Eric Laursen: Why I’m Not Voting

On a short visit to Austin, Texas in June, I heard that one of my favorite one-hit wonders from the long-ago British punk-pop scene, Wreckless Eric (“(I’d Go) the Whole Wide World”), was playing at a local club. I quickly bought tickets. Wreckless gave a tremendous show. The songs from his new album were terrific, […]

Vice News, “Trump is using antifa to scare people into voting for Republicans”

Donald Trump has a new boogeyman to scare midterm voters, an unruly mob known as antifa. “These are bad people,” the president said at the rally for Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp in Macon, Georgia, on Sunday. “These are the people causing problems and the press doesn’t want to talk about them.” Trump implied that […]