Shuffle #187 (February 4, 2026)

It's A Laugh – Hall & Oates

Stranger On The Shore – Mr. Acker Bilk

I Could Have Told You So – Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown

You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon

The End Is Not In Sight – Jesse Winchester

Snow – Jesse Winchester

Do It Any Way You Wanna – People's Choice

All Strung Out – Nino Tempo & April Stevens

Poison Ivy – The Coasters

Walk Through The Bottomland – Lyle Lovett

Baby You Know You Ain't Right – Junior Walker & The All Stars

Don't Take Away My Heaven – Aaron Neville

Just A Little Bit Better – Herman's Hermits

Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song) – The Buckinghams

Hang On To Your Love – Sade

(They Call It) Stormy Monday – Lou Rawls & Les McCann Trio, Les McCann Ltd & Lou Rawls

Loves Me Like A Rock – Paul Simon

Paperback Writer – The Beatles

No Memories Hangin' Round – Rosanne Cash

Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune) – It's Immaterial

All Star – Smash Mouth

Words – The Monkees

Human Touch – Bruce Springsteen

Shout, Pts. 1 & 2 – The Isley Brothers

Mirage – Tommy James & The Shondells

I Did It – Modern Man

Getting In Tune – The Who

Good-bye, Washington Post

After an increasingly acrimonious relationship, I divorced the Washington Post yesterday, after 40+ years. (Due to previous financial commitments, the final separation will not take place until March 15.)

 

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/02/05/democracy-dies-in-darkness-at-the-washington-post/

 

There was, of course, Bezos squashing the already-written 2024 Presidential election endorsement. The reduction in the number of op-ed columns, and the departure of most of my favorite opinion columnists. The increasingly snarky tone of the Editorial Board, with its unhealthy fixation on Zohran Mamdani and its apparent conclusion that the biggest threat to the U.S. is “progressives” and “socialists”, not Trump and MAGA.

 

While yesterday’s layoffs of virtually everyone in the Sports department hit me the hardest personally, the cuts to the Metro and International staffs were also devastating, none more so than the axing of Lizzie Johnson in the middle of her courageous stint in Ukraine.