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DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker. Um, why? Chris, you’re on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Care to hazard a guess? Or say anything?: The United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a dramatic escalation in President Trump’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela. Speaking at the […]
Song of the Day 12/10: Simple Minds, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona There’s an ‘80s revival going on. It’s been going on since about 1990. It’s the decade that wouldn’t die. Eighties pop culture nostalgia spiked in the 2000s, bubbled on low heat for a while and now Gen Z can’t stop TikToking about big hair, bold colors, Game Boys, shoulder pads, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
When Does The Anecdotal Become The Empirical? Rethugs lose two more elections: Georgia: Georgia Democrats scored a major upset in a special election on Tuesday night, flipping a conservative legislative district in the Athens area—the 25th such gain for the party nationwide this year, against zero for the GOP. Democrat Eric Gisler, who works in […]
Song of the Day 12/9: Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind”
Donald Trump’s War on Wind – a particularly stupid fixation given AI’s soaring demand for electricity – suffered a setback yesterday. A federal judge ruled his abrupt cancellation of all wind power projects was “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law.” As if that would ever stop him. I’m sure his amateur-grade lawyers will take […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Absolute Corruption–Trump Mobilizes To Stop WBD/Netflix Merger Because…: Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what used to be Time Warner and now goes by the name Warner Bros Discovery (which includes CNN in addition to the more lucrative media stuff). The company had agreed to be acquired by Netflix. So […]
Song of the Day 12/8: Gloria Gaynor, “Fida Known”
Trump played MC for the Kennedy Center Honors last night, and managed to get through the evening while keeping the cringe to a minimum. But it’s Trump, so he couldn’t go without making a few vile remarks. After praising the persistence he said marked the careers of the honorees in his introduction, Trump added, “I […]
Jason 330 Makes The Case Against Chris Coons As Only Jason 330 Could
Our Beloved Founder was on to the DINO from the Gore-Tex Dynasty before, well, pretty much anybody. Here are some of his greatest hits, ideally to be replayed during the upcoming campaign: Coons Piles On Hunter Biden–After Keeping His Mouth Shut About Jared Kushner. Coons Willing To Sell Out Abortion Rights To Placate Tommy Tuberville. […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 8, 2026
Trump Has Early Stage Alzheimer’s? It’s as plain as the orange makeup caked on his hand: Trump’s deteriorating physical and cognitive condition stopped being a punchline somewhere around the moment he fell asleep in a Cabinet meeting (23 times this week alone), got angry when asked about his MRI, and sent his entire comms team […]
Song of the Day 12/7: Steve Cropper & the Midnight Hour, “Talkin’ Bout Politics”
Steve Cropper, who died Dec. 3 at 84, did as much as anyone to make Stax a soul powerhouse in the ’60s – playing guitar in the house band, Booker T and the MG’s, co-writing a clutch of R&B classics, including “The Dock of the Bay,” “Knock on Wood” and “In the Midnight Hour,” and […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: December 7, 2025
Why ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ Resonates: My parents were atheists; I knew almost nothing about Christianity as a child, although I got the lay of the land when I was sent to Catholic school in sixth grade. Before that, my parents—especially my mother—actively worked to keep me and my sister free from religion, Christianity […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 6, 2025
Gotta make this quick–it’s Claymont Parade Day… CDC Goes All-In On Anti-Vax: ATLANTA — For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fought attempts by the anti-vaccine movement to sow doubts in the safety and efficacy of the shots that marked a triumph of public health. This week, the agency instead provided a […]
Song of the Day 12/5: Mark Knopfler, “Sailing to Philadelphia”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Two Englishmen sail west across the Atlantic and finally spy “the capes of Delaware.” They have a big job ahead. As this Mark Knopfler song about them says, they’ve come to America to “draw the line.” They are the surveyors Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason. They spring to life in […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 6, 2025
Corrupt Supreme Court OK’s Corrupt Texas Gerrymander. Did you expect any other result?: The Supreme Court was simply hamstrung, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, unable to knock down Texas’ hyper-partisan, likely racial gerrymander because the election it would govern is so close. Said election, though, is a whopping 11 months away. Yet that near year of […]
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