This week: Russian paranoia, Mallory McMorrow, The Shield At 20, Evans/Goode, Shirley MacLaine, and Carson/Falk. Music by Genesis, Nancy Wilson, ZZ Top, The Kinks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Roy Orbison, Johnny Winter, and The Cars. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Supper’s Ready
The grand finale of Irvingfest. Continue reading I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Tales of a GOP groper. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Charles Herbster
“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going ’till we get there.’
‘Where we going, man?’
‘I don’t know but we gotta go.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road Continue reading Some Final Thoughts From The Road
Elon Musk will soon be The King of the Trolls. Continue reading Elon Musk Is A Troll
Tomatoes, pineapples, and bananas, oh my. Music by Crowded House, The Jolly Boys, Harry Belafonte, Harry Nilsson, Elvin Bishop, Tower Of Power, The Kinks, Raspberries, and The Cranberries. Continue reading Trump’s Fear Of Fruit
Spy vs. Spy. Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Dark Duet
Rand Paul is his name; performative politics is his game. Continue reading Senator Aqua Buddha Strikes Again
Over the weekend the Utah Democratic Party voted to not put up a candidate to run against the insurrectionist Mike Lee. Continue reading O Utah Democrats, Where Art Thou?
Don’t eat the Polka Pie. Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Polka Pie
M-Boys making news for good or ill. Continue reading The M-Boys: Macron, Meadows & Musk
Our vacation trip brings us to Los Alamos, New Mexico and a chance for family lore and world history to collide. It made me think about what history really means. Continue reading From the End to the Beginning
Normalizing the worst people in the world is not good journalism. Continue reading Christopher Rufo Gets The New York Times Treatment
Beware of leaders with messianic dreams. Continue reading Of Orthodox Easter & Russia’s Unholy War
Reading the Freepers for 14 years so you don’t have to. Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Russian propaganda detected” edition
Give ’em hell, Ryne. Continue reading Ryne Hancock: John Fetterman, Meet Gary Chambers
Cheers to Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair, Scott Thurston, Steve Ferrone, Stan Lynch, and Howie Epstein. Continue reading The Sunday Dozen: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
This week: Macron/Le Pen, Mississippi Masala, Royal Pretenders, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Music by Genesis, The Kinks, The Pretenders, The Band, Freddie Mercury, Peter Gabriel, Louis Armstrong, The Eagles, and Jefferson Airplane. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Firth Of Fifth
Berlinpalooza continues, Continue reading Puttin’ On The Ritz
Kevin McCarthy meets Ramona Singer and Teresa Giudice. Continue reading KMac’s Reality Show Moment
If you are an American, the National Parks are part of your heritage. Explore them, enjoy them, make them part of your permanent memory file. And don’t let anyone tell you this land wasn’t meant for you and me. Continue reading A Postcard From Your National Parks
It’s hard to believe how small our kitties were when we adopted them when they were 8 months old. Continue reading Friday Catblogging: It Takes 2, Baby
Finding the equivalent in false equivalencies can be hard. Continue reading Some Requests For The ‘Both Sides Are Just As Bad” Crowd, Part I
Racist pundit rants about the Country Music Awards. Malakatude ensues. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Patrick Howley
Don’t drink the elixir. Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Elixir Of Hate
They’re buzzing about Senator Mike Lee in Salt Lake City. Continue reading Mike Lee’s Beehive State Blues
Time and distance and Covid have changed how we all relate to each other. No, not with how we still kiss and hug when we see each other. Instead, we all chose to focus on the joy we had at all being together again instead of the long-running disagreements highly opinionated people will always have. Continue reading You Can Go Home Again
It’s a gas, gas, gas. Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Music For Cooking With Gas
Judging a Trump judge’s judgment in the mask mandate case. Continue reading The Runaway Judge