Outside the Beltway

More whimsical than most of my selections but we could use that right about now.

Is Google acting as a good citizen here? Or abusing its market dominance?

He’s been in the music business in some form or the other since 1985. He has been, it’s fair to say, the opposite of an overnight success.

Three completely different songs featuring iconic artists.

This is from the band Jack Levitt off their 2007 release “Conversations With A Chupacabra.”

Tonight’s installment is a rarity: a breakout artist who I’ve discovered more-or-less in real time.

An artist that’s been around for years that I’ve only discovered recently.

The Eagles had an all-time hit with this song in 1978. Alas, this isn’t it.

Two *really* different versions of an iconic song.

Several versions of a classic from the year I became a fan of rock and roll.

One of my favorite “new” songs in recent years came out in 1994.

New-to-me music lurks in the strangest places. This time, sports talk radio.

Four social media stars have been fired from their television show after the revelation that Pamela Gellar is their mother.

The latest, and most grave, example of the current tide of right-wing populism can be found in Italy.

An artist you’ve almost certainly heard but probably never heard of.

Yet more absurdity from Brussels, where regulators seemingly don’t understand how the Internet works.

I’m relaunching the old Late Night OTB music video series with a live version of a modern classic.

Here’s one vote for ending this annoying practice.

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

On the one hand, this is cool. On the other, it’s just another sign of how damned old I am. I graduated high school in 1984. 

From the F.B.I. on down, there were multiple warnings that could have prevented Wednesday’s tragedy in Parkland, Florida.

Donald Trump lies about even the most trivial matters, How are we supposed to believe anything else he says?

Notwithstanding overwhelming public support, Congress is not moving forward on a proposal to ban bump stocks.

Another mass shooting.

Senate Republicans are back home and hearing from their constituents on health care reform. It’s not going well for them.

Fewer people are watching live television events such as the Super Bowl and Academy Awards.

A Super Bowl ad will cost you a cool $5,000,000 for thirty seconds.

Another television icon has passed away.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

An airline traveler wanted his fellow passengers to know that he was a supporter of the president-elect.

The real model for Trump’s team is neither Abraham Lincoln nor Andrew Jackson but The Simpson’s Mr. Burns with a room full of Waylon Smithers-types.

Another great loss for music in what has been a difficult year.

Michael Moore’s pre-election analysis is looking shockingly prescient.

Distinguishing between anti-elite populism and coded anti-Semitism is next to impossible.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

Two cases quite a distance from each other, but in both police seem to be acting with a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ attitude, especially when it comes to African-American men.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

A music legend has passed at far too young an age.

A country music legend has passed.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed in the final debate before the Iowa Caucuses in the context of a race that has appeared to become tighter than it was before Christmas.

The Great White North Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Ben Carson displays incoherence and ignorance on foreign policy issues that disqualify him from being considered a serious candidate for President of the United States.

Donald Trump was on Saturday Night Live last night. It wasn’t even remotely funny.