Archive for January, 2018
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 that was, yes, from Vancouver, and signed by Motown on the recommendation of Supremes Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson. But I’ll bet you’ve heard of […]
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 short note in the comments. If that comment doesn’t post, it probably isn’t pending – but trashed.
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 that of Tim Mullaney basically irrelevant. Not that it was relevant to begin with. So, will Sean Lynn run? Will the guy who John Carney […]
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 notion, by definition, assumes that our problem wasn’t choosing an unqualified celebrity for the presidency, it was choosing the wrong unqualified celebrity. The gynocracy hasn’t […]
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 these deep soul gems. Accordingly:
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 not getting this to you sooner. It all started, as everything does now, with a tweet. Some guy named Ben Ward appears to be a […]
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 Parlan, piano Dannie Richmond, drums John Handy, Booker Ervin, Shafi Kadi, tenor sax Doesn’t get more mournful or beautiful than this:
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 Reform Commission’s recommendations are adopted by the DNC, as they are widely expected to be, the party’s presidential nominating process will be significantly different in […]
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 nation announced it will replace the dollar with yuan for bilateral trade with Beijing As U.S.-Pakistan relations grow increasingly strained, China has been pursuing closer […]
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 the biggest story since the Space Shuttle blew apart (the first one, not the second one that nobody remembers). One writer put aside his jealousy […]
$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 with Coltrane and is a must for any serious jazz collection, I am partial to this joyous walking-blues celebration inspired by the kids on a […]
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 the sea reclaimed the streets in the worst flooding in a century. Global warming? Not entirely. Some of the blame goes to, believe it or […]
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