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Guest Post: The Property Reassessment Controversy
By Mediawatch: Like you, I’m still trying to figure out who should be in the crosshairs. A couple of things going on here: 1. There was minimal uproar last year in Kent because it’s the smallest county. There has been relatively little outrage in Sussex because property taxes are so damn low and there’s a […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Trump Sets Non-Profit Organizations In His Sights: President Trump’s actions targeting law firms, judges, media organizations, universities and labor unions have demonstrated a norm-shattering zeal for retribution and punishment of anyone who may disagree with his policies. Now, nonprofit organizations are up. An executive order directed every federal agency to send the White House targets […]
Song of the Day 7/29: The Zombies, “She’s Not There”
Controversial NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers has had only three confirmed concussions in his career, but he sure acts like he has brain damage. He’s in the news now because, after a stormy history with women, he says he recently got married – but nobody can confirm the woman exists. Rodgers started talking about “Brittani” back […]
Song of the Day 7/28: Tom Lehrer, “The Vatican Rag”
Tom Lehrer, the math professor whose satiric songs about nuclear war, sexual deviancy and other human follies made him a popular cult figure in the 1950s and ’60s, died Saturday at age 97. His clever wordplay and black humor bridged the gap between Cole Porter and Bo Burnham, and influenced the work of countless success […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 28, 2025
Robert Reich: “We Blew It”. By ‘we’, I’m talkin’ baby boomers, of which I am one. A few choice excerpts: If you’re an average working person today, you are extraordinarily vulnerable. Nobody is protecting you. This is one of the attractions that Donald Trump wittingly or unwittingly presented in 2016 and continues to present. He […]
Song of the Day 7/27: Jackie Wilson, “Lonely Teardrops”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona If Elvis Presley were here, he’d sing the praises of classic R&B/soul singer Jackie Wilson. He’d even sound like Jackie. Elvis called himself “the white Jackie Wilson” and raved about this “real slender … colored guy” to Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis at a 1956 session at Sun Records. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 27, 2025
Volkswagen’s Slave Ranch In Brazil. I’d never heard this story before: When Ricardo Rezende Figueira saw the headline, he felt a chill run through him. It was about Volkswagen. The company said it was finally ready to atone for its past. After admitting that its staff had cooperated with Brazil’s military dictatorship to target workers […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 26, 2025
One More Way That Hulk Hogan’s Legacy Has Hurt America: The tawdry story begins at some point in or around 2006. Bollea was having trouble in his marriage and was, by his own account, severely depressed. One day, he visited the home of his friend, a Tampa shock jock named Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. […]
Song of the Day 7/25: Chuck Mangione, “Feels So Good”
Chuck Mangione gave credit for his biggest hit to the Bee Gees. “‘Saturday Night Fever’ had saturated radio,” he once told an interviewer. “I think the top six out of 10 hits were from that album. Radio programmers couldn’t figure out what to put on instead, and when somebody edited ‘Feels So Good’ from nine […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 25, 2025
There is absolutely no analogy between this photo and the WWII concentration camps. Because there is absolutely no genocide taking place in Gaza: A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Which Reminds Me: Just Shut Up. We’re talking Josh Shapiro and Rahm Emmanuel: […]
Song of the Day 7/24: The Velvet Underground, “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
It’s ironic, really. I don’t think Donald Trump has had a true friend in his life, yet here he is, hoist on the petard of his supposed friendship with fellow perv Jeffrey Epstein. The two certainly had a relationship, but calling it “friendship” probably stretches the definition too far. A better analogy might be symbiosis. […]
My Big Question On The RD 20 Special Election–
–Is the State Democratic Party Running The Race It Should Be Running? First, my answer: I don’t know. However, based on the relatively few published comments from the two candidates, they both seem to tout their community and professional experience. Period. Nothing more. Which I suppose would be fine under ordinary circumstances. Which these are […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 24, 2025
The Cover-Up Uncovered: Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to three people with knowledge of the exchange. The disclosure came as part of a broader briefing on the re-examination of the case against Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting […]
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