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Song of the Day 11/6: Frédéric Chopin, “Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Third Movement (Marche funèbre)”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 6, 2024 0 Comments

Something that fits the mood of the day, because the middle section contains hope as well as grief. Chopin composed the funeral march two years before the rest of his sonata, which critics sniffed at but the public embraced. Its opening section has been played at millions of funerals, including Chopin’s own in 1849.

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America Is…

Filed in National by on November 6, 2024 7 Comments

…a 10-year-old kid at the amusement park who went on the roller coaster and threw up, then went on the merry-go-round and didn’t throw up but just went around in circles and it wasn’t exciting. So let’s try the roller coaster again!

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024

Filed in National, Open Thread by on November 6, 2024 31 Comments

Ugh. I can’t explain it, other than I guess people enjoy a shit show. Well, they’re gonna get one. The floor’s yours.

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DL National Elections Results Thread: Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Filed in Featured, National by on November 5, 2024 17 Comments

OK, guys, this is the big one.  The night always starts off bad as Kentucky and Indiana report first.  But we might at least get a sense as to the degree of an under-count of Harris voters even in these states, if there is an under-count. Georgia and North Carolina close pretty early.  I think […]

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DL Delaware Election Results Thread: Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on November 5, 2024 28 Comments

OK, guys, this thread is for the Delaware results only. I can certainly understand that, as the national results come in and some of you perhaps indulge a bit too much (whether out of sheer joy or abject depression), you might mistakenly post national stuff here. I’ll give you a pass because I’m a generous […]

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Song of the Day 11/5: Counting Crows, “Omaha”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 5, 2024 2 Comments

The odds are against it, but thanks to the quirks of the Electoral College, if all the toss-up states break just the right way, the presidential race could come down to Nebraska’s 2nd District – Omaha and its suburbs. Adam Duritz thought it represented middle America on “August and Everything After,” the band’s 7-million-selling debut […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024

Filed in National by on November 5, 2024 18 Comments

I don’t know who first said this or where it originally appeared, but I’ve seen it referenced a couple of times in recent days, and I think it comes closer to anything I’ve heard to explaining why, win or lose, so many people will vote for Trump. His life is a masterclass in white privilege. […]

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Song of the Day 11/4: Huffamoose, “Wait”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 4, 2024 0 Comments

WXPN’s David Dye is so impatient for the election to be over he devoted an entire show yesterday to songs about waiting. I had completely forgotten about this one, which reached No. 34 on the Modern Rock chart in 1998. Huffamoose, formed by a quartet of Temple University students in the early ’90s, looked like […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 4, 2024

Filed in Open Thread by on November 4, 2024 33 Comments

See what happens when you don’t pay the paperboy? There’s not much point in linking to news stories this late in the day. Use the space to make your predictions, air your concerns, mock Republicans… the floor’s yours. For those who haven’t seen it, Lewis Black had some advice for those all-important undecided voters.

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 3, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on November 3, 2024 11 Comments
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 3, 2024

Looks Like The Harris Surge Is–Real.  The NYTimes/Siena Poll, which has shown weaker numbers for Harris than comparable polls in the past, now shows a significant surge for Harris.  I will also add that, if there are two states where the ground game will make a difference, those two states are Michigan and Pennsylvania.   Still […]

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Different Strokes for Different Folks

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 2, 2024 4 Comments

Two Monica Beard mailers landed in my mailbox yesterday. At first glance they seemed like duplicates, because both showed her against a pink background on the front, with a list of polling places on the back. But they weren’t the same. The one addressed to the Democrat showed thumbnail headshots of all the Democratic candidates […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 2, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on November 2, 2024 9 Comments

Does Trump WANT To Lose?  I’m starting to think so.  Because he’d rather have to reprise the ‘election was stolen’ meme from 2020 than to actually have to do the job.  I mean, why else would he go to New Mexico and say stuff like this?: Former President Donald Trump admitted to a crowd of […]

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Song of the Day 11/1: The Temptations, “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 1, 2024 0 Comments

Another song that sadly hasn’t lost any relevance over the past 54 years. In early 1970 Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong took a hard look at the wreckage of the ’60s and proclaimed it an unholy mess that was flashing by while the band played on. When Motown’s Wrecking Crew recorded it they kept playing […]

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