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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
They held a session of Congress yesterday and the Jerry Springer Show broke out. In a Senate hearing, Oklahoma Sen. Sen. Markwayne Mullin threatened to fight Teamsters union President Sean O’Brien until Bernie Sanders made Mullin sit down. In the House, defenestrated speaker Kevin McCarthy bumped Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee in a hallway while […]
COMMENT RESCUE: Did BHL Raid Campaign Coffers To Pay Off Hubby’s Debts?
Oh, and then make sure said hubby filed inaccurate campaign finance reports to cover up what they did? This not only sounds plausible, but the commenter seems to know a lot more about this than we (or the press) do: TomTom: Definitely not at all tax deductible. Also, the accusation isn’t that she was giving […]
BHL’s Potemkin Village Campaign
If you don’t look closely at her run for Governor, it appears that it has all the trappings of a normal campaign. If you examine it, really examine it, it looks more like a Potemkin Village, with perhaps one or two people keeping the skimpy scenery standing. Presumably political hack Ann Farley and that guy […]
Song of the Day 11/14: Martha and the Vandellas, “Nowhere to Run”
So Bethany Hall-Long thinks she can brush her money troubles under the rug? Martha and the Vandellas have a message for her. Martha and the Vandellas took this Holland-Dozier-Holland banger – the percussion includes snow chains – to No. 8 on the Hot 100 in 1965. The song got one notable cover: On her 1971 […]
Comment Rescue: Coons Wants Humanitarian Pauses – And Quiet
H/t to Joe Connor, who reads the New York Post so you don’t have to. Seems our junior senator, Chris Coons, took an Amtrak train recently, where he had a run-in with a “far-left reporter” who got the encounter on video. Aaron Mate, who reports for something called Grayzone, was seated across from Coons. He […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
Republicans in Ohio are showing how little regard their party has for democracy, and by extension the public: As soon as the state’s electorate rejected their forced-birth agenda by a not-close 13-point margin, the GOP started laying plans to overturn the results. Here’s a little secret: They’ve always been this way, but they only show […]
Song of the Day 11/13: Buffy Sainte Marie, “Universal Soldier”
Buffy Sainte-Marie has been in the news recently because a documentary has cast strong doubt on her claim to indigenous ancestry. She has long claimed she was born on a Cree reservation in western Canada before being adopted by the Massachusetts couple who raised her, but relatives have always denied this. The Cree nation, for […]
Is Collin O’Mara Running for Governor?
We’ve seen lots of chatter lately about former state Secretary of Natural Resources Collin O’Mara exploring a run for governor. I just can’t see it. Since stepping down from the Markell administration in 2014, O’Mara has been CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, an environmental nonprofit with 4 million members and an annual budget of […]
Arden’s Single-Tax A Cure For Urban Blight?
Detroit’s mayor thinks so: When Mayor Mike Duggan talks about his accomplishments in Detroit, the list is both impressive and sad. He had the streetlights turned back on, and reopened closed parks. In the decade since he took office, the city has demolished some 25,000 blighted homes whose rusty debris and incubation of crime drag […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 13, 2023
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott became the latest GOP hopeful to realize that trying to change the zombified minds of Trump cultists is a fool’s errand. He ended his presidential campaign, which means he embarrassed the poor woman he introduced as his girlfriend for nothing. Donald Trump’s legal team is apparently going to demand a […]
Song of the Day 11/12: The Pretenders, “Brass in Pocket”
Another entry on my Greatest Songs by Women ballot, this was the hit that ushered in the ’80s – in Great Britain, at least. It was the third single off the Pretenders’ debut album, released in fall 1979, and it hit No. 1 in UK when the new year began, making it the first No. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 12, 2023
How Army Munitions Plant Arms Mass Shooters. With No Accountability: The initials stand for the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. Built during World War II, the federal site, in Independence, Mo., has made nearly all the rifle cartridges used by the U.S. military since it pulled out of Vietnam. In recent years, the factory has […]
Song of the Day 11/11: Paul Simon, “Armistice Day”
We don’t call it that any more, of course. Armistice Day honors the end of the war that was going to end all wars. After the peace failed, so did the idea of honoring it. Instead we honor those who fought in all the wars we’ve engaged in since. Though it was released on his […]
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