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Song of the Day 4/27: The Velvet Underground, “Sunday Morning”
This first track on the first album by the Velvet Underground couldn’t be more misleading – with its full production it sounds nothing like the rest of that seminal LP. It was written for Nico by Lou Reed and John Cale with the singles market in mind, but when it came time to record it […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 27, 2025
‘Kid Has Stage 4 Cancer? Let Honduras Deal With It’: Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Trump Judge Draws Line At Deporting 2-Year-Old With ‘No Meaningful Process’. We’re talking about a judge who frustrated Biden at every turn: A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep […]
Song of the Day 4/25: Starship, “Sara”
A reminder of how far Republican politics has sunk was highlighted earlier this week in New York when Sarah Palin – ‘memba her? – lost her libel case against the New York Times again. The woman who broke the intellectual glass floor on holding important public office set the template for a whole generation of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 25, 2025
The National Democratic Party Sucks Multitudes. I thought the new Chair was the same old, same old. Now I know the new Chair is the same old, same old: Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, has announced a proposal requiring party officials to remain neutral in primary elections, challenging activist David Hogg […]
Song of the Day 4/24: The Pointer Sisters, “Fire”
New Jersey’s largest wildfire in 20 years has consumed more than 13,000 acres in Ocean County, not far from Bruce Springsteen’s old stomping grounds. That’s not the kind of fire he wrote this song about, though. After he saw Elvis Presley perform at the Spectrum in May 1977, Springsteen wrote this slow-burner and sent a […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Everything’s For Sale: President Donald Trump raised a record $239 million for his 2025 inauguration celebrations, propelled by contributions from corporations and ultra-wealthy individuals — including more than a dozen people Trump has nominated to a variety of roles in his administration. Donors to his inaugural committee included picks for ambassadorships, members of Trump’s Cabinet […]
Song of the Day 4/23: The Contours, “First I Look at the Purse”
MAGAts like to project a tough, scary image, but their frequent fuck-ups undercut the bluster. For instance, Homeland Security chief Kristie Noem, known as ICE Barbie for posing in combat gear whenever possible, got her purse snatched the other day in a D.C. restaurant, Capital Burger. Her Secret Service detail never noticed though, to be […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 23, 2024
Did my first door-to-door campaigning of the year yesterday evening. Definitely feel healthier this morning…you should try it. Tesla Tanks-Musk Rethinks Priorities?: The Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, said he will start pulling back from his role at the so-called “department of government efficiency” starting in May. Musk’s remarks came as the company reported a […]
Song of the Day 4/22: Loudon Wainwright III, “Hard Day on the Planet”
This seems like an appropriate song for Earth Day in the age of Trump. Nearly every affliction Loudon Wainwright listed back in 1986 is still a problem today. He knows it, too. “I wrote it in the mid-80s when it seemed like everything was going to end. And so, it’s kind of a perennial, I […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Hegseth’s Days Are Numbered. Hey, let’s start with a little video from the Man Himself. From the exclusive White House Easter Egg Hunt. In front of his kids: Well, were I inclined to, I’d point out that one of those ‘anonymous’ sources was the guy who was writing up Hegseth’s propaganda for him and who […]
Song of the Day 4/21: The Stanley Brothers, “Angel Band”
Pope Francis has rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible, apparently after a surprisingly active Easter considering he was at death’s door last month. Also, it seems that JD Vance has shown himself a worthy successor to Trump, at least on the “everything he touches dies” front. We’ll probably hear lots of lugubrious […]
More Problems For The Port
Yet another judge’s ruling–which calls out the lack of impartiality of a state agency: Plans to expand the Port of Wilmington through construction of a massive new container terminal in Edgemoor hit an obstacle again last week when a state judge placed another construction permit into limbo. Delaware Superior Court Judge Kathleen Miller on Wednesday […]
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