We all realize that Republicans live in a heavily insulated bubble, but I don't think we can grasp how weird it is in there. Every once in a while, though,…
Old-timers bitching about the feckless younger generation has been a constant throughout human history, and it always seems to find an eager audience. Consider this song, written in 1967 by…
Republicans are always saying something stupid, but it's rarely "I love you." When this song surged up the charts in 1967 the lyrics puzzled me -- how could the singer…
Unless I'm missing some nuance, MAGAt Nation is threatening to bust stuff up just because their hero is being called to account for his lawbreaking. Yes, nothing says "we're the…
Yesterday's I-95 fire and overpass collapse in Northeast Philadelphia quickly acquired a soundtrack. Somebody posted to social media a drive-by of the fire a few minutes before the collapse, black…
We're still under a bad-air advisory, but forecasters say the smoke from the Quebec wildfires should start to dissipate by later today. Greta Van Fleet is the band, composed of…
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Turns out the Girl From Ipanema was also a Girl From Philadelphia. After Astrud Gilberto died there on Tuesday, many were surprised to hear that…
I don't know if you saw this, but a whistleblower with a high security clearance says there's a secret government program that has retrieved wreckage of non-human origin. This isn't…
The asterisk is because this isn't really the Beatles. People who worry about the AI menace have been too busy fretting about job losses and armageddon to notice it much,…
Cynthia Weil, the lyricist who with her composer husband Barry Mann wrote some of the hits that made the Brill Building famous, died last week at age 82. Their biggest…
In the modern Republican Party, the measure of success is the ability to attract media attention, which is why Lauren Witzke is the leader of Delaware's cackle of hyenas. She…
Being a Republican must be exhausting. You have to be on high alert at all times, sensitive to every threat to Our American Way of Life, plus you have to…