Correction: April 29, 2026

In my March 9 post about the White House Correspondents' Association, I said that Eugene Daniels was the association's president.  He is not their president anymore; at this writing, Weija Jiang is.  The error, which I regret, has been corrected.   

Correction: April 3, 2025

In my March 23 post about Time Walz, I said he was term-limited as Governor of Minnesota.  He is not.  He can run for a third term in 2026.  The error, which I deeply regret, has been corrected. 

Correction: February 14, 2024

I need to make a correction to yesterday's blog post, "One Thing After Another."

I said that there were "261 million Americans of voting age - myself included - who didn't watch the Super Bowl because they don't care about American football."  Actually, 261 million is the number of all Americans of voting age.  Assuming that the ratings for the Super Bowl only covered Americans 18 and older - and I believe they did - that means that 138 million Americans of voting age didn't watch.  Not much more than those who died, but that still means more people either watched something else on TV or did something else entirely than watched football, which means that Joe Biden probably didn't give up much of an opportunity to reach people, as I argued.

The numerical error on my original blog post has been corrected.

Correction: September 10, 2023

In my July 24 post "The Tao of Sat", about satellite radio, I mistakenly referred to a big band/traditional pop station that once broadcast in New York as WNEW-FM; I meant, of course, WNEW-AM.  WNEW-FM was a rock station.  That error has been corrected.  The error of WNEW-FM currently being a light-pop station has not.

Correction: November 10, 2022

In my May 2, 2021, post, titled "The Final Count," I wrote that one of the states gaining one U.S. Representative as a result of the 2020 census was Montana, "which until now has had only one at-large House seat." It turns out I was wrong about that: Montana had a second U.S. House district from 1919 to 1993.  The original error, which I regret, has been corrected. 

Correction: April 21, 2022

In my post earlier this month about the Grammys, I referred to a list of the 2022 Grammy nominations from Teen Vogue magazine.  Unfortunately, I failed to provide the link to the Teen Vogue item like I'd planned.  Here is the link for those still interested.  I also put the link in the original post.  I regret the error.

Correction and Clarification: January 11, 2022

In my piece "Desperately Blaming Susan", in which I made fun of Hillary Clinton supporters for suggesting that Susan Sarandon is to blame for the large conservative majority on the Supreme Court by encouraging people to vote for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party for President in 2016 and inadvertently give the Electoral College to Donald Trump, thus dooming abortion rights, I pointed out that the 111th Congress could have codified Roe v. Wade because it "had a Democratic House and a Democratic veto-proof majority in the Senate." I neglected to mention that the 111th Congress was the Congress that met in 2009 and 2010, the first half of Barack Obama's first presidential term, who wouldn't have vetoed such a bill . . . and while that Senate majority was filibuster-proof - at least until February 2010, when Ted Kennedy's seat went Republican - it was not veto-proof.  A veto-proof majority would have been more than the sixty Senate seats the Democrats held through February 2010. 

The unclear wording, which I regret, has been fixed.  Sorry. 

Correction: March 12, 2021

In my post about Texas governor Greg Abbott repealing face-covering rules in his state, I reported that county and municipal governments in Texas could still enforce face-covering mandates locally.  Not true; Abbott will have none of that.  Local and chain businesses, though, can require face coverings to enter their establishments.  I should have known that Abbott wasn't that accommodating.  After all, he took away mail-in ballot boxes in the 2020 elections.  (The error has been corrected.)

Correction: July 16, 2020

In my review of Paul and Linda McCartney's 1971 album Ram, I referred to one of the songs, "Dear Boy," as being about Linda McCartney's second husband.  Oops - Paul McCartney was her second husband.  The song was about her first husband, who, for the record, was the father of her daughter Heather (the cute little girl in the Let It Be film with Paul).  The error, which I regret, has since been corrected.

And I hope to have more record reviews soon, though the pandemic has me concentrated on other things.

Correction: April 30, 2020

In my blog entry about the postponement of the 2020 Olympics to 2021, "Let the Games Begin Later", I referred to them as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, which was in fact the official name of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the mistake owing to a missing Roman digit; the 2020 - now 2021 - Olympics will be the Games of the XXXII Olympiad.  Even if they're canceled entirely, because  either way, the 2024 Olympics will be still be the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.  I regret the earlier typo.  (I had to fix a couple of other typos in that post as well.) 

Correction: March 28, 2020

In "'Abbey Road': The Release," my post from October 2019 about the Beatles' last album, I wrote that it had been certified "the best-selling album of 1969 - and it was only out for the final three weeks of the year."  Oops!  I meant to say that it had been certified "the best-selling album of 1969 - and it was only out for the final three months of the year."  Somehow, no one who read it caught the error, but that's no excuse on my part.  That error has since been corrected.

Correction: January 28, 2020

In my post "Early 1970," about the beginning of the Beatles' breakup fifty years ago, I said that the singles-compilation LP The Beatles Again, later re-titled Hey Jude, was released in late January 1970. It was in fact released in February 1970.  The error stemmed from the fact that it was released on February 26, 1970, a Thursday, though I thought it was released a month to the day earlier because January 26, 1970 was a Monday, Monday being the standard day of the week for new record releases in the United States at the time.  The error, which I regret, has been corrected in the original post.

