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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Song of the Day 7/25: Chuck Mangione, “Feels So Good”
Chuck Mangione gave credit for his biggest hit to the Bee Gees. "'Saturday Night Fever' had saturated radio," he once told an interviewer. "I think the top six out of…
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 25, 2025
There is absolutely no analogy between this photo and the WWII concentration camps. Because there is absolutely no genocide taking place in Gaza: A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian…
Song of the Day 7/24: The Velvet Underground, “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
It's ironic, really. I don't think Donald Trump has had a true friend in his life, yet here he is, hoist on the petard of his supposed friendship with fellow…
My Big Question On The RD 20 Special Election–
--Is the State Democratic Party Running The Race It Should Be Running? First, my answer: I don't know. However, based on the relatively few published comments from the two candidates,…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 24, 2025
The Cover-Up Uncovered: Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to three people with knowledge of the…