October 2023 – Page 2 – Delaware Liberal

Song of the Day 10/26: The Rolling Stones, “Start Me Up”

By Alby October 26, 20233 Comments

I don't want to make a big thing of it, but Joe Biden is the same age as Keith Richards, and nobody is telling the venerable guitarist to hang it…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 26, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 26, 202319 Comments

They Still Haven't Found The Mass Shooter? No mask. Apparently no body armor. Figured when I went to sleep that he wasn't long for this world. Figured wrong. Reportedly a…

Song of the Day 10/25: The B-52s, “Dry County”

By Alby October 25, 20234 Comments

For Andrew C, by request. The B-52s were scheduled to play a White House state dinner tonight but had their performance called off at the last minute. Jill Biden was…

Bethany Beached: Day 37!

By El Somnambulo October 25, 202311 Comments

Kids, today we take a deep dive into Delaware Way cronyism. Dating back to 2017, featuring BHL and one of her political allies. The reward? Another job for which the…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023

By Alby October 25, 202319 Comments

Another day, another failed attempt to elect a Speaker of the House. Contestant No. 3 lasted just four hours, not even long enough to be doxxed by MAGA World, so…

Song of the Day 10/24: Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers, “I’m Not Your Man”

By Alby October 24, 20231 Comment

Theme song for the endless search for a Speaker of the House. Tommy Conwell ruled the bar band circuit in Philadelphia and Delaware for a little while back in the…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023

By Alby October 24, 202314 Comments

Handicapping the Speaker Stakes? Now there are only eight entrants as Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania has scratched himself from the race. Meuser, who represents a big slice of the…

Bethany Beached: Day 36!

By El Somnambulo October 24, 202312 Comments

BREAKING BHL NEWS: There is none. I looked. I scoured. But not my kitchen. We'll fill the gap with bon mots from the bethanyforde site. Her last two--tweets? I was excited…

Song of the Day 10/23: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, “A Nightmare on My Street”

By Alby October 23, 2023

Will Smith's spoof of the Freddy Krueger movies fits the Halloween season, but he's living a more substantial nightmare these days, what with all the publicity his apparently estranged wife…

Bethany Beached: Day 35!

By El Somnambulo October 23, 20234 Comments

It has been 35 days since John Carney hastily canceled his Bethany Hall-Long fundraiser, which happened mere days after he had hastily endorsed her. With any luck, we won't hear…

DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 23, 2023

By Alby October 23, 202320 Comments

Anyone who's raised children recognizes Donald Trump as an overgrown toddler. The lies he tells are the sort of incompetent falsehoods even small children outgrow. After his attorney Sidney Powell…

Song of the Day 10/22: Jimmy Cliff, “Trapped”

By Alby October 22, 2023

For Gaza. Jimmy Cliff released this song as a single in 1972, the same year he starred in "The Harder They Come," the movie and soundtrack that made Jamaican music…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 22,2023

By El Somnambulo October 22, 20233 Comments

Pharoah And DeSantis: Separated At Birth? What do they have in common?--plagues. Hurricanes, floods, seaweed encrusted beaches, pythons who like to feast on elderly Palm Beach matrons, collapsing buildings, epidemics.…