Song For Today

On March 26th, 1978, Tvindkraft, the world's biggest windmill, went online, after years of research and construction. A ... Read more

On March 31st, 1492, the new Catholic monarchs of the kingdom of Spain, now that they had consolidated power and had som... Read more

If you've ever traveled to the Middle East then you have seen how the more civilized societies have been maintaining per... Read more

There are various causes of deadly new novel viruses, as I have recently learned, along with many of you. One of them is... Read more

On March 30th, 1976, Palestinians held a rare protest against ongoing theft of their land by Israelis. For daring to hol... Read more

If you walk around on the empty streets of Portland, in every neighborhood you will find discarded couches littering the... Read more

On May 15th, 1919, during a global pandemic that was in the process of taking even more lives than the World War that ha... Read more

Just a song for today.

The second of ten Irish Republican prisoners to die on hunger strike in 1981 was a legendary figure named Francis Hughes... Read more

Mostly about how the term "social distancing" seems very appropriate most of the time, much as we'd like to hope that al... Read more

Fifty years ago, on May 4th, 1970, after Governor Ronald Reagan and other prominent politicians compared student protest... Read more

75 years ago today, the Red Army was fighting its way across Germany, heading towards Berlin.  On their way there, they ... Read more

It's a crazy world getting exponentially crazier, but it keeps spinning very reliably.

At this time in 1846, two nations were at war. One, a massive, slave-based economy. The other, a free nation, where slav... Read more

The doomed rebellion of the surviving fraction of Warsaw's once-massive Jewish population known as the Warsaw Ghetto Upr... Read more

At least ten million renters in the US began the month of April, 2020 by withholding their rent -- for most of them, bec... Read more

I have had a lot of birthdays where I happily spent the day hanging out with my family at home. This one is a bit more t... Read more

"Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking." (Paris '68) These are times that call for thinking outside ... Read more

When I heard that John Prine had died (of COVID-19), I started messing around with this song, one of the first I ever pl... Read more

There's a 90-day ban on evictions, late fees, and eviction proceedings in Portland that began on April 1st, 2020. That m... Read more