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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 29, 2025
Yes, we ran into the dreaded ‘technical difficulties’ yesterday. Which is unfortunate, since I’m technologically illiterate. It won’t happen again. Until the next time. Public Health? What Public Health?: The firing of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, Susan Monarez, less than a month after she was confirmed by the United States Senate […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Pandemics Coming Soon! Vaccines, Not So Much. Courtesy of Bobby Brainworm, Jr: The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she refused to resign amid pressure to change vaccine policy, which sparked the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether […]
Song of the Day 8/28: Thelma Watson and Her All-Girl Orchestra, “You Gotta Be a Football Hero (To Get Along With the Beautiful Girls)”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona If you wonder how a lunkhead (I mean regular guy) like Travis Kelce landed the teen-girl whisperer who became the most powerful woman in the world, you need to hear a song that’s been explaining it for 82 years. The title says it all: “You Gotta Be a Football Hero […]
Song of the Day 8/27: Oasis, “Half the World Away”
There’s no pleasing some people. Hardcore Oasis fans, for example. Noel and Liam Gallagher finally agreed to work together again, reforming Oasis after 15 years of sniping at each other, but though their sold-out worldwide reunion tour has gotten positive reviews, their stans have a complaint: They’ve played the same 23-song setlist at every show. […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Electoral Trend Emerging? Not just (or primarily) for Democrats. But for progressives: Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey won a major upset on Tuesday night, flipping a deep-red seat in the state Senate and breaking the GOP’s supermajority in the chamber. Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch by a wide 55-45 margin in a district Donald Trump carried […]
A Great Candidate For RD 38!
A real tough district, but check out the background of recently-announced D candidate Maureen Madden: A retired federal civil servant and a multi-degree black belt-holder across several disciplines, Mo Madden served for nearly 23 years at the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and more than 7 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
Song of the Day 8/26: Tavares, “More Than a Woman”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Now that “Saturday Night Fever” (maybe) and the Bee Gees (probably) have been rehabilitated by the cool kids, think back to the soundtrack. Did you notice, maybe just vaguely, that “More Than a Woman” shows up twice? Not one version that plays twice, but two groups doing the same song. […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Dog-Killer Persecutes Kilmar Abrego Garcia: This wouldn’t be possible in anything other than a banana republic: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to remove noncitizens from the U.S., was detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore on Monday to face renewed efforts to deport him after a […]
Babbling Like a Brook: When Will the Media Give Trump the Biden Treatment?
Looks like all those Republican accusations about Biden’s age and mental befuddlement were, as usual, confessions. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been in a war of words with Donald Trump. After Trump threatened to deploy National Guard troops to Baltimore, calling it “crime-ridden,” Moore invited the president to “come walk the streets with us.” Trump […]
Do You Want An Audit Of Tyler Technologies?
To me the answer is an obvious YES. Rep. Eric Morrison just shared the following: Three NCC councilpersons have introduced a resolution calling for an audit of Tyler Technologies, how the company performed their property reassessment work, how the county instructed them to do so, and if the company followed those instructions. The resolution will be […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 25, 2025
So. You Think A Second Civil War Hasn’t Started Yet? Troops coming to a city near you, fortified with soldiers from the Confederacy: President Trump has escalated his threat to deploy National Guard troops to major cities to address crime as the federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., enters its third week. Trump expanded his federal […]
Song of the Day 8/25: The Mary Wallopers, “Frost Is All Over”
The Israel-Gaza War started with a massacre at a music festival, and nearly two years later the music festival business is still feeling the effects. Israel’s brutal response to the terrorist attack brought on widespread condemnation, and bands who have spoken out against it have faced censorship. The Mary Wallopers, a punk-influenced Irish folk band […]
Song of the Day 8/24: John Schneider, “Cracker Barrel”
Hayseed-Americans – formerly hicks, rubes, shit-kickers, stump-jumpers and chawbacons, all now subsets of MAGA – are in a dither over a corporate logo change. The restaurant/retail chain Cracker Barrel has been accused of “going woke” for scrubbing the seated man and his barrel (though printed in brown-outlined yellow, he codes as white), leaving just the […]
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