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Song of the Day 1/4: Coven, “One Tin Soldier”

By Alby January 4, 20242 Comments

Unless you grew up in the '60s, it's hard to imagine how naive the Boomers were in their youth. They actually thought singing about peace could bring it about. Nowadays…

Song of the Day 1/4: T Bone Burnett, “Humans From Earth”

By Alby January 3, 20242 Comments

T Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024

By Alby January 3, 20241 Comment

Gold Bar Bob Menendez used his position as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to run quite a racket, according to his new federal indictment. It doesn't add any…

Song of the Day 1/2: Green Day, “The American Dream Is Killing Me”

By Alby January 2, 20242 Comments

Punk-pop veterans and Rock Hall of Famers Green Day waded into America's politico-cultural wars on New Year's Eve when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong altered a line of the band's signature…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024

By Alby January 2, 20248 Comments

Former labor secretary Robert Reich used his year-end column to make a point I've long believed: The perception that America's quality of life is declining is linked to the fact…

Song of the Day 1/1: Uptown String Band, “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover”

By Alby January 1, 20243 Comments

The Mummers Parade is hanging in there, even if it's much diminished. The march nowadays runs only from City Hall to Washington Street, in the wrong direction, and it doesn't…

DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 1, 2024

By Alby January 1, 20245 Comments

Benjamin Netanyahu must think the high road has been mined, because he steadfastly refuses to take it. As the slaughter in Gaza continues, he promised to continue what he calls…

Song of the Day 12/31: Ella Fitzgerald, “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”

By Alby December 31, 20231 Comment

We apparently have the Romans to thank for the annual night of bacchanalia that accompanies the final hours of the waning year. But it's German folklore, which held that how…

Song of the Day 12/29: Matthew Sabatella & The Rambling String Band, “The Battle Cry of Freedom”

By Alby December 29, 20231 Comment

Nikki Haley's answer to the trick question "What caused the Civil War?" has caused her no end of grief in much of the country, but should sound familiar to anyone…

Song of the Day 12/28: The Smothers Brothers, “Boil That Cabbage Down”

By Alby December 28, 2023

Tom Smothers, the comic half of the squabbling Smothers Brothers, died Tuesday at age 86. Though they'll always be remembered for having their top-rated variety show axed by CBS in…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023

By Alby December 27, 20232 Comments

Thom Hartmann warns that Trump is following the fascist playbook by goading his supporters to violence. And it wasn't just WWII-era fascists – Orban is doing the same thing in…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023

By Alby December 26, 20233 Comments

Pope Francis, fresh off his controversial decision to allow the blessing of same-sex relationships, used his Christmas message to take aim at the weapons industry, which means he took aim…

Song of the Day 12/25: Top 10 Most-Viewed Christmas Songs of the Day

By Alby December 25, 2023

According to one of those sketchy "favorite (noun) of every state" lists, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is the most popular Christmas song in Delaware. Well,…