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Ladeez And Gentlemen: YOUR FY 2026 State Budget
The Joint Finance Committee concluded their mark-up two days early, setting off the annual round of self-congratulations: Following this week’s budget markup hearings of the Joint Finance Committee, House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown, Senate President Pro Tempore Dave Sokola, House Majority Leader Kerri Evelyn Harris, Senate Majority Leader Bryan Townsend, House Majority Whip Ed Osienski, and Senate Majority Whip […]
Song of the Day 6/4: The Edgar Winter Group, “Frankenstein”
Among the credits I left out of Rick Derringer’s CV the other day was his production of this 1973 No. 1 hit for the Edgar Winter Group, one of the great instrumentals of the classic rock era. Derringer edited a much longer studio jam down to under 5 minutes the way they had to do […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Oh, Just Shut Up. Some House Rethugs ‘Regret’ Voting For Big Beautiful Boondoggle: It turns out that the sprawling legislation to advance tax and spending cuts and to cement much of President Trump’s domestic agenda included a raft of provisions that drew little notice or debate on the House floor. And now, Republicans who rallied […]
Song of the Day 6/3: Marcus Hummon, “Rosanna”
I notice that when politicians and pundits talk about immigration, it’s usually as an abstract concept – immigration, as opposed to immigrants. That makes it much easier to ignore the fact that most of the people whose lives are being destroyed by have done nothing to deserve it. And it’s been going on for a […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Kevin Caneco Goes After Do-Nothing DNREC. Good. From his press release: Wilmington, DE – Despite recent statements made by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) understating the May 31, 2025 Delaware City Refinery emission incident, prolonged exposure to persistent levels of sulfur dioxide emissions has the potential for devastating long-term health […]
Song of the Day 6/2: Rick Derringer, “Real American”
When he died last week at age 77, the obituaries for Rick Derringer all mentioned the two songs he was best known for: “Hang On Sloopy,” a No. 1 hit for his band the McCoys, recorded when he was 17 and still went by his birth name, Zehringer; and “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo,” the […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, June 2, 2025
State’s Largest Polluter Ups Its Pollution Quotient–With Impunity: The Delaware City Refinery has been continuously releasing more than permitted amounts of toxic sulfur dioxide into the air for a week now, but air quality in the area remains safe, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. (Writer’s Note: I don’t believe them. […]
Song of the Day 6/1: Wishy, “Fly”
New music is El Somnambulo’s province, but he can’t listen to (or like) everything, so occasionally I plug something new I’ve heard. This is one of those times. This tune was all over WXPN for the past couple of weeks, in advance of Wishy playing the station’s weekly free concert last Friday. From the Indianapolis-based […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: June 1, 2025
A Deep Dive Into Why Sufjan Stevens Dislikes “Carrie And Lowell”. Meaning, a deep dive into his life and his (non?) relationship with his mother: I think this album is evidence of creative and artistic failure from my vantage point. I was trying to make sense of something that is senseless. I felt that I […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 31, 2025
Yes, He’s A Psychopath. Not even a borderline psychopath: Let me start by observing that Trump certainly is a unique character — flamboyant, politically incorrect, and enthralling to his supporters. He is the central protagonist in our current political crisis. Strikingly, he is unmoved by the wrath directed at him by his political opponents. This […]
Song of the Day 5/30: Taco, “Puttin’ on the Ritz”
I hear Trump is touchy about being called “TACO,” an acronym for Trump Always Chickens Out, and you don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out he’s touchy because it’s true. So if we’re going to use the expression to mock him, let’s call in the real Taco. Taco Ockerse is an Indonesian-born Dutch […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 30, 2025
Get Back, Taco Cat. Always Backing Down Just Isn’t Where It’s At: TACO has the potential to hurt Trump. (1) It’s simple. Trump Always Chickens Out. You can put that phrase anywhere, apply it to anything, and everyone knows what it means. (2) It’s meme-able. You have the slogan. You have the word mark. And […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: May 2025
I suppose it belongs under ‘G’, but it’s my list. I do what I want. Besides, don’t want to make you wait that long: My wife swears the plot of this song comes from a Dateline episode: First of two songs this month that XPN discovered for me: This song deserves a zillion more views: […]
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