Archive for November, 2021
DL Open Thread Tuesday November 24 2021
State Sen. McBride begins renewed push for paid leave in Delaware McBride says she’s confident the measure will pass next year, despite not having the support of the state’s largest business groups like the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce. She said she’s working to address their concerns. Based on those discussions, she plans to file […]
Song of the Day 11/22: Bennett Wilson Poole, “Soon Enough”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona UK Americana sounds like a contradiction, but don’t tell the British. A lot of fans and websites there are devoted to both contemporary and classic Americana (aka alt-country). Hovering over all this is the sound of the Byrds, who some would call the best or at least most important American […]
Empty Headed Journalistic Bothersiderism Isn’t Just for Democrats vs Republicans Anymore
In “Joe Biden Vs The Democrats” Jonathan Chait returns to the tired “both sides are at fault” trope. The twist is that by both sides he means progressive Democrats and Centerist Democrats – blaming them both equally for Biden’s failure to pass his agenda. For anyone paying attention, that is obviously nonsense. 1) It is […]
Seeking Our DL 2021 MVP (Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause) Nominees
Who deserves recognition this year? We wanna hear from you. You’ve got ’til December 10 to let us know.
DL Open Thread Monday November 22nd
Rob Portman, (LAME DUCK-Ohio), and Chris Coons, (D?-Delaware), introduced bipartisan legislation to combat international wildlife trafficking. Maybe it’s a decent bill, maybe not. Knowing Coons, however, I’m going to go ahead and assume that the bill was drafted by lobbyists for the International Wildlife Trafficking Association. The real point of rolling out shit like this […]
Song of the Day 11/21: John Wesley Harding, “There’s A Starbucks (Where The Starbucks Used To Be)”
If John Wesley Harding were as popular with the public as he is with other musicians, he’d be a household name. Or would Wesley Stace be a household name? The former JWH now records under his real name, the one under which he teaches university classes and published four critically acclaimed novels. Whatever name he […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 21, 2021
Could Traffic Circles Actually Be Good? I grant you, they confuse me, especially when you’re supposed to ‘take the third right’ at the roundabout. However: Carmel, a city of 102,000 north of Indianapolis, has 140 roundabouts, with over a dozen still to come. No American city has more. The main reason is safety; compared with […]
Song of the Day 11/20: The Clash, “Somebody Got Murdered”
Actually, two somebodies. Their names were Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and while a Wisconsin jury and the judge who oversaw their killer’s trial exonerated him, they were murdered nonetheless, as dead as the lie that America is a noble experiment. It’s not — it’s an experiment to see how far capitalism can go in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 20, 2021
‘Kyle Rittenhouse And The New Era Of Political Violence’. Might as well go back and place the burgeoning movement featuring Rittenhouse and like-minded individuals in context. Add to that blatantly-biased judges, and the notion of justice in America is more besmirched than ever, at least in recent times. Yet another supporter of armed ‘self defense’ […]
It is not ok to be nice to Republicans.
The Republican party is filled with psychotic racists who hate America and they need to be crushed at every election down to dog catcher. They need to be social pariahs who relearn how to stay in hiding.
When Coons continually attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of the Grand Old Party, even as their atrocities are unfolding, he isn’t trying to be a good guy. He is propping up psychotic racists for some psychotic reason only he really knows.
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 19, 2021
Biden To Reverse Disastrous Trump Policy Aimed At Despoiling Alaska: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will propose reinstating a Bill Clinton-era rule to ban logging and road building in more than half of North America’s largest temperate rainforest,the department confirmed. The restrictions had managed to stay in place for years because of a series of court […]
Delaware Political Weekly: November 9-18, 2021
Yep, more than a week, for those paying attention. DPW officially migrates to Fridays, until I change my mind yet again. 1. Time To Jump Into That 2nd SD Race. Darius is toast. We’re looking for at least one credible non-grifter in the field. Believe it or not, Darius Brown might have been the least-bad […]
Song of the Day 11/18: Lee Moses, “Bad Girl”
People who love soul music have to deal with the fact that artists stopped making it about the time that disco gobbled up R&B and funk in its Hustle-dancing wake. The obsessives deal with it by finding and sharing rare recordings of obscure groups, and some of those nuggets make you wonder why the artists […]
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