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Song of the Day 12/13: The Monkees, “A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You”
Neil Diamond didn’t write many of the Monkees’ hits — Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart were producer Don Kirshner’s go-to tunesmiths — but their second single, “I’m a Believer,” became their all-time top-seller, and it topped the charts for several weeks to start 1967. Kirshner gave Diamond first crack at the follow-up. He came up […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 13, 2022
We’re back. Didn’t know what happened to Jason–until I got that ‘Wish You Were Here’ postcard from Hawaii. Did he win the lottery, or did he merely abscond with the Delaware Liberal treasury (which wouldn’t have gotten him as far as Marcus Hook)? Anyway, he’s OK, but we’ve put him in ‘time-out’ for the day. […]
Song of the Day 12/12: Supertramp, “Breakfast in America”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Supertramp had Breakfast in America in 1979. It was delicious. The album “Breakfast in America” propelled a mildly successful British band to one whose songs were heard pretty much everywhere. Quadruple platinum. Grammy nominations for best album and best pop vocal. Elaborate critical praise. ”A textbook-perfect album of post-Beatles, keyboard-centered […]
Song of the Day 12/10: Esther Phillips, “Release Me”
In their ongoing effort to show that they can act like whiny babies over absolutely anything, Republicans are bitching about Joe Biden freeing WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russia in a prisoner exchange. He did it all wrong — wrong American, wrong Russian, wrong timing — so it’s obviously bad news for Biden. It’s good […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 11, 2022
Pa. Rethugs Lose Election–Try To Steal It In Court. By, you know, opposing special elections for vacant seats: The top-ranking Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives asked a court late Friday to prevent voters from filling three vacant seats in February that will determine majority control of the chamber. Rep. Bryan Cutler of Lancaster, […]
Top Ten Best Christmas Songs & Best Versions of Them – Updated for 2022
Here is the definitive list of the “Top Ten Best Christmas Songs & Best Versions of Them ” updated for 2022. 10) ‘Christmas Time Is Here’ – A Charlie Brown Christmas 9) Alone on Christmas Day – Phoenix* 9) Fairytale of New York – The Pogues 8) Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – U2 no […]
Delaware continuing to age at an alarming rate
Good news – labor will be valuable. Bad news – most new jobs will be in the field of wiping the asses of old fucks. Delaware’s Population Consortium approved the state’s 2022 population projections Thursday – projections that counties, municipalities and school districts are required to use for planning and budgeting purposes. This year’s projections […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 10, 2022
For All You Science Nerds, (Let’s see, there’s Unstable Isotope, and that’s about it), Is This How To Beat Covid?: As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolves to escape natural antibodies, it also loses sensitivity to therapeutic antibody drugs. By contrast, evolution selects for binding to ACE2, the cell-surface receptor required for SARS-CoV-2 infection. […]
Salisbury MD almost made it a full year without a homicide
Downtown Salisbury stabbing is first homicide of the year Maryland State Police were continuing their search for the suspect in an early morning homicide in a parking lot on West Market Street in Salisbury. Riley Lee Collick, 44, of Fruitland, is wanted for first-degree murder in the death of Alejandro Roland Exantus, 32, of Laurel, […]
Very Responsible Gun Owner Arrested
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (AP) — A 76-year-old Minnesota man is facing criminal charges because he was shooting at a squirrel and a bullet went through a child’s bedroom window in a neighboring home. East Grand Forks Police said they arrested the man Sunday after his neighbor reported some bullet holes in the siding of […]
Great Britain Significantly Less Great After 12 Years of Tory Ass-Fuckery
Spiraling costs and crumbling public services leave millions in Britain struggling to live
Whatever Happened to Lauren Witzke?
Not that I care about what’s become of the one time de-facto leader of the DEGOP. I just think it is a measure of how flat out dead the DEGOP is that they can’t even keep an early Lappy!(tm) booster like Witzke interested hanging around.
Song of the Day 12/9: Steam, “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye”
If politics were really sports, Democratic senators would serenade Kyrsten Sinema to this tune like she was a relief pitcher getting yanked from the game. The song became a sports venue staple in 1977, supposedly prompted by the White Sox sweeping four games from the Twins. Some fans began singing, “Minnesota, Minnesota, hey hey, goodbye,” […]
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