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Song of the Day 8/13: The Go-Go’s, “Vacation”
Clarence Thomas takes more vacations than anyone I’ve ever heard of. Then again, if you can take unlimited luxury trips on someone else’s dime, why not take 38 of them? “Vacation,” the title track from the second album by the Go-Go’s, reached No. 8 on the Hot 100 in 1982. It holds a footnote in […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 13, 2023
Wisconsin Rethugs Threaten To Impeach Justice Who Could Overturn Blatant Gerrymandering. Election nullification MAGAt-style: But when liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz trounced her conservative opponent in the state Supreme Court election in April, it was a big win—not just for those who care about reestablishing their reproductive rights, but for anyone who genuinely cares about representative democracy. […]
DL Style Guide Update
“Climate Change Disaster” to Replace “wild fire” “flood” etc. eg. LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — As the death toll from a CLIMATE CHANGE DISASTER that razed a historic Maui town reached 93, authorities warned Saturday that the effort to find and identify the dead was still in its early stages. It’s already the deadliest U.S. CLIMATE […]
How do we legally commit treason?
That seems to be the question Trump’s “crackpot” lawyers were groping for in the days leading up to Jan 6th. Unlike the founding fathers who were all in on the idea that losing meant losing literally everything – Trump and his lawyers wanted a more gentile treason that could be enforced by use of the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 12, 2023
The Fuck-Up That Is Hunter Biden Isn’t Going Away. Yeahyeah, I know all about false equivalency, which only matters to people who haven’t allowed their brains to rot. Still, there’s no doubt that Hunter grifted off his old man’s name, even if he was never able to deliver promised favors from the old man: They […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 11, 2023
Trump. Projection Much?: 1: “What Crooked Joe Biden, who can’t string two sentences together, has done to our once great Country […] OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED BY A MAN WITH THE MIND, IDEAS, AND I.Q. OF A FIRST GRADER.” 2: “I think that Crooked Joe Biden is not only dumb and incompetent, I believe […]
Song of the Day 8/11: Rodriguez, “Sugar Man”
Sixto Rodriguez, whose early ’70s albums gained little attention in the U.S. but found an overseas audience that fueled a late-career revival, died in his hometown of Detroit this week at age 81. He finally found fame in America a decade ago after being featured in an Oscar-winning documentary, “Searching for Sugar Man.” The son […]
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Joe Manchin Says He’s ‘Thinking Seriously’ About Leaving The Democratic Party West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (D) says he is seriously thinking about ditching the Democratic Party and becoming an Independent before the 2024 election. In a recent chat with West Virginia radio host Hoppy Kercheval, Manchin said that he’s not thrilled with how the […]
What/Who Is First State Educate/First State Action Fund, And Why Have They Hired A Convicted Felon As Executive Director?
Oh, and not just any convicted felon, but one who ran afoul of the law while destroying Puerto Rico’s public schools? All in due time… It looks like First State Educate and First State Action Fund were set up to grab as many COVID education $$’s as possible: Over the past two years, every district […]
This is elder abuse. Get her out of the Senate
Dianne Feinstein went to the hospital after a ‘minor fall’ at … WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., fell at home Tuesday and visited the hospital to get checked out, her office said.
Song of the Day 8/10: The Band, “The Shape I’m In”
Robbie Robertson, whose lead guitar and character-driven songs drove the influential music of The Band, died Wednesday, age 80. Though his compositions include he enduring rock standards “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” Robertson’s place in rock history goes much deeper, entwined as it is with Bob Dylan. After he played […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 10, 2023
Trump Fomenting Violence. Utah idiot tried to act on it–and was killed. If this TV ad isn’t a call for violence, I don’t know what is. BTW, the charge that Willis had an affair with a gang member? Completely made-up. He will not stop ignoring court orders to limit what he says publicly. Lock him […]
Shorter Trump: My accusers are black
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is about to drop more than a dozen indictments dealing with Trump’s attempts overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Trump’s defense? Fani Willis is a black woman who associates with known black people. Which should actually be very convincing argument for many Republicans. DURING A TUESDAY campaign […]
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