Song of the Day 4/8: The 1910 Fruitgum Company, “Indian Giver”
Baseball is back, which seems to be a mixed blessing in Georgia, where the GOP's existential panic over its suckitude cost Atlanta the annual all-star game. I suppose Braves fans…
DL Open Thread Thursday, April 8, 2021
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Delaware Republicans are shitting themselves over the inability of ammosexuals to intimidate lawmakers with the General Assembly meeting via Zoom, so they're demanding a return to in-person sessions. Rep. Tim…
Song of the Day 4/7: Winger, “Seventeen”
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H/t Foster McKenzie for this one, which I had never heard. He's right, this should be Matt Gaetz' rally music, not just for the apt lyrics but for its general…
Song of the Day 4/6: They Might Be Giants, “Minimum Wage”
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In keeping with today's theme. Though they more recently gained attention for kids' records like "Here Come the ABCs," 30 years ago They Might Be Giants -- basically the duo…
Song of the Day 4/5: Temple of the Dog, “Hunger Strike”
Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption Putin opponent who has been jailed for being an anti-corruption Putin opponent, is in the sixth day of a hunger strike he undertook to protest his…
DL Open Thread Sunday, April 4, 2021
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It's one thing to share a country with dead-end losers who have turned a political party into a death cult. It's something else entirely when that death cult insists on…
Dear Republicans: This Is Why We Don’t Respect You
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I stumbled across a headline today that quoted some random conservative complaining that "maybe if we canceled sports, then they'd respect us." I hear this all the time: The reason…
Song of the Day 4/3: Little Richard, “I Saw Her Standing There”
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The only difficulty in picking a theme song for Matt Gaetz is that rock 'n' roll, especially the early stuff, is full of songs that traffic in misogyny and ephebophilia,…
Song of the Day 4/2: Simon and Garfunkel, “Keep the Customer Satisfied”
Paul Simon has joined the parade of aging songwriters peddling their catalogs for big bucks, selling off his entire output -- over 400 songs from both Simon and Garfunkel and…
Song of the Day 4/1: The Bee Gees, “I Started a Joke”
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The joke certainly was on Robin Gibb -- he had the best voice in the group but older brother Barry had the good looks, and their conflicting ideas about who…
DL Open Thread Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Joe Biden has proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Vox has a good explainer outlining what it does and how Democrats hope to pass it. Politico notes it has set…
Song of the Day 3/31: Steely Dan, “My Old School”
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Only the good die young, they say, which is probably why G. Gordon Liddy, mastermind of the Watergate break-in, lasted 90 years before he shuffled off this mortal coil Tuesday.…
Song of the Day 3/30: James McMurtry, “We Can’t Make It Here (Anymore)”
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Author Larry McMurtry, who gained his greatest fame for his screenplay work in film and television, died last week. His musical legacy is his son James, who has carved out…