I’m sure they are not the only one. www.wpr.org/news/marquet...

Last night I was shopping at my local grocery store when this gem from my youth reentered my life. youtu.be/2Ue5Nh6NJZo

February 11, 1968. While filming the promo film for "Lady Madonna," the Beatles decide to put their time to productive use and record "Hey Bulldog" a deep cut that was relegated to the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. Over the years, it has risen in popularity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vb...

Solid piece for understanding the age of neoliberalism.

This certainly wasn't on my Bingo card today. nypost.com/2026/02/02/l...

Happy Birthday to “Common Sense” & “The Age of Reason” author, Thomas Paine.

It might be useful to hold the Democrats accountable for continuing to fund ICE. Democratic leadership has refused to whip votes against the budget. Hakeem Jefferies the eyes of the world are upon you. Now this think tank wants to rebuild an institution which is unaccountable to democratic control.

Yes, and the Democratic Party will continue funding an unaccountable secret police force.

The Democrats only symbolically oppose authoritarianism, in the end, they’ll continue funding an unaccountable secret police.

Sports fans are more serious about holding their teams accountable for failure than liberals are serious about holding their Dem Party accountable for failure. If liberals were as serious as the average sports fan, Dems long ago woulda been forced to fire their managers & change their roster.

What is the democratic Party good for? www.salon.com/2026/01/16/d...

Happy Birthday to singer and songwriter from the Bangles, Susanna Hoffs. Check out "The Real World" from their EP before they got a record deal and had the rough edges worn off. youtu.be/x7uSyTZN0xk?...

I just got my electric bill. It’s the highest ever. I can’t wait for the data center that nobody wants to be built in my hometown.

An abomination. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Still sounds fresh as if it came out today. The Beatles were so prolific that this deep cut was given away to the Yellow Submarine soundtrack.

What was your #childhoodcinema The Pekin theater was an old vaudeville theater converted into a movie theater. Playing on Pekin’s alleged connection to Beijing it was decorated as a pagoda with a Buddha statue. It closed in the 70s and demolished in the late 80s.

Trump isn’t building a ballroom. He building an AI data center. thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt...

I want to thank Hillary Clinton for elevating Donald Trump with the “pied piper strategy” & then not campaigning in the upper Midwest. The Democratic establishment for propping up a senile Biden & anointing a candidate who won ZERO delegates in 2020. He couldn’t have done without your incompetence.

Great piece about the latest manufactured crisis concerning public education. It deserves to be read by as many as possible.

If you haven’t already, you should regularly read Thomas’ substack. If you already do, you should subscribe. His eye is on the big stories of the day and not the daily distractions.

Last month, 115 Democrats in the House and 28 in the Senate voted to give Trump $901 billion in military spending. Dems may stomp their feet about Trump illegally bombing Venezuela and abducting its leader, but if they truly opposed the attack, they wouldn't have voted to fund it.

This is what passes for leadership in the so called "opposition party. Hakeem Jeffries on Maduro and regime change.

Many of my intellectual “betters” liked to smear me as a tankie or a stooge for Putin clearly never read Mary Sarotte’s Not One Inch. I won’t wait for an apology from those centrist partisan Democrats for being right.

The degradation of the English language continues. Just read a financial piece which described a firm as earning a “negative profit.” Why not simply write “loss?” Fewer letters and more descriptive.

“This the middle of the end. The beginning of the end was when Obama and Bernanke decided to bail everyone rich out during the financial crisis, and pass the cost to ordinary people, including by stealing their houses.” www.ianwelsh.net/the-financia...

I come from a long line of “white trash,” “hillbillies,” and “river rats” from the wrong side of the tracks. None of my elders ever went to college, but we understood the bipartisan screw job decades ago. If only Janet Yellen was ever in a position of power to change economic policy.

Backstage of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Cover album. Jann Haworth, Mohammed (Robert Fraser’s driver), Peter Blake, Andy Boulton (junior assistant), Trevor Sutton (assistant), Nigel Hartnup (leaning on the drum), Mme Tussauds worker, Michael Cooper, Mal Evans.

Quite the indictment of the Democratic Party from Henry Giroux. A solid piece detailing their lack of principles and political courage. www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...

Solid piece. Deserves a read. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

For your Halloween listening pleasure, the Cramps covering a Ronnie Cook song. youtu.be/RVhdHAqoE_c

I sincerely hope that my central Illinois friends won’t be patronizing a local business in my hometown. www.reddit.com/r/PeoriaIL/s...

What the hell... "Taki Allen was sitting with friends Monday night outside Kenwood High School, eating a bag of chips after football practice. About 20 minutes later, police officers showed up with guns, walking toward Allen."

He literally provides free legal work to King Donald in exchange for royal favors for his corporate clients.

Somehow "the most qualified candidate ever" was rejected by the 2020 Democratic Primary electorate without earning a single delegate. Anointing such a candidate was electoral malpractice of the highest order.

Another solid piece about America’s future that all too few are aware. www.ianwelsh.net/china-is-goi...

Damn dude imagine if we had a guy like this in charge of the party instead of the absolute parade of losers we’ve seen for the last 15 years. Unfortunately that’s impossible

neuburger.substack.com/p/digital-id... Since when have our betters granted us anything?

Love, American Style debuted 66 years ago today. I still love this show.

Viva the Resistance!!!

youtu.be/jiU5hUyixK4 Watch to see their special guest vocalist who was coming off a number one album and a number one movie.

Every picture of this garden gnome looks like Dr Sam Beckett just quantum leaped into his body right this second and hasn't figured out what's going on yet

youtu.be/JIxJOO02jWo. Around 1:00am last night my elderly father’s emergency phone app malfunctioned. While I was failing to fall asleep, I had this melody running through my head. I used an app and hummed it. This was the song running through my head. I haven’t heard this in years. Go figure.

Due to today being Star Trek Day, I wanted to share a few things I've written about Trek over the years, beginning with my piece for The Atlantic back in 2017 about the two-parter "Past Tense": www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...

Happy Birthday to Bernie Sanders and another "chill commie" I know.

A former Secretary of Labor named Robert Reich didn’t actually care about working people either. A group of illegally locked out union workers from the Staley Starch plant in Decatur, IL traveled to Washington with their Democratic Congressman, Glenn Poshard to ask for his help.

If you didn’t know the history of this band, one might think they are a California band. In reality, “The Rockin’ R’s” came from Metamora, IL across the river from Peoria. youtu.be/_bgVGe4C9zI

Sleazy using nonprofit status to avoid public disclosure.

Thirty five years ago tomorrow I was in Peoria promoter Jay Goldberg’s office discussing the “Teens Need Teens” hotline when I learned that Stevie Ray Vaughan died on this date. Here he’s covering “Pipeline” with Dick Dale. youtu.be/56SAxtf-RTg

Too bad when Democratic Congressman Glenn Poshard took a delegation of illegally locked out union workers at the Staley Starch factory to ask Secretary of Labor Robert Reich to intervene, he refused.