Archive for February, 2019
Song of the Day 2/5: Small Faces, “Itchycoo Park”
Don’t know about you, but an unseasonably warm day in winter like today brings back fond memories of cutting school to hang out in the park — and, therefore, Ronnie Lane’s 1967 ode to doing exactly that. It’s all too beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ViwvgtvbA Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane are just lip-synching, but the video gives you […]
R. I. P. Steve Amick
Former Newark legislator Steve Amick, who passed away last week, was one of the finest legislators to serve in the Delaware General Assembly during my time there. Yes, he was smart, one of the most intelligent legislators to ever serve in Dover. An attorney by training and practice, he got his JD from Dickinson College. […]
Not Breaking – Trump is a lazy, fat, shithead
Trump is lazy. Of his 745 days in office, Trump has spent 222 days unwinding at Trump-branded properties and 168 days golfing.. But even when he is “at work” he is mostly watching TV and eating: In fact, “Executive Time” is far more than just a respite from the duties of the office. In perhaps […]
Song of the Day 2/4: Wilco, “Monday”
Jeff Tweedy’s homage to the Stones, from Wilco’s “Being There” album, released in 1996. If you listen closely, you can hear the cowbell. I’m pretty sure this is the most upbeat song ever with “Monday” in the title.
I hate updates
I’m old. I like the last release. Generally, my favorite is the software release from three releases ago. It had plenty of features. The new releases of shit really tend to muc everything up. Anyway…To migrate the site to the new host we had to move up to a more recent release of WordPress. There […]
Recent DL Tweets – S1E2
We tweeted this response and it got some love in the twitter sphere: The Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia has just become the third Trump property to fire undocumented workers, some who have worked there for years. How can anyone take this insane president serious? DelawareLiberal.Net @DelawareLiberalMoreReplying to @krassenstein Fired Trump workers should form a caravan […]
Song of the Day 2/3: The Rev. Al Green, “The Lord Will Make a Way”
Bet you’d find a lot more people in church if all the music was as funky as this title track from Green’s first gospel album.
Song of the Day 2/2: Ray Charles, “You Don’t Know Me”
Groundhog Day is the least impressive of holidays, but it has the best movie associated with it. The song most associated with the movie is naturally the Sonny and Cher ditty Bill Murray wakes up to over and over again. But the best use of a song on the soundtrack comes when Murray finally constructs […]
Site Migration Complete
Hi everyone. This morning I had to migrate the site to a new hosting provider. It is possible that a few comments between 9 and 11:30 were dropped as a result.
Another Tiresome Liberal Call for Someone to Resign
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, livened up a slow news day when he was found to have not merely posed for racist photos as a medical student, but to have actually put them in his med school yearbook. This has, naturally, set off a race among the the Awoken among us to call for […]
Highlands Bunker – E02 – This is a Commentary
Now that the second round of trials have begun, Xerxes Wilson of the News Journal joins RE Vanella to talk about the first round of Vaughn Prison Riot trials, criminal justice in Delaware, and the illustrious career of Governor John Carney.
Song of the Day 2/1: Spirit, “I Got a Line on You”
Spirit’s biggest hit — its only song to reach the Top 40 — “I Got a Line on You” was released in late 1968 and hit No. 25 in early 1969. Composer Randy California was 18 at the time. Spirit was noted in its heyday for its jazz leanings, but as this tune shows, they […]
Open Thread – I Love Cory Booker
I know that the first five comments are going to be what’s wrong with Booker. That’s fine. Get it out. Then be ready to build up your candidate. Make your case and be ready to go to work. In other news: John Bolton’s first act as Natl Security Advisor was to fire the Director of […]
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