I started a thing. I usually don't. But last week I decided to serenade my neighbors with some optimistic music. Nothing obscure. Wasn't trying to impress. F...

Sunday's Doonesbury doesn't need a preamble, but I was reminded of that 2016 unauthorized recording in which House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said to a r...

In defense of humans Lay down your power trip Stop toying with emotions and relationships Cause you don't rise when people fall In defense of humans La...

A late-season series between the San Francisco Giants and Boston Red Sox – a contest with virtually no postseason repercussions – is not meaningless. As soon...

My dad was a Beach Boys fan. His favorites: "In My Room," "Wouldn't it be Nice," and "God Only Knows." He was also oddly fond of Barry McGuire's version of "...

My dad plays sudoku. He might be doing so right now in his hospital bed. A former math teacher, always a numbers guy... except in sports. In sports, he stres...

Pretty dang fascinating to watch fearful conservatism (apparently, the inevitable devolution of conservatism) paralyze both the UK and US in simultaneous ine...

Lorna Doom passed away last week. I missed the Germs (age 9 in 1980 & no older cousins, brothers). It wasn't until high school that Rodney on the Roq introdu...

Roland has been traversing presidential brains for decades, but his examination has never been more wholly accurate... (That hyperactive amygdala means brave...

2018 was bewildering. (And that's a kind assessment.) However, in an impressive display of balance, the year also provided perhaps the best annual collection...

The Democratic Party scored impressive wins in nationwide and regional contests this year. The success means party leadership has a new opportunity to define...

Families Belong Together. Amid extinction and kleptocracy, Saturday was spent marching for a most basic human right. Ridiculous. But Republicans have gone al...

"...if you supported us, you would have made a change long ago and you would be making changes now...So this is to every lawmaker out there. No longer can yo...

Hi. Gosh, this compilation of faves is atrociously late (although there are homes on my block with Christmas lights still dangling from their eaves, so...) D...

I've been hiding almost entirely among female sonic standbys lately. If you find yourself soured by a stormy, pornographic presidency or malevolent dicks els...

If your nation has a white supremacist leader who dismisses Haiti and African nations as "shithole countries," or doesn't understand the difference between "...

In the caption from the AP file photo above,* President Trump is quoted as exclaiming, "How dare you! You are a nonconformist and a rebel!" His anger was dir...

It's an embarrassing day to be an empirical American,* but a perfect time for a song like Merchandise. When we have nothing left to lose / You will have noth...