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DL Open Thread Monday, June 24, 2024
Somebody must have spiked Sen. Chris Coons’ breakfast on Sunday, because he went on Fox News and freaked out the host by pointing out that Trump is a convicted felon. The host’s flustered reaction might put Coons’ status as Fox’s favorite Democrat in question. Before getting too excited about Coons acting like a Democrat for […]
Song of the Day 6/23: LL Cool J, “Mama Said Knock You Out”
So Trump’s latest idea for controlling immigration is to have the equivalent of bum fights. I’m all for it, given that the first person the first contestant gets to fight is Trump. This track serves as a reminder than the current Kendrick Lamar-Drake feud is part of a long hip-hop tradition. James Smith – the […]
Song of the Day 6/21: Bill Lloyd, “The Fix Is In”
This one’s for Aileen Cannon, the unqualified federal judge who’s slow-walking Donald Trump’s stolen documents trial and refused colleagues’ calls to recuse herself. You can figure out why. Bill Lloyd is a veteran Nashville singer and songwriter, best known as half of Foster & Lloyd. The songwriting duo recorded three albums and landed several singles […]
Song of the Day 6/20: The Power Station, “Some Like It Hot”
This one’s for commenter Jarvis, who thinks people need to turn off the air conditioning because it’s not that hot out there. The Power Station, a super group formed by Duran Duran bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor during the band’s hiatus in 1984, debuted with this single in 1985. It was a hit […]
Song of the Day 6/19: The Treniers, “Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)”
Baseball’s greatest all-around player, Willie Mays, died yesterday at age 93. He retired 50 years ago, so unless you’re a Boomer you never saw him play, and it might be difficult to understand what all the fuss was about. Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947, but when Mays won the Rookie of the […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, June 19, 2024
My 10-year-old grandson asked me what Juneteenth was. When I told him it was when the news of the Union victory in the Civil War, which had technically been over for weeks, reached slaves in Texas, his only question was why the news took so long to get there. Then he went back to playing […]
Song of the Day 6/18: Arrow, “Hot Hot Hot”
The heat dome that had monkeys falling dead from the trees in Mexico is headed our way. Delaware is expected to dodge the worst of it – places in the upper Midwest and Northeast could see temperatures 25 degrees above normal – but highs are predicted to hit 90 and above most days for the […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Democrats would have an easier time drubbing Republicans for corruption if there weren’t so many corrupt Democrats. New Jersey is proving a happy hunting ground for indicting crooked ones. While Bob Menendez is still in court explaining his gold bar collection, South Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross has been indicted for racketeering. Norcross pulled […]
DL Open Thread Monday, June 17, 2024
There is no news today outside of the usual huffing and puffing from Trump and his acolytes in politics and the media, so feel free to discuss what you want. In America’s supposedly liberal media, Jeff Bezos hired some British Fleet Street sleaze to run the Washington Post and the New York Times is having […]
Song of the Day 6/15: Françoise Hardy, “Tous les Garçons et les Filles”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Singer Françoise Hardy might have been the coolest person in a cool era, the pre-hippie 1960s. Pretty and waif-like, perfect shoulder-length hair, soulful eyes, legs meant for a miniskirt, demure, French. Hardy, whose death this week at 80 sparked a lot of happy recollections, was the most important of the […]
Song of the Day 6/14: James Cagney, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”
It’s Martha Ann Alito’s favorite holiday, so here’s George M. Cohan’s tribute to Old Glory, as delivered by James Cagney in his Oscar-winning turn as Cohan in the 1942 film “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” You seldom hear the tune, written in 1906 for Cohan’s musical “George Washington, Jr.,” these days unless you listen to military band […]
Song of the Day 6/12: The Unusual Suspect, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
This YouTuber’s shtick is editing together movie clips to substitute them for the real vocals in popular songs. It looks like a lot of work, and most of the results are amusing mainly for the films the editor chooses to sample, because it’s not hard to find examples of the words in, say, Rick Astley’s […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Hunter Biden was convicted of being a gun-toting drug addict – or was it a drug-addicted gun toter? – and MAGAts, in true Old Man Yells at Clouds form, are angry about it, and in the stupidest possible way. They claim Joe Biden orchestrated the conviction of his son to justify his prosecution of Donald […]
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