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Song of the Day 5/9: Harold Arlen, “Stormy Weather”
Contentious cross-examination of porn star Stormy Daniels made this an inevitable tabloid headline. I started humming this Harold Arlen standard, now 91 years old, as soon as I read it. Arlen composed a lot of tunes that made the Great American Songbook – “Let’s Fall in Love,” “That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 9, 2024
Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. You will note that the two bills addressing high school athletics policy cleared committee and were passed in the Senate unanimously. Carney wasted no time in signing the bill naming the ‘Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper’. Today’s House Agenda features HB 200 (Longhurst), which […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., May 9, 2024
Everything Falls Apart–In The Carney Administration. Another scandal, another attempted cover-up: A former Delaware Department of Labor supervisor embezzled more than $181,000 from the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund in 2023. The state did not reveal the theft publicly until officials were contacted by WHYY News, following a tip that money had been stolen from […]
Song of the Day 7/8: Graham Parker and the Rumour, “Mercury Poisoning”
H/t El Somnambulo It must be something in the water, nanoplastics or something, because suddenly politicians are saying shit that nobody looking for votes should ever say. First it was the Dogslayer, now it’s RFK Jr. saying a worm ate part of his brain … and, oh yes, also, he had mercury poisoning. I say […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 8, 2024
I guess the biggest news is the number of absentees in the House yesterday. Six in all, with several roll calls having at least eight absences. Allergies? Also, the two House bills mandating insurance coverages for certain costs received a large number of R no’s and not votings. I can understand why on HB 274 […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, May 8, 2024
If you want to dominate the headlines, it helps to be the defendant in four legal proceedings simultaneously. Luckily for Trump, the one serious crime he’s accused of, stealing top-secret documents, is the one that was paused indefinitely by MAGA judge Aileen Cannon. Meanwhile, the judge in his New York falsifying-business-records case – that’s what […]
Song of the Day 5/7: “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Fat”
You can tell Donnie Two Scoops is on Ozempic (or Wegovy, they’re the same thing, just different doses) because he’s taken to mocking people for being fat. At a fundraiser in Texas for Rep. Ronny Jackson, the erstwhile White House doctor who lied about Trump’s weight, Trump said Tester “looks pregnant to me. … He […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The Big Story: Senate Executive Committee To Consider Hospital Cost Bill Today. Hearing starts at 4 pm. Here’s how you can listen and/or participate. I wonder if the Senate will run this bill on an agenda this week. I wonder whether Carney will sign it. He almost has to, if, for no other reason, to […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Hamas has agreed to a cease-fire proposal put together by Egypt and Qatar. Netanyahu, who faces jail time for corruption as soon as the fighting stops, rejected it. I wish Biden would stop insulting Trump and start insulting Bibi. Bernie Sanders announced he’s running for a fourth term in the Senate. Unlike the two guys […]
Song of the Day 5/6: Talking Heads, “Psycho Killer”
Kristi Noem’s dog murder-career suicide exposed her inhumanity, but as this writer pointed out, to really understand what a sicko she is, consider the poor billy goat who caught her attention on her way back from the Gravel Pit of Doom. He got offed, too, and not on the first shot. Though Noem justified the […]
My Sentiments, Exactly
Guest Post By La Somnambula Watching the news media coverage about the college campus protests even by liberal media outlets such as MSNBC, I might be led to believe these young people are responsible for creating a culture of anti-Semitism and that police force is necessary to quash their movement and their misguided views. Yet, […]
DL Open Thread Monday, May 6, 2024
Whatever happened to “the home of the brave”? This country has an entire political party scared to confront the sociopath who leads it, and his lickspittles are vying for a role as his vice-president – as one wag put it, to see who’ll wear the noose the next time he orders his minions to kill […]
The Working Families Party Endorsements
I was there on Saturday to hear from an inspiring array of candidates. And inspiring they were, individually and collectively. But let’s not bury the lede: Collin O’Mara delivered the single most inspiring and visionary speech I’ve ever heard from a Delaware office-seeker. Visionary in that he talked about there has been no fundamental change […]
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