Song of the Day 9/4: Aretha Franklin, “Muddy Water”
When the news broke about Burning Man 2023 turning into a soggy hellscape, did anyone feel anything but schadenfreude? Like most things that start out being the province of the…
Here is your Labor Day 2023 Open Thread
https://twitter.com/cascamike/status/1695509219783442619?s=20 Fox News Guest: "Here are the poll results that show the public overwhelmingly supports Bidennomics" Fox News Chyron: "Polls Show Unpopularity of Bidennomics"
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 3, 2023
RIP: Bill Richardson. He Made A Real Difference: “There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom,”…
Many Republicans think this man should be President
https://youtu.be/0LQozNeHUdI?si=yPQDHGDwTwJK3s9w
This is real.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 2, 2023
Jimmy Buffett Dies--Price Of Cheeseburgers To Plummet? The Poet Laureate of lassitude who turned branding into an art form. The linked profile from 2018 captures the conundrum/contradictions therein: Because that,…
Song of the Day 9/2: Jimmy Buffett, “A Pirate Looks at 40”
Summer's over, all right. Jimmy Buffett, who founded a billion-dollar fortune with a humorous break-up song featuring a popular cocktail, died yesterday at age 76. Along the way he founded…
Song of the Day 9/1: Len Barry, “1-2-3”
Here's some blue-eyed soul one for your Friday night dance party. Len Barry was the lead singer for the Dovells, the Philadelphia doo-wop group who reached No. 2 in 1961…
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 1, 2023
Biden Administration Moves To Reclassify/Declassify Pot: If a recommendation by the nation’s top health agency to reclassify marijuana is adopted, the drug could gain wider acceptance as a medical treatment,…
Jan. 6 Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs sentenced to 17 years
This defense - "I'm not a seditionist or terrorist, but was just hanging out with some seditionists and terrorists when sedition and terror broke out." Reminds me a lot of…
BREAKING: Kyle Evans Gay Running For Lieutenant Governor
The press release in its entirety: NORTH WILMINGTON — State Senator Kyle Evans Gay announced Thursday morning her campaign to become Delaware’s next Lieutenant Governor. VIEW HER LAUNCH VIDEO HERE A…
Song of the Day 8/31: Graham Nash and David Crosby, “Frozen Smiles”
Mitch McConnell's freeze-up yesterday seems like a gift for all those people who wished something would shut him up, but it's also a reminder – and old people need them…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Submitted Without Comment... ...From Mitch. Lest we feel smug, Biden's the same age as Mitch. Home-Schooling And Christian Millionaires: A perfect match for siphoning off billions in Federal education dollars:…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: August, 2023
Quality and quantity. Let a few good ones go since I didn't want this to be too unwieldy: Betcha weren't expecting this. I wasn't: Power pop doesn't suck: A great…