Archive for January, 2023
Song of the Day 1/31: Dwight Twilley Band, “I’m on Fire”
Guest post Dwight Twilley was one of those shoulda-been coulda-been rockers. But he’ll never really be forgotten by any fan of twangy power-pop. Twilley’s “I’m on Fire” can be found on pretty much any list of best songs in the power-pop genre. The 1975 release was part of a wave of songs that balanced the […]
Helen Gym For Philly Mayor!
Experiencing campaign withdrawal? Have I got a candidate for you! Helen Gym has been endorsed by Pennsylvania’s Working Families Party, and she’s the real deal. With a great chance to get elected. Here she is in her own words: I’m a Philly mom, a former public school teacher, a long-time community organizer, and a former […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday January 31 2023
The grift is strong in this one:
Thank you to everyone who came out to Saturday’s Sussex County Republicans event featuring (professional wokeness victim and “author”) Loren Spivack!
If you missed it, CNN can fill you on Mr. Spivack’s schtick, click away.
Also today:
– Old “Phone it in” Ramone
– GOP Doubles Down on the Electoral Prospects of Anti-Women’s Healthcare/ Anti-Abortion Maximalism
– How the New York Times really fucked over the country.
The Forthcoming Liberal/Conservative Joint Statement on Decency and Being a Decent American
I have this idea that I’d like to sit down with an actual bone-fide conservative and uncover areas of general agreement. I guess I still want to believe that there are conservatives that put loyalty to the country above loyalty to their fucked up party. I know I’m unicorn hunting but if anyone knows anyone, […]
Song of the Day 1/30: Tom Verlaine, “Breakin’ in My Heart”
Back in the ’60s, teenagers Tom Miller and Richard Meyers ran away from Sanford School in Hockessin (it was a boarding school back then) and went to New York, where they became Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell. Television, the band they started in the ’70s with another Delaware kid, Billy Ficca, became one of the […]
DL Open Thread Monday January 30 2023 – GO BIRDS!
Eagles are headed back to the big show. I started out this season blogging little post game updates, but the team was so good; so business like and predictable that I got bored with it. Go Birds! Keep being boring. Thinking about the Eagles in those terms reminds me of an America that was similarly […]
Song of the Day 1/29: Philadelphia Eagles Pep Band, “The Eagles’ Victory Song (Fly, Eagles, Fly)”
I’ve always had a problem with the lyrics to this song. Flying eagles are not on a road, to victory or anywhere else. They’re flying, they don’t need a road. That’s the whole point of flying. To be fair, when it was written in 1964 at the behest of owner Jerry Wolman, those weren’t the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 29, 2023
Have I Written This Before? Israel Is Dead To Me: The main reason is a new ultranationalist, hard-right religious coalition government in Jerusalem that includes racist, anti-Arab ministers determined to annex all the Palestinian territories. Yet the response to this alarming, destabilising development from Israel’s western allies has been strangely muted. A few have issued […]
Song of the Day 1/28: Public Image Ltd, “Hawaii”
Turns out Johnny isn’t so Rotten after all. Not all the time, anyway. John Lydon, better known in public (and Neil Young’s lyrics) as Johnny Rotten, has released a new, surprisingly mellow song with his longtime band Public Image Ltd. On the surface, his effort to represent Ireland in the Eurovision contest sounds like his […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 28, 2023
The Killing Of Tyre Nichols Is America’s Shame: The spectacle of a televised countdown to the showing of the video in which Tyre Nichols was savagely beaten by Memphis police officers doesn’t just theatricalize Black death; it is a damning indictment of American perversion. It was horrific, as promised, but unfortunately not singularly so. It […]
County GOP Chair charged with three counts of child pornography possession
Tucker Carlson to pivot from highlighting youth pastor menace to highlighting GOP county chair menace? Rocky Hayes, who previously served as chairman of the GOP in Jones County, South Dakota, has been charged with three counts of child pornography possession, The Argus Leader reported Thursday. The 47-year-old is facing accusations of have child sexual assault material in […]
Ted Cruz is an everyman. Some call him a working class hero, with his finger on the pulse on the concerns of “real Americans”
Ted Cruz Wants to Use Crypto in U.S. Capitol Vending Machines The ACCEPT Resolution could see the Capitol Complex accepting cryptocurrency for payment at vending machines. There’s no such thing as a free lunch (or snack) and Texas Senator Ted Cruz knows this, which is why the conservative wants to bring cryptocurrency into Congress. On Wednesday, Cruz introduced […]
Song of the Day 1/27: Rage Against the Machine, “Wake Up”
As a service to all the conservative lurkers who want to know all about wokitude, the better to turn “woke” into a pejorative, here it is: This song is what started the whole woke movement. Anyone who hears it turns woke. That’s why they used it at the end of “The Matrix,” a movie made […]
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