Song of the Day 2/12: Weezer, “Hash Pipe”
Very little American media output crosses the Atlantic, the obsessions of right-wing agit-prop shops like Fox even less than the rest. But enough spam email has slipped through for me…
DL Open Thread Saturday February 12 2022
Crack Pipe Joe is now cowering in the corner begging Tucker Carlson to stop kicking him. It is truly pathetic and perhaps not a great strategy going into midterms. Someone…
Listen to the Highlands Bunker – NOW WITH 20% MORE BRAIN POISON!
"If all the right people hate me, I'm doing my job." REV may or may not have said that. But it sounds like something he would say. E162 - Call…
Delaware Political Weekly, February 4-10, 2022
Hoo-boy, now we're talkin'! A hot-stove political junkie's dream of a week. 1. More RD 4 Nomination Post-Mortems. The alleged rationales for choosing Bud Freel (other than 'he's one of…
Song of the Day 2/11: Hot Chocolate, “Brother Louie”
Hot Chocolate was a British soul band best known for their 1975 international hit "You Sexy Thing," a disco standard that reached No. 3 in the US. But it was…
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 11, 2022
Doesn't Look Like Sarah Palin Starred As Star Witness. How did this case even make it to trial?: No one who has even casually followed the former governor’s career would…
Senators Blackburn and Coons “Spitting Mad”
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R–TN) is incensed that President Biden is not including Republicans in the search for the next Supreme Court justice. "The Biden White House is not even consulting…
Don’t Be a Wanker
If you aren't fucking joining your fucking RD committee, or working for a fucking candidate you believe in, or all your activism takes place in the comments section of some…
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…