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Different Strokes for Different Folks
Two Monica Beard mailers landed in my mailbox yesterday. At first glance they seemed like duplicates, because both showed her against a pink background on the front, with a list of polling places on the back. But they weren’t the same. The one addressed to the Democrat showed thumbnail headshots of all the Democratic candidates […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 2, 2024
Does Trump WANT To Lose? I’m starting to think so. Because he’d rather have to reprise the ‘election was stolen’ meme from 2020 than to actually have to do the job. I mean, why else would he go to New Mexico and say stuff like this?: Former President Donald Trump admitted to a crowd of […]
Song of the Day 11/1: The Temptations, “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)”
Another song that sadly hasn’t lost any relevance over the past 54 years. In early 1970 Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong took a hard look at the wreckage of the ’60s and proclaimed it an unholy mess that was flashing by while the band played on. When Motown’s Wrecking Crew recorded it they kept playing […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 1, 2024
Trump Fantasizes About Liz Cheney…With Guns Trained On Her: During an onstage conversation with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Ariz., Trump launched into a meandering diatribe against Cheney, who was one of only two Republicans on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riot. Trump said Cheney was a “radical war hawk” who […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: October 2024
A surprisingly superb selection this month. ‘Surprising’ in that I have a rule. It’s a stupid rule, but a rule nonetheless: If a song comes out, but is on an album that will not be released until the following year, I don’t include it. I will say that January and February of 2025 sound real […]
Song of the Day 10/31: Camille Saint-Saëns, “La Danse Macabre”
Camille Saint-Saëns was one of the most famous and prolific composers of his day, and his serious works are part of the classical canon, but he’s best known to the general public for this short tone poem. He composed the theme in 1872 as a piano piece to accompany a poem called “Égalité, Fraternité” by […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Personal To Feckless Joe: Can’t you just shut up for one more week? Or, you know, maybe stop sending more weapons to Israel? Or both? A Garbage Truck Named Trump. Doubling down on the notion that lots of Americans are garbage while sitting in a garbage truck with ‘TRUMP’ emblazoned on it strikes me as […]
Song of the Day 10/30: Garbage, “The Men Who Rule the World”
Joe Biden is getting grief for calling MAGAts “garbage,” which I maintain was just him being polite. Garbage got its name when a friend used the term to describe the music they were playing, an amalgam of every genre extent when it was formed in the early ’70s. They’ve remained popular whenever they’ve reformed over […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024
A federal judge delivered a blow to Delaware’s plan to expand its port along the Delaware River, ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers failed to follow proper procedures in granting permits for the project. The story appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer; the News Journal still hasn’t reported it. Why does Elon Musk want Trump […]
I’m Calling It: Harris Will Win
Not only that–she’ll have coattails that will flip the House and quite possibly at least lead to a 50-50 Senate. Yes, I think the polls are wrong. I think that they have failed to account for what I see as being an overwhelming female vote that will result in something like a blue wave. I […]
Song of the Day 10/29: Fleetwood Mac, “Gypsy”
Stevie Nicks is everywhere the past few weeks, appearing on Saturday Night Live, releasing a new song about women’s rights and, most recently, appearing on a CBS Sunday show to talk about the abortion she underwent at the height of the band’s fame. In 1979, around the time of “Rumours,” she was impregnated by Don […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024
If Jeff Bezos was looking for a way to destroy the Washington Post, mission accomplished. Within three days of his decision to quash the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president, more than 200,000 people have cancelled their subscriptions, about 8% of the customer base. His lame op ed defending his decision isn’t helping, either. […]
Song of the Day 10/28: The Grateful Dead, “Box of Rain”
Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead bassist who died last week at age 84, had never played the bass when Jerry Garcia asked him to join the band. But he had studied trumpet, violin, modern classical composition and free jazz, and brought an improvisational spirit to the Dead that made them the model for all the […]
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