January 2024 – Delaware Liberal

Song of the Day 1/31: Joni Mitchell feat. Neil Young & The Stray Gators, “Turn Me On I’m a Radio”

By Alby January 31, 20242 Comments

Joni Mitchell is going to sing at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, the first time she's ever performed at the ceremony, and I admit to mixed feelings. It's great that…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024

By Alby January 31, 202427 Comments

Less money, mo' problems for the world's richest man. Yesterday Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick called Elon Musk's Tesla pay package "unfathomable" and voided the deal. And this just days after some…

Song of the Day 1/30: Alice in Chains, “Lab Monkey”

By Alby January 30, 2024

The residents of a small town in Georgia are about to be outnumbered by monkeys, and they're not happy about it. Bainbridge, Ga., population 15,000, recently approved construction of a…

Our PAL Val Screws Up ‘Permit To Purchase’: Incompetence Or Malice?

By El Somnambulo January 30, 20246 Comments

Longhurst promised to run the bill in January. Longhurst didn't run the bill in January. From the News-Journal article: Despite Delaware House leadership’s pledge to pass gun safety legislation upon…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024

By Alby January 30, 20245 Comments

Right-wing radicals billing themselves the Army of God took to the road yesterday in a border-bound trucker convoy. They departed Virginia Beach and planned to attract participants along the way,…

Song of the Day 1/29: Prince, “Check the Record”

By Alby January 29, 2024

Prince Rogers Nelson did not have a will when he died of a fentanyl overdose in 2016, so his estate went into probate and was awarded in equal shares to…

DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 29, 2024

By Alby January 29, 202411 Comments

Did Hamas intend to set off a region-wide war with its Oct. 7 attack? It seems they did whether they meant to or not. Now three U.S. soldiers in Jordan…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 28, 20241 Comment

Arizona Rethugs Go Full MAGAt. Because it worked so well for them in 2020: Arizona Republicans chose a new party chair on Saturday, a move that tightened the grip on…

Song of the Day 1/28: P.D.Q. Bach, “Missa Hilarious, S. N₂O”

By Alby January 28, 20241 Comment

I admit I don't listen to as much classical music as I once did, and I think it might be because I heard so much of it as the score…

DL Open Thread: Sat., January 27, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 27, 202423 Comments

$83 Mill. With what could well be a $250 mill judgement against Trump by the end of next week. Sure he can appeal. However, he has to either pony up…

Delaware Political Weekly: January 19-25, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 26, 202416 Comments

Not gonna do a deep dive back into the campaign finance reports just now. Why? Because I need a brief respite from all that small print. 1. Carney For Mayor:…

Song of the Day 1/26: Tina Fabrique, “Reading Rainbow” theme

By Alby January 26, 2024

Voters scrubbed Meatball Ron DeSantis from the presidential race, but the residents of Florida have to put up with him for three more years. I'm sure he's fuming inside his…

DL Open Thread: Friday, January 26, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 26, 20246 Comments

Vince McMahon And Donald Trump--Separated At Birth? Two self-entitled males who play the role of WWE villains because, well, that's what they are. And serial abusers, OK, rapists, of women. …