Month: November 2011

Apparently there is another Republican debate tonight. The Twitter machine tells me that Michele Bachmann thinks we need to be more like China. It also tells me that everyone on the stage who isn’t a Mormon is talking...

July 14 2012 will be Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday. That means there’s plenty of time for the Occupy movement to arrange for a join simultaneous nationwide singing of all seven verses of This Land is Your Land. This...

What was Pink Floyd’s best album?

Here’s is something that is incomprehensible to me. Why is Herman Cain’s wife going to do an interview on Fox News defending her husband against allegations of sexual assault and harassment? How could she possibly...

The Democrats’ candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, Richard Carmona, has an impressive résumé. He was raised in Spanish Harlem in the fifties and sixties, coming from Puerto Rican descent. He dropped out of school when he...