2026 – Page 28 – Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 27, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 27, 2026

It's The Weakness, Stupid. Americans are unhappy with the way things are going in the country, and don’t feel particularly well represented by either major political party. In our new…

Song of the Day 2/27: Johnny Nash, “I Can See Clearly Now”

By Alby February 27, 20261 Comment

Dedicated to El Somnambulo, for reasons he'll understand. Johnny Nash started singing as a teenager in Houston and released his debut single in 1956. In the first 16 years of…

‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: February 2026

By El Somnambulo February 27, 20262 Comments

Yes, I'm posting this a day early. Why? Loads of new tunes--and new discoveries, this month. I just couldn't wait. So sue me. Perhaps the greatest musical month of ALL…

Song of the Day 2/26: Phil Collins, “I Don’t Care Anymore”

By Alby February 26, 20265 Comments

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released its list of nominees to the usual criticisms, mainly that half of the acts have little if any connection to the genre…

DL Open Thread Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026

By Alby February 26, 20261 Comment

The Epstein Files are like radioactive material with a long half-life, still killing the careers of people like Larry Summers, the overrated economist, long after the pedophile at the center…

Song of the Day 2/25: Bettye LaVette, “Everything Is Broken”

By Alby February 25, 20261 Comment

A true State of the Union address would have sounded a lot like this Bob Dylan number from "Oh Mercy," the 1989 LP that critics treated as a comeback album.…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026

By Alby February 25, 20263 Comments

I don't watch State of the Union speeches because I avoid self-promotion no matter who the president happens to be, but apparently the Screeching Shitbag delivered the longest-ever such speech,…

Song of the Day 2/24: Dion, “Runaround Sue”

By Alby February 24, 20261 Comment

He was just Dion, sans the Belmonts and without his surname DiMucci, in 1961 when he assembled an impromptu doo-wop chorus at a party and started ad-libbing lyrics about a…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 24, 20263 Comments

How Epstein's 'Male Gaze' Toxicity Created A Glass Ceiling For Women. Academia: In 2018, an elite group of academics and scientists planned to gather for an exclusive retreat at a…

Song of the Day 2/23: America, “A Horse With No Name”

By Alby February 23, 20269 Comments

Guest post by Nathan Arizona When listeners first heard America’s “A Horse With No Name” in 1972 a lot of them had questions. Why did this new Neil Young song…

DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 23, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 23, 20266 Comments

Anybody OK With ICE Building Concentration Camps? Without the ovens--so far: A once sleepy rural town named Social Circle, Ga. — just over 40 miles east of Atlanta off Interstate…

Song of the Day 9/22: Snoop Dogg, “Sexual Eruption”

By Alby February 22, 2026

The 2026 Winter Olympics close today, and the most titillating story out of Milano Cortina, Italy, was that the 2,800 athletes on hand ran through 10,000 condoms in three days.…

DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 21, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 22, 20269 Comments

Frederick Wiseman--America's Irreplaceable Documentarian: Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking,…