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

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...

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....

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

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...

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

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

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

At the outset of Red Dawn, Russian paratroopers open-fire on a high school. I think I recall the camera lingering on a dead kid. It's a...

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

"...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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer is a chestnut lodged deeply in my brain. We sang it plenty as kids, inserting irreverent lyrics (as of...

So the alleged rapist says to the accused child molester,* "Go get 'em, Roy!" A cruel punchline to a week that's already witnessed a...

Preface: I reckon this is my last (chiefly) political post. These missives are not particularly fun. They require math and research. A...

An adulterous, white supremacist president who bragged of sexually assaulting women endorses a law-breaking theocratic racist pedophile...