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Burns to Beat Ramone by 5 Votes
I said I wasn’t going t make predictions, but I can’t help myself. Be sure to be the voter that puts Burns over the top if you live in that district. Also – Bonus Pick Ruxstable to defeat the Smirk by 63 votes.
Song of the Day 11/7: Wilson Phillips, “Hold On”
Don’t make yourself miserable. Try to remember that these midterms are going to be a shitshow by Republican design, and that making liberals suffer is part of the point. They are miserable people and they don’t actually love company, they just want everyone else to be as miserable as they are because they’re, y’know, assholes. […]
DL Open Thread Monday November 7 2022
18 hours to go. Many of you have probably voted already. 100% of you will have voted when it is all said and done. We are all political weirdos. We are among the 52% (ish) of voting-age citizens who will go to the polls during a midterm election. Congratulations. Nobody knows how it is going […]
Song of the Day 11/6: Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, “Don’t Give Up”
I don’t need to be in America to know that Democrats are demoralized about the midterms — our site traffic took a dive after the primaries, a sure sign of progressive malaise. This song is for them. Peter Gabriel released this duet on his “So” album in 1986. At that point Margaret Thatcher, who infamously […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 6, 2022
Musk Blatantly Violated Cali Law With Mass Firings. He’s not escaping this unscathed. Hopefully, all of the fired employees will be made somewhat whole. Anyone who’s lost a job knows how traumatic it can be. ‘OPEC Of Rainforests’? Can this alliance help halt deforestation?: The big three tropical rainforest nations – Brazil, Indonesia and the […]
Song of the Day 11/5: The Five Stairsteps, “O-o-h Child”
Before the Jacksons stole their title, the Five Stairsteps were known as the First Family of Soul. The five children of Chicago police detective Clarence Burke Sr. went from winning a talent contest in 1965 to a contract with Curtis Mayfield’s record company and a five-year run of nine Top 10 hits on the R&B […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 5, 2022
How Putin And His Allies Stalled Climate Reform. Yes, Trump was one of his allies: He has been abetted by powerful world leaders who share his nationalist or authoritarian leanings and who, together, have swept in to buy his coal, oil and gas and enabled him to finance his war. While their motivations for backing […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 4, 2022
Everything Falls Apart. I think we’re there. I have never been as pessimistic about our future as I am now. And I’m a pessimist at heart: We’re all gonna die, right? The Big Lie has taken hold, aided and abetted by the Democrats and the media. You know, the ones who ‘soul-search’ after each election, […]
Closing Arguments / Inflation
The GOP: Inflation is high so we need to fire Joe Biden and all Democrats on the ballot.
Fetterman: Inflation is high so we have to tackle the corporate greed that is behind the sky high prices.
Establishment Democrats: Inflation is high so we need to raise interest rates to curb the demand for houses and cars, which will slow overall economic growth, and increases unemployment. That will in turn reduce demand across the economy, and potentially lower prices on household staples.
Song of the Day 11/3: Dr. Feelgood, “Roxette”
Without Dr. Feelgood, punk rock never happens. The Ramones played fast, but they weren’t threatening. Neither were the dozens of British bands in the back-to-basics pub rock scene, where country rock and R&B provided good-time music for drinkers. Dr. Feelgood was something beyond that. Hailing from Canvey, a dingy English seaside town, snarling front man […]
Remember When Joe Told Us the Fever Would Break?
I’m so old I remember the first time. It was in an interview on Nov. 4, 2012, with Chris Matthews, when Biden predicted an Obama victory would be the game-changer: “We need leaders that can control their party, and I think you’re gonna see the fever break.” He sang the same tune in May 2019, […]
El Somnambulo Predicts ‘Em (Almost) All For You
Very few competitive races this year. Blame both the registration edges and the failure of the Rethugs to field legitimate challengers (filling empty spots on the ballot with placeholders in August does not constitute fielding legit challengers). We’re gonna review the ballot from the top down. US Congress: Lee Murphy is the perfect R candidate. […]
One Last Desperate, Hail-Mary, Throwing-Myself-On-The-Mercy-Of-The-Court, Attempt To…
…get you to come to our great Chris Pierce/Sug Daniels concert this Saturday night at the Gild Hall at 8 pm. I’ve got incentives! But first, an explanation as why it’s come to this. The Phillies. That’s right. The Arden Concert Gild has overcome cancellations, Covid, artist no-shows, snowstorms, power outages, torrential rains, even ungodly […]
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