Archive for March, 2020
Song of the Day 3/31: Joe Diffie, “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)”
Joe Diffie, who died of the coronavirus Sunday at age 61, was a reliable Nashville hitmaker in the early ’90s, placing more than a dozen songs in the Top 10 of the country charts; five of them went to No. 1. This one featured a video that owes a lot to “Weekend at Bernie’s,” and […]
DL Open Thread: Tues., March 31, 2020
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. A really bad day in the US. Updated carnage: 164,610 cases, 3170 deaths. The number of cases is way below the real total because of the ongoing lack of testing. We’ll likely have close to 10,000 deaths by Sunday. Feds send wrong masks to Illinois. Trump Blows Up Auto Mileage Standards […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: March 2020
How’zabout we stream some great tunes while keeping our physical distance? Sounds good to me. Betcha some of them sound good to you: Musta’ missed this one last year. Correcting that error… If we ever get back to doing concerts at the Gild Hall, this guy will be on my short list of artists I […]
Song of the Day 3/30: Kasey Musgraves, “Burn One With John Prine”
Kasey Musgraves says this was one of the first songs she wrote when she moved to Nashville to pursue her career in country music. It’s a crowd favorite in concert, but she’s never officially released it and the chances of her doing so decreased when she recycled the couplet about piercing her nose in another […]
DL Open Thread: Mon., March 30, 2020
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. The latest carnage? 143,055 cases and 2513 deaths in the US. No, uh, reopening of the economy by Easter. Guess those pews won’t be packed. Trump moves the goal posts by claiming that a mere 100,000 deaths in the US would be a ‘very good job’. Trump: Healthcare Workers Must Be […]
Delaware’s 1 Degree of Separation: Take the Poll
In Delaware if you know where someone went to High School, you will find someone you know in common. I’m connected to Senator Laura Sturgeon, for example, through a Seaford HS friend of hers. SO who has it? Take the poll.
DL Open Thread: Sun., March 29, 2020
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. The latest carnage? 124,686 cases in the US, 2191 deaths. Coronavirus comes to Oklahoma, its denialist governor has to do a 180. You remember him, the guy who took his whole family out to eat at a crowded restaurant. Florida’s Governor and the future of scapegoating. Hint-he won’t take the blame […]
We’ve got Charlie on the run, boys!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would meet advisers early next week to discuss the next steps in fighting the coronavirus and the possibility of opening the U.S. economy, and said the United States would produce 100,000 ventilators in 100 days. Trump named White House aide Peter Navarro to coordinate […]
Bill Dunn’s FB Graph
Bill Dunn has been plotting DE Corvid19 cases on a graph. You can follow him here -> www.facebook.com/BillDunn
Coronavirus Haiku
One of my wife’s Facebook groups is having a coronavirus haiku contest. These were my contributions. Feel free to add your own in the comments. Orange man tells us Ventilators are coming It’s another lie Toilet paper now Is like a precious metal, Worth much more than gold Trump applauds himself Synchophantic experts smile Fauci […]
Song of the Day 3/28: Widespread Panic, “Hope in a Hopeless World”
Listening to Trump pat himself on the back every day got you down? Here’s a little pick-me-up to remind you that you can find hope in a hopeless world if you know where to look. Jam band Widespread Panic recorded this in 1997. The song was co-written by Philadelphia-born singer-songwriter Phil Roy during a period […]
Why Did WDEL Lay Off Allan Loudell?
Jason 330 asked, “Is the business really that hand to mouth, or is this crisis a handy pretext?” Broadcast radio has the same problem newspapers do — it’s a bygone medium. It hasn’t lost listeners as fast as newspapers lost their readers, but its advertising base has shrunk for the same basic reason: Local businesses […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., March 28, 2020
The Rethugs Created Thomas Massie. The love-child of Newt Gingrich and Rand Paul. An extremely rare good read from Dana Milbank. “We Need Ventilators, We Don’t Need Ventilators, We Need Ventilators. It’s GM’s Fault”. What passes for the Trump ‘policy’ on ventilators. Where there’s a Trump failure, there’s a scapegoat. This time–GM? Hadn’t they already […]
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