New music: Jon Langford, Marsha Ambrosius

Marsha Ambrosius Fvck & Love EP In the nineties pop radio would have played Marsha Ambrosius. An alternative to Mary J. Blige — the older sister whose 2011’s Late Nights and Early Mornings was a masterpiece of gauzy adult R&B, a bizzer who’s kicked around a while. “Far Away” and “”Hope She Cheats On You

“A debate about whether big government freed the slaves is pretty much the only debate that a liberal is guaranteed to win”

Adam Gopnick rebuts Jim DeMint’s moronic points about “big government” and what it did or didn’t do with slavery: A debate about whether big government freed the slaves is pretty much the only debate that a liberal is guaranteed to win. The Civil War was the original big-government overreach: it came from Washington, D.C.; it

“All the strange things they come and go as early warnings”

2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Peter Gabriel performing his most chilling solo ballad. Happy Sunday.

Why Florida Rocks, Chapter 418

Florida, what Elizabeth Bishop called the state with the prettiest name, harvests the Dr. Salomon E. Melgens like mangoes. Carl Hiassen: Melgen got almost $21 million from Medicare in 2012. (No, you don’t need your vision checked — $20,827,341 is the actual number, for one year.) Records show Melgen filed claims for 894 patients and