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Song of the Day 10/24: Blind Melon, “No Rain”
Move over, Dry January. Philadelphia and the surrounding region are experiencing a dry October – there has been no measurable rainfall this month, and there isn’t expected to be any through Election Day. Blind Melon was a one-hit wonder in large part because their lead singer, Shannon Hoon, died of a drug overdose in 1995. […]
Song of the Day 10/23: The Hollies, “King Midas in Reverse”
It’s long been noted that everything Donald Trump touches turns to shit, and the past few days supplied more evidence for the theory: Trump pretended to work at a McDonald’s as a campaign stunt, and days later the fast-food chain is hit with a deadly E. coli outbreak. Graham Nash wrote this single for the […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024
Another day, another raft of Trump stories about what a shit person he is. Another one of his generals, his former chief of staff John Kelly, warned that he’s a straight-up fascist and is so ignorant he praised Hitler’s generals as loyal (they tried to assassinate him three times, which is three times more than […]
Song of the Day 10/22: Faith No More, “Falling to Pieces”
From all reports, Donald Trump has gone from sounding like the guy at the end of the bar to the guy who lives under the bridge. It won’t cost him any votes, of course, but it does bring up the prospect of an epic power struggle among Republicans should he win. It will be a […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024
The liberal sense of dread about this election isn’t just about the danger of Trump winning. As Dave Weigel argues, no matter who wins, the country is moving to the right. The Democratic Party, after two decades of leftward post-Clinton drift, has jerked abruptly right. Facing Donald Trump for the third consecutive election, Democrats are […]
Song of the Day 10/21: AC/DC, “Meltdown”
H/t to DFL, who suggested this one the other day. It was released on the 2000 LP “Stiff Upper Lip.”
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 […]
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