Song Of The Day: Jan. 9, 2018
A great Motown song that I'd never heard before. With a story every bit as fascinating as the song. I'd never heard of Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers, a group…
Pending Comments
I've noticed an uptick in pending comments. If you've taken the time to write a legit comment and you think it is stuck somewhere unjustly let us know with a…
Kathleen Jennings Running For Attorney General
She will be a formidable candidate. Here is the story. Former AG Charles Oberly said today that he would not run and instead would endorse Jennings. Jennings' candidacy also renders…
Open Thread Jan. 8: Oprah Winfrey, Come On Down!
We are well and truly fucked. Oprah Winfrey gave a moving speech at the Golden Globe award show last night, and it's already fueling the "Oprah for President" chatter. This…
Song Of The Day: Jan. 8, 2018
We're gonna have a week of great soul songs that you've never heard. My Secret Soul Source demands anonymity, however he/she insists that I play his/her theme song before sharing…
Open Thread Jan. 7: Trump Would Totally Watch a Gorilla Channel
I've scoured the interwebs all morning but the only interesting thing I've learned is about The Gorilla Channel, and I have only my absence from social media to blame for…
Song Of The Day: Jan. 7, 2018
This elegiac farewell to Lester Young was composed by Charles Mingus shortly after Prez's death, and appeared on his essential Mingus Ah Um album. The musicians: Charles Mingus, bass Horace…
DNC moves to make the Democratic Party more democratic
A DNC "unity" committee recommended the effective abolition of 60 percent of superdelegates back in November. I don't know if the changes have been ratified yet. If the Unity and…
Pax Americana was short-lived and pretty f*cked up, Maybe China will have a better run
Pakistan is ditching the dollar for trade with China — 24 hours after Trump denounced the country A day after President Donald Trump slammed Pakistan on Twitter, the South Asian…
Open Thread Jan. 6: Trump Makes Wolff Rich
Michael Wolff might look like Dr. Evil, and "Fire and Fury" might be, in NYTimester Maggie Haberman's words, "thin" and "light on fact-checking," but that hasn't stopped it from becoming…
$18,000,000,000
You can spend a lot of money building a wall that (mostly) will not work. Some people will get some construction jobs for a year or two. It seems like a dumb investment to me. Where's the ROI?
Also, where are the Democrats promoting other, better, investments that we could blow $18 billion on? Where is the shadow government, throwing a spotlight on this President's shitty policies? We all know that he is a mentally impaired blithering idiot, but only reacting to the latest stupid twitter statement isn't opposition. it is being played.
Song Of The Day: Jan. 6, 2018
McCoy Tyner's first recording after leaving the John Coltrane Quartet was 'The Real McCoy'. In both senses of the term. While the 1967 album demonstrated the spirituality that Tyner shared…
Open Thread Jan. 5: Fire, Fury and a Bomb Cyclone
Yesterday's "bomb cyclone" brought Slower Lower Delaware all the way to a standstill, but the high winds and near-foot of snow were nothing compared with what happened in Boston, where…