Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 27, 2021
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Interview With Sondheim. Sondheim was a sounding-board for Miranda during the creation of Hamilton: Sondheim was one of the first people I told about my idea for a piece about Alexander Hamilton, back in 2008. It was in this townhouse, on the first floor. I’d been hired to write Spanish translations for a […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 26, 2021
In case you were wondering: The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 25, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving! Best holiday of the year by far, at least for us. Let me just emphasize how disgraceful giving the Kathleen McGuiness the Pharmacist Of The Year Award is. With one move, that professional association has lost all credibility. Especially when there are real pharmacists making real differences out there–like Dr. TaQuina Warren: Dr. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 21, 2021
Could Traffic Circles Actually Be Good? I grant you, they confuse me, especially when you’re supposed to ‘take the third right’ at the roundabout. However: Carmel, a city of 102,000 north of Indianapolis, has 140 roundabouts, with over a dozen still to come. No American city has more. The main reason is safety; compared with […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 20, 2021
‘Kyle Rittenhouse And The New Era Of Political Violence’. Might as well go back and place the burgeoning movement featuring Rittenhouse and like-minded individuals in context. Add to that blatantly-biased judges, and the notion of justice in America is more besmirched than ever, at least in recent times. Yet another supporter of armed ‘self defense’ […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 19, 2021
Biden To Reverse Disastrous Trump Policy Aimed At Despoiling Alaska: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will propose reinstating a Bill Clinton-era rule to ban logging and road building in more than half of North America’s largest temperate rainforest,the department confirmed. The restrictions had managed to stay in place for years because of a series of court […]
DL Open Thread For Thursday, November 18, 2021
Darius Brown Blowed Himself Up Real Good. Maybe his latest sham employer will reconsider the job they handed to him–especially since they’re probably not getting any Grant-In-Aid $$’s as long as he’s there. Glad that Sen. Sokola is not muzzling the other senators, you know, the way that Pete ‘n Val tried to do when […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 14, 2021
My Kind Of Anti-Vax Story. Washington State Senator, who doubles as a registered foreign agent, stranded in El Salvador, begs for Regeneron: “Do any of you have any ideas on how I could get the monoclonal antibodies sent to me here,” Ericksen continued. “Ideally, I would like to get it on a flight tonight so […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 13, 2021
The Real Supply Chain Issue: Long-Haul Truck Drivers Don’t Get Paid Shit: The industry has also long relied on “low wages and bare-minimum staffing” to boost their profits, Johnson told Insider. When the pandemic hit and a large number of drivers were laid off, many saw little reason to return, and Johnson said he saw […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
Who said it?: “…“the Black wogs and coons and Arabs and f—ing Jamaicans don’t belong here.” Answer at bottom of column. Manchin Is A Republican. Period. Sabotaging The Democratic Senate Caucus from within. Might as well admit it and move on. He will. Phil Gramm redux: “We spend so much time being polite in the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 11, 2021
“Should We Burn The Books–Or Just Ban Them?“. Not isolated. Organized efforts. Democracy, or what passes for it, dies in darkness: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) had attacked McAuliffe for, as governor, vetoing a bill to allow parents to opt their children out of reading assignments they deem to be explicit. The impetus was a famous […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 7, 2021
How Cops Justify Killing Those Stopped For Traffic Offenses: ‘The Car Was The Weapon’: In a New York Times investigation of car stops that left more than 400 similarly unarmed people dead over the last five years, those words were routinely used to explain why police officers had fired at drivers. In about 250 of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 5, 2021
Big Pharma Breaks Lobbying Spending Records To Fight Drug Pricing Initiatives. They’ve already got Carper and Coons in their pockets–although maybe they can rustle up some spare change to further fatten their campaign coffers. Remember, kids, not ‘centrists’, corporatocrats. Groundhog Day Headline Du Jour: ‘House Democrats Near Vote On Newly-Retooled $1.75 Trillion Spending Plan’. Musical […]
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