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Open Thread Tuesday Nov. 21, 2023
Short one today with Thanksgiving prep on tap. Today: Pies – pumpkin, apple and pecan. Republicans should spend more time baking pies instead of thinking of ways to make life as miserable for the rest of us as it is for them. Elon Musk, who wants to play Nazi and not get called out for […]
Song of the Day 11/20: The Afghan Whigs, “I Know Your Little Secret”
Bethany Hall Long’s secrets don’t seem all that secret at this point. She might as well face the music. The Afghan Whigs, the vehicle for frontman and songwriter Greg Dulli, formed in Cincinnati around the time the grunge movement was getting started in Seattle, and in 1989 they were signed by Sub-Pop, the label that […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 20, 2023
President Jimmy Carter’s wife Rosalynn died at yesterday at 96, two days after entering hospice care, with her husband of 77 years by her side. Their marriage lasted as long as the average American lives. Every Trump mouthfart gets wall-to-wall coverage – I suppose tweets are fingerfarts, but those get the same constant attention – […]
Buy Weed? Can’t They Just Drink Instead?
The Atlantic coast is supposedly the liberal part of Sussex County. So why are its beach towns treating cannabis sales like a pool hall coming to River City? As a News Journal article noted last week, Dewey, Rehoboth, Bethany, Ocean View and Fenwick Island all have banned the legal sale of the devil’s lettuce. You […]
Song of the Day 11/18: John Fred and His Playboy Band, “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)”
Hard to believe it took this long, but it appears the George Santos saga is reaching its denouement. The guy who makes Donald Trump’s lying seem timid seems to have gotten his money from the family of an influential Miami lawyer, and the results of a House Ethics Committee investigation are so damning that it […]
Song of the Day 11/17: Brass Construction, “Movin'”
A little bit of Friday funk for Ruth Briggs King, who quit the General Assembly this week, effective immediately, because she moved into a new home just outside the district she represents. Credit where it’s due: Many’s the lawmaker who might try to finesse the rules to stay in office. Brass Construction was a Brooklyn-based […]
Fighting Against Medicare Advantage
Guest post by Representative John Kowalko (25th District, retired) Over the past year and a half, I have dedicated much of my energy to exposing the fraudulent and dishonest Medicare Advantage Plans for what they are. This issue has now become the focal point of thousands of ads on television promoting the private insurance industry’s […]
Song of the Day 11/16: The All-American Rejects, “Dirty Little Secret”
I’ll let you figure out who this song is dedicated to. I saw these guys when they made a radio station appearance at WSTW a decade or so ago. My lasting impression was of their lead singer, Tyson Ritter. He’s also an actor, and like a lot of Hollywood types, he’s tiny, like a human […]
Song of the Day 11/15: The Four Seasons, “Silence Is Golden”
Bethany Hall-Long is a too young to have been a fan of this tune when it came out in 1964 as the B-side to the No. 1 single “Rag Doll,” which like “Silence Is Golden” was a product of the Four Seasons’ hit songwriting team of Bob Crewe and Bod Gaudio. It didn’t get a […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
They held a session of Congress yesterday and the Jerry Springer Show broke out. In a Senate hearing, Oklahoma Sen. Sen. Markwayne Mullin threatened to fight Teamsters union President Sean O’Brien until Bernie Sanders made Mullin sit down. In the House, defenestrated speaker Kevin McCarthy bumped Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee in a hallway while […]
Song of the Day 11/14: Martha and the Vandellas, “Nowhere to Run”
So Bethany Hall-Long thinks she can brush her money troubles under the rug? Martha and the Vandellas have a message for her. Martha and the Vandellas took this Holland-Dozier-Holland banger – the percussion includes snow chains – to No. 8 on the Hot 100 in 1965. The song got one notable cover: On her 1971 […]
Comment Rescue: Coons Wants Humanitarian Pauses – And Quiet
H/t to Joe Connor, who reads the New York Post so you don’t have to. Seems our junior senator, Chris Coons, took an Amtrak train recently, where he had a run-in with a “far-left reporter” who got the encounter on video. Aaron Mate, who reports for something called Grayzone, was seated across from Coons. He […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
Republicans in Ohio are showing how little regard their party has for democracy, and by extension the public: As soon as the state’s electorate rejected their forced-birth agenda by a not-close 13-point margin, the GOP started laying plans to overturn the results. Here’s a little secret: They’ve always been this way, but they only show […]
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