Posts by Alby

Predicting Donald Trump's behavior is fairly easy: Just ask yourself, "What would an asshole do?" Robert Mueller – a Republican, mind you – dies? Anyone else would heed the advice,…

That cops frequently act like bullying dicks is hardly news. They usually demonstrate it through immunity-enabled violence. But they sometimes show it with the whining victimhood that bullies display when…

Donald Trump considers himself a very funny guy. His rallies, back when he was capable of holding them, were long, boring exercises in his putative stand-up comedy. Many of his…

Malign techbro Peter Thiel is a world-class loon, as he's been demonstrating by trotting around the globe giving lectures on (checks notes)...the Antichrist. (View the photo above that linked article…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Mention Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” to somebody and there’s good chance a saxophone solo starts playing in their head. The one Billboard called “the most…

This popular Irish ballad would not exist if a young Luke Kelly had not run into an aging Patrick Kavanaugh in the Dublin pub The Bailey one night in 1966.…

When he was younger, though not all that much younger than today, Donald Trump was adamant about not needing the help of any of America's allies – you know, the…

Commenter Eric Blair took me to task the other day for being too old to realize that fake videos can fool people. Here's a story that demonstrates age isn't the…

You might well be one of them. That's the percentage of voters, as of March 6, who are registered as Unaffiliated. I have just one question: Why? I bring this…

It's difficult if not impossible to determine which of Trump's clown-shoed cabinet members is furthest out of his depth, but Pete Hegseth's constant thumping of his Nazi-tattooed chest makes him…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Some veteran jazz fans don’t listen to Laufey because they think she’s not a jazz singer. Gen Z listens to her because they think she…