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DL Open Thread: Sun., April 5, 2020

By El Somnambulo April 5, 202015 Comments

How The Federal Government Failed Completely On Fighting The Coronavirus. A good more-or-less instant history of the disaster, the key being the 70 days that Trump pissed away while downplaying…

Song of the Day 4/5: Broadway Cast of “Assassins,” “Everybody’s Got the Right”

By Alby April 5, 20206 Comments

Offered without comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCgjmueEgY

DL Open Thread: Sat., April 4, 2020

By El Somnambulo April 4, 202012 Comments

Florida Rethuglican Party May Have Blowed Itself Up Real Good. And, no, it's not what you think. An absolute must-read. Schadenfreude you can enjoy w/o guilt. The Rethugs set up…

American Journalism Fucking Sucks

By jason330 April 4, 20206 Comments

Trump said "we have tests" but health experts said "we don't have tests." Trump said, "We inherited obsolete broken tests from Obama admin. Now we have good tests." Experts said, "That is not accurate."

Trump said "X" but experts said "Y". American journalism puts lies on equal footing with the truth. American journalists have no stomach for calling lies what they are. That's bad news for America.

Vote for Democrats. We are slightly less bad!

By jason330 April 4, 20201 Comment

The problem with the Democratic Party strategy expressed above is that as Republicans get worse and worse, elected Dems simply adjust accordingly.

Song of the Day 4/3: Bill Withers, “Lean on Me”

By Alby April 3, 2020

Amid the COVID-19 catastrophe, deaths from other causes continue apace. Bill Withers, 81, died Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure, apparently unrelated to the coronavirus. Withers was a working…

DL Open Thread: Fri., April 3, 2020

By El Somnambulo April 3, 20208 Comments

'Jared Kushner Is Going To Get Us All Killed'. Explain to me again how this guy is in charge of, and has failed at, everything. This, if anything, has been…

Song of the Day 4/2: Adam Schlesinger and Mike Viola, “That Thing You Do”

By Alby April 2, 20205 Comments

To properly honor Adam Schlesinger, the most prolific pop tunesmith of his generation, would take a month or two of Songs of the Day. He wrote dozens for his best-known…

DL Open Thread: Thurs., April 2, 2020

By El Somnambulo April 2, 202029 Comments

America's 'Wartime' President Brags He's #1 On Facebook, Threatens Military Action Against Iran, And Touts Drug Interdiction Operation--During Coronavirus Briefing. Oh, and tells lie after lie. Hey, if they're gonna…

Song of the Day 4/1: The Arrows, “I Love Rock and Roll”

By Alby April 1, 20201 Comment

If it weren't for Joan Jett, Alan Merrill and the Arrows would be unknown in America instead of just obscure. But they were so big in Britain in the mid-'70s…

DL Open Thread: Weds., April 1, 2020

By El Somnambulo April 1, 20207 Comments

Sorry, not in the mood for April Fool's Jokes. There's no fool like an orange fool, and there's nothing funny about him. UN: Pandemic Worst Crisis Since WW II. FDR…

Don’t let Democrats off the Hook

By jason330 April 1, 20201 Comment

Not much more can be said about the abject fuck-up that is Donald Trump. The temporary morgues outside of hospitals speak loudly on that topic. But don't let the relative horror that is Republicanism allow you to dismiss the role that the Democratic Party has played in getting ...

Song of the Day 3/31: Joe Diffie, “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)”

By Alby March 31, 20204 Comments

Joe Diffie, who died of the coronavirus Sunday at age 61, was a reliable Nashville hitmaker in the early '90s, placing more than a dozen songs in the Top 10…