I wrote a blog called jazzinsideandout (now defunct) from 2013 to 2024, the ancestor to goodmanspeaks. The idea was to take some new perspectives on jazz music and discuss its various permutations over time. This worked fine for the first 2-3 years, and readership grew. But then with the advent of Trump, my old political passions took hold and jazz was facing a rather moribund period.

Wall Street is pouring fuel on the climate fire. So is the idiocy of “drill, baby, drill.”

The strength to resist that is the only medicine we have.