Song of the Day 7/29: ZZ Top, “Tush”

By Alby July 29, 20212 Comments

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…

Coons is a real hero of profits… uh…I mean…”innovation”

By jason330 July 29, 202113 Comments

Socialized pricing will have a "devastating impact on... uh....innovation. Yeah, that's it... innovation".

DL Open Thread Thursday, July 29, 2021

By Alby July 29, 202118 Comments

I heard this story on WDEL the other day and almost drove off the road -- a puff piece about yet another state fund to funnel money to corporations. The…

Song of the Day 7/28: Allman Brothers Band, “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More”

By Alby July 28, 20213 Comments

It's a good time to eat a peach -- it's the height of a better-than-average peach season. It's also a good time to play "Eat a Peach," the soundtrack of…

DL Open Thread Wednesday July 28th 2021 – The 1/6 Commission

By jason330 July 28, 202111 Comments

Will there come a point when the media's bothersiderism breaks down under its own absurd weight? I thought that the 1/6 insurrection riots, for example, might allow the media to…

Song of the Day 7/27: The Coasters, “Young Blood”

By Alby July 27, 2021

Aged-out frat boy Matt Gaetz thinks he's somehow going to survive his scandalous behavior with underage females, even in the face of stories like this one, in which the sister…

LMAO! Coons, you scamp!

By jason330 July 27, 20213 Comments

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a close ally of President Biden, said Friday he would support a bipartisan infrastructure package even if negotiators drop a proposal to significantly increase funding for…

DL Open Thread, Tuesday July 27th 2021

By jason330 July 27, 202113 Comments

We've been entirely too soft on Vaccine resisters

CNN)Justice Department lawyers have determined that federal law doesn't prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring Covid-19 vaccines -- even if the vaccines have only emergency use authorization, according to an opinion posted online Monday.

The opinion from the department's Office of Legal Counsel paves the way for more federal agencies and businesses to require vaccinations.

Just when it seemed like some sanity was creeping in...

Sean Hannity assures audience he’s “not urging people to get the COVID-19 vaccine”

Sean Hannity issues stern rebuke to those calling him “pro-vaccine”: “Why are they saying something I didn’t say?”

Some things are beyond snark. Donald Trump Jr Most Popular Among Republicans

Pete ‘N Val Lied To Protect Brady’s Hide

By El Somnambulo July 26, 202180 Comments

From the Delaware State News, which just might have a worthy successor to Matt Bittle: House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach; Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst, D-Bear; and Majority Whip Larry…

Song of the Day 7/26: Iggy Pop, “China Girl”

By Alby July 26, 2021

For Gerald Brady. Yeah, you know the hit version (No. 10 US, No. 2 UK) that Nile Rodgers produced for David Bowie, but it was first recorded six years earlier…

Brady Announces He Won’t Run Again…

By El Somnambulo July 26, 202118 Comments

...according to Matt Bittle, whose Twitter feed is alive and better than ever, and according to sharp-eyed DL commenter Harold. Here is what Brady wrote on his Facebook page: However,…

DL Open Thread Monday July 26th, 2021 – Happy Monday!

By jason330 July 26, 202111 Comments

Gerald Brady Resigns!

...is a headline I thought I'd be writing this morning. Oh well. Soon. In the meantime, click through to read about Trump's incoherent, ill-informed ramblings, and how all asshole pubic figures should be accosted loudly and frequently. Especially public figures named Tucker Carlson.

Song of the Day 7/25: The Weakerthans, “Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call”

By Alby July 25, 20211 Comment

When people complained about Bob Dylan being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature because "lyrics aren't literature," they betrayed their ignorance about literature. Some of the earliest writings in the…