"It's an argument with which older, calmer people needle the emotional young."

I wrote in the previous post . Meade asks: "Did you mean 'the emotionally young'?" No, I'm not insulting anyone for em...

"If everybody could love Alfred Hitchcock, I think it would be a better world."

Odd intro, by Cat Stevens (in 1976), to "Peace Train." Yesterday, we were talking about Sun Myung Moon's idea for peace: marr...

"Peace Train" ... "Crazy Train" ... "Love Train."

At the Rally to Restore Sanity — or, I should say, on the Rally to Restore Sanity, because I'm watching C-SPAN — it was great to see C...

"Ooh, baby, baby, it's a wild world. It's hard to get by just upon a smile..."

Cat Stevens sang that: And we were talking about smiling. Do you use that tremendously effective device, the smile? It's hard to get by ...

Moist.

It's moist and gray, really dank -- but nicely cool -- here in Madison today. It's been so pretty all week, but I have a ton of work...

The Cat Stevens comeback.

Cat Stevens, AKA Yusuf Islam, has signed with Atlantic Records to put out a new album of pop songs: "I feel right about making music a...

Mel Gibson, you are discredited forever.

Everything you ever did is now tainted. "Freedom!" It has no meaning anymore. What artist has ever crashed like this? Not Michael ...