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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 […]
Song of the Day 5/29: Sonny Rollins, “Moritat”
Jazz giant Sonny Rollins died Monday at age 95, nearly 70 years after the release of an LP that gave him a lasting sobriquet, “Saxophone Colossus.” He was 26 but already had been recording since graduating from an East Harlem high school a decade earlier, first as a sideman for the likes of J.J. Johnson […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 29, 2026
Just an idle thought–Mike Purzycki was eulogized as a man of ‘courage, compassion and empathy’ yesterday. Why did he choose as his successor someone who possesses none of those traits? Along with ‘vision’, which Purzycki had, but his successor… Judge: In Fenwick, LLC’s Are People. Sad part is–the judge may be right on the law […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending May 28, 2026
1. Lobbyist Bundling Party For Cruce And Nnamdi Postponed. Was supposed to take place on Tuesday at the Columbus Inn. Was postponed, no new date set. Was it postponed because it was a ‘bad look’? It really doesn’t matter. The same lobbyists, many of them carrying checks from literally dozens of their clients, will make […]
Song of the Day 5/28: Milli Vanilli, “Girl You Know It’s True”
Trump’s cheesy idea of class comes out in myriad ways – gold-colored plastic trim in the Oval Office, a triumph-free triumphal arch – but nothing drives it home like his plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The tackiness of holding UFC bouts on the White House lawn isn’t even the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 28, 2026
Satire Is Dead: Trump officials at the Treasury Department are pushing to create a new $250 bill with the president’s face on it – similar to a design shared by Rep. Andy Barr earlier this year–to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary, according to a report. What’s Wrong With This Headline?– “U.S. Is Said To Open […]
Song of the Day 5/27: Ray Wiley Hubbard, “Screw You, We’re From Texas”
They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and that includes the assholes. Given the choice between the old-school conservative Cornyn and the amoral MAGAt Paxton, of course Texas Republicans overwhelmingly chose Paxton. Democrats are happy about it because it seems to give James Talorico a shot at the impossible dream of winning a statewide race. This […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 27, 2026
NCC Property Taxes To Rise: New Castle County residents will see their first direct county property tax increase in eight years after their county council passed a $387.6 million budget Tuesday night. The tax increase works out to $102/year, or $8.50/month for those living in the median $378,000 assessed value home in the county. Residents […]
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