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DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 2, 2021
Can’t We Just Trade Manchin For Murkowski? Not saying she’d be a ‘better’ D, but I doubt she’d revel in the role of gumming up the works like that fucking hillbilly. The ‘Least Bad’ Ways To Cool The Planet? Carbon Removal. Social Geoengineering. Or Both. Doesn’t fill me with confidence. But well worth reading: To […]
Breaking: Steve Smyk Doesn’t really thinks some of his Leg Hall Colleagues Cheated to Win – He is Just Pandering
A tipster has informed me that Smyk doesn’t actual buy into the “big lie” that Trump won the election or that Delaware elections are shot through with fraud. Rather he is just pandering to the electorate which he regards as child-like idiots.
Song of the Day 10/1: Gilbert O’Sullivan, “Alone Again (Naturally)”
I mentioned this song yesterday, comparing its opening verse to Paul Westerberg’s original version of “Can’t Hardly Wait” because the protagonists of both songs start their soliloquies by announcing they’re going to throw themselves off a tower. Sadly, Westerberg’s paean to despair never enjoyed the kind of commercial success that Raymond Edward “Gilbert” O’Sullivan achieved […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 1, 2021
Killings By Police In America Undercounted By More Than Half. According to the British medical journal Lancet: Researchers compared information from a federal database known as the National Vital Statistics System, which collects death certificates, with recent data from three organizations that track police killings through news reports and public records requests. When extrapolating and […]
Who is Steve Smyk Accusing of Cheating? Must be Spiros
As reported by Chris Kenny’s ‘Delaware Live’ Steve Smyk thinks Delaware elections are riven with fraud. That Smyk thinks Delaware elections are fraudulent in the abstract is one thing, but he has made a serious accusation that has implications in the real world. Who is the State Senator or Rep he is accusing of having […]
My Fave Tunes For September 2021
And the months dwindle down to a precious few. September…: Will this be Nathan Arizona’s fave of the month? Maybe he’ll tell us…: Oh, snap! Personal to the Tubs: Please change your name. The Tubes pop up, but not the Tubs. Change the name of The Name Song. All I get is Shirleyshirleybobirley. Song’s on […]
Song of the Day 9/30: The Replacements, “Can’t Hardly Wait”
Listening back to the Replacements, which I do fairly frequently, I’m struck by how far out of their way the band had to go to prevent Paul Westerberg’s punchy, melodic songs from becoming hits. Years of drunken performances and other self-sabotaging behavior — indie cred in those days required not just indifference toward but active […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021
Are the media invested in ending American democracy? Sure seems that way to a lot of people, including Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post, who’s hopping mad that the Eastman memo, laying out how Mike Pence could have thrown the election to Trump on Jan. 6, has gotten almost no attention from the mainstream media. […]
With No Black People Around to Hassle, Beat Up, or Kill – State Trooper Forced to Harass 14-yr Old Girl
If you think cops are just out to fuck with people, this story will not disabuse you of that notion.
Breaking: Steve Smyk thinks some of his Leg Hall Colleagues Cheated to Win – But Who?
This creep-show, Smyk, spoke to an audience of a-holes, crackpots and lunatics who think Trump is still President of the United States. Rather than inform them what they are doing is flatly un-American and anti-constitutional, Smyk agreed with them that election fraud is a problem in Delaware. However, he stopped short of naming names and saying who, among his Leg Hall colleagues cheated their way to electoral victory.
“There’s no one silver bullet” to solving the problem of election fraud, Smyk said. “It comes down to all of you. Too many people have enjoyed their freedoms and they don’t recognize we’re about to lose them.”
Song of the Day 9/29: Son Volt, “Livin’ in the USA”
Son Volt’s 10th LP, “Electro Melodier,” released in July, continues Jay Ferrar’s turn toward political lyrics since Trump’s election. The music, though, fits right in with the Americana/roots furrow he’s plowed his entire career. I haven’t noticed any big market for this sort of thing, but the album has gotten some of Farrar’s strongest reviews […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday September 29th – “Both Sides”
From 1642 to 1651 the English fought a series of civil wars that ended with King Charles v1.0 killed and King Charles v2.0 in exile. Having suffered under successive horrible Kings, the first thing the English did after getting rid of the King was look around for a new King. Except for a few kooks and crackpots, nobody could conceive of a country without a King in charge. As a fish is unaware of the fact that it lives in water -the English were unaware of the fact that monarchy was not some inviolable natural law, but in fact bullshit.
Bothsiderism, Glorious Moderation, The Benevolent Virtues of Centrism, these are all lazy but widely accepted paradigms. They are world-views based on nothing but consensus. They may have worked to explain the world for a while, but they could not be more toxic now. That’s the bad news. The really bad news is that it takes generations to change consensus world view…and we don’t have 50 years, let alone generations.
After seemingly hammering Republicans for blocking debt ceiling, NBC News host Chuck Todd then falsely blames “both parties”
Song of the Day 9/28: Bob Dylan, “Tomorrow Is a Long Time”
Bob Dylan, now 80 years old, yesterday announced the resumption of his Never Ending Tour, which took its longest break since 1984 because of the pandemic. This probably won’t make the setlist this year — I’m not sure Dylan’s reduced vocal flexibility would do it justice, and the woman he wrote it for is now […]
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