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…
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…
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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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…
Song of the Day 12/9: Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind”
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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…
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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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…
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…
Jason 330 Makes The Case Against Chris Coons As Only Jason 330 Could
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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…
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 8, 2026
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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…
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…
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…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 6, 2025
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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…
Song of the Day 12/5: Mark Knopfler, “Sailing to Philadelphia”
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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…
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 6, 2025
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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…