Archive for February, 2022
DL Open Thread Friday February 25 2022
Yesterday was a bad day for non-cis, non-het Americans. Maybe if we only compromised harder, they’d meet us in the middle. Eh, Coonsie? Florida’s House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would prohibit “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” in the state’s primary schools. The legislation — titled the Parental Rights in […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Feb. 18-24, 2022
1. Collin O’Mara Pondering Run For Governor. He would be the second member of his immediate family to have run for Governor. His wife ran for Governor–of Maryland–in 2018, and came in 4th in the Democratic primary. O’Mara ‘maintains a residence in Wilmington’ so, like Dave McBride, he could presumably legally run for the position. […]
Song of the Day 2/24: John Paul Jones and Playing for Change, “When the Levee Breaks”
Playing for Change, the non-profit music education charity that proselytizes and raises money by sharing covers featuring musicians both famous and obscure from all over the world, dropped a killer track this week. Featuring John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin on bass, it answers the musical question, “If you replaced Jimmy Page with Derek Trucks, […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., Feb. 24, 2022
Putin Starts Shootin’: Early Thursday, just as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia announced on television that he had decided “to carry out a special military operation” in Ukraine, explosions were reported across the country. Blasts were heard in Kyiv, the capital; in Kharkiv, the second largest city; and in Kramatorsk in the region of […]
WTF, Postles?
I haven’t read the proposed “Education Right to Know Act”, but I know that the photo of Postles announcing it with his eyes closed is some amazingly on the nose shit.
Song of the Day 2/23: Screaming Trees, “Nearly Lost You”
While rock’s Jurassic generation keeps grinding on — look, another tour by 79-year-old Paul McCartney! — its more recent Cretaceous Period relics are dying out. Mark Lanegan, frontman for Screaming Trees and collaborator with Queens of the Stone Age, died at 57 at his home in rural Ireland. No cause of death was given, but […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday February 23, 2022
Today we have, “Mike Pompeo Praises Putin While Trashing Biden” – Trump praises Putin’s strategy as “savvy” and a long Twitter Thread from a Finnish Leftist on Ukraine. What do you want to get out of your head?
Chris Coons Joins With Republicans Calling Biden’s Ukraine Policy “Weak”
This is not satire. Senator Chris Coons marched in lockstep with his GOP allies piling on Joe Biden’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine according to reports now running on NPR and in Vanity Fair :
Though Russian forces have apparently crossed the Ukrainian border, both the White House and Zelensky at first appeared wary of formally declaring it an “invasion,” a distinction that would trigger the severe — and, for much of Europe, economically costly — sanctions that Biden has threatened. That led to attacks from Republicans, who have painted Biden as weak on Russia, and to calls from even some Democrats to immediately begin imposing “significant costs on President Putin and the Kremlin,” as Senator Chris Coons said Monday.
Song of the Day 2/22: Bill Evans, “Peace Piece”
I don’t know all that much about the situation in the Ukraine, and if you’re honest about it neither do you. I just think that the fewer innocent people who die over all this, the better. Bill Evans was so fucking great that he just sat at the piano after a recording session for his […]
Black Opry Revue Preview: Part One
We’re bringing these incredible artists to the Arden Gild Hall this Saturday. In conjunction with Black History Month, and presented in partnership with the Delaware Division Of The Arts and radio station WXPN. (Up-to-date vax cards and masks required.) You can get tickets right here. But first, how about a taste of three of the […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday February 22nd 2022
Putin’s pretext for invading Ukraine is every bit as flimsy and based on ego as our pretext for invading Iraq in 2003. President Vladimir Putin railed against Ukraine in a televised address on Monday, saying that neo-Nazis were on the rise, oligarchic clans were rife and that the ex-Soviet country was a U.S. colony with […]
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