DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026
US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN! Let's see--three rogue states. Who ya got?: The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in a major assault that threatened a broader regional…
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 27, 2026
It's The Weakness, Stupid. Americans are unhappy with the way things are going in the country, and don’t feel particularly well represented by either major political party. In our new…
Song of the Day 2/27: Johnny Nash, “I Can See Clearly Now”
Dedicated to El Somnambulo, for reasons he'll understand. Johnny Nash started singing as a teenager in Houston and released his debut single in 1956. In the first 16 years of…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: February 2026
Yes, I'm posting this a day early. Why? Loads of new tunes--and new discoveries, this month. I just couldn't wait. So sue me. Perhaps the greatest musical month of ALL…
Song of the Day 2/26: Phil Collins, “I Don’t Care Anymore”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released its list of nominees to the usual criticisms, mainly that half of the acts have little if any connection to the genre…
DL Open Thread Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026
The Epstein Files are like radioactive material with a long half-life, still killing the careers of people like Larry Summers, the overrated economist, long after the pedophile at the center…
Song of the Day 2/25: Bettye LaVette, “Everything Is Broken”
A true State of the Union address would have sounded a lot like this Bob Dylan number from "Oh Mercy," the 1989 LP that critics treated as a comeback album.…
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026
I don't watch State of the Union speeches because I avoid self-promotion no matter who the president happens to be, but apparently the Screeching Shitbag delivered the longest-ever such speech,…
Song of the Day 2/24: Dion, “Runaround Sue”
He was just Dion, sans the Belmonts and without his surname DiMucci, in 1961 when he assembled an impromptu doo-wop chorus at a party and started ad-libbing lyrics about a…
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026
How Epstein's 'Male Gaze' Toxicity Created A Glass Ceiling For Women. Academia: In 2018, an elite group of academics and scientists planned to gather for an exclusive retreat at a…
Song of the Day 2/23: America, “A Horse With No Name”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona When listeners first heard America’s “A Horse With No Name” in 1972 a lot of them had questions. Why did this new Neil Young song…
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 23, 2026
Anybody OK With ICE Building Concentration Camps? Without the ovens--so far: A once sleepy rural town named Social Circle, Ga. — just over 40 miles east of Atlanta off Interstate…
Song of the Day 9/22: Snoop Dogg, “Sexual Eruption”
The 2026 Winter Olympics close today, and the most titillating story out of Milano Cortina, Italy, was that the 2,800 athletes on hand ran through 10,000 condoms in three days.…