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None of the five GOP candidates for Governor of Minnesota think Biden won the election
Jesus Fucking Christ. MARK FRAUENFELDER 9:36 AM FRI DEC 17, 2021 The moderator of Wednesday night’s debate between the five GOP candidates for Governor of Minnesota asked a clear and straightforward question: “In your opinion, did President Biden win a constitutional majority of the Electoral College? If yes, how definitive is your conclusion, and if […]
Song of the Day 12/18: Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell, “Silver Bells”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona This song was almost called “Tinkle Bells” until the wife of one of the writers explained that “tinkle” has certain connotations. So they changed it to “Silver Bells” and found themselves with what would be one of our most popular Christmas standards. Jay Livingston and Ray Evans wrote the song […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 18, 2021
‘Ye’s Campaign Run By GOP Operatives Attempting To Siphon Off Votes From Biden. Some damn good reporting from The Daily Beast. Kanye was a GOP plant. Looks like a lot of campaign laws were violated. Good thing the campaign was a disaster. Speaking Of Campaigns With The Whiff Of Disaster About Them…Take Herschel Walker. Please. […]
Song of the Day 12/17: Sufjan Stevens, “Star of Wonder”
No 21st-century singer has released more holiday material than multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens. In 2006, riding the crest of his critical acclaim (his LP “Illinois” was the highest-rated album of 2005 on Metacritic), released a 5-EP set called “Songs for Christmas.” Four of the discs had been recorded and gifted to friends and family, one each […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 17, 2021
Top HS Football Player Signs With–Jackson State. Big $$ Cheater Schools Go Apoplectic: Players, coaches and administrators from Florida’s state universities have for months encouraged him and other legislators to amend portions of the state’s NIL law that puts them at a disadvantage when recruiting against other schools located in states with either no state […]
Song of the Day 12/16: Frank Sinatra, “Christmas Waltz”
Guest Post by Nathan Arizona “The Christmas Waltz” is a holiday song that exists for one good reason: FRANK WANTED IT. In 1954 Frank Sinatra was about to enter the studio to record his version of “White Christmas,” which had not been written for him. He insisted that composer Jule Styne write something he could […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., December 16, 2021
Face It, Joe. Manchin’s Playing You And All The Democrats. He’s never gonna support the package. He is a Republican. He’s loving every second of his slo-mo betrayal, and the on-screen facetime he gets. Time to offer Murkowski whatever Alaska wants in exchange for her vote. The standoff nonetheless evinced the political divide between Biden […]
Song of the Day 12/15: The Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
People like to make cracks about the best Christmas music being written by Jews, but you can’t blame Felix Mendelssohn for getting that ball rolling. The music Mendelssohn composed in 1840 wasn’t intended for Christmas at all — it was part of a cantata to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Johann Gutenberg’s movable-type printing press. […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday December 15 2021
Delaware is going to have a big sad today. (Expect maudlin tributes from all the usual suspects.) The Dolles sign is coming down. Capitalism has spoken, or whatever. I can’t get very worked up about a sign for a company that makes taffy, an old-timey candy that nobody eats. And yet I guess the word […]
Depends® To Sponsor Dave McBride Nostalgia Tour?
Rumor has it that McBride is getting the geriatric gang together to give himself something, other than seeking to become a normal human being and connecting with his family, to occupy his time. Cue Dick Vitale: “He’s a Diaper Dandy, he’s a P-T-Pee-er!” He’s allegedly made all the necessary contacts. Talked to Dave Swayze and […]
Song of the Day 12/14: The Piano Guys, “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
Yes, of course this is Mariah Carey’s song, but the squeaky-clean Piano Guys get the nod here because they assembled a Lego-mation video that uses the pain-in-the-foot building blocks to pay tribute to just about every classic Christmas movie, and they set it to the only tune of the past 40 years to enter the […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday December 14 2021
A host of Fox News personalities watched the attempted Jan 6th coup with horror. In a flurry of text messages, they begged Mark Meadows to beg Trump to call off the coup, and not kill Mike Pence. They have all since revised their position on insurrection and the merits of murdering Mike Pence.
The Democratic Party has a serious problem – the moderates who have won control of the party are addicted to alienating working and middle class voters.
The NYT recently published an op-ed by Jamelle Bouie who implores moderates like Coons, Manchin and Sinema to stop whining about progressives, to stop blaming liberals for your failures and get down to business.
The Bottom Five Worst Christmas Songs
This is a companion post to my definitive list of the best Christmas songs and the best versions of those song. In this list I don’t bother with versions because these songs are so execrable that figuring out degrees of awfulness doesn’t interest me. To get on the list, the songs must be from the modern era (not traditional), truly bad and yet, somehow still widely played along with the rest of the holiday canon.
5) The Little Drummer Boy
4) Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time
3) Last Christmas I gave You My Heart
2) Santa Baby
1) Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
If you are a really glutton for punishment, check out this Esquire list of horrible holiday music that (thankfully) isn’t widely played. [The Christina Aguilera version of ‘Oh Holy Night’ gets my vote for “The Worst Song Ever”, if anyone ever has the nerve to compile that list. ]
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