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Song of the Day 6/4: The Rolling Stones, “Slipping Away”
As El Somnambulo keeps pointing out, Trump has entered the lame duck portion of his presidency. With more court decisions going against him and more Republican lawmakers going rogue, he can feel his grip on power, his stranglehold on the GOP throat, slipping away. They have always been the only potential check on his demands, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 4, 2026
Not Better Late Than Never? I’m not so sure: The biggest legislative controversy of last summer is back before the General Assembly. Lawmakers are set to introduce a bill today that would indefinitely extend New Castle County school districts’ controversial ability to tax commercial and residential properties at different rates. Authored by Rep. Kim Williams […]
Song of the Day 6/3: The Black Crowes, “She Talks to Angels”
Well, that was awkward. The Black Crowes were playing a show in Tampa and were just about to launch into their signature song, “She Talks to Angels,” when the video screens showed one of the band’s logos, a cartoon crow in an Uncle Sam costume. The crowd responded with a chant of “USA, USA!” Big […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
The New Medical School Is A BFD. I think this is a win-win, and, yes, a coup for Gov. Matt Meyer: Delaware will soon have its own medical school, a first in the state’s history. The state is partnering with Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University to establish a regional campus of Sidney Kimmel Medical College. It […]
Song of the Day 6/2: Phil Collins, “I Missed Again”
You probably heard about the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style athletic competition that allowed participants to use whatever performance-enhancing drugs they cared to. Organizers promised that doped-up athletes would shatter world records. Spoiler alert: They didn’t. After months of hype, billionaire backing and promises that performance-enhancing drugs would redraw the limits of human ability, the event […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 2, 2026
It’s A War–It’s A Bore: For three months, President Trump has been deeply engaged in the Iran conflict, planning the 38 days of attack, struggling to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and proclaiming “a whole civilization will die tonight,” then backing away to declare a cease-fire and a naval blockage of Iranian ports. But […]
Q: Who Owns Nnamdi Chukwuocha, Dan Cruce, Krista Griffith And Ray Seigfried?
Answer, albeit only a partial answer, is a Third Party Advertising PAC now running propaganda for this Delaware Way Quartet. Almost certainly to be expanding in scope. Before I get to the particulars, first let me tell you that such a PAC cannot specifically urge you to vote for a candidate, and cannot coordinate with […]
Song of the Day 6/1: The City w/ Carole King, “Snow Queen”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona After the pop hits Carole King wrote at the Brill Building that made stars of other people, and before the singer-songwriter fare on “Tapestry” that made her a star in her own right, King recorded an album that most people have never heard of. But many who have rank it […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 1, 2026
Looks Like JFC Has Wrapped Up The FY ’27 Budget: The budget writing Joint Finance Committee’s mark-up hearings add $65 million in general funds to Gov. Matt Meyer’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2027. It takes the state’s spending growth rate to 6.3%, surpassing Meyer’s goal of keeping spending growth under 5%. The additional dollars […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: May 2026
Perhaps not as much diversity as usual, but some real bangers. A month for rockers. Enjoy. June? You’re up. Here’s the alleged story of this song: ““In 1685 Alice Molland was the last woman to be tried and hanged as a witch in England, strung up on a ‘HeadTree’ just outside of Exeter. Now, from […]
Song of the Day 5/31: Dr. Hook, “The Cover of Rolling Stone”
H/t Mike Dinsmore, whose comment yesterday alerted us to the death two weeks ago of Dennis Locorriere, co-frontman of Dr. Hook. No, not the guy with the eyepatch. That was Ray Sawyer, who died in 2018. Sawyer took the lead on the band’s signature song, “The Cover of Rolling Stone,” and his antics during their […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: May 31, 2026
‘I’m Gonna Talk’: With that, the vocally-reticent Marx Brother–speaks: Groucho was the cigar-chomping wit with the improbable moustache, Chico was the piano-playing rustic grifter and Zeppo played the straight man and the lover. But as any Marx Brothers fan knows, Harpo was the pantomime, who cracked up the audience without saying a word, dressed in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 30, 2026
Everything Falls Apart–Trump Edition. It’s happening, folks: Trump Excised From Kennedy Center. Turns out he couldn’t just unilaterally rename it: In his ruling that President Trump’s name must be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a federal judge turned his attention to the statute passed by Congress in honor of […]
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