• This blog entry was originally written in 1965.

• The great Google outage of March 1965 contributed to a slight (44 year) delay in it being published on Huffington Post

The Drudge Report certainly presents an unerring reflection of the anger and violence of our times. Want to see the ugly zeitgeist of the moment? Just go to Drudge and if the headline doesn't snarl it -- the banner ad du jour certainly will.

As an unruly mob surrounded Congress...

UPDATE, 11:12 p.m.:
Having been exposed for their copyright theft and facing a possible lawsuit from Monty Python, the Christie campaign moved into damage control mode at high speed on Sunday night to try and limit the political fallout from their illicit action. Within an hour of the...

Once upon a time, when I was very young, my parents forced me to go to a Sunday school for religious indoctrination. (They meant well I'm sure.) I was deeply rebellious and learned nothing. Imagine then my surprise at the end of the year's prize-giving ceremony when my name was...

How dare they?

How dare people who are careless enough to get cancer -- or Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, AIDS, leukemia, heart disease, multiple sclerosis or other illnesses that give them the excuse to stop working -- have the temerity to think they can burden us decent, law-abiding, God-fearing, tax-paying, gun-toting Americans...

It was London in the autumn of 1968. The world premiere of the...

The upcoming and very welcome reissue of the Beatles' canon Sept. 9 in digitally remastered form is an inspiring event -- and, to borrow the words of President Obama, presents us with a "teachable moment" about one of the unspoken prejudices that still plague us. We have rightly refuted racism,...

Some people may be somewhat mystified by the current news stories emanating from the UK about the compassionate release from prison of an 80-year-old man named Ronnie Biggs -- described as "one of the Great Train Robbers"

This refers to a 1963 robbery that was at that time...

Poor Lucia Whalen.

First she was mis-represented. By Sgt. James (Jim) Crowley.

Now -- even worse -- she's being badly represented. By Wendy...

There has been far too much criticism of Sarah Palin lately.

People have accused her of being a quitter simply because she resigned her office after just 30 months of her first four-year term.

What people are forgetting is that she has...

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What Sgt. James (Jim) Crowley meant to say to Professor Henry Louis Gates:

"Oh I am terribly sorry sir. We had received a phone call from a member of the public who thought that she was witnessing a break-in -- so that's the sole...

The world is a quieter, sadder place for the recent passing of Gordon Waller -- one half (with Peter Asher) of the beloved Peter & Gordon duo. With a delicious blend of pop, folk and melodic rock, Peter & Gordon were immensely popular in...

As we mourn the passing of the remarkable Walter Cronkite -- my mind goes back to the first time I met him -- and how I learned about his unheralded, but crucial, role in the breakthrough of the Beatles in America.

For the title...

R E S T_ I N _ P E A C E _ B I L L Y _ M A Y S

June 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the pioneering Secret Policeman's Ball series of benefit shows for Amnesty International. The anniversary is being saluted with a major film festival in Los Angeles and New York: June 11 - July 31.

I've just got back from visiting George W. Bush. We had a very nice chat for the most part. He certainly seems like somebody one might like to have a beer with. Well one would if he hadn't given up drinking.

(I have never figured out how approximately 50%...

I have no idea who Ashton Kutcher thinks he is. But I am massively out-stripping him in one very important race in the Twitter world.

I officially have the the largest number of people in the world who are NOT following me on Twitter!

At the time of writing...

"Moreover, the group's first seven albums (through 'Revolver') include only about 25 minutes of music." - Allan Kozinn - New York Times - April 8, 2009

The Beatles signal their reaction to Kozinn's latest gaffe. Photo: Robert Freeman. © Apple...

Sunday sees the Academy Awards. A ceremony that started back in 1929. How apt for us in these credit-crunched days that the first ceremony should have taken place exactly 80 years ago -- the same year as the Wall Street Crash. Everything comes around... Perhaps we can celebrate in the...

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle...