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Song of the Day 3/10: Travis, “New Shoes”
If you had asked me whether this story was real or something that ran in the Onion, I’d have guessed the Onion, but no, it’s real. It seems Donald Trump is in the habit of giving his aides a rather odd gift: $145 Florsheim men’s dress shoes. I’ll quote the Raw Story report, and tell […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Back in session for three weeks. We reported yesterday on a bill designed to reduce hospital healthcare costs. The irony of two legislators who have carried ChristianaCare’s water, and who are endangered incumbents, co-sponsoring the bill is not lost on me. I would have expected quite a few more sponsors, surprised that there are so […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Trump Plays Wall Street Nitwits For Fools. Because, who else believes anything he says?: Yesterday UN Ambassador Mike Waltz announced that the US was moving ahead rapidly to achieve all its war objectives which he listed as 1) destroying Iran’s missiles, 2) eliminating its nuclear program and 3) ending its ability to do terrorism. So […]
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 […]
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