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DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 28, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 28, 20251 Comment

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…

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)”

By Alby August 28, 2025

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…

Song of the Day 8/27: Oasis, “Half the World Away”

By Alby August 27, 20252 Comments

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,…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 27, 20251 Comment

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…

A Great Candidate For RD 38!

By El Somnambulo August 26, 20257 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 8/26: Tavares, “More Than a Woman”

By Alby August 26, 2025

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…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 26, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 26, 20252 Comments

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…

Babbling Like a Brook: When Will the Media Give Trump the Biden Treatment?

By Alby August 26, 20254 Comments

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.…

Do You Want An Audit Of Tyler Technologies?

By El Somnambulo August 25, 202541 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread: Monday, August 25, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 25, 202512 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 8/25: The Mary Wallopers, “Frost Is All Over”

By Alby August 25, 20251 Comment

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…

Song of the Day 8/24: John Schneider, “Cracker Barrel”

By Alby August 24, 20253 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 24, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 24, 20254 Comments

History Survives In The Hands Of Syrian Seamstresses: By the time Ameera al-Hammouri was 10, her hands were dancing across the taut fabric beneath her grandmother’s aghabani embroidery machine. She…