Steven Maginnis
@vwsteve.bsky.social
writer, rock and roll fan, cat lover and VW enthusiast.
"White Christmas," the Drifters (1954)
Christmas Music Video Of the Week
"White Christmas," the Drifters This is my first Christmas Music Video Of the Week for 2025, and it is a humorous animation of the Drifter...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
"White Christmas," the Drifters (1954)
And I know that my post isn't saying anything new . . .
Aftyn The Lovin'
Winning by losing? Democrats are actually celebrating the results of the special U.S. House election in Tennessee's Seventh Congressional Di...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
And I know that my post isn't saying anything new . . .
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
War Crimes Against Humanity
I once noted that I thought that the idea of a war crime is a redundancy because all war is a crime. But what happened three months ago tod...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins (1968) (Sunday record review) stevenmaginnis.blogspot.com/2025/11/john...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins (1968)
Everyone made such a big deal out of the cover of the first long player in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music trilogy showing them ...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins (1968) (Sunday record review) stevenmaginnis.blogspot.com/2025/11/john...
When it comes to fighting climate change, even putative allies like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (below) are no help.
Climate Clownishness
When it became apparent that either President Biden was likely to lose the 2024 presidential election or the Democrats would never be able t...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
When it comes to fighting climate change, even putative allies like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (below) are no help.
"Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen (1975)
Music Video Of the Week
"Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen It was fifty years ago today (this was written on November 28) that Queen released their fourth album, A Night at...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen (1975)
New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill is seriously thinking of withholding federal tax dollars, which I understand can be a prelude to . . . secession.
Mikie Makes a Move
Gavin Newsom has floated the idea of California withholding tax payments to the federal government as a way of protesting Trump's regime. N...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill is seriously thinking of withholding federal tax dollars, which I understand can be a prelude to . . . secession.
I think we've seen the last of Tim Ryan.
Ryan's Fall
As a Democratic U.S. Representative from Ohio who challenged the Democratic gerontocracy by going against Nancy Pelosi for the post of House...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I think we've seen the last of Tim Ryan.
Speaking out against Trump can get you killed.
I Give Up
I kept saying throughout the 2024 presidential campaign that Trump would make dissent a capital offense if returned to power. This past wee...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Speaking out against Trump can get you killed.
"Good Enough," Bonnie Raitt (song, 1975; video, 1977)
Music Video Of the Week
"Good Enough," Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Raitt had been a fixture of blues-based rock long before her spectacular mainstream success with her 1...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
"Good Enough," Bonnie Raitt (song, 1975; video, 1977)
Quack quack!
Trump Is a Dead Duck
It happened. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was finally forced to swear in newly elected Representative Adelita Grijalva (D-A...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Quack quack!
Kiss getting a Kennedy Center honor for their contribution to the performing arts . . . does anyone realize how Orwellian that is?
Kiss of Death
I was never comfortable with rock and roll performers getting Kennedy Center honors, because the honors bestowed by the John F. Kennedy Cent...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Kiss getting a Kennedy Center honor for their contribution to the performing arts . . . does anyone realize how Orwellian that is?
There are E-MAILS!!
The Ballad of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
The Democrats, it turns put, agreed to re-opening the government at the perfect time. The media have moved on to . . . e-mails from the lat...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There are E-MAILS!!
What do a seventies rock band from Ohio and a couple from Long Island have in common? Click on the link to find out!
Imaginary Friends
In Marion, Ohio in 1967, two teenagers who had just graduated from high school were hanging out and listening to the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's ...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
What do a seventies rock band from Ohio and a couple from Long Island have in common? Click on the link to find out!
"Fox On the Run," Sweet (1975)
Music Video Of the Week
"Fox On the Run," Sweet This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Sweet's Desolation Boulevard , the U.S. edition of whic...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Fox On the Run," Sweet (1975)
A very short post about MS Now.
MS Now? MS No!
As you may have heard ,the spinoff of MSNBC from NBC News and COmcast is just about complete, and what used to be called MSNBC for merely th...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
A very short post about MS Now.
This is my 300th post.
A Golden Farewell
Born in 1940 to an Italian family in Baltimore, moved to California, developed incredible skills to convey a statement . . .What can I say? ...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is my 300th post.
She could have been the first female U.S. President, but instead she's promoting a political memoir as exciting as the Congressional Record.
Book Review: "107 Days" by Kamala Harris
The title of former Vice President and former future President Kamala Harris's new campaign memoir bout her bid for the Presidency in 2024 r...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
She could have been the first female U.S. President, but instead she's promoting a political memoir as exciting as the Congressional Record.
Chuck Schumer must go.
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Chuck Schumer must go.
Norah O'Donnell just forfeited her right to call herself a journalist.
No, No, Norah
I am so glad I ended my beautiful-women picture blog. One of the biggest mistakes I made when I ran that blog was including TV newswomen amo...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Norah O'Donnell just forfeited her right to call herself a journalist.
Despite the successes of the Democrats in Tuesday's elections, my position hasn't changed. I am still for dissolving the Union. Here's why.
I Am Still a Secessionist
A lot of pundits are hailing Tuesday's election results - in which the Republicans got slaughtered - as a sign that America has bottomed out...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Despite the successes of the Democrats in Tuesday's elections, my position hasn't changed. I am still for dissolving the Union. Here's why.
"Why Can't We be Friends?", War (1975)
Music Video Of the Week
"Why Can't We Be Friends?", War I consider Bloodstone to be the greatest black band of the 1970s not named War. Here's the greatest black b...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"Why Can't We be Friends?", War (1975)
Mikie Sherrill was elected governor of New Jersey. Among other nice surprises. Sorry, Donald.
Trump Trumped
Abigail Spanberger, as expected, won the Virginia governorship by a comfortable margin. Zohran Mandami was easily (again, as expected) elec...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Mikie Sherrill was elected governor of New Jersey. Among other nice surprises. Sorry, Donald.
My final thoughts about the New jersey gubernatorial election.
Election Day
I never put in any work for the Mikie Sherrill gubernatorial campaign here in New Jersey. I never knocked on doors for her, did phone ban...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My final thoughts about the New jersey gubernatorial election.