Monthly Archive: May 2020

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• After Phenomenal Success, Cat Stevens Hit the ‘Road to Find Out’
• Trump’s Payroll Tax Cut a Covert Attack on Social Security
• Right Wing Terrorism Thrives in Trump’s America
• Democrats Should Consider Pivot to In-Person Voting
• Undercounting Census Keeps White America In Charge
• Further Evidence of a Post Office Coup d’Etat
• A Youthful Adventure Along the Mississippi Blues Highway 61
• Unsung Passing: Peter Green, Founder of the Original Fleetwood Mac
• Bully Boys Coming to a Polling Place Near You?
• Biden’s Commanding Lead Looks Different From Hillary’s Four Years Ago
• Deja Vu All Over Again for ‘Captain Many Hands’
• Jimi Hendrix and his Electric Lady
• Quitting World Health Organization Risks American Lives
• Trump Campaign Flailing Against National Unity Opposing Racism
• ‘Cash Register Justice’ and Police Brutality
• Following Trump’s Lead, Cops Now Brutalizing Journalists
• The Era of Big Government Is Back, Baby!
• Donald Trump’s Evil Plot to Destroy the Post Office
• Little Richard & Elvis: Sexual Heat Birthed the Dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll
• Conservative Sinclair Broadcasts Falsehoods, Risks Lives
• Maybe Mitch McConnell Was Referring to His Moral Bankruptcy
• Wisconsin Primary: A Post-Mortem
• Led Zeppelin Wins Copyright Appeal Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’
• Songs of 1970: Last Hurrahs for the Sixties’ Top-Selling Acts
• What Biden Must Do
• Let’s Call It the ‘Trump Coronavirus’
• Philadelphia Free Library Latest to Go ‘Fine-Free’
• Liberal Educator Horace Mann’s Last Triumph: Antioch College
• Hedge Fund Vultures Swallowing Local News Whole
• Don’t Tell Me It’s ‘Bernie or Bust’ for the American Dream
• Seven Cool Things About Santana
• When Soul Music and Rock Shared the Top of the Charts
• Have a Hearty Laugh for the Holiday!
• Jim Croce: So Many Songs, So Little Time
• New Stalking Horse in VA Privatization Shakedown
• What Happened to Hitchhiking?
• Why Are We Talking About Medicare For All?
• Great Rock Albums Were Abundant in the Year 1969
• Two Beloved Hit Songs Were Minted When Graham Nash Swapped Rock Bands
• Poetic Justice? Two Diplomatic Women Break the Stonewall
• An Army Story: Cold War Kid and a Father’s Love
• What’s Up with our Trumpy Attorney General?
• Playlist: Five Truly Awesome Rock Guitar Recordings
• The Cover-Up of the Biggest Disaster in Music History
• History Dept.: FDR’s 1944 ‘GI Bill of Rights’ Helped Create America’s Modern Middle Class
• Trump Continues Baseless Claims of Voter Fraud in New Hampshire
• Who Are the ‘Antifa’?
• By the Time We Got to Woodstock…
• The Sixties Blues Revival
• The Beatles’ Early Recordings: Baby Steps Along Abbey Road
• Odious Warmonger John Bolton Really, Really Wants to Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran
• Dem Courage, Republican Cruelty on Full Display in PA Senate
• Best Summer Rock Songs from the Sixties and Seventies
• The Mueller Report Did Not Say, ‘No Collusion.’ Read It!
• Apple Shutting Down iTunes! Well, Kind of, Maybe…
• First Impeachment: Striking Similarities Between Andrew Johnson, Trump
• Rocketman Elton John’s ‘Border Song’ a Cry for Peace, Down with Bigotry
• There Would Be No ‘Elton John’ Without Lyricist Bernie Taupin
• James Taylor’s Apple Debut a Triumph Despite Secret Life
• Impeachment? Nah. Democrats Should Keep Their Eyes on the Prize: the 2020 Election
• Donald Trump Is a Russian Asset…
• Mueller Report: The (White) House of Lies
• Tales from the Cultural War: Sports Betting and Pot Legalization
• Trump Attacks on Media Having Opposite Effect on Aspiring Journalists
• John Fogerty’s Creedence Gig Was the Best of Times, Worst of Times
• Net Neutrality Not Dead Yet
• Nature-Loving Main Line Artist Revels in Distinctive Patterns
• America Unwillingly Reliving Its Racist Past
• Payola, Radio Song Royalties, and Sinatra’s Dying Wish
• Philadelphia Ended Cash Bail for Minor Offenses and the Sky Didn’t Fall
• The 27 Club: A Rock Club That Nobody Joins Willingly
• Millennial Socialism Preference Incites Sixties Flashbacks
• Hey Trump, Kamala Harris Has Your Number
• Satirical Rock Is About Subversion, Pushing Boundaries
• Clive Davis Scores Bruce Springsteen for Columbia Records
• Like the Berlin Wall, Trump’s Fetish Is an Affront to Humanity
• For Your Consideration: Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio
• Compiling the Lies and Havoc of the Trump Presidency
• Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
• John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” a Christmas Treat
• AG Nominee William Barr to Rehash Uranium One Sham
• The Jefferson Starship Enterprise
• PHILLY SPECIAL: DA Larry Krasner Reviving Prosecutor’s Moral Compass
• Ballot Design Probably Doomed Florida Democrat in Recount
• Not ‘Happy,’ Trump? Pharrell Still Wants His Song Back
• Midterms 2018: Closing Arguments for the American Family
• Main Line Artist Had Brush with Chaplin Greatness
• The Trump Administration’s Covert War on Weed
• A Partisan Warrior on the Supreme Court?
