Song of the Day 2/10: Todd Rundgren, “Dust in the Wind”
First off, no, this isn't the Kansas tune. It predates it by six years. Fifty years ago this month, then 23-year-old Todd Rundgren released what's widely regarded as his magnum…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022
Department Of Corrections Ignored Allegations Against Serial Abuser/Correctional Officer. Hey, Claire DeMatteis' job wasn't ever to stop this stuff, it was to keep it under wraps: For years, men imprisoned…
Trump is a scourge that keeps on scourge-ing
I blame Hillary Clinton, and Democrats for nominating her. The worst candidate ever, defeated by the second worst presidential candidate ever.
#Neverforget
The Brazen Criminality of Delaware’s “Auditor”
This is fucking nuts.
As reported by WDEL's DJ McAneny here is the exchange between Trey Paradee and Kathy McGuiness AFTER Paradee pointed out that Park City was trying to shift half-a-million dollars from general funds towards "contractual services" (Sen Lawson interjecting some dumb bullshit has been removed by me.)
Song of the Day 2/9: Fountains of Wayne, “Amity Gardens”
There are lots of songs about real places, but I don't know of any song that celebrates a real place more obscure than Amity Gardens, Pa. That's what you'd expect…
DL Open Thread Wednesday February 9th 2022
Ho hum. The NYT doesn't think Trump breaking the law is much of a story. On Tuesday, Times reporters Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman co-authored their newspaper’s first attempt…
Shama Lama Ding Dong
Read RAE KRANTZ' coverage of the sham RD4 session in the Delaware Call. Then become a patron. ....a group of people who had previously decided that racism was not a…
Song of the Day 2/8: Glen Campbell, “Just Another Piece of Paper”
The National Archives had to send -- who? A-men? -- to Mar a Lago to fetch Trump's love letters from Kim Jong-un which, as the linked story dryly notes, "did…
DL Open Thread Tuesday Feb 8th
Here is a bunch of stuff that happened. Biden Says Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Won’t Go Forward if Russia Invades Ukraine Biden sounded a little Trumpy in the coverage of…
Song of the Day 2/7: The Beach Boys, “Sloop John B”
Seems like a good time for a vacation in the Bahamas, doesn't it? Drunken first mate, cook with the fits, even, in the original version, a captain with a greedy…
Tonight: It’s ‘Delaware Way’ Vs. Progressive Change
Does this sound like a candidate you could support?: WILMINGTON, DE – Adriana Leela Bohm endorsed by Mary Ann’s List, Delaware Stonewall PAC, and several legislators for the Democratic nomination…
DL Open Thread Monday February 7 2022
Bad news for people who think Darwin will be decisive. You may be wondering - Have the disproportionate COVID deaths in "red" areas been big enough to make a difference…
Song of the Day 2/6: Urge Overkill, “Positive Bleeding”
I keep rediscovering bands from the '90s, the last decade when there were so many you might miss a few. Until I heard this tune on a throwback radio show…