Happy heavenly birthday, Lady Ella . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=wop7...

Happy heavenly birthday, saxophonist extraordinare Joe Henderson . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUxv...

RIP Michael Tilson Thomas . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZ3...

Happy heavenly birthday, Glen Campbell . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=jldG...

The only shock about this is that anyone should be shocked . . .

This is what's called keeping your shirt on . . . www.youtube.com/shorts/kKUlH...

Happy heavenly birthday Lionel Hampton . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjlp...

My tribute to one of baseball's classiest of class acts . . . throneberryfields.com/2026/04/19/g...

"The fact is that Trump is far more reckless, unstable, and detached from reality than Richard Nixon was in 1974, when some of his senior aides also acted to protect the nation from his worst impulses . . . " t.co/TfVapKcOgV

The man most qualified for the Ignoble Prize for Extinguished Achievement wants to besmirch the nation's highest military honour . . . www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"Trump, an icon of the Greed Is Good era . . . appears to be blaming greedy corporations for high prices and prescribing antitrust-related remedies. So let’s consider whether there are merits to this logic . . ." www.thebulwark.com/p/when-all-e...

Do you get tempted to tell the Crockwork Orange, "Put up or shut up?"

RIP Garret Anderson, one of the classiest men ever to wear the Angels uniform . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbuW...

Happy heavenly birthday, Henry Mancini . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=07RZ...

J.D. Dunce gets his . . . charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-church...

I don't want to brag, but in my childhood: * My social media were party lines or passing notes in class. * My Google was the Dewey Decimal System. * My Wikipedia was the Encyclopædia Britannica. * Fast food was the Automat. * And, I got to play with the world's largest electric train set:

Title track . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaF...

"We don’t know how Magyar will govern. But his first steps clearly represent a pivot back to liberalism—not in the left-wing sense, but in the sense which includes the “conservative liberalism” of a Ronald Reagan or a Margaret Thatcher . . . " www.thebulwark.com/p/nationalis...

"As the scriptures Orban is so fond of quoting say: 'Every tree is known by its own fruit'.” www.cato.org/commentary/h...

"[F]or now we can at least express gratitude to the people of Hungary who have inflicted such a notable defeat not just on Viktor Orbán but on Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Let us see to it that it is not the last." www.thebulwark.com/p/orban-was-...

"More likely [RFK Jr.'s] fortunes will continue to fall, and the negative consequences of replacing science and medicine with quackery and fraud will become even more apparent . . . " www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-lif...

Happy birthday, Al Green . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQl5...

He posted it. Came the backlash. He deleted it post haste. Don't let him forget it. Not even the worst or most self-possessed of prior presidents ever went this far . . .

"[C]onveniently timed allegations can obviously be true as well. No one should be sad to see Swalwell's gubernatorial bid implode . . . " If only the GOP was so diligent about its side . . . reason.com/2026/04/13/s...

"Today, we won because Hungarians didn’t ask what their homeland could do for them — they asked what they could do for their homeland."--Péter Magyar.

Happy heavenly birthday, Hound Dog Taylor . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCA-...

Take THAT, Putin, Crockwork Orange, and J.D. Dunce . . . www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Happy birthday, Herbie Hancock! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWC5...

Boy, do I empathise. I still can't get over one forum participant expressing fealty to Trump with, "You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs." Who'd have thought someone purportedly on the right would deploy Stalin's man at the New York Times as if irony referred to a household appliance?

"In truth, Vance knows little or nothing about the country he is visiting, and in this sense he resembles Trump. Like Trump, Vance is using American foreign policy for personal self-promotion." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/the-strang...

Welcome home, Artemis II! (Screen capture . . . )

This . . .

"Lee hasn’t simply flip-flopped on whether this or that aspect of Trump’s character should be open to criticism; he’s belly-flopped into the deep end of the pool of Trump-style election conspiracism . . . " www.thebulwark.com/p/mike-lee-t...

If it wasn't for calling a certain vice president J.D. Dunce, I'm sure That Other Place suspended me for calling this my favourite song by the Clash (TOP were witless to understand it doesn't mean I approve of robbing banks): www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtYa...

As if you needed further affirmation, Lindsey Graham is a big, fat idiot . . . reason.com/2026/04/09/l...

I may have been suspended from That Other Place (it could also have been for liking a certain song) for calling THIS "J.D. Dunce" . . . "J.D. Vance: Putin's Useful Idiot in Budapest" . . . charliesykes.substack.com/i/193626835/...

"Trump’s behavior since he returned to power shows that a war criminal doesn’t confine his predation to one country . . . We’re lucky that this thug has aimed his fire, for now, at a truly pernicious government. Next time we might not be so lucky."

I'm trying to figure why the Other Place banished me. Was it because I said one of my favourite songs by the Clash was (and remains) "Bankrobber/Robber Dub?" Or was it because I referred to a certain vice president as J.D. Dunce? (Not the first time, of course!) The mind boggles. 😜

Everybody knows what Don Larsen did in Game Five of the 1956 World Series. But here's the best spot reporting you'll ever find from the opposing pitcher's side, Sal Maglie, by the great columnist Murray Kempton: www.thestacksreader.com/gracious-man...

Did anyone bother to remind Jack Smith and Merrick Garland that Trump ISN'T a sitting president again just yet?!?

RIP Alice Brock---restauranteur/librarian immortalised by (and in) . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKI...

Why do I think calling them "narcissistic, corrupt, and dangerous to America" means only that you've read their biographies . . . www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cabi...

The second Trump Administration seems to be threatening to teach us, if we haven't figured it out already, how right Mr. Mencken was in observing, "Democracy [is the] fine art of running the circus from the monkey cage."

About those "healthy" diets and health habits RFK, Jr. and company wish to shove down our gullets . . . (or, we deserve a break today) . . .

"TrumpWorld is doing everything imaginable to remind us . . . that we are not the ones with brain worms or covering up underage sex parties; rationalizing sexual assaults; or wallowing in conspiracy theories, kakistocracy, and sedition . . . " charliesykes.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

Fill 'er up for your happy Sunday!