Song of the Day 8/30: Haim, “Strong Enough”
Everybody has their favorite bands, and these sisters are one of mine. The radio studio is a perfect setting for this stripped-back version of one of Sheryl Crow's earliest hits,…
DL Open Thread Monday August 30th 2021
Here are a couple of Delaware headlines (and a song) to start off your week: Delaware Takes in Climate Change Refugees: Over 100 shelter pets from Louisiana airlifted to New Castle…
Song of the Day 8/29: The Clovers, “Love Potion No. 9”
If it smells like turpentine and looks like India ink, Trumpers would probably take it before they'll take that commie socialist vaccine. Though it's been covered by scores of groups,…
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 29, 2021
We can now definitively state that Joe Biden was wrong when he predicted that the Republican fever would break once Trump was out of office. A nation in which Republican…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 28, 2021
Floridians Turning Against DeSantis? Signs point to yes: Covid infection rates continue to climb as the state faces shortages of health care staff, morgue space and even oxygen for patients.…
National AFL-CIO To Gerald Brady: “Resign”.
No, not from the General Assembly. From his position as the Executive Director of the Delaware AFL-CIO: Liz Shuler, national president of the AFL-CIO, said in a statement on Friday…
Conservative media has created the perfect economic and cultural environment for the spread of Covid19
Conservative media complex is a mechanism for tricking gullible retired people into buying gold coins, brain pills and reverse mortgages. It has created a docile flock of uncritical dummies who…
Song of the Day 8/27: They Might Be Giants, “I Can’t Remember the Dream”
There aren't all that many '90s bands still making new music, and fewer still sound like they did back then. The Johns, Flansburgh and Linnell, have a new album --…
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 27, 2021
Why So Many Politicians Are Jerks--And How To Bring Them Down. Something we always ingrained in our candidates: Thank your volunteers, treat them well, and feed them. Meaning, I particularly…
Songs Of The Day August 26: The Muslims-‘Fuck These Fuckin Fascists’/’Unity’
Punk the way it's supposed to be: crude, obnoxious and funny. In their own words: "THE MUSLIMS is a crunchy, kickass punk band of Black + brown queer muzzies. Your…
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 26, 2021
RWNJ martyr Ashli Babbitt is the answer to the question, "How many of these kosplay kkkomandos have to die before the rest stand down?" and finally someone in the mainstream…
Protest & Organize & Vote
Watching fanged zealots yell at school boards (and clap gleefully for their fellow yellers) I keep returning to something REV said in a podcast. I'm going to make a hash of it but it was something like - Getting protest energy and capitalizing on it by organizing and recruiting candidates and keeping everyone together to vote is the program.
I think of that political activism flywheel when I see those Karens lacerating their school boards because that program seems to be baked into the GOP DNA right now. Meanwhile party Democrats always seem to be wary of gathering any political energy.