• Impeachment Quagmire: Trading a Bad Liar for a Good One
• When The Rolling Stones Crossed Over to Atlantic
• By Topic: Favorite Websites of One Learned Progressive
• Teachers Inciting ‘Blue Wave’
• Aretha Franklin Found Greatness with Atlantic R&B Pioneer
• VA Update: Are the ‘Mar-a-Lago Three’ VA’s Shadow Rulers?
• Remember Helsinki! ‘The Appeasement Summit,’ Revisited.
• VA Privatization: Conservatives’ Dream, Veterans’ Nightmare
• Arena Superstar Billy Joel Looks Back Fondly on Writing and Recording
• Is PA Sen. Bob Casey Once Again Courting Presidential Star Power?
• Trump’s Smears of Immigrants Recall ‘Red Scare’ a Century Ago
• The Fourth of July America’s Oldest Tradition
• An Early Summer Snapshot of Democrats’ Electoral Prospects
• Private Prisons the Only Winner in Immigrant Children Tragedy
• Joni Mitchell Is Doing Fine, Thank You
• Nilsson, Schmilsson & Lennon: Weighing Another ‘Fifth Beatle’
• Reality TV Show: Trump vs. North Korea. But What About America?
• Stone Sculpture by Steve Flom
• How Background Checkers Have the Goods on One of Three Americans
• Two Beatific Visionaries: Bob Dylan & Marvin Gaye
• Libertarian Millennials: Rand Paul Just Sold His Soul to Donald Trump
• Health Care Premium Spikes Now Owned by Republicans
• Public Education a Winning Issue for Democrats
• Crafting the Democrats’ Midterm Message
• Bite of the Apple: First iPods, Now iTunes?…All Gone
• Community Radio: Music With That Personal Touch
• The Beatles’ Rooftop London Serenade
• California Gives Middle Finger to Sanctuary City Hypocrisy
• Barack Obama, a Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You
• Russia Probe: Paul Manafort’s Secrets are Trump’s Nightmares
• Republican Congressman Devin Nunes: Trump’s Chump
• It Was 50 Years Ago Today! Rock Scaled New Heights in 1968
• Opioid Crisis: Deadly Fentanyl Justifies Philly’s Safe Injection Sites?
• Trump’s Phony Embrace of Dreamers to Come with a Grim Price Tag
• Trumpence’s ‘Election Integrity’ Panel Put Out of its Misery
• The Making of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
• James O’Keefe’s Bad Faith Efforts to Embarrass Liberals Usually Go Down in Flames
• A Beatles Merry Christmas
• Taxing Trump: How Do You Lie to the Face of the American People Like That?
• Tax Scam Will Cost Republicans Big-Time in the 2018 Midterms
• Sinclair Broadcasting: A Much Bigger Threat Than Fox News
• Have a Rockin’ & Rollin’ Thanksgiving!
• The Uranium-to-Russia Uproar Lacked Hillary’s Fingerprints
• Overturning Net Neutrality a Solution in Search of a Problem
• The Beatles’ Rubber Soul: Rock’s Last Great Pop Album
• Muscle Shoals: Musical Mecca in the Sticks
• GOP Tax Plan: Savaging Medicaid to Transfer Wealth Upward
• Kansas Loses Jobs, Revenue as Right Runs Amok
• The Battle for Springsteen Tickets Premieres on Broadway
• Liberal Democracy Will Ultimately Prevail
• Dump Trump? Winning Back the House Is Our Most Urgent Priority
• Glen Campbell & ‘The Wrecking Crew’
• Trump’s Constant Lying Has Roots in the Kremlin & Senator Joe McCarthy
• Local News No Easy Conquest for Trump’s War on Media
• Paul McCartney Gets His Songs Back!
• A Glimpse Into the Fanatical Hatred of ‘Alt-Right’ Trolling
• The Allman Brothers Made Blues a Part of Southern Rock’s Lineage
• Voting Rights and Wrongs, from White House to Wisconsin
• Let Republicans Own the “I” Word
• ZZ Top: Two Beards and a Drummer named Beard Wrote the Story of Texas Boogie
• Civil Asset Forfeiture Update: States Shunning ‘Policing for Profit’
• Chuck Berry’s Gift: The Soundtrack for Our Time
• Canned Heat: Sex, Drugs & The Blues
• Unions Are a Valued Partner in The Resistance
• President Pence: From Chaos to White Christian Supremacy
• Showdown in the United States Senate
• 20 Awesome Songs from Rock’s Greatest Decade
• Nuclear Brinkmanship: “My Button Is Bigger Than Yours”?
• Trumpsters Now Claim All Mainstream Media Is “Fake News”
• The Resistance
• Back in the Day: Punk Rock versus Disco
• Silver Linings Payback
• Third Party Candidates Might Make Things Interesting Out West
• Conservative Voter Suppression Group Humbled in Philadelphia Courtroom
• Republicans Stir Voter Intimidation Pot
• Marijuana Remains a Schedule I Narcotic? Malarkey!
• Neil Young & Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Friendliest of Feuds
• The Democratic Convention: Up Close and Very Personal
• Back in the Day: Kennedy vs. Carter
• Addiction Epidemic: A Little Help Here
• Did the Media Create Their Fame Monster?
• Are Dems Inciting a ’68 Chicago Outcome?