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DL Open Thread Thursday, March 11, 2021

By Alby March 11, 20215 Comments

The first shelter dog in the White House didn't stay there too long: Major, the younger of the Bidens' German Shepherds, was banished to Delaware after nipping a Secret Service…

Song of the Day 3/10: Randy Rainbow, “Mr. Biden (Bring My Vaccine)”

By Alby March 10, 2021

I was curious about how Randy Rainbow would transition to a post-Trump political landscape. Here's your answer -- Mr. Sandman parodied for Sleepy Joe, with backup vocals by the Robinettes.…

Song of the Day 3/9: Booker T. and the MGs, “Time Is Tight”

By Alby March 9, 2021

Released as a single in 1968, this instrumental jam, credited to all four members of the legendary Stax house band, became the second-biggest hit of their headlining career, peaking at…

Song of the Day 3/7: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, “The Money Song”

By Alby March 7, 2021

Man, all this agitation for raising the minimum wage to a level a person could live has been going on forever, hasn't it? Your grandpa probably busted a gut listening…

DL Open Thread Sunday, March 7, 2021

By Alby March 7, 20215 Comments

Interesting article at Daily Kos examining the congressional districts with the biggest voting shifts in the presidential race from 2016 to 2020. The Republicans made big Latino-fueled gains in south…

Song of the Day 3/5: Suzanne Vega, “When Heroes Go Down”

By Alby March 5, 2021

The story, most recently, of Andrew Cuomo, lionized during the early days of the pandemic as the anti-Trump. From Suzanne Vega's 1992 LP 99.9F°. When heroes go down They go…

Song of the Day 3/4: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Volcano”

By Alby March 4, 2021

This one's in honor of Indonesia's Mount Sinabung, which started belching hot ash a couple of days ago. PUSA, as they were known, explained the way the geology works with…

DL Open Thread Thursday, March 4, 2021

By Alby March 4, 20213 Comments

Joe Biden's loose lips are going to cost the Democrats the Neanderthal vote. He blasted the states of the New Confederacy -- white supremacy isn't just for the the South…

Song of the Day 3/3: Mark Chestnutt, “Blame It on Texas”

By Alby March 3, 20214 Comments

Texas' sociopathic leadership has lifted all Covid restrictions, which makes me think they can't secede soon enough -- if it were a foreign country we could impose a travel ban.…

Song of the Day 3/1: Drive-By Truckers, “This Fucking Job”

By Alby March 1, 20211 Comment

The need for a higher minimum wage has been apparent for many years now, and anyone who claims $15 is too much too soon should study the issue a little…

DL Open Thread Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021

By Alby February 28, 20213 Comments

Now that The Last Guy™ has been reduced to giving speeches to the clowns and rageaholics at CPAC (it stands for Clowns Playing At Competence), the media's theme for the…

Song of the Day 2/27: Peter Gabriel and Playing for Change, “Biko”

By Alby February 27, 2021

Playing for Change, the music-education non-profit that records musicians around the world playing the same song and edits them into videos, released this Peter Gabriel classic a couple of weeks…

Song of the Day 2/25: Warren Zevon, “Lawyers, Guns and Money”

By Alby February 25, 2021

I don't know how I missed it, but until this Zevon classic from 1978's "Excitable Boy" came up on a Spotify playlist last night I never realized it fit The…