Archive for December, 2022
DL Open Thread Monday, Dec. 26, 2022
Good morning, yule survivors. Hope your holiday was happy. I spent part of mine wondering how anti-Semites reconcile their love of Jesus with the fact that he was born, lived and died a Jew. I’m pretty sure the election of George Santos, the con man/congressman-elect from New York, is not the sign of a healthy […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2022: #’s 50-41
Yes, my annual holiday gift to you–whether you want it or not. We’ll count down to #1. I will then add a Spotify list of my fave tunes. Since I had narrowed the list down to 63 before I ultimately chose the Fab Fifty, I’ll likely add some of those that just missed the cut […]
Song of the Day 12/25: Pet Shop Boys, “It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas”
People who hope for a white Christmas must be those fortunate souls who spend the day in their own homes. Personlly, I can remember too many Christmas Day drives to visit family where the snow was falling but it wasn’t as white as my knuckles on the steering wheel. Luckily, the Pet Shop Boys are […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 25, 2022
Yes, Virginia, There Really Was a Festivus. Even A ‘Festivus For The Rest Of Us‘: (Seinfeld writer) O’Keefe said years later, “I mean this in the nicest way possible: My father was an undiagnosed bipolar, severe alcoholic who nonetheless was extremely high-functioning.” His father, Daniel O’Keefe, was an editor for Reader’s Digest who “came from […]
Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!
Happy holidays & Merry Saturnalia, to every lurker, hate-lurker, banned dickface idiot, regular commenter, & people immersed in Delaware politics who pretend to not read the blog when we meet in public. Except for the hate-lurkers, banned dickface idiots, you are all trying to keep Bedfordfalls from turning into Pottersville in your own way, and that is worthy.
We love you all. Cheers to you.
Song of the Day 12/24: Frankie Carle and His Orchestra, “Little Jack Frost Get Lost”
My car thermometer registered 5 degrees this morning, so it’s a good day for this revived swing-era tune that makes Christmas playlists every year despite making no mention of the holiday. The song was written by Al Stillman, whose “No Place Like Home for the Holidays” gets airplay every year, and pianist/vocalist Seger Ellis, who […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., December 24, 2022
I know it’s the day before Christmas. I know that many of our daily readers will be away and will not be reading this. But you never know. This could be the greatest DL Open thread ever. (Granted, unlikely.) Could you forgive yourselves if you missed it? Didn’t think so. Was Cassidy Hutchinson The Only […]
Wanna look like a complete fucking idiot?
I was reading the FoxNews take on the Tufts University bomb threats and the algorithms naturally assumed I wanted to look like a complete fuckwit.
What’s rock bottom for Tesla? $75 per share? $20? Receivership?
I’m not a big stock investor, so I don’t pay very close attention to the rise and fall of individual stocks, but watching the collapse of Barron VonDickhead’s business empire is endlessly entertaining. Let’s check in on Elon Musk’s brilliant idea for running his car company — investing most of his time running another company […]
Song of the Day 12/23: Cyrus Chestnut, “Linus and Lucy”
Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack album for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is only No. 10 on the list of best-selling holiday albums but — with no disrespect to Elvis Presley, who holds the top spot — it might be the most universally beloved. Billboard named it the No. 1 “Top 200” holiday album ever, in part because […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Dec. 23, 2022
Jan. 6 Panel To Congress: Bar Trump From Running Again: The committee’s recommendations largely deal with how best to hold Trump and his allies accountable for the Jan. 6 attack, reflecting the report’s broader focus on the former president’s conduct. The report notes that the 14th Amendment allows barring people from office who “engaged in […]
Read of the Day – To Build A Fire
“This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”
― Jack London, To Build A Fire
This is one of my all time favorite short stories. I think it is written in a more economical, modern style than Jack London’s other work. But what I really like is how the dog has a bit part but is really the hero.
The New York Democratic Party should just be closed down, the assets (if any) auctioned off
How did they miss this? Yesterday I joked — well, maybe half-joked? — that with all we’ve learned about Rep.-Elect George Santos, is he even gay? Being an “openly gay” Latino Republican has been a central part of his campaign pitch. He doesn’t fit the mold of a Trumper and that, he argues, “scares the […]
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