zevon, “Desperadoes Under the Eaves”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally got around to honoring Warren Zevon, letting him in through the side door labeled Musical Influence, and then honoring him some more by having the Killers, a band fronted by a guy who looks like Zeppo Osmond, play “Lawyers, Guns and Money.” I can hear Zevon snorting […]
Song of the Day 11/13: Bing Crosby, “Pennies From Heaven”
The United States has minted its last penny. Sure, there’s no real need for them – they’re expensive to produce, and most are given out as change and never used again (it’s estimated that there are 240 billion pennies, 724 per capita, sitting around the U.S. unused). Nobody misses them in the many countries like […]
Song of the Day 11/12: Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, “Young Girl”
The government shutdown was a godsend for Trump, because it kept the media’s attention off those pesky Epstein Files. Pressure’s been building, though, because at this point a lot of people have gotten a look at them, and word is that no matter how bad you think they are for Trump, they’re actually worse. According […]
Song of the Day 11/11: The Blue Jean Committee, “Catalina Breeze”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Yacht rock has been sailing along for half a century and will apparently keep going till the end of time. But one of the best latter-day yacht rock songs was made by a band steering way off course. In fact, it wasn’t even a real band. The Blue Jean Committee […]
Song of the Day 11/10: R.E.M., “Daysleeper”
After a long night of rage-tweeting, how’s a busy president supposed to get enough shut-eye? Simple – catch a few z’s during one of those boring news conferencesthey’re always scheduling during nap time. The Washington Post analyzed the footage and found that Drowsy Don spent 20 minutes in the Land of Nod during Thursday’s press […]
Song of the Day 11/8: Workhouse Boys chorus, “Food, Glorious Food”
It takes a Dickensian villain to ask a court to cut off food aid before Thanksgiving, and Trump was up to the task. Maybe young Donald saw “Oliver!” at an impressionable age and rooted for the bad guys, so he thinks the show’s opening number is an uplifting number showing cheerful orphans glad to get […]
Song of the Day 11/7: Alice Cooper, “Billion Dollar Babies”
Elon Musk and his stockholders sure showed Delaware Chancery Court. You think $56 billion in CEO compensation is excessive? How about … one TRILLION dollars? That’s how much Tesla will pay Musk if he meets “certain performance targets” over the next decade. Sure, car sales are down, but Elon’s new pitch is robots, so why […]
Song of the Day 11/6: Michael Sembello, “Maniac”
The race for title of Craziest GOP Congresswoman is always hotly contested. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Bobert, and Anna Paulina Luna all have their moments, but nobody is as crazy as Nancy Mace, and running for governor of South Carolina has proved it. Her now-legendary meltdown in an airport confrontation with TSA personnel last week […]
Song of the Day 11/15: They Might Be Giants, “The Communists Have the Music”
A Democratic socialist – and a Muslim, no less! – is now the mayor-elect of New York City. Though Zohran Mamdani is a Democrat, he had to overcome the opposition of both major parties to win. And he managed to gather more than 50% of the vote against Republican Curtis Sliwa and defeated-in-the-primary Democrat Andrew […]
Song of the Day 11/4: Tom Lehrer, “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)”
Is it mere coincidence that Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller “House Full of Dynamite” on Netflix came out about the same time Donald Trump proclaimed nuclear testing is back? The movie’s premise, that a single nuclear missile is headed for Chicago and it’s unclear who launched it, requires a suspension of disbelief – it takes place […]
Song of the Day 11/3: Connie Francis, “Who’s Sorry Now”
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board is worried about the forces unleashed by Trump’s unbridled fascism. They’ve been whinging about tariffs for quite a while now, but they’re really riled up about the increasingly naked anti-Semitism on what they call the “new right.” Oh, now it’s gone too far. Plucking people off the street because […]
Song of the Day 11/2: The Police, “Walking on the Moon”
Kim Kardashian might become a lawyer soon, but that doesn’t mean she’s anything but stupid, and I’m not just referring to her decision to have multiple children with a mentally ill anti-Semite. I’m referring to her notion that the moon landings were faked, a belief so stupid that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, no Einstein himself,
Song of the Day 10/31: Oingo Boingo, “Dead Man’s Party”
Before Danny Elfman embarked on his prolific career scoring films, he led a band called Oingo Boingo. His older brother had started a street theater troupe in Los Angeles in the ’70s called the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and Danny started writing music for them. They were just Oingo Boingo by 1979, but […]
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