Media chatter has turned to Thursday night's televised debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and it seems nobody is pretending anymore that the event has anything to do with…
H/t Jason, who posted this in the comments the other day. It was among the songs featured in this this article about the contenders for the Song of the Summer.…
So Trump's latest idea for controlling immigration is to have the equivalent of bum fights. I'm all for it, given that the first person the first contestant gets to fight…
This one's for Aileen Cannon, the unqualified federal judge who's slow-walking Donald Trump's stolen documents trial and refused colleagues' calls to recuse herself. You can figure out why. Bill Lloyd…
This one's for commenter Jarvis, who thinks people need to turn off the air conditioning because it's not that hot out there. The Power Station, a super group formed by…
Baseball's greatest all-around player, Willie Mays, died yesterday at age 93. He retired 50 years ago, so unless you're a Boomer you never saw him play, and it might be…
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Singer Françoise Hardy might have been the coolest person in a cool era, the pre-hippie 1960s. Pretty and waif-like, perfect shoulder-length hair, soulful eyes, legs…
It's Martha Ann Alito's favorite holiday, so here's George M. Cohan's tribute to Old Glory, as delivered by James Cagney in his Oscar-winning turn as Cohan in the 1942 film…
This YouTuber's shtick is editing together movie clips to substitute them for the real vocals in popular songs. It looks like a lot of work, and most of the results…
Nick Lowe has been playing and touring with surf-rock revivalists Los Straitjackets for a decade now, and he's finally done an album with them. "Indoor Safari" is set for release…
Donald Trump's fear of sharks is well-documented, but I think it's confined to the oceanic sort. That's not the kind of shark Imagine Dragons sang about in this 2022 single,…
Americans insist on regarding "summer" as the period between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox. That's the astronomical definition of summer, but it's not the only one. The length…