It’s starting to get a little nippy (ok, it’s all relative; nippy here means nights below 70 degrees Fahrenheit), so let’s have a little Three Dog Night. Specifically, Captured Live at the Forum. This was only the group’s third album, but it could qualify as a greatest hits compilation. AMG only gives it two stars, …
NOW with Bill Moyers aired an interview with Jim Bouton last night. Bouton is the former Yankees pitcher (and a good one–see here) whose first book was Ball Four, which absolutely scandalized the baseball owners and commissioner back in 1969. He’s written a new book, in which big media and small town politics collide. It’s …
Have you gotten a flu shot yet? This might be the most serious outbreak in years, so it’s strongly recommended that you do so. I got mine on Wednesday. You may have heard that the current vaccine does not include full immunization from the A Fujian strain, which is the one that’s having the nastiest …
No Thanksgiving would be complete without a rendition of Alice’s Restaurant, right? Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on – two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant, but Alice doesn’t live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, …
We’ve cooked our turkey in one of those since the mid-1950s; time to dust it off, wash it out, and stock up on the white bread, mayo, and lettuce! Oh, wait; I don’t need that stuff till Friday, do I? Ok, then, time to break out the one-day-a-year tablecloth, the cornucopia thingie to hold the …
I usually think of the Senate Judiciary Committee as the most partisan of all Senate Committees, the one with the deepest ideological split. So I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that one of Chairman Orrin Hatch’s staff members apparently “obtained” some Democratic memos from the computers used by Senators Kennedy and Durbin. Here’s more from …
Wondering if those tires you bought two months ago have been recalled? Six Federal agencies (CPSC, USCG, NHTSA, FDA, EPA, and Agriculture) have collected recall data and put it up on a new website. 30 things to be thankful for, written by (I’m guessing) a mother. I particularly like this one: Catsup covers a variety …
I have a whole lot of opinions about the Medicare bill, but I’ll leave them for later. This is instructive, however: Howard Kurtz writes in the Post: And for good measure, I just got this email from the Center for Responsive Politics: “House members who helped to pass sweeping Medicare legislation in an early morning …
If treating Medicare patients was such a good deal, why does it take “a special $12 billion fund to try to persuade health plans to enter” the market? Republicans, for all their homage to free markets, seem to think bribery is the best way to create those markets. Lies, lies and cash. News you can …
Mike Bloomfield left the Butterfield Blues Band and moved to California, forming The Electric Flag in 1967. This album, A Long Time Comin’, was one of the first released by a rock band to mix horns with guitars, predating Blood Sweat and Tears and Chicago by a few months. The most-recognized track is probably Howlin’ …