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DL Open Thread: Monday, December 2, 2024
Biden Pardons Biden. As well he should have: The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: November, 2024
A short list this month as I begin preparations on my Fave Tunes Of 2024 list. I’ve already combed my lists from earlier this year and, from them, have narrowed down the number of contenders to around 75. I’ll no doubt add a few others as I check out other Best-Of lists. Barring something unforeseen, […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 1, 2024
Hmmm, which ugly Christmas sweater to wear for my shift at the Arden Holiday Shop this morning? Can’t go with the Trump and Putin kissing under the mistletoe, as much as I’d like to…saving the most profoundly garish and disturbing one for the Claymont Parade next week…guess I’ll go with the Five Finger Death Punch […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 30, 2024
OK, guys, it’s Small Business Saturday. What small local businesses do you plan to visit today? Confused By The Syrian Insurgency? This will clarify everything and/or make it more confusing to you. An excerpt: I would characterise them as a ‘logical result of everybody abandoning Syrians to onslaughts and subversion by Assadism, al-Qaeda, IS/ISIS/IGIL/Daesh, IRGC, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 29, 2024
One More Reason To Hate Notre Dame. The football team/school, not the Cathedral: The (Supreme) court’s conservative justices are increasingly hiring the law school’s graduates and faculty to work in their chambers. Two recent graduates are among the four clerks working this term with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame graduate and longtime law […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 28, 2024
We hope you and your families and friends have a very happy Thanksgiving. We’re so happy that we’re no longer hosting. We’ve passed that tradition along to our oldest daughter and son-in-law. In that spirit, please feel free to share your MVP’s (Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause) for 2024. We’ve gotten a lot of […]
Song of the Day 11/28: John Lennon and Elton John, “Whatever Gets You Through the Night”
50 years ago today marked John Lennon’s last public concert appearance, with Elton John at New York’s Madison Square Garden – to honor a lost bet. “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” sprang from something Lennon heard Reverend Ike say on TV one night, and Lennon considered it a bit of a throwaway. When he […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Safe travels, everybody, if you’re traveling. We’re traveling the less than a mile to our daughter’s house in Kingsridge, where I’ll plop myself on a couch and start drinking. Moderately, of course, Even the football games suck this year, but I’ll be with a great group of people, so it won’t matter. Hope you do […]
Song of the Day 11/26: The Rivingtons, “The Bird’s the Word”
Gotta make it quick today due to Thanksgiving prep, including picking up the bird and getting it brined, which made me think of “Surfin’ Bird,” the 1963 No. Billboard 4 hit by surf-rock Minnesotans the Trashmen. I never realized it was a cover of a song released earlier in 1963 by the Rivingtons, the doo-wop […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Smith Folds. He had to, you can’t try a sitting President. The villain amongst all the villains in the piece: Merrick Garland: A judge dismissed the federal election-obstruction charges against President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, ending a historic investigation that never went to trial but led to enduring changes in the legal landscape over a […]
Song of the Day 11/25: Boz Scaggs feat. Bonnie Raitt, “Hell to Pay”
Americans love horror stories, and Trump’s selection of a cabinet designed mainly to trigger the libs provides the media with plenty of them. As Boz Scaggs related in this blues tale, even if you buy a senator in Texas and a judge in New Orleans, there’s still hell to pay. This duet with Bonnie Raitt […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 25, 2024
Nancy Mace Has Done Us All A Favor–Inadvertently, Of Course. She has given Sarah McBride a platform to introduce herself and her message to the nation. We all know how good she is, now everybody else is finding out: Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who made history this month as the first openly trans person elected […]
Song of the Day 11/24: John Mellencamp, “American Fool”
“American Fool” is the name of John Mellencamp’s breakthrough 1982 album, the one that led off with “Hurts So Good” and “Jack and Diane,” the two biggest hits of his career. But in those pre-CD times there was only room for nine songs on the LP, so the album that sold 5 million copies and […]
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