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Song of the Day 12/19: Chris Rea, “Driving Home for Christmas”
One source of Christmas music overload: Too much repetition. Even the best songs start to chafe when you’re hearing them for the hundredth time this month, no matter how different the arrangements. British holiday music provides some relief. Songs that are overplayed in England sound fresh to American ears. This tune by blues slide guitarist […]
DL Open Thread Monday December 19 2022
Water? Pfft…We’ll live off tax cuts and bile! The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years. That dire scenario — which would cut off water […]
Song of the Day 12/18: Small Town Titans, “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
Small Town Titans are a power trio from that rock hotbed of York, Pa., whose members met at Lebanon Valley College in 2011. In 2018 they released this filthy version of every hard-rock band’s favorite holiday tune, the Grinch’s theme song from the Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” A lot of bands have […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 18, 2022
Most Fired Workers Lost Their Jobs For No Good Reason Last Year: These conditions are perhaps why 2022 was a big year for unionization. Unions won more elections than they have in 20 years, with employee rights and job security being the second and third reasons for labor organizing. But unions aren’t the only route […]
The Jan. 6 committee will take up criminal referrals against Donald Trump
He committed his crimes in the open. The only question has been, will those crimes be shoved down the memory hole for the sake of bipartisanship? The House says, no. The AG may still say Yes. The House Select Jan. 6 Committee will take up criminal referrals against former President Donald Trump on at […]
Cape Gazette publishes a press release of a press release of a very poorly written bio of Ruth Briggs King
The Cape Gazette version of the press release actually improves on the Elysian Magazine re-print of the very poorly written press release from The National Foundation of Women Legislators. . #journalism
A Very Special Highland Bunker (Working Title)
h/t to Andrew for cluing be into the fact that another pod dropped. I’ll be back to rate this episode with my patented 0-5 Missile Toes rating system.
An ode to journalism.
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Song of the Day 12/17: Slade, “Merry Christmas Everybody”
As Noddy Holder asks in the second verse, does your granny always tell ya that the old songs are the best? If she’s British, this 1973 single by Slade, who ruled British charts in the ’70s, might be one of the tunes she’s talking about. It’s been among the UK’s most-played holiday songs in the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 17, 2022
How A Walk In The Park Became Putin’s War. Talk about mis-overestimating (H/T to Dubya) your capabilities…: They never had a chance. Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from Russia’s 155th Naval Infantry Brigade had no maps, medical kits or working walkie-talkies, they said. Just a few weeks earlier, they had been factory workers […]
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Song of the Day 12/16: The Quinto Sisters, “A Holly Jolly Christmas”
I’ll wait a moment for El Somnambulo to leave the room. This is, I believe, his least favorite Christmas song, and I doubt that hearing its first recorded version is going to improve his opinion. The song was made famous by Burl Ives in his role as Sam the Snowman on the animated “Rudolph the […]
Trump is done, and that’s ok
I get that we’re nervous about declaring Trump political dead after he having declared him dead so many times in the past. But, trust me. I’m the one person who was right about his chances of beating Hillary Clinton, so I have some standing. He is politically dead. Or if you don’t trust me, trust […]
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