I'm not a big fan of adults, and I'm frankly beginning to doubt their ability to make our world a better place. Take Congress -- please. On the other hand, I've been heartened in recent weeks by working on The 2011 VH1 Do Something! Awards -- which airs tonight at...

These are strange times -- on Wall Street and off. One minute you're up, the next you're feeling Standard & Poor's. I'm reminded of the memorable words spoken by Hal Holbrook in Wall Street: "Man looks into the abyss, and there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man...

In "Changes" by David Bowie -- a song I loved as a teenager and love even more today -- music's greatest chameleon sings about a new generation that's "quite aware of what they're going." As the father of a thirteen-year-old, I think those words beautifully describe the generation of teens...

As the album creeps ever closer to technical extinction as an ongoing artform, I remain profoundly moved by the sight and sound of so many sparks of musical life to be heard all along the watchtower. Here then are five new albums that I have in my collection that I...

If memory serves, it was some cool, pre-Tea Party pundit named William Shakespeare who once wrote, "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself." With all the heat currently being felt in Washington -- and in so many places around the country -- let's...

Our elected officials are coming together in the finest American tradition of cooperation to heal our economic ills as they serve the interests of all of us who pay their salaries and search tirelessly for common ground. Sorry, that preceding sentence was a total typo. What I actually meant to...

I recently came back from sitting on a beach in Spain for a few days listening to a lot of new music on my iPod. Being far away from our American airwaves for a while got me thinking about what pop music means today. You can get a lot of...

Growing up in the Garden State in the Age of Bruce, Clarence Clemons struck me as the coolest of the cool -- the guy who the Boss himself called The Big Man. Through watching Clarence, I learned about a lot about the saxophone, along with some formative lessons...

I hate to hit a man when he's down, but in the case of Congressman Anthony Weiner -- or as I think of him, Representative Weiner -- I'll make an exception. So here's an embarrassing playlist for a man who has successfully creeped out an entire nation. I'm no Andrew...

As I write this playlist, I am on the Sony lot working as a writer of "The Guys Choice Awards," which tapes this Saturday night and airs June 10th on Spike. This spirited celebration of the things men love has become an annual star-studded Guyaplooza. In recent years, "The Guys...

I hold this truth to be self-evident: Bob Dylan is our greatest living writer. Period. Full stop. For me, the artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman will forever be the man who made the English language truly electric in the popular song. So Happy 70th Birthday, Bob. I know you...

Wow, this is Arnold Schwarzenegger's most embarrassing pregnancy since Junior. On the other hand, this could be considered the Governator's single most Kennedy-esque moment yet. But I suppose it's like Arnold always said, it's so good to find a staff that makes you hard. Mark this Cal-i-fornian down as Team...

"I love women/I think they're great/They're a solace to a world in a terrible state." Those are the opening lines to a song by Lou Reed that I've loved for years. The only thing I love more than women in general is funny women in particular. So while I've yet...

As I write this playlist for this singular moment that will live forever in history, I'm watching my children as they watch Americans gather spontaneously at the White House and wave our flag. Tonight, let's send our love to all those families whose lives were forever changed on 9/11/01, and...

I've got some funny friends, some of them even intentionally so. But none of them are funnier than Phil Rosenthal who I first met right back in the 20th Century when Everybody Loves Raymond was just beginning its remarkable run on CBS. Even now, Everybody Loves Raymond remains a low...

These have been a bumpy few weeks for America's air traffic controllers -- maybe not getting fired by Ronald Reagan bumpy, but still pretty bumpy all the same. So I thought that rather than fire anybody like the Federal Aviation Administration, I'd try to come up with an exhaustive playlist...

Life is funny. Until a few seconds ago, I never even heard of Walter Breuning, and now somehow I feel his absence among us. See as I just read here on Huffington Post, Mr. Breuning died today in Great Falls, Montana at age 114. Before he left us,...

I've never been a fan of Donald Trump. That said, I hereby formally accept and hereby certify that Mr. Trump was born in the U.S.A., thus officially making him a full-blown American Idiot. Here then is my playlist for the deluded Donald, and other billionaires who want to waste more...

In my house, we try to follow a little rule when it comes to money -- never make a federal case over anything less than, say, $40 million. But in the House of Representative today, apparently, some feel otherwise. As Sam Cooke once sang, I don't know much about the...

True confession: baseball was my first love. Soon, like the American male I am, I cheated and fell hard for music. But on this shiny opening day, when all MLB teams start off with a perfect record, here's a playlist that puts my first two passions -- any maybe yours...