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Song of the Day 8/23: The Everly Brothers, “Cathy’s Clown”
The Everly Brothers were the greatest duo in rock ‘n’ roll history (Hall & Oates had more Top 40 singles than the Everlys’ 26, but c’mon). They helped establish some foundational elements of rock ‘n’ roll, among them close harmonies, a country twang — and brother acts who don’t get along. Don Everly, who died […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 23, 2021
I’m still not watching any opinion/talking head panel “news” but I have pieced together the fact that according to Politico, Fox News, CNN and the New York Times, Joe Biden is the worst Hitler since the original Hitler.
You know the depth of the media’s malefaction if you’ve read this: ‘The American Media (Hearts) Forever War’ Alby posted it yesterday.
Could Covid gets any better at killing wingnut radio personalities, homophobic preachers, and Red State screwball legislators?
One can hope.
Calling the GOP a “Death Cult” would be accurate but impolite – So the Media Doesn’t Do it.
Probably the most important rule of conventional media discourse in this country is that an accurate description of the contemporary GOP is not possible, because such a description would be so extreme that it would basically blow the standard structure of that discourse to smithereens.
For example, when front pagers and commentators here at LGM refer to the Republican party as a death cult, this must be interpreted by Very Serious People in the legacy media to be some sort of partisan hyperbole. In fact it’s about as hyperbolic as pointing out that the Pacific Ocean has a lot of water in it. In other words, it’s a very simple and straightforward description of an undeniable state of affairs:
If you want to take concrete action to oppose the Republicans trying to infect this country with disease and idiocy you can do these things today:
1) Research who your elected officials are from US Senator down to County Council and how they vote.
2) If they are Democrats, urge them to be more confrontational – or plan to primary them.
3) If they are republicans run against them – or support a candidate who will fight.
4) Read ‘Beyond the Super Voter’ at the Delaware Call
Song of the Day 8/22: Crabmeat Thompson, “Small Wonder”
Readers of the News Journal might not know this, but Delaware folksinger and raconteur Jerry “Crabmeat” Thompson died in June. I first heard this from friends who saw it on social media, but the only obituary I could find ran a month later in the Middletown Transcript. Back in the days when I worked the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 22, 2021
The hypocrisy of the media’s war cheerleading sure is coming a-cropper, with every pom-pom-waving “military analyst” shitting on Biden as their always-questionable usefulness comes to an end. No, you’re not imagining it — talking-head shows weren’t interested in booking anyone who agreed with Biden. If this doesn’t convince people to turn off the infotainment TV, […]
DEGOP has landed on its big campaign issue: Anti-Maskism
Won’t someone think of the children?!?!? SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. – The Delaware Republican Party is pushing back against Governor Carney’s newest mask requirement in schools, as school districts across the state prepare for the new mandate. The governor announced an indoor mask mandate for K-12 students in public and private schools, and daycares on Tuesday. […]
Song of the Day 8/21: Grace Vonderkuhn, “Rock and Roll Gary”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Newark’s Grace Vonderkuhn rips headlong through her garage/psych/power-punk songs, but her burgeoning career hit a speed bump during the Covid shutdown. Her band, a trio known just as Grace Vonderkuhn, earned good reviews for its its debut album in 2018 and turned heads on the national club tour that followed. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 21, 2021
U-Va: No Vaccine, No School For You. Dis-enrolls 49 students who didn’t follow mandatory policy. Oh, well, there’s always Falwell U. Krugman: ‘The Quiet Rage Of The Responsible’: Also, it’s striking how quickly supposed conservative principles have been abandoned wherever honoring those principles would help rather than hurt attempts to contain the pandemic. For decades, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 20, 2021
Virginia Redistricting Panel Ends Up Exactly As I Thought It Would. Same thing would happen here: When Virginians voted nearly 2-to-1 last fall to establish a bipartisan redistricting commission, the idea was to embrace a fairer method of drafting the state’s political maps. There was certainly reason to hope for an end to the brazen […]
Song of the Day 8/19: Bo Burnham, “Welcome to the Internet”
Bo Burnham is usually classified as a comedian, but he’s just as easily categorized as a musician, one in the tradition of Tom Lehrer with a tad of Kurt Weill thrown in. (Song of the Day featured his songs about Jeff Bezos last month.) Listen to how accurately he skewers what we’ve done to ourselves […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 19, 2021
Why would a guy, a Florida governor let’s say, dissuade people from getting vaccines or wearing masks, but go all-out on a treatment for people once they come down with Covid? Why do you think? Um…could it be that his second-biggest political donor owns a big chunk of the treatment company? Didn’t have to turn […]
Song of the Day 8/18: Elvis Costello, “Blame It on Cain”
From Elvis’ first album, with Clover backing him. John McFee’s jazzy guitar and Costello’s delivery of his cryptic lyrics dominate the track. Nobody’s ever come up with a satisfying explanation of the song’s meaning, and I can’t find any record of Costello ever having said, but it’s pretty clear somebody is passing the buck. The […]
(At Least) Twelve Years Of Wilful Idiocy…
And Racism. Don’t forget racism. Especially racism. Scarlet Woman (Personal to SW: There’s a spot on our writing team if you’re interested) exhumed perhaps the precise moment where the Delaware GOP was taken over by the loonies. This is a must-watch: 12 years later, the same idiots are disrupting school board meetings because they can. […]
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