DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 16, 2025
A Collective Sigh Of Relief--No Title Changes At Alaska Armageddon: After meeting for nearly three hours, Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin left Alaska without announcing any deal or any specific…
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 15, 2025
Trump's obsession with changing the subject from Everything Epstein to Anything But renders today's meeting with Putin particularly fraught with danger. Anchorage Armageddon, if you will. Michael Wolff's take: President…
Song of the Day 8/15: Buck Owens, “Put a Quarter in the Jukebox”
For some reason the News Journal obituary for former governor and congressman Mike Castle doesn't even mention, anywhere, what he will be remembered for outside Delaware: The 50 State Quarters®…
Song of the Day 8/14: Elvis Costello and the Attractions, “Goon Squad”
ICE didn't exist when Elvis Costello wrote this song for "Armed Forces," the 1979 LP he was originally going to call "Emotional Fascism," but then all goon squads are pretty…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 14, 2025
Trump Creates Emergency That Doesn't Exist: The impact of Trump’s federal actions came into view Tuesday night, with National Guard troops on the ground and agents from numerous federal agencies…
Song of the Day 8/13: Dolly Parton and Lorrie Morgan, “Best Woman Wins”
Its always satisfying when villains go after each other – you don't care who wins, you just root for injuries. By that measure, the current catfight between Trump whisperers Laura…
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Well. Sounds like I was better off at the concert than observing what appears to have been a political viper pit in the House last night. All I know is…
Song of the Day 8/12: Johnny Horton, “North to Alaska”
What's left of Donald Trump's brain? There already were blank spaces where common knowledge should be, but yesterday's senior moment was a doozy. I get that he says dumb stuff…
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Quick Note: Depending on how long today's Special Session runs (I'm thinkin' real long), I might miss a lot of it while I'm enmeshed in the blues-rock stylings of Joanne…
Joanne Shaw Taylor To Rock The Arden Shady Grove Tuesday
If you're a fan of Stevie Ray Vaughan or (my fave) Albert Collins, you won't want to miss her. She was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, and she's…
Song of the Day 8/11: David Bowie, “Starman”
As far as I'm concerned, time travel has been proved impossible. I base this on the simple premise that if it could happen, somebody would have come back in time…
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 11, 2025
They Kill Journalists, Don't They? By 'they', I mean the genocidal government of Israel and, yes, the journalists were targeted: A prominent Al Jazeera journalist who had previously been threatened…
Song of the Day 8/10: Lynn Anderson, “(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona No, Trump never promised us a rose garden. But maybe there was a shred of hope his tiny mind wouldn’t land on something like paving…