Half right. Typical Phil Gramm: “Why This Recovery Is So Lousy” Yes, regulation sometimes hurts; so does dereg, like your end to Glass-Steagall. That said, the recovery is so lousy primarily because there are no decent wage, low skill private sector jobs for the country’s workers. American workers have maxed out their productivity. It’s a … Read more
Here’s what I played on this week’s Taste the Floor Show: Bickenhall featuring Camille Marsh: Chasing the Rain Meg Birch: I’m Not in Love Annexe The Moon: Bring You Down Fleshtones: Love My Lover Esme Patterson: We Were Wild Joanna Gruesome: Occult Bookshop Alexa Madrid: Other Girls Jade Imagine: Stay Awake INXS: Days of Rust … Read more
While everyone is deciding what to do with their votes this year, let me share some thoughts about the Ralph Nader 2000 campaign effort and what it meant to me. I’m mainly throwing this together for two reasons: 1) While I no longer get threats or nasty emails about my work for Nader – and … Read more
As can sometimes happen, life got in the way and I had to throw together a show tonight. So I did, featuring some of my favorite long songs, LOL. 🙂 The Dandy Warhols: It’s a Fast-Driving Rave-Up with the Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes … Isaac Hayes: Walk on By The Velvet Underground: Heroin Bruce Springsteen: … Read more
Here’s what I played this week on the Taste the Floor Show: Sophie B. Hawkins: Damn, I Wish I was Your Lover The Rolling Stones: Dance (Part 1) Led Zeppelin: Dancing Days Azure Ray: Dancing Ghosts The Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols TV Theme Song The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Date with a Knife Cheap Trick: … Read more
I’m glad this is starting to get out there a bit: Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of ‘Killer Robot’ in Dallas The Dallas Police force essentially executed an alleged guilty party by using a remote operated vehicle armed with a bomb. Stop and think about that for a second. A local police force … Read more
“Lovey!” While watching “Gilligan’s Island” on MeTV for a few minutes tonight, I realized that I’m as old as Jim Backus was when he appeared on the show as the character, “Mr. Howell.” This simply stuns me right now…
Where have you been? This morning, a well-known media critic who I respect and admire – although differ often – wrote on Facebook that he “never felt more depressed and paralyzed about what’s going on in our country than I do right now. I fear that we’re sliding into authoritarianism, driven by one horrifying event … Read more
