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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 17, 2025
“You Say ‘Potato’, I Say ‘Origin Story’”–A felicitous one-night stand between a tomato and the oft-maligned Etuberosum: And yet the domesticated potato and all of its wild relatives have long harbored a genetic mystery. “We didn’t know where the whole potato lineage came from,” says Sandy Knapp, a botanist at the Natural History Museum in […]
Song of the Day 8/16: Desi Arnaz, “Babalu”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona If some 1950s Donald Trump – Franco? Stalin? – had tried to deport Desi Arnaz back to Cuba, millions of “I Love Lucy” fans would have raised el infierno. As Ricky Ricardo, he was crucial to the show. He was the one who loved Lucy. Occasionally the wildly popular TV […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 16, 2025
A Collective Sigh Of Relief–No Title Changes At Alaska Armageddon: After meeting for nearly three hours, Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin left Alaska without announcing any deal or any specific areas where they made progress. Though Mr. Putin said the leaders reached an agreement to “pave the path towards peace in Ukraine,” Mr. Trump made […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 15, 2025
Trump’s obsession with changing the subject from Everything Epstein to Anything But renders today’s meeting with Putin particularly fraught with danger. Anchorage Armageddon, if you will. Michael Wolff’s take: President Donald Trump is desperately seeking a ‘big thing’ to distract from Jeffrey Epstein–and is willing to sacrifice Ukraine to achieve it, his biographer Michael Wolff […]
Song of the Day 8/15: Buck Owens, “Put a Quarter in the Jukebox”
For some reason the News Journal obituary for former governor and congressman Mike Castle doesn’t even mention, anywhere, what he will be remembered for outside Delaware: The 50 State Quarters® program. That fact is the lead of the AP’s obit – fittingly, because Castle was something of a hero to coin collectors. While in Congress, […]
Song of the Day 8/14: Elvis Costello and the Attractions, “Goon Squad”
ICE didn’t exist when Elvis Costello wrote this song for “Armed Forces,” the 1979 LP he was originally going to call “Emotional Fascism,” but then all goon squads are pretty much the same, aren’t they. “Armed Forces” was Costello’s most political album, but it also reflected his turbulent personal life and difficulty dealing with sudden […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 14, 2025
Trump Creates Emergency That Doesn’t Exist: The impact of Trump’s federal actions came into view Tuesday night, with National Guard troops on the ground and agents from numerous federal agencies roaming D.C. streets from the National Mall to busy corridors in Columbia Heights. At a checkpoint in Northwest Washington, local and federal officers, including Immigration […]
Song of the Day 8/13: Dolly Parton and Lorrie Morgan, “Best Woman Wins”
Its always satisfying when villains go after each other – you don’t care who wins, you just root for injuries. By that measure, the current catfight between Trump whisperers Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene delivers. Infighting and backbiting are hallmarks of every autocratic regime, as courtiers jockey for access and approval. Greene is frantic […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Well. Sounds like I was better off at the concert than observing what appears to have been a political viper pit in the House last night. All I know is that Speaker Mimi had to be dragged kicking and screaming to deign to allow three amendments from Madinah Wilson-Anton to be added to the legislative […]
Song of the Day 8/12: Johnny Horton, “North to Alaska”
What’s left of Donald Trump’s brain? There already were blank spaces where common knowledge should be, but yesterday’s senior moment was a doozy. I get that he says dumb stuff about drug prices dropping 1,000%, because math is hard and he’s never shown any aptitude for it, hence the bankruptcies. But I did think he’d […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Quick Note: Depending on how long today’s Special Session runs (I’m thinkin’ real long), I might miss a lot of it while I’m enmeshed in the blues-rock stylings of Joanne Shaw Taylor. So, I need you to fill us in on what’s happening. Thanks in advance! Why Democrats Suck–Mach Infinity: the clowns looking for their own […]
Joanne Shaw Taylor To Rock The Arden Shady Grove Tuesday
If you’re a fan of Stevie Ray Vaughan or (my fave) Albert Collins, you won’t want to miss her. She was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, and she’s put her own stamp on the genre ever since. Her band is smokin’ as well. A couple of samples: I was fortunate enough to book […]
Song of the Day 8/11: David Bowie, “Starman”
As far as I’m concerned, time travel has been proved impossible. I base this on the simple premise that if it could happen, somebody would have come back in time to rid us of Trump. UFOs, on the other hand, offer a glimmer of hope. If aliens have been keeping tabs on us, as some […]
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