January 2024 – Page 6 – Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread: Thurs., Jan. 4, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 4, 202412 Comments

MAGAt Brain Part I: Apparently Delaware Rethugs have concluded that the Scourge Of Electric Cars is their hot button issue. You know, like abortion. Specifically, Mike Ramone. Filed yesterday in…

Song of the Day 1/4: T Bone Burnett, “Humans From Earth”

By Alby January 3, 20242 Comments

T Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024

By Alby January 3, 20241 Comment

Gold Bar Bob Menendez used his position as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to run quite a racket, according to his new federal indictment. It doesn't add any…

Song of the Day 1/2: Green Day, “The American Dream Is Killing Me”

By Alby January 2, 20242 Comments

Punk-pop veterans and Rock Hall of Famers Green Day waded into America's politico-cultural wars on New Year's Eve when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong altered a line of the band's signature…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024

By Alby January 2, 20248 Comments

Former labor secretary Robert Reich used his year-end column to make a point I've long believed: The perception that America's quality of life is declining is linked to the fact…

Song of the Day 1/1: Uptown String Band, “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover”

By Alby January 1, 20243 Comments

The Mummers Parade is hanging in there, even if it's much diminished. The march nowadays runs only from City Hall to Washington Street, in the wrong direction, and it doesn't…

DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 1, 2024

By Alby January 1, 20245 Comments

Benjamin Netanyahu must think the high road has been mined, because he steadfastly refuses to take it. As the slaughter in Gaza continues, he promised to continue what he calls…