Growing up when he was popular and famous I thought that he was a big hick. When it was him and Zappa and Dee Snider showing up at the PMRC hearings to challenge censorship my opinion started to change. Then I bought a bunch of old records of his, going back to the start of his career, ripped them to mp3 and really…

I spent a lot of summer vacations as a kid at Mackinaw Island and had not been there in about 25 years. I went back with my wife (this was about 10 years ago) and Gordon Lightfoot was playing the day after we left and Chuck Mangione (who my late brother was a huge fan of the last time I was on that island) was…

I bought a bunch of his albums about ten years ago at a garage sale and ripped them to mp3, rediscovered a few other artists from my childhood in the 1970's. Another one that I snagged was a John Denver double live lp and was gobsmacked to hear someone who sounded so unapolgetically happy.

Gordon Lightfoot is a damn fine songwriter.

It is really f***ed up when a country so blatantly doesn’t care about the basic welfare of its citizens.

There’s been a war on the lower and middle classes in this country going on for decades now. This put the military on a pedestal bullshit is just a method of divide and conquer. There are a lot of people who have done everything that they were told to do in this country that can’t afford a trip to the dentist or a…

When the hell are people going to wake up to the fact that he is not some sort of ‘’elder statesman’’ but a jerk who will do anything to hang onto as much power as he can grab onto?

Maybe if the house and senate was populated by a demographic proportion of the actual population we could actually get something done for the regular people of this country (e.g. too many hetero white men in power may be our problem).

This has already been done.

“I look at the people running this country and I think to myself, “They would literally step over me to get on the spaceship as it leaves this no-longer-habitable planet in a few months... “

I absolutely agree with everything in this article.

How do you feel about the recent movies? The most recent one (Most Wanted) struck me as something made more for adults. The one before it (Jason Segal/Amy Adams) seemed like a straight up love letter.

Actually the majority of US citizens, including a lot of gun owners, are ok with some gun control laws.

Back door wide open, so to speak.

I did a stint in hotel management for over a decade before GPS was cheap and ubiquitous, I can tell you from first hand experience that giving landmark based directions works the best for most people.

This is what happens when Megan Kelly joins your team.

I am loving it that Paul Ryan’s state is one that is not turning over data (yet). Broadcasting from Wisconsin.

Why limit it to soul and funk? That sidelines the contributions of Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane....

TSR employed a guy for a while who had previously done PR for Playboy (probably not a good choice that) and I used to chat with him at GenCon. The 80's were a hot mess for that sort of thing, not only was D&D messing your kid up but Tipper Gore was trying to shut down the fun pop music and then you had the repressed…

There are lots of flavors across the political rainbow. I’m better educated than you give me credit for, I read more US history in a year or two than most people probably read in their lives. I’m on the far left and I realize that puts me out of the mainstream and having unpopular opinions about popular Dems who’ve…