Archive for July, 2023
Song of the Day 7/28: Randy Meisner, “Hearts on Fire”
Randy Meisner, founding bassist of the Eagles, died Wednesday at age 77. He’d had health problems for many years; his last live gig was in 2008. Meisner had stints in Poco and Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band before joining Linda Ronstadt’s backing band, which morphed into the Eagles in 1971. Meisner’s high harmonies helped define […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 28, 2023
Lawrence O’Donnell Explains The Latest Trump Indictment To You. He makes it so easy to understand. This one’s serious b/c it puts the final nail in the coffin of his Mar-A-Lago defense. This was a mob-style conspiracy to cover up criminal behavior. Except one person didn’t go along: https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-we-now-know-who-the-star-witness-in-the-trump-docs-case-will-be-189451333807 For those of you who don’t […]
Song of the Day 7/27: Sinéad O’Connor, “The Last Day of Our Acquaintance”
I can’t think of a great musician who got less attention for her music than Sinéad O’Connor. Critics raved over her first LP, 1987’s “The Lion and the Cobra,” but the broader public didn’t notice her until her performance of “Mandinka” at the 1989 Grammy Awards. As Rolling Stone put it, ““If there was Twitter […]
Fox News – What heat wave? It is just a deep state temp measuring trick
All these paid liars should be rounded up and eventually hung for their crimes. The people that paid them to lie, as well. It’s not climate change that’s causing heat waves this summer but no one wants to explain why In the 1930s, the government’s Heat Wave Index was four times higher Every summer, heat […]
Innocence Project Delaware Needs YOU!
From The Delaware Innocence Project: Innocence Project Delaware is the local branch of the national Innocence Project and provides pro bono legal work to wrongfully convicted individuals in the state of Delaware. It is estimated that 6% (or 120,000 people) of the incarcerated population is innocent of what they were convicted of. Due to the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 27, 2023
The Judge Got It Right. When the prosecution and defendant can’t agree on what they had agreed to, you can’t sign off on something like that: The hearing started to derail when Noreika began asking Hunter Biden questions as part of a mostly standardized conversation to ensure the defendant is knowingly and willfully accepting the […]
One more thing about McBride and Young
I took a second to step back and collect my thoughts about the Young/McBride primary and fwiw, here you go: I have previously mentioned that there are Democratic primaries I like and ones I don’t like. When a Madinah takes out an John Viola in a democratic primary, for example. That’s a good primary. When […]
Song of the Day 7/26: Aerosmith, “Pink”
The Barbie movie has gotten glowing reviews, but it has created one unfortunate side effect: The garish pink color that shades toward magenta – officially labeled #e0218a by Pantone, and called “Barbie pink” – is suddenly everywhere. That’s not the pink Steven Tyler was singing about on this cut from the band’s 1997 “Nine Lives” […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday July 26 2023
Say what you want about Trump, but you have to give him credit for bankrupting the Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, and Minnesota state Republican Parties. Former President Donald Trump and even some of his key GOP rivals may be raking in money — but at the state level, it’s a different story. State Republican Parties in […]
Patriotism Police
I’ve noticed this at Phillies games. There are self-appointed patriotism enforcers who will scream at you if they think you are taking too long to remove your hat during National Anthem. It is ridiculous and annoying wingnut virtue signaling. And oh yeah, they also think you should stand up for “God Bless America” which is […]
Did the climate change asteroid finally hit this summer?
It seems like climate change has suddenly become a thing. I mean it has been a thing for a while now, but a thing this country could all easily laugh off or ignore. It was sneaking up on us. 78 degrees and sunny in November? Yes, please! Now it is here and that’s good, right? […]
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