I got word tonight that an old friend died on Saturday, June 25 in Oregon. He’d moved there earlier this year with his wife of nearly 45 years. I’m stunned. It was cancer, but neither Peter nor his wife ever mentioned it or complained about it. Peter was the guy who in 1980 showed me …
This gorgeous video was created by Apple Corps Ltd. and Cirque du Soleil based on a 10th-anniversary re-staging of George Harrison’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps for Love, Cirque du Soleil’s theatrical production of Beatles’ music.
The Republicans only have two Senate races this fall in which it’s deemed possible they could unseat the incumbent. One of them is in Colorado, where Michael Bennet is finishing up his first term. Today the state had a primary in which the Republicans fielded five candidates, and the guy with the least money won. …
I am trying to figure out whether Cameron calling for the Brexit referendum was even more stupid than Hitler invading Russia or Tojo bombing Pearl Harbor. The latter two events eventually destroyed the countries which perpetrated the deeds, and it’s beginning to look as though the UK may break up into its respective parts. Scotland, …
There are at least 24 dead in West Virginia as a result of massive flooding caused by heavy rainfall on Thursday and Friday. The flooding and the damage it’s done has ruptured gas lines in the region, which made for scenes like this one: Thousands are without power, many homes have been washed off their …
I wondered how Margaret Thatcher would feel about the country of which she was once Prime Minister being taken out of the European Union by a member of her own party, and I found contradictions. She campaigned in favor of the UK joining the European Economic Community in 1975 but twenty years later scolded her …
After the Leave faction in the UK won an astonishing victory in a referendum which asked whether Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland should leave the European Union, Americans should be forewarned. Many of the sentiments which drive Trump’s voters are the same ones which drove the Leavers to win. Foremost among those sentiments in …
The Lovin’ Spoonful asked a great question in 1965: Do You Believe in Magic? It was the first hit off their debut album with the same title, and it was well received. The Spoonful may have been the only performers of the period to feature an autoharp onstage. Heart’s first release was “Dreamboat Annie” in …
Mr. Anthony Newley chastises himself, from 1961’s Stop the World, I Want to Get Off. Sérgio Mendes and Brasil 66 do a great cover of The Beatles’ The Fool on the Hill. A 25-year-old Frank Sinatra sings the Johnny Mercer song Fools Rush In shortly after it was written in 1940. He’s fronting the Tommy …
The United States Senate once again proved it has been bought by the National Rifle Association today, voting down four different bills meant to control who is allowed to buy guns in this country. I don’t think the ban on purchases by people on a terrorist watch list or a no-fly list is a good …