Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank had always cracked me up because he managed to find a multitude of actual details in American politics that when all brought together created stories that felt like they have to be fiction. At least that's what I thought was going on.

His May 6th piece, "It's All About Nothing" now has me thinking that I missed the bigger joke. That it was always just fiction.

That's what happens when Dana Milbank pays attention to the day to day happenings in the White House these days. There's no way to tell if all of it's true or it's all made up. It's Madness!!!

But do yourself a favor after you finish reading "It's All About Nothing" go back through Milbank's archive for more political insight that will make you laugh and make you furious simultaneously. Milbank is the strongest argument for reading The Washington Post every week.


Jim, meet Stevie. Now go on tour with him!

So I haven't gotten around to hearing all of his latest album, but I've heard enough from Jamie Lidell to know that he and Stevie Wonder absolutely, positively have to go on tour across the United States, and that tour needs to happen NOW!

Listen to one of Jamie Lidell's new singles called Little Bit of Feel Good.



If by the first minute your mind isn't awash with the possibilities of a Stevie and Jamie tour, then you need to go back an learn who Stevie Wonder is. Here, let's start with perhaps the best thing that ever happened on Sesame Street (and that is saying something):



Now if Stevie is able to rock that hard on the set of a children's television show, can you imagine him being in front of stadium crowds after Jamie Lidell torches as an opener. And then the jam sessions at the end.... Jamie comes out to sing on Higher Ground



Stevie joins in on Lidell's When I Come Back Around



Can you hear the full funk band with massive horn section behind them? Hell, get the Dap Kings to tour with them and then have Sharon Jones come out for even more jamming.

I'm just saying, this could be the massive funk revival for Stevie. He is dangerously close, or I hate to say it, hanging out in meek adult contemporary land. This could jump start him back to the funk that everyone loves about Stevie.

It could be the major funk revival for mainstream music, which I can feel in my bones is going to happen either this year or next. It could propel Lidell to the level of popularity that he deserves. And it would create a tour that would be immensely fun to attend and even follow from city to city. When's the last time anyone put together a mainstream tour like that?

Why is this not happening this very instant? Are American tour promoters this clueless?

Do it!

In reality, Lidell will be performing a little closer to a show like this over the next few months:



Which is more than enough reason for me to get up to Chicago for that. :D

Oh and heck... here's a tune you can take with you from Lidell's new album called Jim.

Jamie Lidell - Little Bit of Feel Good