DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 18, 2022
Most Fired Workers Lost Their Jobs For No Good Reason Last Year: These conditions are perhaps why 2022 was a big year for unionization. Unions won more elections than they…
The Jan. 6 committee will take up criminal referrals against Donald Trump
He committed his crimes in the open. The only question has been, will those crimes be shoved down the memory hole for the sake of bipartisanship? The House says,…
Cape Gazette publishes a press release of a press release of a very poorly written bio of Ruth Briggs King
The Cape Gazette version of the press release actually improves on the Elysian Magazine re-print of the very poorly written press release from The National Foundation of Women Legislators. . #journalism
A Very Special Highland Bunker (Working Title)
h/t to Andrew for cluing be into the fact that another pod dropped. I'll be back to rate this episode with my patented 0-5 Missile Toes rating system.
An ode to journalism.
Show Notes:
Song of the Day 12/17: Slade, “Merry Christmas Everybody”
As Noddy Holder asks in the second verse, does your granny always tell ya that the old songs are the best? If she's British, this 1973 single by Slade, who…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 17, 2022
How A Walk In The Park Became Putin's War. Talk about mis-overestimating (H/T to Dubya) your capabilities...: They never had a chance. Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from…
DL NFTs for Sale Regularly Priced at $27,000 only $17.95 for a limited time
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! Our official DL Trading Card collection is here! These limited edition cards feature amazing ART of our Life & Career!
A REAL Commercial I Saw On TV JUST NOW!
I will say no more about it. Just watch. You will not be disappointed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63rhG2NdTg
Song of the Day 12/16: The Quinto Sisters, “A Holly Jolly Christmas”
I'll wait a moment for El Somnambulo to leave the room. This is, I believe, his least favorite Christmas song, and I doubt that hearing its first recorded version is…
Trump is done, and that’s ok
I get that we're nervous about declaring Trump political dead after he having declared him dead so many times in the past. But, trust me. I'm the one person who…
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 16, 2022
Latest Muskmare: Investigative Reporters Tossed Off Twitter. For allegedly telling people where the 'Free Speech Absolutist' was. Which wasn't true: Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen…
Comment Rescue – Does the Democratic Party Ever Lead on Anything?
This is a question from a new commenter - John D Sykes. It is a good one and one that we forget to ask: (O)utside of registration and voting, do…
Inflation Hawk Logic
We still need to raise interest rates to curb the demand for houses and cars, in order to slow overall economic growth, and increases unemployment. That will in turn reduce…