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Song of the Day 3/9: Country Joe and the Fish, “The Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag”
With talk of committing ground troops to Trump’s War on Iran, it would be a good time to break out this iconic Vietnam-era protest song, even if Joseph Allen “Country Joe” McDonald hadn’t died Saturday to bring it renewed attention. People too young to remember San Francisco’s psychedelic era and the protests over the Vietnam […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 9, 2026
Oil Prices Soar Due To Trump’s War. Who could possibly have foreseen this?: Oil prices spiked near $120 per barrel before falling back Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East and pummeling financial markets. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, surged to $119.50 […]
Important Lessons From Recent Elections
You might think the successful primary campaigns of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Texas Senate candidate James Talarico are as different as, well, New York City and Texas. Mamdani is a Muslim democratic socialist, Talarico a Christian populist. But Michael Lange contends they both triumphed with similar strategies. The Texas Senate Primary, pitting […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: March 8, 2026
McMeh. CEO grudgingly nibbles at McDonald’s new sandwich: Social media can be so cruel…: “When the CEO calls it product instead of food you know its got less nutritional value than the napkin.” (Well, those are whole grain napkins…) “Watching the McDonald’s CEO tentatively nibble on the Big Arch like it’s a radioactive artifact from the dollar […]
Song of the Day 3/8: Psychedelic Furs, “Pretty in Pink”
Hey, Millennials, wanna feel old? The classic John Hughes Brat Pack movie, “Pretty in Pink,” was the No. 1 box office film 40 years ago last week. You’re welcome. As everyone knows, the Psychedelic Furs song was the inspiration for the film. And as any fan of the song knows, Hughes totally misinterpreted it. Psy […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 7, 2026
What a real President should sound like. What The Pro Rasslin’ Heel Masquerading As President Has Done: Until quite recently, oil and gasoline prices had been a bright spot in the affordability fight, registering modest price declines since Trump took office. But since we bombed Iran, energy costs have risen sharply. To put things in […]
Song of the Day 3/6: The Prisonaires, “Just Walkin’ in the Rain”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona In 1953 a young doo-wop group entered Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio in Memphis to make its first recording. They were hardly the only young black men looking to escape a tough life through music and maybe find a little fame. But these guys arrived in leg irons. Guards with […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 6, 2026
Kristi Noem’s Chosen Successor Is…: Quite the shock. Yet another Cosplay Cowboy takes over DHS: “Markwayne will work tirelessly to Keep our Border Secure, Stop Migrant Crime, Murderers, and other Criminals from illegally entering our Country, End the Scourge of Illegal Drugs and, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. Markwayne will make a spectacular Secretary of Homeland […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending March 5, 2026
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
Song of the Day 3/5: James and Bobby Purify, “I’m Your Puppet”
Among their many desperate justifications for starting a war on Iran, Trump and Marco Rubio have slipped in the one that’s almost certainly true: Netanyahu made them do it. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 5, 2026
Look Who’s Funding Speaker Mimi Minor-Brown’s Slush Fund: Phil Shawe, the polarizing New York executive whose financial largesse helped propel Gov. Matt Meyer to victory in 2024, is now throwing his weight behind a new political action committee controlled by Delaware House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown. Shawe has become a controversial figure in Delaware after he […]
Song of the Day 3/4: Nazareth, “Shot Me Down”
The downing of three American combat jets in the early hours of the War on Iran were blamed on friendly fire from Kuwaiti air defenses. It now appears that it wasn’t ground-based missiles that brought them down but a Kuwaiti fighter pilot who mistook the American planes for Irani attackers. I’m sure the lack of […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Talarico Takes Texas D Primary: State Rep. James Talarico defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, emerging victorious over the well-known congresswoman in Texas’ most hotly contested Democratic contest this century with a populist, “top-versus-bottom” message rooted in his Christian faith. “This is a people-powered movement to take on this […]
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