Tonight's installment of Evening Bues Weekend Edition will be hosted by yours truly.
IT will feature vocalist, multi-instrument musician and composer/songwriter Steve Winwood. Among other things, Steve co-founded three bands:
Spencer Davis Group (Gimme Some Lovin)
Once upon a time my daughter was transformed into a hurricane.
Rude and abusive things were then said about her.
Such as: "despite becoming a monster [a monster?!], she will not pose any danger to land."
Of course not. She’s always been a good girl.
Not six months passed, after Robin Williams' ashes went into San Francisco Bay, before his terminal wife, and his various earlier children, commenced an ugly and public legal battle over his all and every monified possessions: "photographs, bicycles, fossils, and toys."
All parties, to all suits, screaming "mine! mine! mine! mine!”
Hey everybody! It's hump day Friday! Today's Beastiable is Senator Ted Cruz(mel). He has said and done beastly things for many years now, and so he has earned his turn as one of Les Beastiables.
NOTE FOR NEW READERS: This series features a new Les Beastiables cartoon every Wednesday about 1:45 PM Eastern. We indulge in a little Franglish because the French are tres classy. But I digresse.
For serious discussion of the issues, please join me below the break. Then you'll be able to "cleanse your palate" with a cute photo before you leave.
Today is the one year anniversary of the start of the War on ISIL. To this day Congress has still not voted on an AUMF, and it doesn't appear that it will happen in the near future.
That hasn't stopped Obama from launching a different war.
This evening's music features Chicago house rocker Hound Dog Taylor.
Hiroshima at 70: Why attitudes are changing about the first atomic bomb
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped one of the world’s first atomic bombs on the seaside city of Hiroshima, killing anywhere between 66,000 to 150,000 people.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
This evening's music features Chicago blues guitarist and singer Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson.
