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Song of the Day 9/6: Gary Wright, “Love Is Alive”
Gary Wright, the rock keyboard player best known for his 1975 solo LP “The Dream Weaver,” died Monday at age 80 after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease and dementia. Along with Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, Wright helped pioneer the use of synthesizers in rock. Wright was from New Jersey, but he launched his […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday September 6 2023
tic, tic, tic, tic…CLICK, whirllsz…Kaboom! I’m not lawyer, but I feel like we must be near the end of the “tic, tic, tic” phase. Trump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him There’s a nascent courtroom strategy by some people close to Donald Trump: Heap blame on the former president. In court documents […]
Song of the Day 9/5: Smash Mouth, “All Star”
Steve Harwell, the longtime lead singer for Smash Mouth, died Monday of liver failure brought on by years of alcoholism. He was 56 years old and had been in bad shape for a decade, several times appearing inebriated and disoriented on stage. He quit the band after a particularly ugly incident in 2021. Smash Mouth […]
Dl Open Thread Tuesday September 5 2023
Without a doubt Ginni Thomas thinks she earned all of this money by being a pillar holding up western civilization. All wingnuts share the same delusion. New Filings Reveal More Luxury Trips and Payments to Ginni Thomas The amended disclosures reveal that Thomas was paid nearly $700,000 between 2003 and 2007 by the Heritage Foundation. Supreme Court Justice […]
Song of the Day 9/4: Aretha Franklin, “Muddy Water”
When the news broke about Burning Man 2023 turning into a soggy hellscape, did anyone feel anything but schadenfreude? Like most things that start out being the province of the cool kids, this annual gathering in the Nevada desert had long since become bogged down with rich people pretending to be cool kids, so it […]
Here is your Labor Day 2023 Open Thread
here's how @BernieSanders closed his remarks in n.h. this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/EpjUzjPSXh — mike casca (@cascamike) August 26, 2023 Fox News Guest: “Here are the poll results that show the public overwhelmingly supports Bidennomics” Fox News Chyron: “Polls Show Unpopularity of Bidennomics”
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 3, 2023
RIP: Bill Richardson. He Made A Real Difference: “There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom,” Mickey Bergman, vice president of the Richardson Center and Richardson’s longtime collaborator on hostage cases, said in a statement Saturday. “The world has lost a […]
Many Republicans think this man should be President
https://youtu.be/0LQozNeHUdI?si=yPQDHGDwTwJK3s9w
This is real.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 2, 2023
Jimmy Buffett Dies–Price Of Cheeseburgers To Plummet? The Poet Laureate of lassitude who turned branding into an art form. The linked profile from 2018 captures the conundrum/contradictions therein: Because that, in a coconut shell, was the problem. Jimmy Buffett is not really Jimmy Buffett anymore. He hasn’t been for a while. Jimmy Buffett — the […]
Song of the Day 9/2: Jimmy Buffett, “A Pirate Looks at 40”
Summer’s over, all right. Jimmy Buffett, who founded a billion-dollar fortune with a humorous break-up song featuring a popular cocktail, died yesterday at age 76. Along the way he founded two restaurant chains, wrote two novels and a memoir, topping both the fiction and nonfiction New York Times best-seller lists, and lent the Margaritaville moniker […]
Song of the Day 9/1: Len Barry, “1-2-3”
Here’s some blue-eyed soul one for your Friday night dance party. Len Barry was the lead singer for the Dovells, the Philadelphia doo-wop group who reached No. 2 in 1961 with the “Bristol Stomp.” He left for a solo career in 1963 and scored another No. 2 hit in 1965 with this tune by John […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 1, 2023
Biden Administration Moves To Reclassify/Declassify Pot: If a recommendation by the nation’s top health agency to reclassify marijuana is adopted, the drug could gain wider acceptance as a medical treatment, pot businesses could see their bottom line boosted and a path toward national legalization could be charted, experts said Thursday. The Department of Health and […]
Jan. 6 Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs sentenced to 17 years
This defense – “I’m not a seditionist or terrorist, but was just hanging out with some seditionists and terrorists when sedition and terror broke out.” Reminds me a lot of this classic Onion headline – Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?
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