Archive for June, 2022
Song of the Day 6/24: Malo, “Suavecito”
With the Supreme Court celebrating “Trigger the Libs Day,” I figure it’s time to once again dip into my mellow summer playlist. Play as necessary until feelings of rage subside. Malo was a San Francisco-based band formed in 1971. Their sound capitalized on two then-current trends in rock — horn sections, typified by Chicago, and […]
DL Open Thread Friday, June 24, 2022
So what do we call them? The Dingleberry Six? Five Jackoffs and a Jill? The Jan. 6 committee named five congressmen who asked Trump for preemptive pardons over their little putsch, along with hearsay that Madge Taylor Greene did, too. Her response: Nuh-uh, you’re the Nazi. The more interesting news was yesterday’s FBI raid on […]
Song of the Day 6/23: Bob Dylan, “Happy Birthday to You”
I did not realize until the other day that Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson were born two days apart in 1942, McCartney on the 18th and Wilson on the 20th, so both of them turned 80 within the past week. Among those who sent along public birthday wishes was an old-timer they know, 81-year-old Bob […]
Yesterday’s Reporting from REV and Bill – They beat me to a pithy headline
“Filibusters and Frown Lines” – pretty good. After listening, I’d have tried to bring in something that supports my previous observation that in the daily blizzard of petty corruption and laziness that is Delaware politics, it tough for the prosecutors to single out Park City’s corruption and laziness as being particularly egregious. Perhaps – “Finding […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 23, 2022
I’m guilty of false advertising. I apologize. I promised the following in yesterday’s legislative piece: One legislator in particular will not be happy. (Hint: They killed an exceedingly-popular bill despite being the prime House sponsor on it. Oh, and despite the fact that it passed the Senate.) It’s what happens when you are owned by […]
Five Planets Lined Up
A line of five planets will be visible during the early morning hours throughout the end of June, The best morning to look up will be June 24, three days after the summer solstice. (The solstice was at 5:13 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 21.) The five planets are Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., June 23, 2022
Yep, Ron Johnson Is A Seditionist. And A Traitor: This week, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot revealed that Johnson’s chief of staff tried to deliver to Vice President Mike Pence a slate of fake electors backing Trump, raising questions about the Wisconsin Republican’s role in a deliberate and coordinated plan to […]
Comment Rescue – 25% Returns & Fascism on the Menu
As I see it, the situation (in France) is the same as it is here — 38 to 44 percent of the voters are right-wing, and they’ve abandoned the moderate right because it wasn’t getting them what they want, which is to toss out all the immigrants, with special concentration on the Muslims. It is […]
Song of the Day 6/22: Tommy James and the Shondells, “Crystal Blue Persuasion”
I don’t know if its the daily headline shitstorm or the mild summer weather, but all I want to listen to lately is laid-back tunes from the ’60s. And you can’t get much more laid-back than this. The voluble James has told various stories about the song’s genesis — sometimes it was inspired by the […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 22, 2022
A Tale Of Two Bills. Both of which were on yesterday’s Agendas. Neither of which were worked. Let’s start with Mayor Mike’s/Buccini-Pollin’s Wilmington property grab. We had written about it last week, especially the way that Val Longhurst forced this bill out of committee while burying a really good bill: There were plenty of witnesses […]
Yesterday’s McGuiness trial podcast – A Choad Less Traveled
33 MINUTES AGO E185 – Kathy v Kathy Pt. 6: Facebook Wars This is the time of fake friends. As the Kathy McGuiness trial enters its second week, we begin to hear from former (and current) employees about how Kathy treats people who speak out against her. Also, how a oppo-driven trek across the state indirectly […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday June 22 2022
Senator Ron Johnson should be in jail. He wanted to hand-deliver fake electors votes to Mike Pence. That’s something I didn’t know. Good job Jan 6th hearings. Senate negotiators reached a bipartisan gun safety bill to take firearms away from dangerous people and provide billions of dollars in new mental health and ER/Trauma units in […]
Song of the Day 6/21: Megafaun, “The Longest Day”
Happy summer solstice, a celestial event that, judging from archaeological evidence, seems to have meant more to neolithic peoples than it does to us. Then again, 6,000 people turned out in the mist at Stonehenge this morning to mark the event, which might have been an impressive crowd by prehistoric standards. Megafaun is an indie-folk […]
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