Forty years ago, if you worked hard and saved your pennies, you too could live the life of the rich and famous, if only for a night, or a weekend. Now the gulf between the worlds of the rich and the poor, between the haves and the have-nots, is so vast as to seem uncrossable, […]

Bob that looked and sounded live. The mic was live.  You could hear her hand bumping it.  Her pitch was not perfect, like someone singing in a live situation where monitoring might not have been ideal.  I’m watching in my hotel room where the wi-fi isn’t zooming but my gut says Madonna showed up and […]

From: Albert GibsonRe: Madonna Telethon Fraud Previously recorded.  You can’t clap against a turned-on microphone like that without some kind of extra noise.  What a fraud. Wow, that’s what I love about the Internet.  I was watching the big screen remarking to myself how well Madonna was singing, because she can’t sing, she can belt […]

It was a bad night for music. It was a great night for Haiti.  People got to see what was really going on there.  And in a world where negativity is a no-no, it was great to see the unvarnished reality of destruction depicted.  Because people should know.  That’s the crime of the century, what […]