THE REVEREND AL GREEN’S “GOT TO GO”

When Al Green performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2006, it turned out to be a pretty special event. Storms drenched the morning, and the rains stopped and the skies cleared shortly before Green took the stage, so one… Read full post »

As they say at crime scenes, “Move along. Nothing to see here.” 

Now that George Zimmerman has finally been arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, that is.

The story evoked world-wide outrage and became a media sensation because of the seeming travesty of justice… Read full post »

As they say at crime scenes, “Move along. Nothing to see here.” 

Now that George Zimmerman has finally been arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, that is.

The story evoked world-wide outrage and became a media sensation because of the seeming travesty of justice… Read full post »

The “Rapture” has come and gone – and while the world is still here, the ones who predicted that lives would be destroyed on May 21 weren’t totally wrong.

 Ironically, though, it was their own.

Starting with Robert Fitzpatrick, the retired MTA worker who spent $140,000… Read full post »

It’s widely assumed that Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” was a counter-point to Glenn Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor” two months earlier, with its attendant crazed government conspiracy theories and paranoia and delusions regarding all things Obama.… Read full post »

Pushed to the wall by incessant questioning from reporters after her gubernatorial debate regarding her statements that illegal immigrants are responsible for "beheadings" in the Arizona desert, Arizona governor Jan Brewer issued a plea: "Can some illegal immigrant please behead someone in the desert… Read full post »

Pushed to the wall by incessant questioning from reporters after her gubernatorial debate regarding her statements that illegal immigrants are responsible for "beheadings" in the Arizona desert, Arizona governor Jan Brewer issued a plea: "Can some illegal immigrant please behead someone in the desert… Read full post »

The most infuriating thing about the people who showed up for Glenn Beck’s rally (many of whom are from the Teabagger crowd as well), is the disconnect between what they clam to want, who they’re steamed at, and reality. To wit, they proclaimed they were in D.C. to:     &nb… Read full post »

WHY I ROOTED FOR THE LOSER

By Stan Sinberg

Thursday night I was walking around an outdoor “entertainment complex” filled with bars and restaurants and big-screen TVs, so it wasn’t very long before I noticed that the 7^th game of the NBA Finals was in progress, which,/… Read full post »

REPUBLICANS BASH OBAMA FOR USING 22 PENS

News item: President Barack Obama used 22 pens to sign the Health Care Reform bill into law.

Republicans today denounced President Obama’s use of 22 pens to sign his name on the Health Care Reform bill as proof that the bill… Read full post »

Dear President Obama,

When a friend of mine told me that you were giving out $4500 for my car – my car! – under a new program to get old polluting “clunkers” off the road, I thought “Holy mackerel, it’s Christmas in July!” Also, boy, it’s a good thing… Read full post »

 AL FRANKEN'S FIRST 10 ACTS AS US SENATOR

By Stan Sinberg  

1.    1.   Declare “Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot” Day

2.       2. Begin every speech with “Live from Washington,DC…it’s Al Franken!”

3.… Read full post »

HOW BELA LUGOSI SAVED “THRILLER” AND CHANGED ROCK HISTORY

By Stan Sinberg

As has been noted repeatedly since Michael Jackson’s untimely death, the “Thriller” video changed music history. The video effectively “integrated” MTV, and it revolutionized… Read full post »

My Friends,

It’s just a few short days till Election Day, and I can’t believe I’m losing! I’ve tried everything – a female running mate, assuring you the economy is sound, warning you the economy is in the tatters, praising George Bush, blasting George Bush, constantly… Read full post »

Up until a couple of days ago I thought John McCain was running the most shameful, scurrilous, dishonest and incendiary campaign in my memory. I still think that, but now I’m wondering if,  well, he doesn't have much choice.

I mean, aside from the fact that, as… Read full post »

Boy, of all the low-down, no-good, cheap, rotten, dirty political shenanigans. You thought John McCain and Sarah Palin were scraping the bottom of the barrel with their painting Obama as “Terrorist Pal #1” and “socialist” and “un-American” and so on.

Well,… Read full post »