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Breaking: Earthquake Strikes California
Magnitude 7.0 in northern Cali near Eureka. Tsunami warning issued. Cue Rodney Crowell: Hope everybody’s OK. 7.0 is serious.
It’s The Voters, Stupid.
Guest Post By Wasabi Peas: This election cycle made me mad. Really, really mad. And not for the reasons folks reading this blog might think. Post-election, many people, mainly liberals, have been complaining and pointing fingers, blaming Trump voters and progressives/leftists for Kamala Harris’ loss. While anger over another Trump presidency is indeed warranted, directing […]
Song of the Day 11/22: Was (Not Was), “11 MPH (Abe Zapp Ruder Version)”
A lot of music has been written about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In the immediate aftermath songs expressed the shock and grief that enveloped the nation, but within a few years they started to reflect the widespread belief that we weren’t being told the real story. These days more than two-thirds of Americans […]
America Is…
…a 10-year-old kid at the amusement park who went on the roller coaster and threw up, then went on the merry-go-round and didn’t throw up but just went around in circles and it wasn’t exciting. So let’s try the roller coaster again!
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024
Ugh. I can’t explain it, other than I guess people enjoy a shit show. Well, they’re gonna get one. The floor’s yours.
DL National Elections Results Thread: Tuesday, November 5, 2024
OK, guys, this is the big one. The night always starts off bad as Kentucky and Indiana report first. But we might at least get a sense as to the degree of an under-count of Harris voters even in these states, if there is an under-count. Georgia and North Carolina close pretty early. I think […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024
I don’t know who first said this or where it originally appeared, but I’ve seen it referenced a couple of times in recent days, and I think it comes closer to anything I’ve heard to explaining why, win or lose, so many people will vote for Trump. His life is a masterclass in white privilege. […]
I’m Calling It: Harris Will Win
Not only that–she’ll have coattails that will flip the House and quite possibly at least lead to a 50-50 Senate. Yes, I think the polls are wrong. I think that they have failed to account for what I see as being an overwhelming female vote that will result in something like a blue wave. I […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 28, 2024
The disgrace of governments giving taxpayer money to private, for-profit businesses is, sadly, widespread, simply the way business is conducted in our greedy society. Poor-Excuse-For-A-Democrat John Carney brought Delaware to a new low by shielding our giveaways from public scrutiny, but the drip-dick Republican leading the Senate race in Montana has dropped it even further […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024
I had to double-check to make sure this story wasn’t from The Onion: The attorneys general of three Gilead-aspiring states are suing the FDA over rule changes regarding abortion drugs. One of their arguments: Their bans aren’t working, and they can tell because teen births haven’t gone up, and it’s in the state’s sovereign interest […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024
Florida is about to get whacked with a second major hurricane in the past two weeks as the rapidly-developing Milton bears down on Tampa Bay. It’s expected to be the worst storm to hit that area since 1921. About 120,000 people lived there then; nearly 3 million live there now. The only good thing about […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 7, 2024
Residents of flood-ravaged Appalachia, having been hammered by a hurricane, are suffering further because of the MAGAts among them. Goosed by Russians working through Elon Musk’s propaganda platform, they’re spreading rumors about nefarious activity by FEMA that has their local officials, almost all of them Republican, begging them to knock it off. They’re country people, […]
Song of the Day 10/1: Rod McKuen, “Jean”
For all the tributes to Dame Maggie Smith since her death last week, I haven’t seen a single one mention the No. 2 hit that it’s composer said was written for her. Every story mentioned Smith’s Oscar for Best Actress for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” the film adaptation of Muriel Spark’s lauded 1961 […]
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