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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 16, 2021
Yo, Joe, Stop This Pipeline Now. They voted for you. The filthiest oil in the United States, headed here 'courtesy' of a Canadian corporation, will soon flow through Indigenous lands…
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 15, 2021
One of them finally spilled the beans. A congressional aide told journalist Julia Ioffe the reason Republican politicians are getting their own constituents killed: About a month ago, I was…
Song of the Day 8/14: Nanci Griffith, “Tecumseh Valley”
Nanci Griffith was an accomplished singer and songwriter who broke through after moving from her native Austin to Nashville in 1985, but her greatest acclaim came with her Grammy-winning 1993…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 14, 2021
Is Louis DeJoy Currently The Most Corrupt Federal Official? Well, consider this: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy purchased up to $305,000 in bonds from an investment firm whose managing partner also…