Opinion
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Tony Colton Bio and Interview (ca. 2009)
Tony Colton isn’t a name you’d instantly think of when contemplating rock and roll history. Not like Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton or Robert Plant. But… Continue reading
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Tez Howes’ Top 1001 Albums 1945-2021
The provided post content features a comprehensive list of albums released between the 1940s and 2005, spanning various genres and artists. This extensive compilation illustrates the evolution of music over several decades, encompassing significant albums that have contributed to the cultural and artistic landscape. Continue reading
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2nd Amendment Blues
Guns were the leading cause of death in the USA among children & adolescents in 2021 for the second year in a row, according to data from their own US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of the April 16th massacre at a Sweet 16 party (!), there have been more than 160 mass shootings… Continue reading
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Trumpian Dispatches (Postscript): American Dupes
A generous percentage of the American population, as much as half possibly, are the most easily duped, almost comically manipulated, citizenry in the civilized world. The rest of the planet knew what Reagan was, a second rate movie actor who was head and shoulders BELOW the prerequisite to run the most powerful nation economy on… Continue reading
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Trumpian Dispatches
A selection of brief musings on Trumplandia, presented chronologically, both before and after the 2016 election. Continue reading
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Trumpian Dispatches: Oprah for President!!
— 14 months after the 2016 election Now the new clarion call is Oprah for President. Good lord. Americans need to stop letting their very peculiar, idiosyncratic, and slavish ‘cult of celebrity’, that just elevates mediocrity, spill over into the political scene. Nowhere else on the planet would Kardashian worship have taken root, for example.… Continue reading
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Trumpian Dispatches: The Civil Aviation Tweet
— 14 months after the 2016 election “Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news – it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!” Lying? This goes way beyond ‘lying’ and into delusional megalomania. Firstly, the feckin’ thing hears a… Continue reading
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Trumpian Dispatches: The Emperor Has No Empathy
— 12 months after the 2016 election Just days ago, Trump claims that Time had ‘wooed’ him on 2017’s Person of the Year pick. Now only a few days later, he suggests the Access Hollywood tape from a year ago is fake. If these blatant lies don’t absolutely establish Trump’s mental incapacity, what the hell… Continue reading
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Trumpian Dispatches: Donald the Dick Tater
— 12 months after the 2016 election For the first time in my 62 years, the thought of an America becoming so authoritarian, so hostile to freedom that its demonization of a truly free, but weaker in numbers by a factor of 10, ‘socialist’ nation to the north could precipitate a forced annexation has become… Continue reading
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Trumpian Dispatches: Intrumpetence
— 9 months after the 2016 election There’s incompetence, and then there’s intrumpetence. The Trump administration continues to lurch from one self-inflicted disaster to the now inevitable next as each adds to the growing legislative inertia and global public incredulity this laughable clown / petulant man-child / global threat generates. I submit that Trump’s performance… Continue reading