Liberal Democracy Will Ultimately Prevail
Even with (or because of) a hard-right administration, Americans increasingly prefer liberal policies. There is no turning back. We’ll get...
Author: Andrew Goutman
Dump Trump? Winning Back the House Is Our Most Urgent Priority
The Republicans are sure to weaponize voter suppression and demonize our leadership. Democrats would be wise to deal with both....
Glen Campbell & ‘The Wrecking Crew’
The late hit-maker was once a part of an elite group of LA session musicians We mourn the passage of...
Trump’s Constant Lying Has Roots in the Kremlin & Senator Joe McCarthy
‘Tail Gunner’ Joe would tip his hat to fellow con man Trump, who ironically cozies up to despised ex-KGB Vladimir Putin...
Local News No Easy Conquest for Trump’s War on Media
Will Donald Trump’s poisonous scapegoating of our media ‘trickle down’ to state and local coverage? Maybe not. As we gird ourselves for...
Paul McCartney Gets His Songs Back!
Beatle Paul lost the rights to his song catalogue twice, actually. Paul McCartney has reached a settlement with Sony/ATV Music Publishing...
A Glimpse Into the Fanatical Hatred of ‘Alt-Right’ Trolling
Enabled by a president willing to tweet violent images, right wing trolls go after a Montana Jewish woman and get sued...
Have a Rockin’ 4th of July! (With a Brief History Lesson)
Our Founding Fathers Would be Tapping Their Feet to Some Great Rock Songs That Exist Because of Their Success A Founding Father from Massachusetts, John...
The Allman Brothers Made Blues a Part of Southern Rock’s Lineage
Ignoring Calls to Relocate to NY or LA, the Allman Brothers Planted a Flag in Macon, Georgia, Creating Ground Zero...
Voting Rights and Wrongs, from White House to Wisconsin
“In a democracy, there is one right that stands atop all the rest: the right to vote.” –Russ Feingold, the...
Let Republicans Own the “I” Word
As Trump continues to unravel, Impeachment becomes the Republicans’ dilemma, not ours. Donald Trump can be useful to Democrats. When I say Donald Trump...
ZZ Top: Two Beards and a Drummer named Beard Wrote the Story of Texas Boogie
After Hitting It Big with Eliminator, the Eighties Caught Up With Them I remember so well that ZZ Top concert in Dayton,...
Trump’s ‘Populism’ – Huge Tax Cuts For the Wealthy
Trickle-Down Trickery: Savaging Medicaid to Transfer Wealth Upward What a pathetic display of political theater perpetrated by the Republican majority...
‘Sanctuary City’ Funding Threat Is All About Intimidating Immigrant Communities
A Misguided and Empty Gesture Against Something That’s Not Even Defined. It’s Payback Time for Trump. A federal judge this week has...
Civil Asset Forfeiture Update: States Shunning ‘Policing for Profit’
While the Feds Continue to Seize Staggering Amounts from Innocent People, Many States Are Taking Measures to Moderate The Practice...
Canned Heat: Sex, Drugs & The Blues
Even a Famed Dalliance with Blues Great John Lee Hooker Couldn’t Prevent the Tragic Deaths of Their Star Performers It...
Unions Are a Valued Partner in The Resistance
Plagued by Republican Attempts to Destroy Them, Labor Unions are Employing Creative Ways to Equate Workers’ Rights with The Common...
President Pence: From Chaos to Christian Supremacy
His Boss Vows to Build a Wall, but Pence Wants to Tear Down the Only Wall That Matters: The Separation of...
Showdown in the United States Senate
The Senate is the Last Line of Defense Against a Madman and his Henchmen Here, in two quotes by prominent...
My List of 20 Greatest Songs of the Rock Era
‘Favorite’ or ‘Best’? How About Both? When I settled on the topic of this post, I had thought that composing...
Will Trump & Putin Rattle Their Nuclear Toys?
The Doomsday Clock Ticks as the World Watches Two Small Men Puff Out Their Chests Lying atop a Twitter trash heap, one particular tweet...
Trumpsters Now Claim All Mainstream Media Is “Fake News”
By Turning Their ‘Fake News’ Election Trickery on Its Head, Right Wingers Seek to Erode a Pillar of Accountability ...
Happy Holidays from Enter, Stage Left
The Season’s Upon Us The holidays are mostly about family and there’s also the solemnity of the spiritual celebration. But...
The Resistance
No Cooperation. No Compromise. Learn From the Past and Let Trump and His Confederates Bury Themselves. Obviously… The most important...
Back in the Day: Punk Rock versus Disco
The Story of a Clash of Cultures in the Late 1970s In the midst of all those great rock acts...
