It’s January 6th all over again. I don’t know about you, but I found out about the storming of the Capitol online, on some news site, whereupon I immediately switched to video and watched the riot play out. That’s what it was, right? A riot? Everyone agreed. Trump was kicked off of social media platforms, […]

View this post on Instagram This is the most rock and roll thing Rod the Mod has done before his work with Clive Davis on those execrable American Songbook albums turned him into a wanker who’d do anything for a buck, anything to maintain his visibility in the entertainment firmament. Then again, aren’t you supposed […]

That’s the only thing that unites Americans, that’s the only thing that moves the needle. I’d say it’s the economy stupid, but it’s deeper than that, if you want meaningful change, people have to be suffering, it’s got to be a matter of survival, if not outright starvation, it’s got to be literally life or […]

I could not put this book down. What we’ve got here is a working class girl, who employed a Pell grant to go to college, who became a successful writer, who goes back to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio to see what’s going on, to see how it’s changed, to see how all those people […]