Archive for November, 2021
A Brief Musical Tribute To Stephen Sondheim
My musical sensibilities have been shaped by Sondheim far more than by any other artist. I’m certain that I’ve listened to his music far more than anybody else’s. His death today has made it impossible for me to think of anything else. So many songs run through my head. But when it came time to […]
Delaware Political Weekly: November 19-25, 2021
1. Unashamed RWNJ Announces Congressional Run. He displays promising comedic potential: Christopher Hill is currently a geotechnical driller; he previously spent time as a board certified alcohol and drug dependency counselor in the state, but he majored in political science in college. His interest in politics led to his involvement with campaigns for Terry Spence, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 26, 2021
In case you were wondering: The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 25, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving! Best holiday of the year by far, at least for us. Let me just emphasize how disgraceful giving the Kathleen McGuiness the Pharmacist Of The Year Award is. With one move, that professional association has lost all credibility. Especially when there are real pharmacists making real differences out there–like Dr. TaQuina Warren: Dr. […]
Song of the Day 11/25: The Cranberries, “Ode to My Family”
Happy Thanksgiving! Or, as they call it à Paris, jeudi. American culture is consumed everywhere, so Parisians are aware of Thanksgiving, but only expat Americans celebrate it. In some regards, this makes preparing the meal simple — the butcher down the street understood right away why we ordered a fresh whole turkey, yet it was […]
McGuiness Used States Funds to Pay Firststateupdate.com to Publish a Glowing Press Release?
It sure seems like she did. See the “Source” below. Also note that the “article” makes no mention of the brazen criminality the “auditor” will stand trial for. BTW – I’m just putting the whole thing here because, being a press release that they posted verbatim, it is not the intellectual property of any website. […]
BREAKING: All Three Defendants In Killing Of Ahmaud Arbery Found Guilty On Multiple Accounts…
..including felony murder. Finally, something to give thanks for. In this case, we give thanks that the three killers weren’t cops: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial
Song of the Day 11/24: Dire Straits, “So Far Away”
Mark Knopfler wrote this song, which appeared on his band’s 1985 mega-hit album “Brothers in Arms,” about the difficulty of conducting long-distance relationships by telephone. Speaking from experience, even 35 years later, in the age of What’s App and Skype, it remains difficult, though at least the phone bills are lower. To illustrate how long […]
PLeAsE PESTER & AbUsE YOUr L0CAl SKollBOrED!!!!
Some dumb fucking conservative idiots have gotten into the habit of circulating “shocking” bullshit among themselves, then pretending that the shocking bullshit came from a school in the Caesar Rodney School District. The social media posts bout the “shocking things they are teaching in school” typically include calls to respond to the outrage, and “JAM […]
Whoa. Brian Pettyjohn Isn’t Going Anywhere.
DD has the story over at Blue Delaware, and I gotta admit, I didn’t see this coming. He wanted to go somewhere (Deputy Director For Sussex County Department of Elections). Ruth Briggs King wanted him to go somewhere. But it was kiboshed by: Only the GOP members of the Board of Elections could vote on […]
Song Of The Day 11/23: The Drifters, ‘Up On The Roof’
I retired from Trader Joe’s on Sunday. My right hip and my right leg made the decision for me. A fantastic 12-plus year run. The perfect post-career gig. Anyway, at least in part as a salute, they had on my fave satellite music station, ‘Mo-Soul’, during my shift. Nothing but soul and r & b […]
Darius Brown’s Latest ‘Woman Problem’
There’s more, perhaps much more, than meets the eye when it comes to his latest indefensible outburst. But first, for those of you who haven’t paid attention, here’s the story: The senator got into a heated verbal altercation with Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown, a New Castle Democrat, during a press event on Nov. 8 when Gov. […]
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