The great Rita Panahi scorches Hollywood phonies.
Marathon Pundit
Call me "Doctor." I have a doctorate in blogging.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
The Tossers - Emerald City
Great work for a Chicago Irish band, the Tossers.
The video has lots of Chicago scenes, including "dibs" parking chairs.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Rory Gallagher - Tattoo'd Lady (Live At The Cork Opera House, Ireland / 1987)
Last spring I visited Ballyshannon, Ireland, the birthplace of Rory Gallagher, a great blues rock guitarist who is little remembered in the United States, but he was quite popular here in the Chicago area.
Gallagher's most productive years were in the 1970s and 1980s, he died in 1995.
Cork was where Gallagher began his professional career, so it's fitting that I present a blazing hot performance of Tattoo'd Lady from Cork in 1987.
Before there was Thin Lizzy, before U2, there was Gallagher.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
‘They don’t care’: Schumer has meltdown over Trump’s SAVE America Act
Chuck Schumer is a lifetime government employee and elected official.
Retire.
Monday, March 09, 2026
Mamdani under fire for response to explosive attack on New York mayoral residence
Saturday, March 07, 2026
John Hiatt: Have a Little Faith in Me
Friday, March 06, 2026
Tim Walz is a ‘guy who knows that he's caught’: Rep. Tom Emmer | National Report
America dodged a bullet by choosing Trump-Vance over Harris-Walz.
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
Lefties Losing It: Hollywood celebs abandon the people of Iran by Rita Panahi
The great Rita Panahi, a refugee from Iran, does fantastic journalism for Sky News Australia.
Here she is exposing a bunch of Hollywood frauds.
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
At least in America, one of the great but overlooked folk rock acts is Richard and Linda Thompson.
You can make the same claim about Richard's long solo career.
Here are the then-married Thompsons with "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight," the title track from their first album.