Archive for April, 2020
Sussex County Councilman Says It Out Loud: Processing Chickens Is More Important Than Workers’ Lives
Western Sussex County troglodyte Sam Wilson: “Where did the governor get the bright idea to … test the poultry workers?” Wilson asked during council’s teleconference meeting on Tuesday. “They’re losing millions of dollars because of this dumb idea.” Wait, there’s more: “What’s going to happen to the poultry plants? They’re gonna have to shut down,” […]
Song of the Day 4/28: Trey Anastasio, “Lonely Trip”
Trey Anastasio of Phish is keeping busy during quarantine by writing new songs and releasing them on his Instagram account. They don’t all sound like Phish’s jam-band excursions or their new record, which dabbles in prog-rock flourishes. This one is a gentle acoustic guitar ballad that fits the moment nicely. He released the song March […]
DL Open Thread: Tues., April 28, 2020
‘We Promised You Tests, Not The Ability To Test’. The VP says it was all a misunderstanding. It was actually a deliberate attempt to deceive. Lives lost in the fog of semantics. BTW, the new Task Force Plan for ramping up testing?: It’s all on the states. Still. Trump Didn’t Read Briefings That Warned Of […]
Lieutenant General Darryl A. Williams is no leader
Darryl A. Williams is the 60th superintendent of West Point. When Trump’s vanity caused him to announce that he was delivering a graduation address to the cadets, causing the academy to scramble together a ceremony that is going to put a lot of people in harms way, Williams should have said, “No.” I know Trump […]
Song of the Day 4/27: Tommy Tucker, “Sitting Home Alone”
Today’s Coronavirus Quarantine Classic© comes from Tommy Tucker, an R&B artist of the ’50s and ’60s whose only brush with fame came with “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” which reached No. 11 on the Billboard chart in 1964. Born Robert Higginbotham in Springfield, Ohio, he performed in various bands in his home state before relocating to Newark, N.J. […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 27, 2020
260.000 Words. The NYTimes parses Trump’s pronouncements from March 9 through mid-April. You might as well suffer through this once so you never have to do it again. BTW, you might have missed this link that Mike Dinsmore provided yesterday, but this psychoanalysis of Trump seems terrifyingly on-target to me. Know your enemy. Trump’s Snit […]
Song of the Day 4/26: The Rolling Stones, “Living in a Ghost Town”
I’m impressed that the coronavirus has prompted so many musicians to write songs to address the new reality. The latest to drop is this one from the Rolling Stones, which soared to No. 1 on iTunes within a day of its release — the band’s first No. 1 song in 40 years. The tune predates […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 26, 2020
Rethug Legislators Don’t Know What To Do On Emergency Spending. I guess the good news is that only McConnell peddles the ‘let the states go bankrupt’ route. For-Profit Chain Bought Rural Hospitals And Shut ‘Em Down–Just In Time For the Pandemic. In cases like these, ‘for-profit’ means squeezing every last nickel they can out of […]
Trump’s bad weekend
First Putin tells him to stop making an ass out of himself on the daily, then his man-crush (apparently) croaks. Media outlets in Japan and Taiwan are reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has died. This has not been confirmed by the North Korean government or by sources in South Korea. Earlier in […]
Song of the Day 4/25: Randy Rainbow, “A Spoonful of Clorox”
Randy Rainbow didn’t waste any time joining the Mock the Moron bandwagon with his usual panache.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 25, 2020
I will try to contain my anger today. I mean, Trump is one thing. But trying to write this the day after the Eagles had the worst draft night in the history of the NFL is quite something else. Not to mention, binge-watching Breaking Bad does little to curb my worst impulses. (Deep cleansing breaths). […]
Comedian Sarah Cooper hilariously mimes Trump’s deranged disinfectant comments
I know…Why try to clown Trump when he clowns himself every time he opens his stupid fucking mouth? And yet…
Trump got medical advice from the leader of a crackpot Clorox cult
Rather than listen to experts, Trump typically just repeats nonsense he hears on Fox News. When floating the idea that people with CV19 can be treated with disinfectants, Trump expanded his circle of trusted sources to include the leader of a crackpot Clorox cult. As The Guardian reports, Trump had actually received a message earlier […]
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