Month: June 2010

One Nation Under a Groove

I don’t know if you noticed but Starchild died of lung cancer last Wednesday, leaving us without the premier funk guitarist in the world. Garry Shider, the funk-rock guitarist and singer whose spacey but soulful and...

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Casual Observation

it was a bad day on the Supreme Court but I note that Sonia Sotomayor continues to take the progressive view. It looks increasingly like she will be the most progressive of all the judges on the Court. She came out early on...

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Casual Observation

It’s funny. I honestly have no idea who the Republicans will nominate for president in 2012. But I can’t believe it will be Tim Pawlenty. I wish someone would come along, like John Anderson, and try to speak a little...

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