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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022
David Cay Johnston, who has chronicled Donald Trump’s financial chicanery for decades, has sifted through the Jan. 6 Committee reports and found evidence of at least 26 instances of tax fraud over the six years he was running for and served as president. If I were a Russian oligarch, I’d be looking for ways to […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2022: #’s 30-21
30. 29. 28. Coming to Arden Gild Hall, Sat. Feb. 18, 2023: 27. 26. 25. 24. 23. 22. 21.
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022
There was so little news yesterday that media has been reduced to carrying the brainless ramblings of America’s most disgraced former president. His latest fantasy included the baseless notion that he’s immune from prosecution, which he most definitely is not. The Brazilian criminal George Santos, who got elected to Congress thanks to the incredible ineptitute […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2022: #’s 40-31
40. 39. 38. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 31. First time Emily Dickinson has made my Best Of The Year list:
Song of the Day 12/26: Fleet Foxes, “White Winter Hymnal”
Some songs are born to be played at Christmas. Others have Christmas thrust upon them. “Jingle Bells” and “Let It Snow” never name a holiday. The Pretenders’ “2000 Miles” does conclude each chorus with the word “Christmastime,” but it’s not about the season. “My Favorite Things” made the yuletide playlist just for mentioning brown paper […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Dec. 26, 2022
Good morning, yule survivors. Hope your holiday was happy. I spent part of mine wondering how anti-Semites reconcile their love of Jesus with the fact that he was born, lived and died a Jew. I’m pretty sure the election of George Santos, the con man/congressman-elect from New York, is not the sign of a healthy […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2022: #’s 50-41
Yes, my annual holiday gift to you–whether you want it or not. We’ll count down to #1. I will then add a Spotify list of my fave tunes. Since I had narrowed the list down to 63 before I ultimately chose the Fab Fifty, I’ll likely add some of those that just missed the cut […]
Song of the Day 12/25: Pet Shop Boys, “It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas”
People who hope for a white Christmas must be those fortunate souls who spend the day in their own homes. Personlly, I can remember too many Christmas Day drives to visit family where the snow was falling but it wasn’t as white as my knuckles on the steering wheel. Luckily, the Pet Shop Boys are […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 25, 2022
Yes, Virginia, There Really Was a Festivus. Even A ‘Festivus For The Rest Of Us‘: (Seinfeld writer) O’Keefe said years later, “I mean this in the nicest way possible: My father was an undiagnosed bipolar, severe alcoholic who nonetheless was extremely high-functioning.” His father, Daniel O’Keefe, was an editor for Reader’s Digest who “came from […]
Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!
Happy holidays & Merry Saturnalia, to every lurker, hate-lurker, banned dickface idiot, regular commenter, & people immersed in Delaware politics who pretend to not read the blog when we meet in public. Except for the hate-lurkers, banned dickface idiots, you are all trying to keep Bedfordfalls from turning into Pottersville in your own way, and that is worthy.
We love you all. Cheers to you.
Song of the Day 12/24: Frankie Carle and His Orchestra, “Little Jack Frost Get Lost”
My car thermometer registered 5 degrees this morning, so it’s a good day for this revived swing-era tune that makes Christmas playlists every year despite making no mention of the holiday. The song was written by Al Stillman, whose “No Place Like Home for the Holidays” gets airplay every year, and pianist/vocalist Seger Ellis, who […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., December 24, 2022
I know it’s the day before Christmas. I know that many of our daily readers will be away and will not be reading this. But you never know. This could be the greatest DL Open thread ever. (Granted, unlikely.) Could you forgive yourselves if you missed it? Didn’t think so. Was Cassidy Hutchinson The Only […]
Wanna look like a complete fucking idiot?
I was reading the FoxNews take on the Tufts University bomb threats and the algorithms naturally assumed I wanted to look like a complete fuckwit.
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