I get e-mail every day giving me shit for not offering solutions. It’s very simple.  Make good music and don’t rip people off. I know, I know, you want it to be more complicated than that, you want multiple entry points, you want to believe it’s about Twitter or Facebook or Spotify or… Usually, anything […]

"The week before the health care vote, The Times reported that births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party movement is […]

"Leather and Lace" is my favorite track on Stevie Nicks’ solo debut. But it’s not the best. "Leather and Lace" has that vibe that’s fallen by the wayside, you know, the one where a woman in a long dress takes you into the dell and reveals her inner truth as you stare into her eyes […]

What if conventional wisdom isn’t conventional? Used to be you turned on the TV and took the temperature of the nation.  If you were truly sophisticated, you read the newspaper.  And learned what was really going on.  Or did you? Turns out the truth is a bit different from what the conventional media tells us […]