Even as we learn less and less, the impassable jungle of idiotic punditry grows and multiplies and mutates and regenerates, ultimately infecting something like 55% of us overall. In moments like the c
Over at The Ringer I wrote about the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Costello’s Get Happy!!, a remarkable record released in the aftermath of a humiliating controversy that nearly cratered his car
No NFL storyline in the 2019 season has been more compelling than the emergence of Baltimore Ravens’ quarterback Lamar Jackson as the sport’s most electrifying superstar, a dual-threat run-pas
Over at The Ringer, I wrote about Guy Stevens, Federico Garcia Lorca and the fortieth anniversary of The Clash’s ‘London Calling’, an album whose clear-eyed humanity is as generous a
This past week I became intrigued and not a little bit concerned about a news story involving a faculty member at Indiana University, where I did my graduate work. It seems that a tenured professor of
As we approach the official passage of the forty-eight hour window, which typically connotes that I haven’t been dreaming, I at last consider myself up to the challenge of addressing the rough e
“Standing on the gallows with my head in the noose/ Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose.”- Bob Dylan, “Things Have Changed” Look folks, I’m not a b
The Nationals open tonight’s World Series as the biggest underdog since 2007, when the Rockies were roundly crushed by the Red Sox. I feel moved to insult by this, but then what am I going to do