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DL Open Thread Friday, Sept. 27, 2024
We’ll have another damp day, but nothing like the inundation in the Southeast, where Helene dumped an amount of rain seen once every thousand years. Given the lack of progress on climate change, I’m gonna to take the under on that one. Delaware’s Public Integrity Commission proved itself incapable of doing its job, declining to […]
What Else I Want to See Happen
El Somnambulo asked this question last week, but unlike others, my answer is backward-looking. I still want to see an actual audit of Bethany Hall-Long’s books, because I still don’t understand how her husband managed to ring up tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of campaign expenses on personal accounts that the campaign then […]
Song of the Day 9/26: Scorpions, “Rock You Like a Hurricane”
As Hurricane Helene prepares to strike Florida’s Gulf Coast, I’m reminded of how frequently those storms come up in popular music, at least here in the Western Hemisphere. Hurricanes go all the way back to the source in rock ‘n’ roll. It’s right there in the second verse of Chuck Berry’s “Rock and Roll Music,” […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024
It was so quaint of Hillary Clinton to think that our nation’s deplorables would fit in one basket. We got more than a basketful just in yesterday’s news. New York is learning what Wilmington did: Cops don’t make good mayors. Eric Adams has become the first mayor of New York City to be indicted in […]
Song of the Day 9/25: Los Bravos, “Black Is Black”
Janet Jackson – ‘memba her? – returned to public attention the past few days by weighing in on the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. “She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,” Jackson said of Kamala Harris, whose mother is Indian. “Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024
There’s unquestionably something wrong with these people. Once again a right-wing loonjob is in the news for killing a dog. This time it’s an excrescence on the body politic named Kevin Roberts. He’s now the head of the Heritage Foundation, but 20 years ago he was just an undistinguished assistant professor of history at highly […]
Song of the Day 9/24: Wolfgang Mozart, “Eine Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dropped a new single this weekend. No, really. Music archivists digging through manuscripts in the Leipzig Municipal Library found the transcription of music for a string trio that, though not in his hand, is credited to “Wolfgang Mozart.” Mozart scholars are over the moon – it’s the classical-music equivalent of a new […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024
Slow news day yesterday. Even the reporters tasked with recording Trump’s every brain fart had to scrounge for material, so Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon are getting more attention than they otherwise might. The fear, as always, is that the fighting will spread, as fighting often does. I have long maintained that a majority of […]
Song of the Day 9/23: The Move, “Do Ya”
Jeff Lynne brought his farewell tour with ELO to Philadelphia over the weekend, and if you missed the show, fear not – some fans have posted Friday’s entire show on YouTube. Lynne is the only one remaining from the band’s original lineup; he and drummer Bev Bevan split acrimoniously 30 years ago. ELO grew out […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Sept. 23, 2024
It was hard enough running for governor as a Black conservative, but a Black conservative sex creep? Mark Robinson’s task is well nigh impossible, especially now that all his senior staffers quit. Maybe he can ask Bethany Hall-Long for advice on how to run a campaign after your staff bails over your sketchy behavior. Congress […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024
Trump’s flailing, tweet-based excuse for a campaign is nearly exhausting the media’s informational oxygen. Everybody who fails to show him complete obeisance gets trashed on his failing social media platform, and political reporters treat every person targeted as worthy of a separate story. Did you see what Trump said about Oprah? Taylor Swift? Bill Maher? […]
Song of the Day 9/21: Joe Jackson, “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”
On a day filled with weird news, nothing topped the story of New York magazine suspending high-profile political reporter Olivia Nuzzi over her “personal relationship” with loonball nepo baby RFK Jr.. Jokes about his animal magnetism aside, what possessed her? That’s the musical question Joe Jackson posed in his debut single back in 1978, and […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024
Let’s check in on that political movement that doesn’t want opponents calling them “weird.” North Carolina governor candidate posts comments on porn chat board, calls himself a “Black Nazi.” Florida Congressman has sex-and-drug parties with high school juniors. Presidential and vice presidential candidates lie about immigrants eating pets and brag about it. Where do we […]
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