A little acknowledgment of Republicans’ intransigence and criminality would be welcome.
Music
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: A Times Scoop: Republicans Don’t ‘Advance Working People’s Economic Interests’
Don’t believe it? The Grey Lady has it on good authority.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: When the Right Cancels It, It Ain’t Cancel Culture
How’s a bigoted loon to know what’s good and what’s not these days?
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Limbaugh, and Associated Outrages
Among which, those in mainstream media who’ve kowtowed to him
Posted inCoronavirus
My Life as a Virtual Companion
What it’s like singing to the elderly, and stripping for paying clients, over Zoom
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Donald Trump and John Prine
If you want to understand why America’s rural poor are taken in by Trump, take a close listen to John Prine.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
From ‘We, the People’ to the Power of People Magazine
This year’s presidential campaigns demonstrate the steadily increasing integration of political figures into pop culture, and vice versa.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Queen of Feminist Soul
Aretha, “Respect,” and the rise of second-wave feminism
