Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 25, 2022
How Long Could You Survive–In The Quietest Room In The World? Would you literally hear the blood flow through your body? Would your innermost thoughts drive you crazy? From one writer’s semi-hallucinatory experience: Certain people find the promise of such quiet irresistible; it entices them, like a soundless siren call, to visit the building at […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 24, 2022
Something to give thanks for–while ‘other’ political blogs (are there any?) abandon their readers for Thanksgiving, we here at DL give you top-shelf commentary replete with the snark you’ve come to love. Besides, who wants to watch parades when they could be blogging? OK, enough vamping. Georgia Supreme Court Helps Warnock Campaign. No, not on […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 20, 2022
5 Killed, 18 Injured, In Shooting At LBGTQ Club In Colorado Springs. It flat-out has to be a hate crime. I’ll post more as developments warrant. How Sports Gambling Bought Its Way Into Ubiquity. BTW, didja know that the guy who sponsored Delaware’s bills was Charles Potter? Now you do. Also John Viola. Markell and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 19, 2022
Garland Appoints Special Prosecutor For Trump. Good Idea, Or Bad Idea? I’m with Charles Pierce on this one: Garland seems more concerned about the perception of a political prosecution than he is the perception of a DOJ paralyzed by politesse and standards and norms that the suspects don’t respect in the least. Does Garland think […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 18, 2022
House Dem Leadership To Get A Lot Younger. Gotta say, I think Pelosi was a terrific Speaker, an all-timer, and got more stuff through the House than you would ever expect. An historical and successful figure on the American stage. Also gotta say, this new younger leadership team will almost invariably make mistakes. Having said […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Musk Demands Pledge Of Love From Twitter Workers. By end of day today: SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning: Commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter or leave the company with severance pay. Twitter is shifting to an engineer-driven operation — one that “will need to be extremely hardcore” […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 13, 2022
Terrible Night For Election Deniers. Meaning, it was a good night for democracy: Every election denier who sought to become the top election official in a critical battleground state lost at the polls this year, as voters roundly rejected extreme partisans who promised to restrict voting and overhaul the electoral process. The national repudiation of […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022
Do You Suffer From ‘Twitter Poisoning’? I admit that I’m fascinated by this seeming social media meltdown, probably because this blog is as close as I come to social media. Anyway: I have observed a change, or really a narrowing, in the public behavior of people who use Twitter or other social media a lot. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 11, 2022
The Death Of Social Media? Can’t come soon enough for me. Good article, including a history of how we (well, not me) got to where we are: It’s over. Facebook is in decline, Twitter in chaos. Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people, with its […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 10, 2022
The so-called mainstream media will never learn. Once again, they focused on the coming (and illusory) Red Wave to the exclusion, or at least diminution, of covering the ongoing attacks on democracy, which was clearly the story of the election lead-up. No doubt they will do some post-election ‘soul-searching’, then return to doing exactly the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 6, 2022
Musk Blatantly Violated Cali Law With Mass Firings. He’s not escaping this unscathed. Hopefully, all of the fired employees will be made somewhat whole. Anyone who’s lost a job knows how traumatic it can be. ‘OPEC Of Rainforests’? Can this alliance help halt deforestation?: The big three tropical rainforest nations – Brazil, Indonesia and the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 5, 2022
How Putin And His Allies Stalled Climate Reform. Yes, Trump was one of his allies: He has been abetted by powerful world leaders who share his nationalist or authoritarian leanings and who, together, have swept in to buy his coal, oil and gas and enabled him to finance his war. While their motivations for backing […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 4, 2022
Everything Falls Apart. I think we’re there. I have never been as pessimistic about our future as I am now. And I’m a pessimist at heart: We’re all gonna die, right? The Big Lie has taken hold, aided and abetted by the Democrats and the media. You know, the ones who ‘soul-search’ after each election, […]
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