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Song of the Day 8/2: Foxes and Fossils, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”
This is the story of a local cover band that became YouTube famous. I first started seeing Foxes and Fossils in my feed a year or more ago, during the pandemic lockdown, probably because I listen to a good bit of vocal harmony stuff. I don’t recall clicking on anything, but lots of other people […]
What’s in the infrastructure deal? What’s not in it?
Via Vox, here are the areas that would get major new spending: Transportation projects: The bill would spend $110 billion in new funds for road, bridges, and related projects. It also would commit $39 billion for public transit — which the Biden administration described as “the largest federal investment in public transit in history” — […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 2, 2021
Gerald Brady Resigns!
…is a headline that I still haven’t read anywhere. I find that odd, but I find a great deal of Delaware politics odd.
BTW, do you know who Brady wrote that crazily racist, misogynist shit too? It has been kind of lost in the soup, but the intended recipient was none other than…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: July 2021
Kids, if you haven’t gotten vaccinated yet, and you don’t like any of these tunes, then don’t get vaccinated. Self-selection isn’t just for anti-vax mouthbreathers, it’s for music hate-ahs too. Enjoy. That’s an order. I hereby predict that this will be Nathan Arizona’s Fave Of The Month: One of our […]
Song of the Day 8/1: Los Lobos, “Native Son”
H/t Nathan Arizona Los Lobos just dropped a new album of cover songs, “Native Sons,” all by bands from Los Angeles, and not just obvious choices like the Chicano band Thee Midniters — the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, the Blasters and even Jackson Browne are represented. Los Lobos did write one original song for the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021
Everyone acts surprised that Republicans “don’t believe in science,” but they shouldn’t be — conservatives have never bothered to support any of their arguments with data that go beyond anecdotes. To pick the most obvious example, they prattle on and on about trickle-down economics yet have never produced any evidence that it works — indeed, […]
What would the GOP have to do for Coons to lose faith in bipartisanship?
That’s a rhetorical question. The Congressional Republicans are now in open rebellion against our constitutional democracy. There is literally nothing his friends in the GOP could do that would undermine Coons’ idiotic and dangerous faith in bipartisanship.
Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative
No longer content to absolve Mr. Trump, (congressional Republicans) concocted a version of events in which those accused of rioting were patriotic political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for the violence.
Their new claims, some voiced from the highest levels of House Republican leadership, amount to a disinformation campaign being promulgated from the steps of the Capitol, aimed at giving cover to their party and intensifying the threats to political accountability.
DL Celebrates ‘Freedumbs’: Week Of July 25-31
Chronicling this week’s capers and consequences of the anti-vax imbeciles: Maine Legislator, Outspoken Anti-Vaxxer, Gets Covid. So does his wife: Rep. Chris Johansen, a Republican legislator from the Aroostook County town of Monticello who has been an outspoken opponent of coronavirus restrictions, has reportedly contracted COVID-19. The lawmaker’s wife, Cindy Johansen, who is the corresponding […]
Song of the Day 7/31: Lindsey Buckingham, “I Don’t Mind”
You can throw him out of the band he made successful, you can put him through emergency open-heart surgery, you can cancel his tour because COVID, but you can’t stop Lindsey Buckingham from writing, playing and recording hook-laden soft-rock tunes. “I Don’t Mind” is the lead single from his upcoming eponymous solo LP, and like […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 31, 2021
Trump Pushed DOJ To Overthrow Election. Treason. Sedition. You name it. He broke the law, and threatened the future of the country. “Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the R congressmen”. Betcha some of those R congressmen were on McCarthy’s list of nominees for the Jan. 6 […]
Song of the Day 7/30: Kansas, “Dust in the Wind”
Robby Steinhardt, second vocalist and violinist for the band Kansas, died last week of pancreatitis, aged 71. He wasn’t the group’s leader, but his violin was the most distinctive element of their prog-rock sound, and his wild mane was its most arresting visual feature. He also served as front man during their concerts, making the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 30, 2021
Voter Suppression Continues Apace. In Georgia, they’re trying to take over the Fulton County Board Of Elections. In Pa., they’re engaged in voter intimidation. In Arizona, here’s who’s funding the so-called ‘audit. (Michael Flynn belongs in jail.) In DC, preservation of the time-dishonored filibuster Trumps all. Jim Jordan Is A ‘Fucking…Son Of A Bitch’. According […]
Song of the Day 7/29: ZZ Top, “Tush”
Texas blues-rockers ZZ Top are undergoing their first personnel change in 51 years today because bassist and second lead vocalist Dusty Hill died in his sleep Tuesday. The band became famous in the early years of MTV, which debuted about the same time ZZ Top began to augment their power-trio boogie with new wave trappings. […]
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