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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 1, 2025
More Trump Tariff Rope-A-Dope: Stock markets in Europe and across Asia-Pacific countries have fallen after Donald Trump announced new tariffs on dozens of US trading partners. Last night, as the latest deadline to reach deals approached, Trump signed an executive order imposing tariffs ranging from 10% to 41%. Rates were set at 25% for India, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 31, 2025
First, a question on the upcoming Special Session: Usually, when there has been a Special Session, pretty much everything has been prepared in advance. Raising my concern: Will this Special Session merely provide an ill-considered patch, or will a thoughtful solution to the issue that has been discussed extensively and in detail here emerge? I, […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: July 2025
Can’t over-hype this month. It over-hypes itself. No better way to kick it off: Don’t know exactly what Dev Hynes does. Don’t need to: Belongs on a Justified soundtrack: A gorgeous song from Jenn Wasner, aka ‘Flock Of Dimes’: I’m tossing in an incredible Tiny Desk Concert by Flock of Dimes, just because I can, […]
Song of the Day 7/30: Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney, “The Girl Is Mine”
Donald Trump’s latest excuse-cum-confession in L’Affaire D’Epstein demonstrates the depths of not just his depravity but his narcissism as well. Confronted with the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s procurer, recruited 15-year-old victim Virginia Gioffre from a job in the spa at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said Epstein “stole” his underage employee. Two almost-billionaires arguing over ownership of […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
BREAKING: Greenhouse Gas NOT A Cause Of Climate Change. Who sez so? Trump’s EPA: For years the Environmental Protection Agency has pushed carmakers to reduce how much vehicles contribute to climate change. Today the EPA laid out plans to not just weaken those rules, but end them entirely. In 2009, the agency determined that carbon […]
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. […]
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