Archive for January, 2024
Song of the Day 1/31: Joni Mitchell feat. Neil Young & The Stray Gators, “Turn Me On I’m a Radio”
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 Brandi Carlile has coaxed Mitchell into making her first public appearances in years, and I’m sure the fans will be thrilled to see her, just […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024
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 Frenchie overtook him as the “world’s richest person.” This helps explain why the inveterate hypester announced that Neuralink had implanted its first device in a […]
Song of the Day 1/30: Alice in Chains, “Lab Monkey”
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 $396 million facility to breed macaques for medical research that will eventually house 30,000 of the creatures. Laboratories have been scrambling for monkeys since China […]
Our PAL Val Screws Up ‘Permit To Purchase’: Incompetence Or Malice?
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 lawmakers’ return to Dover in January, a bill to require training and a permit prior to purchase of a handgun hasn’t made it to a […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024
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, claiming they’d arrive at the Rio Grande with 700,000 people. So far they’re about 699,900 short, partly because – cue Admiral Ackbar – IT’S A […]
Song of the Day 1/29: Prince, “Check the Record”
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 his six half-siblings, who split into two camps. After six years in court the sides agreed to a 50-50 split and promised to share decision-making. […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
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 have been killed in a drone strike. Biden has vowed retaliation “at a time of our choosing” against the Iranian-backed militia that took credit for […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024
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 the state party hierarchy by far-right supporters of former President Donald J. Trump and that came days after a scandal that forced the last chairman […]
Song of the Day 1/28: P.D.Q. Bach, “Missa Hilarious, S. N₂O”
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 for cartoons. Or maybe it was early exposure to PDQ Bach, who made the solemn reverence surrounding the classical canon seem rather ridiculous. PDQ Bach, […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., January 27, 2024
$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 $83 mill in cash or, say, the deed to one of his properties, while the appeals take place. Interest accrues: Mr. Trump can pay the […]
Delaware Political Weekly: January 19-25, 2024
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: A Campaign About Nothing. Just like what passed for his two, no, three, campaigns for Governor. Which is why he lost the first time: Outside […]
Song of the Day 1/26: Tina Fabrique, “Reading Rainbow” theme
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 tiny shoes, and since I’m not a nice guy when it comes to dealing with assholes, I think people should push his buttons at every […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 26, 2024
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. While Trump is about to lose bigly a second time for having made E. Jean Carroll’s life a living hell, McMahon has been accused of […]
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