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DL Open Thread Wednesday, May 29, 2024

By Alby May 29, 20243 Comments

Closing arguments concluded in the Trump hush-money trial, so the speculation has begun. Few think he'll be acquitted, but opinion seems split on whether he'll be convicted. One person who…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, May 28, 2024

By Alby May 28, 20241 Comment

Anyone who thinks that removing Benjamin Netanyahu from power would end Israel's ongoing massacre in Gaza is overlooking an inconvenient truth: Two-thirds of the Israeli public doesn't just support the…

Song of the Day 5/28: Iron Butterfly, “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida”

By Alby May 28, 20244 Comments

Doug Ingle, who wrote, sang and played organ on "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida," Iron Butterfly's iconic 1968 hit, died last week at age 78. Ingle was the last surviving member of the lineup…

Song of the Day 5/27: Richard Sherman, “Feed the Birds”

By Alby May 27, 2024

Richard Sherman, who died last week at 95, penned the lyrics to hundreds of Disney songs from 1960 to 1973 while he and his composer brother, Robert, were employed as…

DL Open Thread Monday, May 27, 2024

By Alby May 27, 2024

The Washington Post's motto is "democracy dies in darkness." It doesn't say anything about dispelling it. You probably saw the story last week about Supreme Court justice Sam Alito flying…

Song of the Day 5/26: Stevie Wonder, “Too High”

By Alby May 26, 2024

There's a reason "the dog ate my homework" was a plausible excuse, and had a better chance of working with teachers who owned dogs: Dogs will eat anything. Too picky…

Song of the Day 5/24: Amy Winehouse, “Love Is a Losing Game”

By Alby May 24, 20241 Comment

Guest post by Nathan Arizona We’ve heard a whole lot about Amy Winehouse’s troubled behavior before she died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at age 27. It sounds like we…

Song of the Day 5/23: Paul Simon, “Graceland”

By Alby May 23, 2024

For supermarket tabloids, Elvis is the gift that keeps on giving, even though he's been dead for nearly 50 years. A headline the Weekly World News might have invented declared…

Song of the Day 5/22: Pixies, “Monkey Gone to Heaven”

By Alby May 22, 2024

Theme music for the heat dome over Mexico that's causing monkeys to fall dead from the trees. Black Francis wrote "Monkey Gone to Heaven" about the environment 35 years ago,…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, May 22, 2024

By Alby May 22, 20241 Comment

Rehoboth Beach, the resort town of 1,100 year-round residents that gifted Delaware politics with Pete Schwartzkopf and Kathy McGuiness, is embroiled in a controversy that for once involves neither of…

Song of the Day 5/21: Randy Rainbow, “Forty-Five”

By Alby May 21, 20241 Comment

This is a weird coincidence. Just a couple of days after featuring "9 to 5" as Song of the Day, Randy Rainbow released a new parody song set to its…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, May 21, 2024

By Alby May 21, 20241 Comment

That Trump trial in New York is getting close to its conclusion, with all the plot twists the writers could think up. Michael Cohen revealed on cross-examination that he stole…

Song of the Day 5/20: King Willonius, “Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body”

By Alby May 20, 20242 Comments

It's not exactly life imitating art, more like reality imitating reality TV, but the Catfightin' Congresswomen of Washington could be the hottest new show in the capital. In last week's…