Archive for August, 2021
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 6, 2021
RWNJ’s Have No Problem ‘Kicking The Shit Out Of Black People. But When We’re Kicking The Shit Out Of White People… …that’s a problem.’ Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack on January 6, calling out those seeking to downplay the Insurrection. Is The Gulf Stream Endangered? Yes. Somebody? Anybody?: Such an event would […]
Song of the Day 8/5: Chicago, “Dialogue (Part I & II)”
The progressive-vs.-moderate dichotomy is back in the news because Bernie Sanders ally Nina Turner lost an Ohio primary to a more moderate (and more local) woman who was backed by Hillary and made her support for Biden a major theme in her campaign. It seems fresh, but that dichotomy has existed as long as the […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021
I wonder if the media aren’t creating a false picture of who the anti-vax maskholes are, because apparently it’s not all the right-wingers: 90% of U.S. seniors are now vaccinated. So expect lots more articles like this one, about a Texas GOP official who mocked vaccines and masks on social media for months. He caught […]
Song of the Day 8/4: Cam Cole, “Mama”
I was watching the first season of “Ted Lasso,” the Jason Sudeikis comedy about an American football coach who’s hired to manage a British football squad. In one episode the owner of the team is hosting a benefit gala when the featured musical act, Robbie Williams (a big star in Britain), cancels at the last […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 4th 2021
So did Cuomo have a lot of sex with women who liked his style of retrograde sexiness, or was the sexual harassment an end in itself? Not that it matters. I’m just curious. Fuck that guy. Get out already.
Speaking of stepping down. My pillow guy says that his China symposium is so airtight that Biden will just step down and hand the White House keys to Trump when he see it. (Just like the founders envisioned.)
In Ohio’s 11th house district the Dem primary was the election and voters picked the Clintonite insider over the woman AOC had been campaigning for. I’m sure this will be taken as a rebirth of holy bipartisanship and the end of the squad.
Tennessee has a lot of junk tourist attractions.
The News Journal runs a provocative headline: Hundreds of millions in tax dollars built Wilmington’s Riverfront, was it worth it? I don’t know if it was worth it because I don’t have a subscription to the NJ but I trust one of you nice people will let us know in the comments.
If God had intended man to fly, he would have given us a well regulated airline industry. (Psst…Air travel doesn’t seem like it is “back” yet.)
Apropos of nothing, I have a new Coons theory. I contend that Coons watches a lot of cable news and thinks that the panels are an accurate representation of what Americans are thinking.
Song of the Day 8/3: Hüsker Dü, “Love Is All Around” (Mary Tyler Moore theme)
Back in the days of punk rock, a lot of bands would emulate the Ramones by covering familiar songs at a breakneck tempo — think of the Clash covering “I Fought the Law,” or the Ataris’ take on Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer.” Part of the fun was choosing songs totally incongruous with punk aesthetics, […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 3rd 2021
August was originally called Sextilis in Latin because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar. The pre-empire Romans basically took January and February off and just had a long gap in their calendar. March was the first month of the year until January and February were added by Numa Pompilius around 700 BC. In 8 BC, Sextilis was renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus. Other later emperors tried to rename months after themselves but they didn’t stick. October and December remain mis-numbered relics of Rome’s languid youth.
August 8th is “Happiness Happens Day” and August is Happiness month. Both were established by Secret Society of Happy People (SOHP) which is an organization that celebrates the expression of happiness. Founded in August 1998, the society encourages thousands of members from all around the globe to recognize happy moments and think about happiness in their daily life. They dropped the “Secret” from their name at some point.
I’ve been thinking about happiness a lot lately because I can’t stop thinking about what a paradise we could build in this country if the GOP and Fox News were committed to happiness instead of misery.
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Song of the Day 8/2: Foxes and Fossils, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”
This is the story of a local cover band that became YouTube famous. I first started seeing Foxes and Fossils in my feed a year or more ago, during the pandemic lockdown, probably because I listen to a good bit of vocal harmony stuff. I don’t recall clicking on anything, but lots of other people […]
What’s in the infrastructure deal? What’s not in it?
Via Vox, here are the areas that would get major new spending: Transportation projects: The bill would spend $110 billion in new funds for road, bridges, and related projects. It also would commit $39 billion for public transit — which the Biden administration described as “the largest federal investment in public transit in history” — […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 2, 2021
Gerald Brady Resigns!
…is a headline that I still haven’t read anywhere. I find that odd, but I find a great deal of Delaware politics odd.
BTW, do you know who Brady wrote that crazily racist, misogynist shit too? It has been kind of lost in the soup, but the intended recipient was none other than…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: July 2021
Kids, if you haven’t gotten vaccinated yet, and you don’t like any of these tunes, then don’t get vaccinated. Self-selection isn’t just for anti-vax mouthbreathers, it’s for music hate-ahs too. Enjoy. That’s an order. I hereby predict that this will be Nathan Arizona’s Fave Of The Month: One of our […]
Song of the Day 8/1: Los Lobos, “Native Son”
H/t Nathan Arizona Los Lobos just dropped a new album of cover songs, “Native Sons,” all by bands from Los Angeles, and not just obvious choices like the Chicano band Thee Midniters — the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, the Blasters and even Jackson Browne are represented. Los Lobos did write one original song for the […]
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