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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023

By Alby October 11, 202317 Comments

Whether you're rooting for Israel or Hamas, the media has plenty of atrocity stories to stoke your righteous ire. I'm not linking to any of them because I don't think…

Song of the Day 10/10: U2, “Pride (In the Name of Love)”

By Alby October 10, 20232 Comments

Did Hamas deliberately single out the Tribe of Nova trance music festival, where they massacred at least 260 people and took an unknown number hostage? It wouldn't be the first…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, October 10, 2023

By Alby October 10, 202313 Comments

I'm not following the Hamas-Israeli conflict, but as sportswriter Hugh Keough (not Damon Runyan) observed, “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but…

DL Open Thread Monday, October 9, 2023

By Alby October 9, 20235 Comments

Do House Republicans hand out Speaker of the House bonus points for being a kiddie diddler? Dennis Hastert, former high school wrestling coach, served in the office. Now America's drooling…

Song of the Day 10/7: Fred Neil, “Dolphins”

By Alby October 7, 20231 Comment

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Fred Neil wrote a sad, beautiful and enduring song called “The Dolphins” as a Greenwich Village folk singer in the mid-1960s. “I’ve been searching for…

Song of the Day 10/6: The Sex Pistols, “Pretty Vacant”

By Alby October 6, 20232 Comments

They would never admit it, even to themselves, but the Freedom Caucus apparently is in favor of anarchy in the U.S. House, which makes the Sex Pistols the perfect soundtrack…

Song of the Day 10/5: The Kinks, “Situation Vacant”

By Alby October 5, 2023

With a tip o' the sombrero to El Som. Yoohoo, anybody home? House Republicans are demonstrating that maybe men do too think about the Roman Empire too much, and no…

Song of the Day 10/4: Buffalo Springfield, “On the Way Home”

By Alby October 4, 20235 Comments

Buffalo Springfield had broken up by the time their third and final album, "Last Time Around," was released in 1968. The LP was assembled from previously recorded material to fulfill…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023

By Alby October 4, 202311 Comments

Chris Coons must be having the mother of all sads today. After Kave-in McCarthy was ousted as House speaker, a GOP member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus told CNN…

Song of the Day 10/3: The Ramones, “Why Is It Always This Way?”

By Alby October 3, 2023

Elon Musk's fascist leanings are obvious at this point, and Russian state TV put a fine point on it yesterday by bragging that "Elon Musk really is our agent." That…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023

By Alby October 3, 202321 Comments

Matt Gaetz – am I the only one who thinks he looks like a low-quality AI rendering of a young Jack Nicholson? – has pulled the trigger on his threat…

Song of the Day 10/2: The Traveling Wilburys, “Not Alone Any More”

By Alby October 2, 2023

Rock has had a lot of so-called supergroups, but I think the superest of them all is an easy choice. The Traveling Wilburys featured Beatle George Harrison, Nobel Prizewinner Bob…

DL Open Thread Monday Oct. 2, 2023

By Alby October 2, 20234 Comments

It takes a lot of dysfunction for the media to notice the GOP is in disarray, but that tipping point has been reached. Matt Gaetz says he'll try to oust…