DL Open Thread Thursday, August 19, 2021
Why would a guy, a Florida governor let's say, dissuade people from getting vaccines or wearing masks, but go all-out on a treatment for people once they come down with…
Song of the Day 8/18: Elvis Costello, “Blame It on Cain”
From Elvis' first album, with Clover backing him. John McFee's jazzy guitar and Costello's delivery of his cryptic lyrics dominate the track. Nobody's ever come up with a satisfying explanation…
Song of the Day 8/17: The Felice Brothers, “Jazz on the Autobahn”
WXPN has had this tune in heavy rotation since it dropped two months ago, but I didn't hear it until this weekend. The Felice Brothers, who began with a trio…
Song of the Day 8/16: Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”
Who lost the war in Afghanistan? Certainly not the defense industry, which got the lion's share of the trillion dollars the country wasted waging it. Big win for them. The…
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 15, 2021
One of them finally spilled the beans. A congressional aide told journalist Julia Ioffe the reason Republican politicians are getting their own constituents killed: About a month ago, I was…
Song of the Day 8/14: Nanci Griffith, “Tecumseh Valley”
Nanci Griffith was an accomplished singer and songwriter who broke through after moving from her native Austin to Nashville in 1985, but her greatest acclaim came with her Grammy-winning 1993…
Song of the Day 8/13: Bruce Springsteen, “I’m Goin’ Down”
Enough with the ersatz Bruce -- let's play some of the real thing. Springsteen recorded this track with the E Street Band in 1982, at the same Power Station sessions…
Song of the Day 8/12: Marah, “Point Breeze”
Yesterday's post about Jack Antonoff's solo project Bleachers included the tune he recorded with Bruce Springsteen, and I mentioned how much it sounded like one of Springsteen's late-period moody ballads.…
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 12, 2021
Legal experts are saying the evidence piling up against the Previous Guy makes an indictment of the pretend president inevitable. This means it has less than a 50-50 chance of…
Song of the Day 8/11: Bleachers, “Stop Making It Hurt”
I heard this song on the radio the other day and, being a sucker for major-key pop song with a good hook, I looked up who did it, because I…
DL Open Thread Wednesday, August 11, 2021
One certainty about the Trump coup is that this lumbering mound of seething resentment and ignorance -- Trump, that is -- isn't smart enough to have done all this himself.…
How ‘Good Republicans’ Let Fascism Capture Their Party
I have to disagree with my esteemed colleague on the subject of so-called "good" or "moderate" Republicans. They do exist -- not in Congress, which is why Chris Coons is…
Song of the Day 8/10: Carole King, “It’s Too Late”
Yes, we take requests -- we don't always fulfill them, but we take them -- and Jason330 suggested this as the response to the UN report on climate change that…