An ongoing non-ironic joke with the Red Scare podcast hosts and their audience is that the show is primarily for "girls and gays"....

Looking over the top 100 songs for 2020, I was struck yet again by how much rap there is. I've noticed this for the past several years,...

While looking further into the restless warm-up phase of the 15-year excitement cycle, to get a hint of what's coming in the current res...

I've been looking at various Tik Tok trends this week in order to write a yearly wrap-up post about how they reveal the shift from the v...

The week of Thanksgiving I planned on making a root vegetable stew to get in the cozy autumn mood, and decided on chicken livers as the meat...

At the end of last year and early part of this year, I detailed several "new" phenomena that signaled the end of the vulnerable re...

Recently I discovered one of the rarest things while browsing around a thrift store -- a CD for an album released after 2015. Hardly an obsc...

[An intermission from the interminable election season] I was running some errands yesterday afternoon, driving around with the windows all ...

This post is split into two sections. Morons and partisans will only read the first section, and either accept it or reject it based on whic...