‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: July 2025
Can't over-hype this month. It over-hypes itself. No better way to kick it off: Don't know exactly what Dev Hynes does. Don't need to: Belongs on a Justified soundtrack: A…
Song of the Day 7/30: Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney, “The Girl Is Mine”
Donald Trump's latest excuse-cum-confession in L'Affaire D'Epstein demonstrates the depths of not just his depravity but his narcissism as well. Confronted with the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's procurer, recruited…
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
BREAKING: Greenhouse Gas NOT A Cause Of Climate Change. Who sez so? Trump's EPA: For years the Environmental Protection Agency has pushed carmakers to reduce how much vehicles contribute to…
Guest Post: The Property Reassessment Controversy
By Mediawatch: Like you, I’m still trying to figure out who should be in the crosshairs. A couple of things going on here: 1. There was minimal uproar last year…
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Trump Sets Non-Profit Organizations In His Sights: President Trump’s actions targeting law firms, judges, media organizations, universities and labor unions have demonstrated a norm-shattering zeal for retribution and punishment of…
Song of the Day 7/29: The Zombies, “She’s Not There”
Controversial NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers has had only three confirmed concussions in his career, but he sure acts like he has brain damage. He's in the news now because, after…
Song of the Day 7/28: Tom Lehrer, “The Vatican Rag”
Tom Lehrer, the math professor whose satiric songs about nuclear war, sexual deviancy and other human follies made him a popular cult figure in the 1950s and '60s, died Saturday…
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 28, 2025
Robert Reich: "We Blew It". By 'we', I'm talkin' baby boomers, of which I am one. A few choice excerpts: If you’re an average working person today, you are extraordinarily…
Song of the Day 7/27: Jackie Wilson, “Lonely Teardrops”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona If Elvis Presley were here, he’d sing the praises of classic R&B/soul singer Jackie Wilson. He’d even sound like Jackie. Elvis called himself “the white…
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 27, 2025
Volkswagen's Slave Ranch In Brazil. I'd never heard this story before: When Ricardo Rezende Figueira saw the headline, he felt a chill run through him. It was about Volkswagen. The…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 26, 2025
One More Way That Hulk Hogan's Legacy Has Hurt America: The tawdry story begins at some point in or around 2006. Bollea was having trouble in his marriage and was,…
Song of the Day 7/25: Chuck Mangione, “Feels So Good”
Chuck Mangione gave credit for his biggest hit to the Bee Gees. "'Saturday Night Fever' had saturated radio," he once told an interviewer. "I think the top six out of…
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 25, 2025
There is absolutely no analogy between this photo and the WWII concentration camps. Because there is absolutely no genocide taking place in Gaza: A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian…