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Song of the Day 5/12: Angus and Julia Stone, “Big Jet Plane”
As far as Donald Trump is concerned, the best part of being president is that people give you stuff for free – catnip to the kind of grasping poseur Trump has always been. So naturally he’s not just ready to take a jumbo-jet sized bribe from the Qataris, he’s bragging about it. I’m only surprised […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 12, 2025
‘Da Plane, Da Plane’. The perfect embodiment of the corruption permeating this administration: The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, which would make it one of the biggest foreign gifts ever received by […]
Song of the Day 5/11: Frank Zappa and the Mothers, “Camarillo Brillo”
Frank Zappa’s record label wouldn’t let him call his band the Mothers, so he added “of Invention” to pacify them. But nobody called them that. They were the Mothers, though not the sort Hallmark meant to honor. Zappa churned through sidemen, so there were many Mothers. He eventually grew frustrated with trying to herd the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 11, 2025
We start today with a Rorschach Test: Thoughts? Comments? Because Nothing In The Belichick/Hudson Saga Is Too Cringe-y For Me: A few minutes before 7 p.m. Saturday, just before the show began, the most successful coach in NFL history slipped in through a side door of the State of Maine Grand Ballroom. A pink tie […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Wasn’t Using That Habeas Corpus Anyway: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who orchestrated President Trump’s crackdown on immigration, said on Friday that the administration was considering suspending immigrants’ right to challenge their detention in court before being deported. “The Constitution is clear,” he told reporters outside the White House, arguing that […]
Song of the Day 5/9: The Who, “The Song Is Over”
The Who has announced another farewell tour. Yeah, sure, you might scoff – wasn’t their first farewell tour back in 1982? Yes it was, and it took seven whole years for them to decide that maybe they had been hasty. They regrouped for their 25th anniversary and have toured fairly regularly since. This time they […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 9, 2025
They’re Just Trolling Us Now. Jeanine Pirro For DC AG. Some Influencer Who Isn’t A Practicing Doctor For Surgeon General. Laura Loomer took time off from firing the Librarian Of Congress and Acting Head Of FEMA to release the following statement: Ms. Loomer ridiculed Dr. Means on social media Thursday, calling her a “total crack […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Wednesday was basically a committee day with a handful of non-controversial bills being worked in the Senate. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Today’s Senate Agenda features two House bills that seek to address the issue of ‘double-dipping’ elected public officials. Both HB 9 (K. Williams) and HB 38 (K. Williams) passed the House unanimously […]
Song of the Day 5/8: Luke Bryan, “Little Boys Grow Up and Dogs Get Old”
It doesn’t get any easier no matter how old you get. Mine was a corgi named Mackie – formally, Honeyfox Four on the Floor – and after 14 1/2 years I have to say goodbye to him today. He was a very good boy.
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 8, 2025
‘That Boy Ain’t Right’. We’re talking US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved. Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate […]
Song of the Day 5/7: The Miracles, “I’ve Been Good to You”
Smokey Robinson, composer of umpteen romantic soul classics, was sued yesterday by four former housekeepers who accuse him of sexual assault and rape, among a raft of other charges. He hasn’t officially responded, but when The Daily Mail managed to get the 85-year-old singer on the phone he told them, “I am appalled. I can’t […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
So. I went online around 2:45 pm yesterday, only to find that the Senate had broken its land-speed record for passing the corporate law package. Gavelled in at 2, agenda completed by 2:45. After all, it’s not as if any questions were warranted. The House passed the bill designed to get Our Man In Pakistan […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Suh-prize, Suh-prize, It Was Never About Anti-Semitism. Just MAGAts going after an institution they don’t like: The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out. To hear McMahon tell it, Harvard […]
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