Archive for August, 2021
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 27, 2021
Why So Many Politicians Are Jerks–And How To Bring Them Down. Something we always ingrained in our candidates: Thank your volunteers, treat them well, and feed them. Meaning, I particularly enjoyed this vignette: Landesman, the former political staffer, once worked on a campaign where he and other staff had to go door to door and […]
Songs Of The Day August 26: The Muslims-‘Fuck These Fuckin Fascists’/’Unity’
Punk the way it’s supposed to be: crude, obnoxious and funny. In their own words: “THE MUSLIMS is a crunchy, kickass punk band of Black + brown queer muzzies. Your racist dad is a piece of shit and THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE.” They’re from, of all places, Durham, North Carolina. Seeing them at […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 26, 2021
RWNJ martyr Ashli Babbitt is the answer to the question, “How many of these kosplay kkkomandos have to die before the rest stand down?” and finally someone in the mainstream media has put a fine point on it: Her death was a turning point in the Jan. 6 Putsch. Babbitt crossed a line that had […]
Protest & Organize & Vote
Watching fanged zealots yell at school boards (and clap gleefully for their fellow yellers) I keep returning to something REV said in a podcast. I’m going to make a hash of it but it was something like – Getting protest energy and capitalizing on it by organizing and recruiting candidates and keeping everyone together to vote is the program.
I think of that political activism flywheel when I see those Karens lacerating their school boards because that program seems to be baked into the GOP DNA right now. Meanwhile party Democrats always seem to be wary of gathering any political energy.
Song of the Day 8/25: Charlie Watts Quintet, “What’s New”
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died yesterday at age 80, was the unlikeliest rock star ever. He was the opposite of every rock cliche, which is more amazing when you consider that his bandmates were the ones who set the template for every form of excess that became associated with the music. Watts was […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 25th 2021
Filed under “Trump’s Suckers” Rudy Giuliani recorded shaving himself at JFK Airport restaurant table The running commentary by Actor Michael Rapaport is a thing of beauty. Filed under “Duh” McConnell Blesses Centrist Dems’ Attempt To Blow Up Two-Track Infrastructure Plan WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 03: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (D-KY) (Kent Nishimura / Los […]
The Arden Concert Gild & El Somnambulo Present…
…the following great concerts. My musical dance card is officially full–at least through February. I’m really psyched about these shows that I’m bringing to the Gild Hall this year: An Evening With Sierra Hull. Friday, October 22. I’m co-producing this one with our Gildmaster Ron Ozer. She was a true child prodigy (not Ron), making […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 24th 2021
I was in a store yesterday and some asshole was yammering on about the “Nuremberg Code” and how it meant that he didn’t need to get vaccinated because the vaccine is experimental. The Nuremberg Code seems to be everywhere these days as MAGA shitheads have embraced it as the ultimate legal defense for their assholery.
An Alabama man who called himself the ‘vaccine police’ told pharmacists at a Missouri Walmart that they will be ‘executed’ if they continued giving COVID-19 shots…
Song of the Day 8/23: The Everly Brothers, “Cathy’s Clown”
The Everly Brothers were the greatest duo in rock ‘n’ roll history (Hall & Oates had more Top 40 singles than the Everlys’ 26, but c’mon). They helped establish some foundational elements of rock ‘n’ roll, among them close harmonies, a country twang — and brother acts who don’t get along. Don Everly, who died […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 23, 2021
I’m still not watching any opinion/talking head panel “news” but I have pieced together the fact that according to Politico, Fox News, CNN and the New York Times, Joe Biden is the worst Hitler since the original Hitler.
You know the depth of the media’s malefaction if you’ve read this: ‘The American Media (Hearts) Forever War’ Alby posted it yesterday.
Could Covid gets any better at killing wingnut radio personalities, homophobic preachers, and Red State screwball legislators?
One can hope.
Calling the GOP a “Death Cult” would be accurate but impolite – So the Media Doesn’t Do it.
Probably the most important rule of conventional media discourse in this country is that an accurate description of the contemporary GOP is not possible, because such a description would be so extreme that it would basically blow the standard structure of that discourse to smithereens.
For example, when front pagers and commentators here at LGM refer to the Republican party as a death cult, this must be interpreted by Very Serious People in the legacy media to be some sort of partisan hyperbole. In fact it’s about as hyperbolic as pointing out that the Pacific Ocean has a lot of water in it. In other words, it’s a very simple and straightforward description of an undeniable state of affairs:
If you want to take concrete action to oppose the Republicans trying to infect this country with disease and idiocy you can do these things today:
1) Research who your elected officials are from US Senator down to County Council and how they vote.
2) If they are Democrats, urge them to be more confrontational – or plan to primary them.
3) If they are republicans run against them – or support a candidate who will fight.
4) Read ‘Beyond the Super Voter’ at the Delaware Call
Song of the Day 8/22: Crabmeat Thompson, “Small Wonder”
Readers of the News Journal might not know this, but Delaware folksinger and raconteur Jerry “Crabmeat” Thompson died in June. I first heard this from friends who saw it on social media, but the only obituary I could find ran a month later in the Middletown Transcript. Back in the days when I worked the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 22, 2021
The hypocrisy of the media’s war cheerleading sure is coming a-cropper, with every pom-pom-waving “military analyst” shitting on Biden as their always-questionable usefulness comes to an end. No, you’re not imagining it — talking-head shows weren’t interested in booking anyone who agreed with Biden. If this doesn’t convince people to turn off the infotainment TV, […]
DEGOP has landed on its big campaign issue: Anti-Maskism
Won’t someone think of the children?!?!? SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. – The Delaware Republican Party is pushing back against Governor Carney’s newest mask requirement in schools, as school districts across the state prepare for the new mandate. The governor announced an indoor mask mandate for K-12 students in public and private schools, and daycares on Tuesday. […]
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