Tad's Happy Funtime

When I was a kid, I had the whole set of  ValueTales  books - a series that paired up historical figures with a cartoon sidekick and told th...

In 1974, when I was barely two years old, my mother bought a record: the soundtrack to the motion picture The Sting . I grew up hearing tha...

This past semester, I took History of Music in the U.S. with Dr. David Cosper at Towson University. For your enjoyment, here is my final arg...

Warning: spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War are suffused throughout this post.  I sat in the theater watching the superheroes of the Mar...

In January, I wrote a post warning of the kind of monarchical tendencies Donald Trump had already displayed, and I pointed out that by his ...

This is for my daughter. My daughter is angry, scared, and disappointed. She is disappointed because in the first U.S. Presidential electi...

One song from our hymnal happened to have a series of books and TV episodes associated with it. I actually never got to watch this particula...