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DL Open Thread 9/24
The impeachment watch is on, so mainstream media will relegate all other stories to the back burner for the foreseeable future. Pundits, even those who previously advocated caution, are falling over each other to post “it’s time” columns. So expect this site to see more trolls than usual as Trumpkins get nervous about the joyride […]
DL Open Thread 9/23
If you’re looking for news that doesn’t involve the Trump-Ukraine story, give up now. Reporters are asking only two things this morning: Are Democrats finally going to do their jobs, and are Republicans really going to back Trump’s position rejecting all limits on presidential behavior. Because you can get a thousand different answers to those […]
Song of the Day 9/23: David Allen Coe, “You Never Even Called Me By My Name”
Ken Burns’ multi-part documentary on country music, still airing on PBS stations, hasn’t reached the end of the ’60s yet, so I don’t know if it’s going to address what by its own account is the greatest country and western song ever written. Steve Goodman and John Prine wrote it in 1971, and Goodman included […]
Song of the Day 9/22: Jim Pepper, “Witchi-Tai-To”
Jim Pepper was a tenor saxophonist of Native American heritage who played in a group called the Fresh Spirits, considered the first jazz-rock fusion band, but he’s best remembered for this song, based on a peyote ceremony chant he learned from his grandfather. This version, from Pepper’s first solo album in 1971, was a popular […]
DL Open Thread 9/22
A new Des Moines Register poll has Warren 2 points ahead of Biden in the Iowa caucuses. A key element of the whistleblower story is being misrepresented. The media keep describing it as Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to investigate Biden, when they should be saying that Trump wanted the country to investigate a “scandal” […]
Looks Like Trump Just Woke Up Sleepy Joe
Joe Biden has often seemed detached and a bit out of it since starting his campaign, but Trump’s attempt to blackmail Ukraine’s president has him as fired up as he’s been since he was threatening to shove rosary beads down somebody’s throat. Here he is in Des Moines, Iowa, ripping the Marmalade Menace a new […]
Song of the Day 9/21: Cracker, “Eurotrash Girl”
Back when people bought their music on CDs — ‘memba them? — bands started to have fun with the format by including hidden tracks after the end of the listed program. It quickly reached the point of absurdity, as bands would put lots of blank tracks before the hidden song, but sometimes it was worth […]
DL Open Thread 9/21
Bernie Sanders might not be making any new converts, but it’s not for lack of trying. He’s now come up with a plan to cancel Americans’ medical debts, all $81 billion of it. What happens when you put an uneducated moron in charge of the Department of Education? You get threats to pull university funding […]
Song of the Day 9/20: Billy Harner, “Sally Sayin’ Somethin”
If you didn’t live in the Philadelphia area, you might not know this Northern Soul classic, but it was all over WIBG in the summer of ’67. It also charted in New York and LA, but failed to break out nationally. It probably didn’t help that Harner was such a big draw at the Jersey […]
DL Open Thread 9/20
Iconic arms manufacturer Colt announced it will stop making military-style rifles for the civilian market, explaining that there already are enough of them to go around. That sound you hear is the blubbering of big, strong ammosexuals, and I still think 30-50 Feral Hogs is a good name for a band. Nancy LeTourneau at Washington […]
Song of the Day 9/19: Japandroids, “The House That Heaven Built”
Back in 2012, Vancouver, B.C., duo Japandroids released a nearly perfect album, using just drums and guitar, full of punk-rock energy and classic-rock power chords. “Celebration Rock” sounds like a Clash song title, and “The House That Heaven Built” sounds a bit like a lost Joe Strummer/Mick Jones anthem from “London Calling.” The album made […]
DL Open Thread 9/19
Why hasn’t the Deep State removed Trump from office? Because they’ve mostly been working around him instead of with him or against him. But apparently Trump promised somebody in his Dictator of the Month Club something so egregious that it prompted a whistleblower complaint, which Republicans are illegally covering up. Still think they aren’t a […]
Song of the Day 9/18: Wilco, “Everyone Hides”
Wilco has a new album, “Ode to Joy,” set for release early next month, and the band released a new video for a not-quite-new song to promote it. Band leader Jeff Tweedy pointed out that it’s “the first promotional video to feature Wilco as a living breathing band of humans in close to 20 years.” […]
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