Afternoon's Tunes – Queen – Happy Birthday, Freddie

It’s Freddie Mercury’s birthday, so, I’m going to say some nice things about him right now. Mercury was amazing. As a front man, he has few rivals, as a singer, I can’t think of anyone in rock who had his range, and as a lyricist, I think he...

Utah Policy Daily Taps Foot On Bathroom Floor For Romney

I couldn’t help but notice a couple of strange Mitt Romney related things today. First: Lisa Wangness of The Boston Globe wrote a little article about RomneyFacts.com, the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s little effort to shed a little light on...

Afternoon's Tunes – Joshua Radin

I played in a band for more than a decade. I always thought (still do) that I was pretty good. I wrote a lot of song, each trying to out emotion the one before in some vain effort to prove that I was not the soulless robot that you all know me as today. I wanted to...

Labor Day – Still Misunderstood … Same as last year.

“Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country,” said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor. “All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and...