Silver Linings Payback
What’s Done Is Done. Could This Election Disaster Be a Blessing in Disguise? Prologue On election eve at Independence Hall in my...
Third Party Candidates Might Make Things Interesting Out West
But There’s No Way They’ll Earn Ralph Nader’s Title of ‘Spoiler’ The presidential election of 2000 still manages to occupy a tiny...
Paul Simon Keeps Making Records
The Great Ones Keep Going After All These Years At 75, Paul Simon’s recording prowess has never strayed far from...
Conservative Voter Suppression Group Humbled in Philadelphia Courtroom
Ignorance of the Law Almost Brings Sanctions Against ACLU ‘Alternative’ A conservative advocacy group that tried mightily to purge incarcerated felons from...
Republicans Stir Voter Intimidation Pot
Meanwhile, Kansas Secretary of State Continues Quest for White Voters Oblivious to traditions and core principles that make American democracy...
Marijuana Remains a Schedule I Narcotic? Malarkey!
The War on Drugs’ Number One Casualty After much anticipation (and with more and more states openly flouting federal law),...
Neil Young & Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Friendliest of Feuds
Mutual Admiration Made Them Pivot to Damage Control At the center of it all was a 1974 hit song by Southern...
The Democratic Convention: Up Close and Very Personal
A Philly Guy Takes Pride In His Host City, Warts and All The Democratic Party holding its big convention in...
Back in the Day: Kennedy vs. Carter
The 1980 Democratic Convention: “The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never...
Addiction Epidemic: A Little Help Here
As Attitudes Slowly Change, the Government and Drug Companies Have to Do Much More Prologue When President Richard Nixon declared a “war...
Did the Media Create Their Fame Monster?
When It Comes to Ratings and Clicks, Entertainment Trumps News Every Time Just when you thought the 2016 presidential campaign...
Trump U. Scam Unmasks For-Profit College Deceptions
Worst Offender Corinthian College Slapped with Judgment Asserting Fraud and Predatory Lending It’s hard for me to say this, but...
Are Dems Inciting a ’68 Chicago Outcome?
The Parallel Between Then and Now Is Striking At this point in the 2016 presidential election, it now seems that...
‘Progressive Rock’ – A Wayward Link in Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Saga?
The Rock Hall of Fame Seems to Be in No Hurry to Find a Place for Prog Rock I came...
Don’t Dare Say You’re Not Voting!
Let’s Not Forget the Hard-Fought Battles Over Voting Rights I’m sure you’ve heard this is various forms: respected progressive columnist Robert...
Completing Two Imperfect Candidates
Democrats Have a Deep Enough Bench to Cover Some Blemishes A year ago, Team Blue couldn’t have wished upon a star...
Jerry Garcia, Owsley & Mountain Girl
How a Lysergic Moment in Time Helped Create Rock’s Ultimate Jam Band People who came of age in the mid-...
Suboxone: Big Pharma Strikes Again
The Seductive Opiate ‘Cure’ That’s Causing Its Own Epidemic A heroin epidemic has taken hold in this country, affecting the...
Back in the Day: The Wizard of Oz on TV
The Movie Premiered Before Our Time, but Television Sparked a Childhood Endearment Editor’s Note: “Back in the Day” is the...
Abbey Road’s ‘The End’ – A Beatles’ Farewell
The Beatles Crafted the Song to Remind Fans of Their Roots Editor’s Note – This is Part Three of a Beatles trilogy...
Veteran Candidates on Mission To Turn US Senate Blue
Can Democrats Retake the Senate? If you look closely at the numbers in the map, it would seem that super-pollster Larry Sabato’s...
Uber and the ‘Sharing Economy’ – It’s Complicated
American Companies Have Mostly Forsaken Their Share of the Safety Net At first blush, it has all the pedigree of a...
Planned Parenthood, ACORN Video Frauds Are All About the Ballot Box
Republicans Aim for Low Turn-Out on Election Day, 2016 What a sad state of affairs for the beacon of democracy...
Revolver: The Beatles At Their Collaborative and Creative Best
On Recording the Greatest Record Album of All-Time The Beatles album Revolver, forever in the shadow of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts...
Fleetwood Mac’s Tour Stirs Memories of the Original Blues Version
Christine McVie Is the Essential Link Between Old and New Indisputably, the band is named for its founding rhythm section: Mick Fleetwood...
The Billionaire Boys’ Club
How is It That About 158 Wealthy Families Control the Bulk of Election Spending in America? Rubio, Cruz Leading the Billionaire Lottery...
