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DL Open Thread Tuesday, March 5, 2024
The Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump can stay on the ballot in all 50 states, but the supposedly unanimous decision actually wasn’t. This is how you introduce bananas into a republic. A growing chorus is calling for Sonia Sotomayor, who is 70 and in poor health, to retire now while the Senate remains in […]
DL Open Thread Monday, March 4, 2024
Dr. John Gartner, the Johns Hopkins psychologist who last week pointed out that what passes for Donnie Dotard’s mind is slipping fast, offers even more examples piled up in the intervening week. I’ve seen several articles claiming we’re going to miss Mitch McConnell when he’s gone, which is like saying we’ll miss Putin once he’s […]
Song of the Day 3/2: Brad Fiedel, “Terminator 2 Theme”
Anti-Putin Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow on Friday, a ceremony that drew thousands of chanting spectators despite threats of arrests and heavy police presence. News reports mentioned that his coffin was lowered into the grave to the theme from “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” “He thought ‘The Terminator 2’ was the best film […]
Song of the Day 3/1: Judy Street, “What”
England’s Northern Soul movement is a fertile field for soul music fans looking for songs they haven’t heard a thousand times. The genre took root around 1970 in northern England, where the taste for Motown’s classic mid-’60s period lingered into the funk era. The term was coined by a London record shop owner who told […]
Song of the Day 2/29: Lana Del Rey, “Blue Skies”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona What? Lana Del Rey in the news again? Go figure. And not just because she got knocked down in Taylor Swift’s private box during a post-game Super Bowl celebration. Karma? For a time she was wearing a loser San Francisco 49ers shirt. The new news is about what made her […]
Song of the Day 2/28: Randy Newman, “Little Criminals”
Lauren Boebert, the Colorado Carpetbagger, had barely finished tweeting something about the Biden crime family when news broke that her 18-year-old son was arrested on 22 charges related to a string of vehicle break-ins and thefts. Kudos to the writers of the Republican Cinematic Universe for the comic relief. Randy Newman named his 1977 album […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
Rep. James Comer, dumbest man in Kentucky, isn’t going to let a little thing like a lying Russian stooge derail his impeachment of Hunter Biden. No sirree, he’s gonna keep fucking that chicken until its feathers fall off. Some Republicans are on the Russian payroll; others, like Comer, are just following along. Israel and Hamas […]
Song of the Day 2/27: George Clinton, “Atomic Dog”
Commander, the Bidens’ German shepherd, has been sent to live “with relatives” after more than two dozen biting incidends involving Secret Service agents. I hope the relatives have figured out what nobody in the White House apparently did – how to buy and use a muzzle, something lots of owners of Rotties and pitties have […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission sued to stop the grocery mega-merger between Albertson’s, parent company of Acme, and Kroger’s, on the grounds that it would be bad for workers and consumers. I don’t know when that became the standard, but I hope they keep applying it. Not that it will change the narrative – “Biden old” […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 26, 2024
The ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court holding that frozen embryos have full human rights has the GOP in a panic, because the public – even hardcore Christianists – overwhelmingly supports IVF, as this memo from the GOP’s Senate committee helpfully points out. Repugs say they have no plans to pass any laws against it, […]
Song of the Day 2/25: Nelly, “Air Force Ones”
Donald Trump wants you to know he’s now popular in the Black community because he’s been indicted and he just released a sold-out limited edition sneaker. Yep, it’s just that easy. If John Carney wants to get elected mayor of Wilmington, he better show off his own line of kicks. The more likely motivation behind […]
Song of the Day 2/24: Neil Young, “Words”
Donald Trump’s daily special, syllable salad, doesn’t get as much attention as Joe Biden’s spells of the vapors, but between the two of them we are not going to get the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Words between the lines of age indeed. The closing track of Young’s No. 1 “Harvest” album of 1972 features the Stray Gators, […]
Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts
You might remember the name Rachel Bitecofer. She’s the political scientist who got her 15 minutes in the spotlight when she nailed the blue wave House elections in 2018 – she predicted a 42-seat pickup for Democrats, double the consensus, and they flipped 41. She then called Trump’s loss a year out, before Biden was […]
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