Month: February 2017

Read the following article. Please. Read it as if your life depends on it. Because it does. From Counterpunch: The Illusion of Freedom: the Police State Is Alive and Well-John W. Whitehead Historian Milton Mayer-They Thought...

The title track to Codona’s eponymous first album, released on ECM in 1979.I first heard this track thanks to a happy accident. My parents had ordered an ECM sampler around 1980. ECM was billed as a jazz label, my parents...

On most days, if you asked me what I would do if I was given a time machine that allowed me to travel back in time to the 1960’s, I’d tell you that I’d go see Jimi Hendrix light his guitar on fire at the...

Booman posted a one sentence message today. This shit just gets better and better. I think that his post might have been more accurate if he had written: This shit just gets deeper and deeper. From both sides of the PermaGov. It...

Ed Kilgore looks at the polling data and the landscape for the 2018 congressional elections and makes the point that Trump isn’t as unpopular as you might like to believe and that, even if he were, the Republicans are not...