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DL Open Thread: Monday, June 2, 2025
State’s Largest Polluter Ups Its Pollution Quotient–With Impunity: The Delaware City Refinery has been continuously releasing more than permitted amounts of toxic sulfur dioxide into the air for a week now, but air quality in the area remains safe, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. (Writer’s Note: I don’t believe them. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: June 1, 2025
A Deep Dive Into Why Sufjan Stevens Dislikes “Carrie And Lowell”. Meaning, a deep dive into his life and his (non?) relationship with his mother: I think this album is evidence of creative and artistic failure from my vantage point. I was trying to make sense of something that is senseless. I felt that I […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 31, 2025
Yes, He’s A Psychopath. Not even a borderline psychopath: Let me start by observing that Trump certainly is a unique character — flamboyant, politically incorrect, and enthralling to his supporters. He is the central protagonist in our current political crisis. Strikingly, he is unmoved by the wrath directed at him by his political opponents. This […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 30, 2025
Get Back, Taco Cat. Always Backing Down Just Isn’t Where It’s At: TACO has the potential to hurt Trump. (1) It’s simple. Trump Always Chickens Out. You can put that phrase anywhere, apply it to anything, and everyone knows what it means. (2) It’s meme-able. You have the slogan. You have the word mark. And […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: May 2025
I suppose it belongs under ‘G’, but it’s my list. I do what I want. Besides, don’t want to make you wait that long: My wife swears the plot of this song comes from a Dateline episode: First of two songs this month that XPN discovered for me: This song deserves a zillion more views: […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 29, 2025
Trump Pardons Everyone Bad. Nary a bleat from a Democrat: A gang leader who built a powerful criminal enterprise,an ex-congressman from New York who underreported earnings from his Manhattan restaurantand a Connecticut governor toppled in a corruption scandal all received clemency Wednesday in a sweeping series of orders signed by President Donald Trump. Trump extended […]
NCC Moves To Eliminate The Elective Office Of NCC President
I mean, does anybody think that, if they had their druthers, they would have chosen either Karen Hartley-Nagle or Monique ‘Williams’-Johns if they could elect the leader from amongst council? This resolution was reportedly passed by an 11-2 vote at last night’s Council meeting: Prime Sponsor(s): Ms. Durham, Mr. Caneco Mr. Carter, Mr. Cartier Ms. […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
When Will Those Gazans Learn To Stand In Line Properly? Israeli troops mete out justified discipline b/c being starved for months is no excuse: Chaos and confusion broke out at a new aid center in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first full day that humanitarian assistance was being distributed through a contentious effort conceived […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Has Absolute Corruption Been Normalized Now?: The Trumps are hardly the first presidential family to profit from their time in power, but they have done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the White House. The scale and the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking. The Trump family and […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 26, 2025
Never was a beach person. Too much sand, followed by the nightly Meet Market. I can only conclude, then, that the nostalgia I feel for this music is because of the music: Ho-kay, might as well jump to the end of summer…: Back to the real world–tomorrow.
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: May 25, 2025
Reading Recommendation: Just finished ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn. I hear they made a movie of it, but I never saw it. If you like the twisted fiction of Patricia Highsmith, you’ll love this. I do, and I did. You’ll think you see the final twist coming about three different times, but you won’t. But […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 24, 2025
Don’t feel guilty about not reading the Open Threads during this holiday weekend. Oh, sure, I slave relentlessly over every syllable, trying to provide you with the finest DL Open Thread I’m capable of producing. The anxiety courses through my veins as I struggle over when, and how(,?) and if (,?) to use the Oxford Comma. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 23, 2025
A Plane, And Now This: President Trump gathered Thursday evening at his Virginia golf club with the highest-paying customers of his personal cryptocurrency, promising that he would promote the crypto industry from the White House as protesters outside condemned the event as a historic corruption of the presidency. The gala dinner held at the Trump […]
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