July 2025 – Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 31, 2025

By El Somnambulo July 31, 202516 Comments

First, a question on the upcoming Special Session: Usually, when there has been a Special Session, pretty much everything has been prepared in advance. Raising my concern: Will this Special…

‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: July 2025

By El Somnambulo July 31, 20255 Comments

Can't over-hype this month. It over-hypes itself. No better way to kick it off: Don't know exactly what Dev Hynes does. Don't need to: Belongs on a Justified soundtrack: A…

Song of the Day 7/30: Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney, “The Girl Is Mine”

By Alby July 30, 2025

Donald Trump's latest excuse-cum-confession in L'Affaire D'Epstein demonstrates the depths of not just his depravity but his narcissism as well. Confronted with the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's procurer, recruited…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 30, 2025

By El Somnambulo July 30, 202512 Comments

BREAKING: Greenhouse Gas NOT A Cause Of Climate Change. Who sez so? Trump's EPA: For years the Environmental Protection Agency has pushed carmakers to reduce how much vehicles contribute to…

Guest Post: The Property Reassessment Controversy

By El Somnambulo July 29, 202525 Comments

By Mediawatch: Like you, I’m still trying to figure out who should be in the crosshairs. A couple of things going on here: 1. There was minimal uproar last year…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 29, 2025

By El Somnambulo July 29, 20252 Comments

Trump Sets Non-Profit Organizations In His Sights: President Trump’s actions targeting law firms, judges, media organizations, universities and labor unions have demonstrated a norm-shattering zeal for retribution and punishment of…

Song of the Day 7/29: The Zombies, “She’s Not There”

By Alby July 29, 20252 Comments

Controversial NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers has had only three confirmed concussions in his career, but he sure acts like he has brain damage. He's in the news now because, after…

Song of the Day 7/28: Tom Lehrer, “The Vatican Rag”

By Alby July 28, 20255 Comments

Tom Lehrer, the math professor whose satiric songs about nuclear war, sexual deviancy and other human follies made him a popular cult figure in the 1950s and '60s, died Saturday…

DL Open Thread: Monday, July 28, 2025

By El Somnambulo July 28, 202515 Comments

Robert Reich: "We Blew It". By 'we', I'm talkin' baby boomers, of which I am one. A few choice excerpts: If you’re an average working person today, you are extraordinarily…

Song of the Day 7/27: Jackie Wilson, “Lonely Teardrops”

By Alby July 27, 20251 Comment

Guest post by Nathan Arizona If Elvis Presley were here, he’d sing the praises of classic R&B/soul singer Jackie Wilson. He’d even sound like Jackie. Elvis called himself “the white…

DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 27, 2025

By El Somnambulo July 27, 20255 Comments

Volkswagen's Slave Ranch In Brazil. I'd never heard this story before: When Ricardo Rezende Figueira saw the headline, he felt a chill run through him. It was about Volkswagen. The…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 26, 2025

By El Somnambulo July 26, 20254 Comments

One More Way That Hulk Hogan's Legacy Has Hurt America: The tawdry story begins at some point in or around 2006. Bollea was having trouble in his marriage and was,…

Song of the Day 7/25: Chuck Mangione, “Feels So Good”

By Alby July 25, 20252 Comments

Chuck Mangione gave credit for his biggest hit to the Bee Gees. "'Saturday Night Fever' had saturated radio," he once told an interviewer. "I think the top six out of…