Song of the Day 9/5: Smash Mouth, “All Star”
Steve Harwell, the longtime lead singer for Smash Mouth, died Monday of liver failure brought on by years of alcoholism. He was 56 years old and had been in bad…
Dl Open Thread Tuesday September 5 2023
Without a doubt Ginni Thomas thinks she earned all of this money by being a pillar holding up western civilization. All wingnuts share the same delusion. New Filings Reveal More…
Song of the Day 9/4: Aretha Franklin, “Muddy Water”
When the news broke about Burning Man 2023 turning into a soggy hellscape, did anyone feel anything but schadenfreude? Like most things that start out being the province of the…
Here is your Labor Day 2023 Open Thread
https://twitter.com/cascamike/status/1695509219783442619?s=20 Fox News Guest: "Here are the poll results that show the public overwhelmingly supports Bidennomics" Fox News Chyron: "Polls Show Unpopularity of Bidennomics"
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 3, 2023
RIP: Bill Richardson. He Made A Real Difference: “There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom,”…
Many Republicans think this man should be President
https://youtu.be/0LQozNeHUdI?si=yPQDHGDwTwJK3s9w
This is real.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 2, 2023
Jimmy Buffett Dies--Price Of Cheeseburgers To Plummet? The Poet Laureate of lassitude who turned branding into an art form. The linked profile from 2018 captures the conundrum/contradictions therein: Because that,…
Song of the Day 9/2: Jimmy Buffett, “A Pirate Looks at 40”
Summer's over, all right. Jimmy Buffett, who founded a billion-dollar fortune with a humorous break-up song featuring a popular cocktail, died yesterday at age 76. Along the way he founded…
Song of the Day 9/1: Len Barry, “1-2-3”
Here's some blue-eyed soul one for your Friday night dance party. Len Barry was the lead singer for the Dovells, the Philadelphia doo-wop group who reached No. 2 in 1961…
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 1, 2023
Biden Administration Moves To Reclassify/Declassify Pot: If a recommendation by the nation’s top health agency to reclassify marijuana is adopted, the drug could gain wider acceptance as a medical treatment,…
Jan. 6 Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs sentenced to 17 years
This defense - "I'm not a seditionist or terrorist, but was just hanging out with some seditionists and terrorists when sedition and terror broke out." Reminds me a lot of…
BREAKING: Kyle Evans Gay Running For Lieutenant Governor
The press release in its entirety: NORTH WILMINGTON — State Senator Kyle Evans Gay announced Thursday morning her campaign to become Delaware’s next Lieutenant Governor. VIEW HER LAUNCH VIDEO HERE A…
Song of the Day 8/31: Graham Nash and David Crosby, “Frozen Smiles”
Mitch McConnell's freeze-up yesterday seems like a gift for all those people who wished something would shut him up, but it's also a reminder – and old people need them…