July 7: When The Two Sevens Clash
Sean MurphyJuly 7, 1977: When the two sevens clash. You can, and should, appreciate Culture's masterpiece all days of the year, but on July 7 you better recognize. I wrote about Culture…
Remembering Max Roach
YouTube is Santa Claus, I'm a kid, and every day is Christmas. All I can say regarding the treasure trove of footage I just stumbled upon is: Oh.My.God. Max.Motherfucking.Roach.
Robert McNamara: The Things He Didn’t Carry
By no means can all (or most) of the blame for the catastrophic clusterfuck that was Vietnam be placed at the shiny wingtips of Robert McNamara. But his legacy is not…
The Doors: America’s Star-Spangled Band
The 4th of July presents an at least two irresistible reasons to talk about The Doors. One: Jim Morrison took his last bath on July 3, 1971 in Paris. R.I.P. Lizard King.…
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass…
Quitting? Wow. What a contemptible coward and laughable fraud she is. (And if this "plan" is so she can cry foul at the mean nasty (liberal) media for quoting people…
Goldman Sachs: It’s Hard Out Here for a Vampiring Pimp
Kind of like the situation in Guantanamo, it seems that all that can be said has been said of the soul-raping of American citizens by the Wall Street masters of…
The Washington Post’s slow, agonizing death spiral
As the once proud (or at least respectable) institution rots, the sights and smells become impossible to ignore. Charles Kaiser reports the latest debacle, one that makes the Post's transparent…
The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
I've said all I care to say about the disgraceful state of affairs at Guantanamo (both the conditions there and the circumstances that brought people there) here and here. But…
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown…
How do you know you've made an indelible impact on culture? Here's how. Listen: this story has been told so many times it is inextricable from the history of…