Author: Steve Carlson

Rickie Lee Jones has a new book out, Last Chance Texaco. Here’s the song from which the title is taken, which was a track from her eponymous debut album released in 1979. Loved this record when it came out. Still do.

Can you just imagine what republicans would be saying if Joe Biden had muttered the title above during, say, a State of The Union address? ” He’s got dementia! How can a guy with dementia run the country?!?!? ” But it wasn’t Joe Biden who spoke this marvelously garbled word…

Bob Dylan turned 80 years old this week. Happy Birthday Bob!

Neil Young wrote it. Grace Potter and Joe Satriani nailed it. Enjoy.

If you have the time I highly recommend you read the entire 14 page letter the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors recently sent to Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann. Fann is a republican and the County Board is GOP dominated. To call the letter ” blistering ” is a…

Mary Mallon (aka Typhoid Mary) was born in Ireland in 1869, presumably with typhoid because her mother was infected during her pregnancy. She immigrated to the United States at age 15 and began, wittingly or unwittingly, infecting people around her with typhoid. At the time the concept of “asymptomatic carrier”…

Having failed to find evidence of watermarked ballots in Arizona, ( QAnoner’s believe Trump had official ballots watermarked so that fraudulent ballots, sans watermark, could be detected), republicans in Arizona are now examining ballots looking for evidence ofTbamboo fibers. Yup. Bamboo fibers. This bears repeating. REPUBLICANS IN ARIZONA ARE EXAMINING…

A lawyer representing a capitol rioter told a DC magistrate judge on Thursday that his client, Anthony Antonio, came down with a case of ” Foxitus ” or ” Foxmania ” from watching too much Fox News following Antonio’s layoff from his job due to the pandemic. The attorney, Joseph…

Tori Amos belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. With 15 studio albums during a career spanning 30 years she has consistently charted a singular path with a style and sound all her own. Here she is performing ” Winter “, live, from her debut album Little Earthquakes.

A threat assessment developed by Cyber Ninjas, the firm hired by Arizona republicans to audit ballots cast in Maricopa County last November, had feared that Antifa could disrupt the process in a coordinated attack utilizing a chemical fire and blocked traffic. In spite of these concerns Arizona Governor Doug Ducey…