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Undernews is the online report of the Progressive Review, edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington during all or part of ten of America's presidencies and who has edited alternative journals since 1964. The Review, which has been on the web since 1995, is now published from Freeport, Maine. We get over 5 million article visits a year. See prorev.com for full contents of our site
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Your editor has been a musician for many decades. He started the first band his Quaker school ever had and played drums with bands up until 1980 when he switched to stride piano. He had his own band until the mid-1990s and has played with the New Sunshine Jazz Band, Hill City Jazz Band, Not So Modern Jazz Band and the Phoenix Jazz Band.
Here are a few tracks:
SAM SMITH'S DECOLAND BAND
PHOENIX JAZZ BAND
APEX BLUES 
Sam
playing with the Phoenix Jazz Band at the Central Ohio Jazz festival
in 1990. Joining the band is George James on sax. James, then
84, had been a member of the Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller
orchestras and hadappeared on some 60 records. More
notes on James
WISER MAN Sam
piano & vocal
OH MAMA Sam piano & vocal
Labels: CELEBRITIES, POLITICS, SCANDALS, SEX
4 Comments:
Larry Craig did not resign. He withdrew his resignation and served out the remainder of his term.
Anyway, the whole exercise is pretty stupid. The real crimes are not affairs and airport bathrooms, but illegal war, torture, bribery, and so on. I'm disappointed, Sam, that you're not on the other side of this, making fun of the people worrying about sex scandals instead of reporting real stories and proposing sound policy.
I don't care if my representative is a hypocritical drunken philanderer, as long as he or she is making good laws. My greatest fear for our nation is that the complexity of government and the demands of the media are becoming too overwhelming for deliberative lawmaking.
Boffin, you get extra brownie points for being so tolerant and avant garde. Should character not matter at all, as you seem to indicate? Is there no connection between marital fidelity and public responsibility? Are they both not the ramification of prior promises made?
Incidentally, I don not expect my representative to just make "good laws." I expect them to make good decisions, including decisions that bear on their own reputations, such as impropriety. In the context of today's reality regarding elected officials, the term "deliberative lawmaking" makes me want to vomit. How about the term "genuine discussion"? Not nearly as high-falutin, but much more to the point, do you not agree?
I don't think Sam cares about the sex, though being drunk, high or too strung out to function on the job is a bit much.
It is the hypocrisy and the pandering to the "oh so righteous" that are the problem.
It is bad enough that sex education is denied to children by people who are on the straight and narrow. When it is done by those who are screwing their brains out with any warm, or perhaps not so warm, body they can catch, it is more than intolerable.
It is bad enough that our nation arrested some 850,000 for the use of a weed last year, but when the laws are passed by those doing the same or worse then it is a violation of both conscience and reason.
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