Archive for August, 2021
Song of the Day 8/21: Grace Vonderkuhn, “Rock and Roll Gary”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Newark’s Grace Vonderkuhn rips headlong through her garage/psych/power-punk songs, but her burgeoning career hit a speed bump during the Covid shutdown. Her band, a trio known just as Grace Vonderkuhn, earned good reviews for its its debut album in 2018 and turned heads on the national club tour that followed. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 21, 2021
U-Va: No Vaccine, No School For You. Dis-enrolls 49 students who didn’t follow mandatory policy. Oh, well, there’s always Falwell U. Krugman: ‘The Quiet Rage Of The Responsible’: Also, it’s striking how quickly supposed conservative principles have been abandoned wherever honoring those principles would help rather than hurt attempts to contain the pandemic. For decades, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 20, 2021
Virginia Redistricting Panel Ends Up Exactly As I Thought It Would. Same thing would happen here: When Virginians voted nearly 2-to-1 last fall to establish a bipartisan redistricting commission, the idea was to embrace a fairer method of drafting the state’s political maps. There was certainly reason to hope for an end to the brazen […]
Song of the Day 8/19: Bo Burnham, “Welcome to the Internet”
Bo Burnham is usually classified as a comedian, but he’s just as easily categorized as a musician, one in the tradition of Tom Lehrer with a tad of Kurt Weill thrown in. (Song of the Day featured his songs about Jeff Bezos last month.) Listen to how accurately he skewers what we’ve done to ourselves […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 19, 2021
Why would a guy, a Florida governor let’s say, dissuade people from getting vaccines or wearing masks, but go all-out on a treatment for people once they come down with Covid? Why do you think? Um…could it be that his second-biggest political donor owns a big chunk of the treatment company? Didn’t have to turn […]
Song of the Day 8/18: Elvis Costello, “Blame It on Cain”
From Elvis’ first album, with Clover backing him. John McFee’s jazzy guitar and Costello’s delivery of his cryptic lyrics dominate the track. Nobody’s ever come up with a satisfying explanation of the song’s meaning, and I can’t find any record of Costello ever having said, but it’s pretty clear somebody is passing the buck. The […]
(At Least) Twelve Years Of Wilful Idiocy…
And Racism. Don’t forget racism. Especially racism. Scarlet Woman (Personal to SW: There’s a spot on our writing team if you’re interested) exhumed perhaps the precise moment where the Delaware GOP was taken over by the loonies. This is a must-watch: 12 years later, the same idiots are disrupting school board meetings because they can. […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 18th 2021
The Delaware Call’s KARL STOMBERG knows his shit. He won in the suburbs when conventional wisdom held that the suburbs are a bastion of timid Democratic Party moderation. But Stomberg can’t be everywhere. Knowing that, can (even more) progressives win in the suburbs? Read the Delaware Call and find out.
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Building a Progressive Base in the Suburbs
Also:
-The inside the bubble DC Press corps REALLY wants Biden to come apart over the fall of Kabul. But does America hate Biden? Not so much.
– While talking about Americans remaining in Kabul, Sean Hannity managed to plug Mypillow on yesterday’s episode of “The Sean Hannity Show”
Song of the Day 8/17: The Felice Brothers, “Jazz on the Autobahn”
WXPN has had this tune in heavy rotation since it dropped two months ago, but I didn’t hear it until this weekend. The Felice Brothers, who began with a trio of upstate brothers who moved to Brooklyn to busk in the subways, made their national mark with their first album in 2008. Their sound got […]
Unmasked Idiots Cause Cancellation Of Brandywine School District Meeting
Here’s the point: They showed up at this meeting for the expressed purpose of causing the meeting to be postponed. A meeting that was scheduled to provide parents and students with all the information they would need for the reopening of schools. From the News-Journal story: Skrobot told the room of about 75 people – […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 17th 2021
The corrupt edifice that was our invasion and 20 year occupation of Afghanistan has come tumbling down in spectacularly speedy and chaotic fashion.
Biden’s address yesterday was heartbreakingly direct and honest. My take is that given the situation he inherited from Bush, Obama and Trump, he said what needed to be said.
And yet the humanitarian crisis will be long and nauseating. Separating good faith criticism and bad faith criticism will be impossible. So, I agree with Alby. I’ll be staying far away from the Opinion Industrial Complex for a while. And also, this…
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
Song of the Day 8/16: Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”
Who lost the war in Afghanistan? Certainly not the defense industry, which got the lion’s share of the trillion dollars the country wasted waging it. Big win for them. The Cuban Missile Crisis, which seemed to awaken Americans to the fact that they could be incinerated at a moment’s notice, was still fresh when Dylan […]
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