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DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 21, 2024
We’re at the stage of the presidential campaign/Trump unraveling where I expect he’ll be biting the heads off bats onstage by the end of the week. Or maybe he’ll just order JD Vance to do it. Either way, you’ll have to put up with two more weeks of punditry that’s worth nothing at all. And […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024
As if football weren’t destructive enough on its own – gotta love the irony of pursuing a brain-endangering pastime under the aegis of education – it’s now evolved a new tradition, post-game gunfire. Two Dover men were arrested after shots were fired during a fight after the Dover-Smyrna game Friday night. Then in Mississippi last […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024
I had to double-check to make sure this story wasn’t from The Onion: The attorneys general of three Gilead-aspiring states are suing the FDA over rule changes regarding abortion drugs. One of their arguments: Their bans aren’t working, and they can tell because teen births haven’t gone up, and it’s in the state’s sovereign interest […]
Song of the Day 10/18: James Brown, “It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World”
Among the tracks spun by DJ Donnie Two Scoops in Oaks, Pa., the other day was this James Brown classic. Originally released in 1966, it reached No. 8 on Billboard’s Hot 100, Brown’s first Top 10 single, and No. 1 on the R&B chart. You can see why the overtly chauvinistic title would appeal to […]
Song of the Day 10/16: Five for Fighting, “100 Years”
Jimmy Carter entered hospice care two years ago, and his relatives say the end is near. But before he turned 100 on Oct. 1 he said he wanted to live long enough to cast a vote for Kamala Harris. He got his wish Wednesday when he filled out a mail-in ballot. The milestone isn’t as […]
Song of the Day 10/16: Red Rider, “Lunatic Fringe”
You might remember this song from 1985, when it was used on “Miami Vice” and the movie “Vision Quest,” but you probably don’t remember the band. Red Rider never reached the Top 40 in the United States, but they were major rock stars north of the border, where all their albums went platinum. They ruled […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024
For years we’ve wondered how bonkers Trump would have to get before mainstream media stopped normalizing him. We might have reached that point now that the brain worms have given up because there was nothing for them to eat in there. Enjoying those low gas prices? You can thank Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers […]
Song of the Day 10/15: The Doobie Brothers, “Listen to the Music”
I don’t know who’s DJing Donald Trump’s rallies, but after seeing the partial playlist from yesterday’s question-and-answer session turned listening party, I think he needs some new material. “Ave Maria” and “YMCA” in the same set? Andrea Bocelli and James Brown? Apparently Trump likes to play DJ at Mar-a-Lago, and these are among his favorite […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024
Trump cut short his Q&A session in Oaks, Pa., yesterday to – I’m not making this up – stand there and sway to the music. For, like, half an hour. “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music,” he told the crowd. “Who the hell wants to hear questions?” It’s becoming clear […]
Song of the Day 10/14: Captain Beyond, “Sufficiently Breathless”
Supergroups have been a thing in rock since 1966, when Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker ditched their former bands to form Cream, named because each was the cream of the crop on his instrument. The trend picked up steam late in the decade after Crosby, Stills and Nash (and later Young) soared up […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 14, 2024
Normally if you told me that thousands of people went to a concert in the California desert and then got stuck there for hours because the inept organizers didn’t have enough buses to get them back to civilization, I’d feel sorry for them. But not when they’re MAGAts, because a more gullible bunch of dumbfucks […]
DL Open Thread Friday, Oct. 11, 2024
Computer problems and scheduling problems today, so you folks are on your own today. The floor is truly yours. Play nice.
Song of the Day 10/11: Renaissance, “Northern Lights”
Thanks to an unusually strong solar flare, the aurora borealis made a rare appearance over Delaware last night. Fittingly, I suppose, “Northern Lights” was a rarity, too. It was the only track by British rock band Renaissance to reach the singles charts, and that was only in their native UK – a bit ironic, considering […]
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