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Song of the Day 12/23: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, “The Light of Christmas Day”

By Alby December 23, 2018

I thought I had heard every Christmas song worth hearing until yesterday, when a Spotify search for "Alison Krauss" and "Christmas" introduced me (eventually, well down the play list) to…

Dec. 22 Open Thread: The Building Beto-mentum

By Alby December 22, 201814 Comments

I'm sure this will upset a number of readers, but facts are facts: Beto-mentum continues to build. A straw poll from the progressive group MoveOn.org released last week revealed Beto…

Dec. 21 Open Thread: Trump Collapse Approaches Exit Velocity

By Alby December 21, 20182 Comments

Look, I didn't say Trump's collapse would be pleasant. I just said it was coming, and now it's here. Remember that story a year or two ago about the broken…

Why the Long Faces?

By Alby December 20, 20186 Comments

Sometimes I think progressivism and depression must be linked characteristics, carried on the same gene or something. How else to explain those poll results to your right, which show that…

Dec. 14 Open Thread: And the One-Man Band Plays On

By Alby December 14, 20183 Comments

Here's a hint that Trump's flailing mania is not an act: Even without an audience who believes a word of it, his tweets keep on rolling, asserting statements with no…

Dec. 13 Open Thread: James Bond, Meet Maria Butina

By Alby December 13, 20184 Comments

A team of Australian public health officials at what must be Sherlock Holmes University issued a report that sounds like parody: After studying the cinematic evidence, they concluded that James…

Dec. 12 Open Thread: Cohen Gets 3 Years, Pelosi Pwns Trump

By Alby December 12, 20187 Comments

Donald Trump's claim that Michael Cohen's payoff of two paramours was a "civil" rather than a criminal offense just clanged into the iron bars of reality, as Cohen was sentenced…

Whatever Happened to Murdertown?

By Alby December 11, 20182 Comments

I posed a question in the panhandling thread asking if anyone could figure out why Mike Purzycki gets virtually no positive press for the receding Wilmington murder rate. I flashed…

Dec. 11 Open Thread: Plenty of Coal This Christmas

By Alby December 11, 20184 Comments

In news that will seem much more important years down the line than it does now, a global climate confab is being held in Poland, the climate-denier capital of Europe,…

Dec. 10 Open Thread: The Wheels Have Come Off, Trump’s Driving on the Rims

By Alby December 10, 20185 Comments

When Richard Nixon's presidency fell apart, he was at least enough of an old political hack to keep up the outward appearance of a functioning administration. Chalk that up as…

Dec. 9 Open Thread: Liberal Bias? If Only

By Alby December 9, 201816 Comments

I don't make a habit of whining about media malfeasance -- it's just too common to get worked up over. But a glut of minor sins made for annoying reading…

Dec. 8 Open Thread: So What Do We Do With Him Now?

By Alby December 8, 20181 Comment

The overnight analyses are coming in, and the consensus is that the story is going where we always knew it would: Trump likely committed all the bad acts we have…

Dec. 7 Open Thread: Beto’s the One to Beat, and the Beatings Have Begun

By Alby December 7, 201824 Comments

If he isn't, why are rhetorical knife fights already breaking out over him? Ben Mathis-Lilley surveys the skirmish that's starting to shape up as the Battle of Bull Run in…