Archive for November, 2021
Song of the Day 11/30: Josephine Baker, “J’ai Deux Amours”
Though you’ll find no mention of it in American media, a famous American-born entertainer today received one of the highest honors France can bestow — Josephine Baker was interred at the Panthéon in Paris, the first Black woman to join the ranks of the country’s most distinguished citizens in the famous mausoleum. Born in St. […]
When Did Delaware’s ‘Pharmacist Of The Year’ Last Fill A Prescription?
No, acting as a guest Pill Pusher at raves doesn’t count. Here’s what we know: First, she’s been State Auditor for three years now. Does/did she have a side gig? Unlikely. Here’s what you may not know: McGuiness sold her pharmacy in, wait for it, 2002. 2002. We’re talking pre-Park City. She then went into […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Delaware GOP…
Witzke is the de facto leader, and most visible member of the Delaware Republican Party. There are a lot of things to not like about Coons. Being a self-proclaimed baby eating Satanist isn’t one of them.
DL Open Thread Tuesday November 30th 2021
Nearly three years ago my Mom was able to die with dignity in her own home in a way that was nearly identical to her expressed wishes. It was pure luck.
She had an end of life directive and a DNR that kept her out of the hospital. That wasn’t the lucky part. Her…
The Beatles
Anybody else watching the making to the ‘Let it Be’ album documentary on Disney+ ? I found it utterly fascinating. Grizzled music industry veterans (at 29 yrs old) trying to re-discover the fun of playing together and get a live album across the finish line. Billy – Simply an amazing keys player and very cool […]
Song of the Day 11/29: Ted Hawkins, “Sorry You’re Sick”
I have to thank the Spotify algorithm for introducing me to Ted Hawkins, whose tragic life story is even more incredible and diverse than his repertoire was. Hawkins was born in Biloxi, Miss., in 1936, to a prostitute; he never knew who his father was. He was in reform school by age 12, where he […]
DL Open Thread Monday November 29 2021
Kamala Harris bought a nice thing for her kitchen with her own money – this is an outrage that the DC press cannot condone. Of all of the stupid arguments defending the filibuster, the idea that that the filibuster as it stands in 2021 is a Longstanding Tradition rather than the latest iteration of a […]
Song of the Day 11/28: Naudo Rodgriguez, “Bette Davis Eyes”
I keep discovering stuff on YouTube I never would have searched for. I don’t even remember what I was looking for when I ran across Naudo Rodgriguez (some sources spell it Rodgrigues), who finger-picks his acoustic-electric guitar for tourists on Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. The self-taught Brazilian did some recording in that country […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 28, 2021
Federal COVID Relief Has Been Unfairly Maligned. It’s doing a lot of good: To date, the federal government has allocated $4.52 trillion in response to Covid-19 — a staggering figure, one that exceeds the entire federal budget in 2019. Most of that funding comes from just two bills: the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, […]
More Bad News For Biden (Psst…all news is bad news for Biden)
Right now oil prices back down to 2018 levels. Headlines in a few weeks, probably: “Gas is cheap again. Why this is a problem for Biden” …people who hold the most wildly disproportionate share of power in America — white conservative Protestants — think of themselves as the most oppressed minority group in America, and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 27, 2021
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Interview With Sondheim. Sondheim was a sounding-board for Miranda during the creation of Hamilton: Sondheim was one of the first people I told about my idea for a piece about Alexander Hamilton, back in 2008. It was in this townhouse, on the first floor. I’d been hired to write Spanish translations for a […]
THE NEW VARIANT – Much Less Important than Owning the Libs
Keep masking in enclosed spaces and in crowds. Avoid A-holes. Enforce vaccine mandates for school, work and travel. If the mandates don’t work, at least they will stop many MAGATs from getting vaccinations.
Look, this news on the new variant isn’t ideal. I think we can all agree on that. But it’s also by no means surprising. The COVID-19 virus is going to be here forever. It’s not going to go away, at least not without an additional set of big medical advances. We have to get used to this. That means it is likely to continue mutating. Some of those mutations might be pretty bad! It’s still true that barring the unprecedented elimination of the virus, we are all going to get it at some point or another.
The issue is to manage the virus. There are all sorts of problems around this. First is the massive disinformation campaign led by Rupert Murdoch’s global media network and the other rich right-wingers who fund this. Second is the fact that western companies and governments are putting profits ahead of vaccinating the world. We can’t really solve the second entirely without solving the first, but we can do a lot more than we are doing. Unfortunately, these are intractable problems right now.
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