Song of the Day 11/27: Blind Faith, “Presence of the Lord”
"Presence of the Lord," Eric Clapton's contribution to Blind Faith's only album in 1969, was his first outing as a lyricist. Its message is personal, but Steve Winwood delivers it…
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022
DeSantis' Role Model--Michael Dukakis? This former R strategist thinks so--with the same result: Not satisfied with the obvious Dukakis-in-the-tank comparisons sparked by DeSantis’ “Top Gov” campaign ad, it’s as though…
Albert Cummings’ Telepathic Trio Coming To The Arden Gild Hall Next Friday!
Why talk about him when I can just share some of his music with you?: Drummer Warren Grant may well be the best drummer I've ever brought to the Hall.…
Song of the Day 11/26: Wilko Johnson, “When I’m Gone”
Regular readers know I consider Dr. Feelgood one of the most important British bands of the 1970s. The creative force behind the punk pioneers, guitarist Wilko Johnson (born John Wilkinson)…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 26, 2022
Russia's Economy Is Tanking Due, In Large Part, To Western Sanctions: For months, Putin claimed that the “economic blitzkrieg” against Russia had failed, but Western sanctions imposed over the invasion…
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 25, 2022
How Long Could You Survive--In The Quietest Room In The World? Would you literally hear the blood flow through your body? Would your innermost thoughts drive you crazy? From one…
Biden’s New Push For Assault Weapons Ban is Good Policy and Good Politics
Only extremist gun-nuts & psychos think that assault weapons should be freely available to civilians. Make the GOP run on their absolutist, all chaos, all gun mayhem all the time…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 24, 2022
Something to give thanks for--while 'other' political blogs (are there any?) abandon their readers for Thanksgiving, we here at DL give you top-shelf commentary replete with the snark you've come…
Always a Delaware Connection
Reports are emerging that the Colorado shooter’s dad Aaron Brink (the guy who on finding out his son murdered people said: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting... And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.”) is a former MMA fighter and porn star who has sexually performed under the name of “Dick Delaware.”
Song of the Day 11/24: World Party, “Thank You World”
Rather than list all the things to be thankful for, I'm going to go Karl Wallinger's route and simply thank the world. Wallinger was World Party for most of its…
Happy Thanksgiving
From all of us at DL to all of you, we hope you Thanksgiving is full of warmth and good cheer and not the usual battle between you mother’s pagan…
Delaware Gun Nuts Lose in Chancery Court
The Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association (Delaware's local NRA affiliate) has taken the position that the state has no right to keep military machine guns out of the hands of children…
Broadcast news covering for right-wingers targeting LGBTQ people
Objective, non-partisan journalism has come to mean lying about right wing extremism by omission. Broadcast news failed to mention crucial context in coverage of Colorado Springs shooting at LGBTQ nightclub…