Archive for October, 2021
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 31, 2021
How/Why Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deadly Confrontations. Short take–Because they’re trained that way. And because they can get away with it: The deaths are among a series of seemingly avoidable killings across the United States. Over the past five years, a New York Times investigation found, police officers have killed more than 400 drivers […]
Song of the Day 10/31: The Strangeloves, “I Want Candy”
Happy Halloween. Were you expecting “Monster Mash”? There’s a good reason this song is built around the “Bo Diddley beat” — it started out as a cover of “Bo Diddley,” Diddley’s eponymous song, until producer Bert Berns and the three guys who became the Strangeloves decided to write new lyrics. The Strangeloves were advertised as […]
Song of the Day 10/30: Lorde, “Royals”
I’ll wrap up my songs-inspired-by-photos week with a connection nobody saw coming. When Lorde’s 2013 song made her the youngest person to ever have a No. 1 single, most people probably thought the New Zealand native was referring to actual royalty. Not so. She was thinking about Kansas City Royals Hall of Famer George Brett. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 30, 2021
Final Call For The Claudettes. Tonight. Prices are incredibly affordable: $20 for the general public. Tickets available at the box office. Here’s how Downbeat described them: “The Claudettes hit listeners upside the head with a mash-up of Otis Spann blues, Albert Ammons boogie-woogie, Ray Charles soul and “Fess” Longhair New Orleans R&B.” My Hallowe’en costume?: […]
Song of the Day 10/29: Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit”
The photograph that inspired the song Time magazine named the No. 1 song of the 20th century was taken on Aug. 7, 1930. The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana, was photographed by local studio photographer Lawrence Beitler, who printed and sold thousands of copies over the next 10 days. One […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 29, 2021
Biden’s Agenda: How Not To Negotiate. Cut it in half, then beg: “The House and Senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week,” Mr. Biden told the lawmakers during the hourlong session, according to a person who was at the meeting. Mr. Biden and his aides gambled on […]
Judge To McGuiness: ‘State Will Not Pay For High-Priced Lawyer For You’
For the first time, Kathy McGuiness will save the taxpayers some money. Just not of her own volition: McGuiness hired Steve Wood, a former state prosecutor, who’s now a partner at McCarter & English LLP, a month before she was indicted. He petitioned the court to represent her in the case for $550 per hour […]
The FINAL House Maps Are Here!
Here they are: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1sUzubRE9FsMcORurIfVl_-3B9XqevKLN&ll=39.1487474501171%2C-75.386594&z=9 At a quick first glance, it looks like Mike Ramone has been put back into the 21st. Val Longhurst (15th RD) is still not gonna have to justify what she did to the residents of Delaware City. As a result, Melissa Minor-Brown’s district (17th) is blatantly gerrymandered b/c she’s picking up […]
Song of the Day 10/28: The Beatles, “A Day in the Life”
“A Day in the Life” wasn’t directly inspired by this photograph of Tara Browne’s Lotus, which appeared in London newspapers on Dec. 19, 1966, the day after the Guinness brewery heir crashed into a truck at high speed. At the end of the first verse John Lennon sings that he saw the photograph, but the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 28, 2021
Silly Russians, Don’t You Know The NRA Is Bankrupt? Russian hackers allegedly post NRA stuff on dark web: The gang behind the attack—which calls itself “Grief”—recently began sharing images of the reputed files to a site on the dark web. It is unclear just how much data is supposed to have been stolen, though members […]
Song of the Day 10/27: Lucinda Williams, “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten”
This is my favorite song on Lucinda Williams’ masterpiece, 1998’s “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” When I learned that most of the lyrics were inspired by photos in a book called “Juke Joint,” a collection of photographs Birney Imes took in the 1980s of roadhouses in the Mississippi Delta, I bought the book. Some […]
Billionaires Tax Being Worked on by Dems
Democrats, led by Senate Finance Committee chairman Ron Wyden of Oregon, are hammering out the details of a proposed “billionaires tax.” The plan would tax the unrealized capital gains of people who hold $1 billion in assets or have earned $100 million or more in income for three years, and focus only on publicly traded […]
FWIW – I like Mitch
His FB post raises a lot of questions in my mind. With Lopez hanging up his skates, who was that district designed for? What gay enclave was drawn out of the 6th? Is this really MORE Dem friendly than the old 6th? But my biggest question is why all the anti-Mitch energy?
I mean, I gave him tons of shit and called him a “genuine Ralph Abernathy” when he was being the mouthpiece for the LGBTQ pac that had the gall to support Mike Ramone – but that shit was richly deserved. In hind site, Mitch himself would probably admit that. (Also, after all that shit, they didn’t do it twice.)
Other than that incident, I’ve found him to be a decent, honest, hard working Democrat.
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