Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023
Today's Thanksgiving prep – stuffing, or more properly dressing, since we don't actually put it inside the bird. We always have three different kinds – traditional, cornbread with oysters, and…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,"…
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…
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…
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…