What a Great Idea

Here's a financial policy that would TRULY lift all boats.

Remember How Much Fun We Had During the Great Recession?

Republicans are eager to weaken the agency created to protect regular people.

Chuck Music

Happy 70th Birthday, Joe Walsh!

Movies, Music, Memories

I love a good soundtrack album. Here's a list that should conjure up a lot of memories for folks.

Farewell, Malcolm Young

Honest Executives

Paul Krugman: A few days ago Gary Cohn, Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser, met with a group of top executives. They were asked to raise their hands if lower taxes would lead them to raise capital expenditures; only a handful did. “Why aren’t the other hands up?” asked Cohn, plaintively. The answer is that C.E.O.s, living in the real world of business, not the imaginary world of right-wing ideologues, know that tax rates aren’t that important a factor in investment decisions. So they realize that even a huge tax cut wouldn’t lead to much more spending. And with that realization, the rationale for this tax plan, such as it is, falls apart, leaving nothing but a scheme to make the rich — especially those who rake in investment income rather than working for a living — richer at everyone else’s expense.

Strength in Numbers

Why have so many victims waited so long to come forward? Here are some answers.

Making America Great Again For Rich Kids

Not just plutocracy, but hereditary plutocracy.

Buckmaster Music

Paul Buckmaster died recently. He created great orchestral arrangements for Elton John and other musicians over the years.

Trump's Verbal Tactics

Happy 72nd Birthday, Neil Young!

The Battle For The Middle

The GOP owns the rural areas and the Dems have the cities. The suburbs will be the deciding factor in elections.

The Insidious Supply Side Cult

The GOP is pushing a tax plan that will make life much harder for most average Americans.

Disconnected and Deadly

An excellent piece on the way social isolation creates angry white males.

REM

I have to say, I really miss these guys. Here's an article ranking their albums from worst to best.

Circuit Music

Con Job

Hey, Paul Ryan. Who do you think you're fooling with this nonsense?

The GOP and Taxes: Not Everybody's On Board

Here's a handy list of the Republicans who may end up stopping Trump's tax plan.

Justice Music