Hammer Mill Days

That's right, it's "crab nebula". What does it mean? How the hell should I know? What am I, some kind of astronomer or something? Jesus Christ on a bike (which he may well could have been, had he lived in modern times), your brother goes and writes a song lyric and the next thing you know people expect you to tell them what the Sam Hill it means. If I knew that, then I would know what the hell Matt is talking about half the time when he talks ... and I clearly don't , even though he is my own flesh and blood. He ain't heavy, he's my brother. It's his songs that are heavy. Mucho heavy, baby. What song am I being asked about? Well, it's one of the tracks on our forthcoming album ... I mean, collection , entitled Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick . (Rumor has it the songs are part of the soundtrack of a musical about our cousin Rick Perry, but that the musical itself was lost over the side of a pleasure craft on Lake Tahoe.) The song in quest...

This is just another survey of current issues in the news - don't mind me. Tired, can't focus. The Koreas. Yes, there are two of them. And yes, there was a war. But that's about all Americans know about the Korean peninsula except that "North Korea started the war!" and "Kim Jong Sombody is crazy!" Meanwhile, we are flying stealth bombers and stealth fighters and nuclear armed B52s over South Korea in ostentatious demonstrations of force, using some of the very same aircraft that once turned the North into an apocalyptic hellscape. Earth to Obama: There is no military solution to this problem. You've got a State Department full of diplomats - send a few over to fashion a treaty with the North, and this will stop being a problem. K-9 abuse. A few weeks ago, when the latest gun nut incident took place in nearby Herkimer, the State Police used a dog to sniff out the suspect in an abandoned building. The dog was shot dead, as you may have heard. Si...