Correction: October 3, 2019

In my September 16, 2019 post "Why We Can't Have Nice Things (From Volkswagen)," I reported that the Chevrolet Sonic was discontinued. The Sonic was in fact discontinued in Canada after 2018, but it remains on sale in the United States for the 2020 model year.  The original post has been corrected to reflect this, and, as usual, I regret the error.  

Correction: January 13, 2019

Earlier today I wrote in my look at the unissued Beatles EP of song from the movie Yellow Submarine that the mono version of "Across the Universe" was issued in a 2009 box set without the bird sound effects that adorned the World Wildlife Fund charity record that comedian Spike Milligan put together.  In fact, I've since been told that this mono version of  "Across the Universe" does have the sound effects, and Wikipedia reports that they had been added before March 1969.  Mark Lewisohn's book "The Beatles Recording Sessions" suggest that the sound effects were not added until the recording was mixed for stereo in October 1969, but this is apparently wrong.

The original post has been corrected.  As for "Across the Universe" itself, it's a song that requires a lengthy explanation in a separate blog entry.  Look for that from me sometime later.       

Clarification and Correction - January 2, 2019

In my December 13 post, "Trump's Latest Appointees," I wrote that Trump's designated United Nations ambassador, Heather Nauert, was "famous for celebrating our special relationship with D-Day that goes back to D-Day - when we were . . . fighting the Germans?"  I know: What the heck was she talking about?  More like, what the heck was I talking about?  I meant to say that Nauert is "famous for celebrating our special relationship with Germany that goes back to D-Day - when we were . . . fighting the Germans . . ."  What Nauert said was dumb, but I'm responsible for making it sound even dumber - a consequence of writing quickly to get timely commentary out as fast as possible.  Of course, I regret the error.

In this new year, I hope to avoid typos and also avoid slip-ups like the one I'm addressing now (and the original December 13 post has in fact been corrected).  I'm crossing my fingers that I can keep this New Year's resolution beyond Martin Luther King Day.  We'll see. 

Correction and Update - December 15, 2018

In my November 20 post "Sunset For Florida Democrats - the Sequel,"  I compared 2018 Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee and Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum to former Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine, who ran against Gillum in the 2018 Florida Democratic gubernatorial primary.   I wrote that Levine was at a disadvantage for another run for Florida governor in 2022 because "even being an incumbent mayor of Tallahassee is preferable to being a former mayor of Miami Beach."  Well - it turns out that Gillum served his last day as mayor of Tallahassee the day before I posted that.  I have reworded the original post to read "But even having been mayor of Tallahassee is preferable to being a former mayor of Miami Beach."

But that's like offering the better sedan for sale when everyone's buying SUVs.

I'm in no way trying to put Gillum down.  In fact, I think Floridians blew it by not electing him governor.  But I can see no way that an ex-mayor of a minor-league city can keep himself politically visible over the next four years.  Also, I had to add the word "former" in reference to Gillum's onetime position. 

Oh yeah, while I'm here . . . incoming Florida governor Ron DeSantis refuses to honor the spirit of the referendum that passed to give Floridians with felony records the right to vote.

Good luck, Florida.  As the climate change report Trump Republicans like DeSantis are denying makes clear, you're one hurricane away from sinking into the sea.

Correction: March 6, 2018

In my post calling Oprah Winfrey's presidential ambitions and Winfrey herself in to question, "Oprah For WHAT?", I referred to "A Wrinkle In Time," a book having been made into a movie starring Winfrey, as having been written by Stephen Hawking.  This may be one of my biggest mistakes yet.  I confused the title of Hawking's book "A Brief History Of Time" with a "A Wrinkle in Time," the science-fiction novel written by Madeleine L'Engle.  

Oops.

The original mistake, which I regret, has been corrected.  The mistake that is the Oprah-for-President bandwagon, alas, has not.

Correction: February 23, 2018

I need to correct a five-and-a-half-year-old post, believe it or not.  I was doing a little research on the history of the fifteen former Soviet republics in the Olympics for a post scheduled for publication tomorrow and found out, much to my surprise, that while Estonia and Latvia competed in the 1992 Winter and Summer Olympics for the first time as independent countries since 1936, Lithuania, contrary to what I wrote in this post from August 11, 2012, competed in the 1992 Olympics as an independent country for the time since . . . 1928.  Lithuania couldn't afford to send teams to the United States for the 1932 Winter and Summer Olympics, and a dispute with Hitler over control of the Baltic seaport city of Klaipėda led Lithuania to skip the 1936 Winter and and Summer Olympics in Germany.  Lithuania was forcibly annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, and so it had to miss the Games then . . . which worked out fine since the 1940 Winter and Summer Olympics were canceled due to World War II.  (Gallows humor there.)

The original error has been corrected.  Better late than never. 

Correction: December 27, 2017

In my look back at the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film, I said that the TV critic from the Daily Mirror called it "blatant rubbish."  It was in fact the TV critic for the Daily Express who wrote that.  The error, which I regret, has been corrected in the original post.     

Correction: May 2, 2017

In my post "Fly The Unfriendly Skies," a post about United Airlines that also touched on Amtrak service in Kentucky or lack thereof, I wrote that "apart from a small town near the Mississippi River and along the border with Tennessee, the whole state of Kentucky has no Amtrak service!" The town I was referring to was Fulton, Kentucky, but in fact Fulton is not the only Kentucky community with Amtrak service. Ashland does, too, and I overlooked that even though it is clearly shown on the Amtrak map that was appended to my post. The original error, which I regret, has since been corrected.