Song of the Day 3/31: Bruce Cockburn, “If I Had a Rocket Launcher”
Haven't we all thought this in the past few months? Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn was a folkie who had written just a few political songs before he joined a 1983…
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 31, 2025
Unholy Patrimonialism: This strikes me as explaining government under Trump--including its fatal weakness: Even those who expected the worst from his reelection (I among them) expected more rationality. Today, it…
Song of the Day 3/30: The Damned, “Smash It Up”
I don't know whether to dedicate this one to Elon Musk or the protesters who are taking out their fury on his Tesla dealerships. It's the signature song by the…
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 30, 2025
Musk/DOGE's Push For The Privatization Of Public Services: Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets…
Song of the Day 3/29: Cheap Trick, “Surrender”
Major law firms are knuckling under to Trump, but Delaware lawmakers one-upped them: They surrendered to Elon Musk himself. Unfortunately, they fucked up by not following Cheap Trick songwriter Rick…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 29, 2025
Meyer Signs Bill, Musk Does This. Coincidence?: Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values the…
Song of the Day 3/28: Dave Edmunds, “I Hear You Knocking”
As much as I hate everything involved in the Trump maladministration, this is just sad. In a lame attempt to distract from its national security ineptitude, they tried to send…
Delaware’s Legislators Of The Week: March 25-27, 2025
Only three distinguished themselves, all for the same reason. These three legislators brought forward thoughtful and worthwhile improvements to the Musk-Pass SS1/SB 21 bill. These were not, to be clear,…
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 28, 2025
Trump's Just Doing Weird Stuff Now. Like this: The “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Looks like the Honorables are gonna make a swift getaway. The General Assembly will not meet next week as Bond Bill deliberations will instead take center stage. As often is…
Song of the Day 3/27: Townes Van Zandt, “Pancho and Lefty”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Townes Van Zandt’s life and career were too erratic to earn him much credit for his fantastic songs, except from other singers of folkish country…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Yet One More 'Disappearance', Captured On Tape: As Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk made her way to an interfaith center to break the Ramadan fast on Tuesday, plainclothes agents, some…
Song of the Day 3/26: Leonard Cohen, “The Partisan”
The American resistance to the Trump/Musk fascist takeover has yet to get organized, but the torching of Tesla dealerships shows the will to sabotage already exists. What we don't yet…