FREE WILL

On top of everything else, the New York Post is running a story about a census worker - or workers, it's not clear - who were faking un...

Like President Obama, I am getting mighty tired of reading articles like this:  Trust Frayed Between Obama Dems President Barack Obama’s ...

Are you ready to explore the outer limits of...Serbian hardcore punk??? Well, get started with Belgrade's Let's Grow, a punk/thra...

I have manfully refrained from commenting on the NYC mayor's race; but, now that the Huma/Weiner circus has left town, I really need to...

This email from a University of Wisconsin-Madison TA has been making the rounds. The background is that, as a condition of his academic cou...

The Clash's lead guitarist would be an immortal based solely on that band's '77/'78 output when his power chords and punc...

Matt Walsh says what I've been thinking, but didn't want to say because, why bother:  I'm an introvert and I don't need to ...

Mackubin Thomas Owens reviews a new book with the thesis that "T he South Was Right and Historians Are Wrong " vis a vis  what mo...

Probably Obama's jerkiest moment during the 2012 campaign was when he smirked during an interview on 60 Minutes  that his opponents wer...

Kathleen Parker's column about how Hillary Clinton can Save The World has to be read to be believed: Op-ed  columns  are filled with...

As long as we're covering Jefferson Airplane/Starship guitar players, how about some love for the Starship's Craig Chaquico? Yeah...

The Jefferson Airplane/Starship was always staffed with top-flight, glamorous musicians; even when they were singing hippie anthems about...

The Jefferson Airplane's lead guitarist is often over-shadowed by his Summer of Love colleagues Carlos Santana and Jerry Garcia, but do...

Baseball Crank has a list of 73 things you need to do if you are going to run for the Republican presidential nomination. I particularly l...

I think this Times puff piece about Corey Booker was supposed to cause Jerseyites to admire his visionary tech-saavyiety (new word alert. C...

Charlie Rangel wants you to know what he really thinks of Republicans and, especially, the Tea Party: There is little question that Ra...

Don't mean to minimize the dangers of Islamic terrorism or anything, but the latest round of travel warnings and temporary embassy clos...

One of the great avant-jazz guitar players, not that there's a lot of 'em, Sonny Sharrock's career divides itself neatly in t...

It's been a week since the Zimmerman verdict and the media and the political left are still trying to stoke some sort of explosive outr...

Back in the pre-"Clapton Is God" early 1960's, The Shadows' Hank Marvin was England's greatest rock guitarist, back...