Archive for December, 2021
Song of the Day 12/21: Low, “Just Like Christmas”
There’s a myth concerning Christmas songs, namely that no new ones are being written. The evidence: the 25-year-old “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is the most recent tune to make the muzak rotation. People forget that didn’t happen overnight. It was released in 1994, and though it got airplay every December, it wasn’t […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday December 21st 2021
On this day in 1937 the Lincoln Tunnel, under the Hudson River, opened to traffic, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey to Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Nowadays the only legitimate use of government money is to buy drones for the army and yachts for Northern Virginia’s drone salesmen. The flag of Hudson County, NJ This is […]
January, 2021: Cops Murder Lymond Moses. December, 2021: Cops Skate On Murder Of Lymond Moses.
The only Bill of Rights that applies in Delaware is the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill Of Rights. They have the right to kill with impunity, and never suffer consequences. It will ever be thus as long as cops dominate the leadership of the Delaware House Of Representatives. January, 2021: NCC Cops Kill Lymond Moses. Lie […]
Kelloggs Drops “Kelloggs” from Pop-Tart Boxes
Twitter: @Nevada_Man On Friday, Kellogg’s confirmed online rumors that it has removed its name from Pop-Tarts boxes. The move comes amidst a months-long strike involving about 1400 workers across four cereal plants, but Kellogg’s says the design decision is about “simplified” design, not a last-ditch effort to get around consumer boycotts (hmm). Via BoingBoing
Song of the Day 12/20: Foxes and Fossils, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
Foxes and Fossils, the Atlanta-based dads-and-daughters YouTube band, this year covered one of my favorite holiday songs, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Civil War Christmas poem set to John Gorka’s original tune. Darwin Conort, the Fossil with the acoustic guitar chops, takes the lead vocal. Longfellow wrote the poem on Christmas Day 1863, just a month after […]
RIP: Sen. Bob Venables
If you are to know just one thing about Bob Venables, it’s this: He was a tremendously empathetic human being. Whenever anyone needed help, he tried, and often succeeded. Didn’t matter one’s station in life, didn’t matter how someone could help him, he just wanted to help. He was a good person, without malice, without […]
DL Open Thread Monday December 20 2021
If some good comes from the death of Biden’s domestic agenda, perhaps it will also be the final death of Chris Coons pretending that a “Secret Bipartisan Caucus” is hiding in the wings, ready to swoop in and save the Republic. Coons obviously can’t even get Republicans who claim to be Democrats to fall under the spell of Holy Bipartisanship anymore.
Also Today:
Re-masking, not going out? Have you restarted your covid safety practices? & Chile elects a leftist.
Song of the Day 12/19: The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl, “Fairytale of New York”
This 1987 recording is the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century in the UK, and it’s pretty popular on these shores, too, though I’ll never understand why. Not why it’s popular — it’s a great song, a pungent character study of addiction and co-dependence written with an economy that would do O. Henry proud. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 19, 2021
‘Bloodless’ Air Strikes Were Anything But Bloodless. ‘The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. Documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths–and scant accountability.’ This is a report that must be read: The trove of documents — the military’s own confidential assessments of more than 1,300 reports of […]
Biden Signed Up To Stand in Front of Trump’s Shit-Fan Apparatus
I thought Biden would try to point the shit-fan away from his face a little. Or at least provide some people with shit ponchos like Gallagher or something. Note to Youngsters: Gallegher was a comedian who comically sprayed his audience with smashed watermelons.
None of the five GOP candidates for Governor of Minnesota think Biden won the election
Jesus Fucking Christ. MARK FRAUENFELDER 9:36 AM FRI DEC 17, 2021 The moderator of Wednesday night’s debate between the five GOP candidates for Governor of Minnesota asked a clear and straightforward question: “In your opinion, did President Biden win a constitutional majority of the Electoral College? If yes, how definitive is your conclusion, and if […]
Song of the Day 12/18: Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell, “Silver Bells”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona This song was almost called “Tinkle Bells” until the wife of one of the writers explained that “tinkle” has certain connotations. So they changed it to “Silver Bells” and found themselves with what would be one of our most popular Christmas standards. Jay Livingston and Ray Evans wrote the song […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 18, 2021
‘Ye’s Campaign Run By GOP Operatives Attempting To Siphon Off Votes From Biden. Some damn good reporting from The Daily Beast. Kanye was a GOP plant. Looks like a lot of campaign laws were violated. Good thing the campaign was a disaster. Speaking Of Campaigns With The Whiff Of Disaster About Them…Take Herschel Walker. Please. […]
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