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This Is A Moderated Blog
Seems like we have some newbies who want to fight Israel vs. Hamas on these pages, while figuratively targeting those who don’t leave their brains at the door. Please understand, if your comments cross the line, they will either go into moderation unto perpetuity, or you will be blacklisted. Yes, we’re the sole arbiters, but […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023
Whether you’re rooting for Israel or Hamas, the media has plenty of atrocity stories to stoke your righteous ire. I’m not linking to any of them because I don’t think war porn serves any useful purpose. For an overview of what the fighting is about, refer to this editorial cartoon. Saddest part of the Israel-Hamas […]
Song of the Day 10/10: U2, “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
Did Hamas deliberately single out the Tribe of Nova trance music festival, where they massacred at least 260 people and took an unknown number hostage? It wouldn’t be the first time terrorists have struck a music audience – the attack on an Eagles of Death Metal concert in Paris’ Bataclan killed 90 people and wounded […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, October 10, 2023
I’m not following the Hamas-Israeli conflict, but as sportswriter Hugh Keough (not Damon Runyan) observed, “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.” An even safer bet: Palestinians in Gaza will bear the brunt of the human cost. Another sure winner: The […]
Yo, Bethany: It’s Time
I’m pretty sure your supporters and/or those who would like to find an alternative if your ‘issues’ are fatal to your campaign are impatient for answers. I don’t know what happened, but it looks like your problems may both be related to campaign finances, and/or questionable business dealings that you and your husband have had […]
DL Open Thread Monday, October 9, 2023
Do House Republicans hand out Speaker of the House bonus points for being a kiddie diddler? Dennis Hastert, former high school wrestling coach, served in the office. Now America’s drooling class wants to put Jim Jordan in the job, and while nobody has implicated him in the actual molestation that took place while he was […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 8, 2023
Rep. Cole: Deals That McCarthy Cut With RWNJ’s ‘No Longer Operative’. Revenge of the (all things are relative) moderates?: With Kevin McCarthy out as speaker, House Rules Chair Tom Cole says Republicans are free to step back from the deep appropriations cuts dictated by McCarthy’s backroom deal with the far right last June. “This agreement […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 7, 2023
Wag The Dog: Netanyahu Proclaims ‘We Are At War’. Only question is, how many Palestinians will be killed by American weapons?: Israel and Gaza were at war on Saturday after Palestinian militants launched an early morning assault on southern Israel that had few precedents in its complexity and scale, invading several Israeli towns and firing […]
Song of the Day 10/7: Fred Neil, “Dolphins”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Fred Neil wrote a sad, beautiful and enduring song called “The Dolphins” as a Greenwich Village folk singer in the mid-1960s. “I’ve been searching for the dolphins in the sea,” he sang plaintively. He doesn’t find them. Neil, who suffered from stage fright, soon dropped out of the music business […]
Song of the Day 10/6: The Sex Pistols, “Pretty Vacant”
They would never admit it, even to themselves, but the Freedom Caucus apparently is in favor of anarchy in the U.S. House, which makes the Sex Pistols the perfect soundtrack for their exercise in nihilism. According to original bassist Glen Matlock, who wrote the song, “‘Pretty Vacant’ is a primal scream kind of thing: We […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 6, 2023
Almost Penniless Rethugs, Part 1. Mike Lindell: Almost Penniless Rethugs, Part 2. Rudy Giuliani: Sadness. Trump & Jim Jordan: Perfect Together: There was only one way the chaos in the Republican-led House – likened Thursday by one of its members to a “stupid clown car” – could get more extreme. Enter Donald Trump. The ex-president […]
Song of the Day 10/5: The Kinks, “Situation Vacant”
With a tip o’ the sombrero to El Som. Yoohoo, anybody home? House Republicans are demonstrating that maybe men do too think about the Roman Empire too much, and no that good comes of it. One online reviewer called this tune “a classic Ray Davies character piece in which ambition leads to misery.” That sounds […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Quick tip of the ‘Bulo Sombrero to the anonymous tipster who clued me into the Purzycki/Carney hand-off. We can all see how orchestrated this two-step was. By Buccini/Pollin and the Chamber, the entities that run the city. Keep those tips coming! Guess Who’s Been Pulling The Strings From A Capitol Hill Basement. And tell me […]
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