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DL Open Thread Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on March 19, 2024 0 Comments

Trump’s lawyers whined that nobody will accept his real estate as collateral for the half-a-billion-dollar bond he has to post by Monday. Letitia James said Trump’s assets could be seized if he can’t pay, but it seems more likely that the state would go after his bank accounts than his real estate holdings. Remember Paul […]

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Song of the Day 3/18: Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on March 18, 2024 0 Comments

For all the similarities between the music markets in the U.S. and Britain, some acts just never cross over. For every David Bowie, embraced as a taste-setter in America, there’s a Steve Harley – someone who scored lots of hits in the UK but never made a dent on this side of the pond. If […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, March 18, 2024

Filed in National, Open Thread by on March 18, 2024 5 Comments

Donald Trump continued his Dotard America tour over the weekend, promising a “bloodbath” if he’s not elected. Supporters are trying to pretend that he was talking about the auto industry, but everybody knows what he actually meant. He isn’t arrested for inciting violence because the country is run by a bunch of cowards who are […]

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Song of the Day 3/17: Thin Lizzy, “Whiskey in the Jar”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on March 17, 2024 1 Comment

Popular Irish songs might sound ancient, but many aren’t very old. “The Fields of Atheny,” for example, is about the potato famine, but it was written in the 1970s. “Ragland Road,” the poem, dates to 1946, but it was set to music in 1971. Every war and rebellion in Irish history, and there are a […]

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Song of the Day 3/16: The Ink Spots, “We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on March 16, 2024 0 Comments

A theme song for the gubernatorial race. No editorial comment intended. The Ink Spots, among the country’s most popular vocal groups in the 1930s and ’40s, had tremendous influence on the generation of musicians who started doo-wop and rock ‘n’ roll. They formed in the early ’30s, but soared in popularity after high tenor Bill […]

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Song of the Day 3/15: The Ides of March, “Vehicle”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on March 15, 2024 1 Comment

An old anecdote tells of the student who went to see “Hamlet” and complained, “It’s just a bunch of cliches strung together.” Indeed, absent the Bard, would anyone refer to today as the Ides of March? This much is certain: Without him, this 1970 hit would be by the Shon-Dels. That was the name a […]

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Song of the Day 3/14: Kate Bush, “Pi”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, Science and Health by on March 14, 2024 2 Comments

Pi Day, so called because in American notation it looks like the first three digits of the mathematical constant (in Europe today is 14/3), is a bona fide holiday, designated by Congress in 2009 in hope of spurring interest in math and science (don’t tell MAGAts, they’ll try to get it repealed). It didn’t exactly […]

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Let Them Eat Cereal

Filed in National by on March 14, 2024 3 Comments
Let Them Eat Cereal

The CEO of Kellogg’s, which has raised prices post-pandemic more than any other cereal company, thought this was a good time to mention a concept food processors have been pushing for years: Eating breakfast cereal for dinner. “The cereal category has always been quite affordable, and it tends to be a great destination when consumers […]

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O’Mara’s In

Filed in Delaware by on March 13, 2024 27 Comments

Former DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara filed the paperwork, becoming the first Democrat to enter the race for governor. His pitch: Democrats control every statewide office and both houses of the General Assembly, so it’s up to Democrats to solve the state’s problems. He made his pitch with a tour of all three counties today and […]

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Song of the Day 3/13: David Allan Coe, “Take This Job and Shove It”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on March 13, 2024 3 Comments

Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado is among the 23 Republican House members who announced they would not seek reelection this year, but yesterday he went them one better: He’s not even going to stick around until the end of the month. He’s leaving at the end of next week. Buck entered office as a Tea […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Filed in International, National, Open Thread by on March 13, 2024 3 Comments

I don’t know why this is surprising anymore, but it seems Robert Hur, the Trump-aligned special counsel who said Joe Biden’s brain was scrambled eggs, stretched the truth out of shape in his official report. Transcripts of the interview showed Biden was lucid, if occasionally confused about timelines. Democrats used Hur’s appearance before a House […]

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Song of the Day 3/12: Raspberries, “Go All the Way”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on March 12, 2024 1 Comment

Eric Carmen, the frontman of seminal early ’70s power pop band the Raspberries, died over the weekend at age 74. He gained greater fame in the ’80s after he left for a solo career, and in recent years some infamy for outspoken right-wing political stances, but his concept of a band that combined Beatles melodies, […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Filed in International, National, Open Thread by on March 12, 2024 9 Comments

The backlash against the police reforms that came after the George Floyd protests has been fierce, led by the police themselves. That’s led to many jurisdictions undoing those reforms in the face of reports of rising crime – which, if you bother to look at the numbers, is the opposite of the truth. Gee, I […]

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