Cartoons Tuesday!

Covid and other crises, plus updated Everlys.

Back again, though still taking August break from daily postings, with this collection of current political commentary. Note to subscribers: You might want to check out my vastly updated tribute to the Everly Brothers (after Don’s passing) from Sunday, now that I’ve added covers and related tunes from the likes of The Beatles, The Who, Keith Richards & Norah Jones, Sandy Denny & Linda Thompson, and Mark Knopfler. In any case, enjoy and then share and subscribe if you have not (it’s still free). Here’s a song written by Paul McCartney for the Everlys—and an alt-take on their 1957 B side that has become a quiet classic, “I Wonder If I Care As Much,” written by Don.

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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s wild atomic bomb movie), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His new film, Atomic Cover-up, just had its world premiere and is drawing extraordinary acclaim. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.