Another legend gone in 2022 — Loretta Lynn, the woman who was the undisputed Queen of Country music in the 1960s and 1970s and became famous far beyond that musical genre after the smash 1980 film Coal Miner’s Daughter, died today at the age of 90. Though her distinctive voice was instantly recognizable to fans, it’s…

Let’s set the record straight — The Vikings have fascinated us for over a millennium, from the days when they were the most feared marauders on the planet to the present day, with films, television shows, and horns painted on the sides of football helmets showing up on nearly every city’s high school fields. …

He deserves no less — I normally don’t do two music articles in a row, but in order to keep my addiction to the Rate-A-Record phenomenon at a manageable level I’m trying to limit them to one per week, publishing on Sundays. If I don’t put in some guardrails I’m liable to do three a…

Play these while you’re runnin’ with the Devil — I said in a story yesterday that I simply cannot start the Halloween season before October as many do nowadays. However, we’ve reached October, which makes it fair game. I am also still bitter about not being able to include Blue Oyster Cult’s classic “Burnin’ for You” in my article…

That’s an exaggeration, but not by much — It’s the last day of a month I will not be at all upset to see fade into the background, and I was wracking my brain for the right story to close out September. I’ve done a rant, a history piece, and a musical prompt already this week, so none…

A Plethora of Pop Prompt — So there I was, just minding my own business and working on an article for next week when a notification popped up about a new story on Plethora of Pop. I should not have looked, but procrastination is my middle name, so I did. It seems that Steve Goldberg had…

Despite all evidence to the contrary — There are any number of myths about the Catholic Church, some doctrinal and some historical. The doctrinal myths are far more numerous, some because of simple misunderstanding and some as the result of intentional, malicious misrepresentation. …

It’s worth a shot — Let me start by saying that I only recently became aware of the existence of Puerto Rican megastar rapper Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known to the world as Bad Bunny. In fact, the first time I heard his name, I thought the person was talking about Blue Bunny, the…

You may have been purged from the rolls — Looking back over this month’s stories, I discovered that it has been 25 days since I last wrote a rant of any kind. That is a record for me on this site and even though the last one has not caused any change in Medium’s stance on the removal of…