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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...

Meet The Old Dross - Same As The New Dross...

This blog was filed on January 3rd 1944. There may have been a slight delay with the post appearing due to server problems...

Dateline: January 3rd 1944

Fury continues to...

Take a good look at this 1969 album jacket for Blind Faith's debut album. It might be the last time this image can be seen before it becomes the next image to be banned from the internet.

The slippery slope...

Fox News Channel's E.D. Hill shopping for a new job...

Poor Edith. (Yes E.D. Hill's real first names are "EDITH ANN" No wonder she tried to add some spice and intrigue to her bland blondeness by calling herself "E.D.")

She served her Fox...

If Bill Clinton famously was -- according to Toni Morrison and many members of the Congressional Black Caucus -- America's First Black President -- then surely Barack Obama can lay claim to being America's First Jewish President!

Notionally of...

I am of course thrilled by the results.

Being an old bird -- and I believe a wise old bird -- I am also impelled to think ahead.

Notwithstanding the eloquence and nobility of Obama's victory speech last night and his aspirations for healing the divisions of the past...

FUNDS WITH DICK AND ANN

"Know Thine Enemy" is such a wise adage. So I make a point of keeping track of the private rantings of right-wing whack-jobs (copyright: Senior McCain adviser) such as Ann Coulter and Dick Morris.

You know the rats...

President Bush

We the undersigned owe you a HUGE apology.

If we had known 8 years ago that you would:

• Preside over the largest government spending since LBJ

• Nationalize many of the US's largest banks (Right on Comrade!)

• Graphically demonstrate the dangers of...

This is the huge headline on the Drudge Report as of 9am EDT on Monday October 27th 2008

2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT

You click and you link to a YouTube clip titled "Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered". The...

A Penny For Their Thoughts...

Come up with the "thinks" balloon for Powell and/or Bush after Powell's endorsement of Obama.

Levi Stubbs, lead singer of the Four Tops, and the deeply soulful voice of a generation - died today.

Of all the tributes to the emotional depths that his plaintively husky voice articulated for so many millions of people around the world - the...

Logo of a REAL Joe-The-Plumber

This is the photo that Matt Drudge chose to illustrate a headline from a Reuters news story titled "Obama goes door-to-door to drum up votes in Ohio" that he linked to on the Drudge Report as of 7.45am EDT - Tuesday October 14,...