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Song of the Day 2/24: Damien Rice, “Cannonball”

By Alby February 24, 20233 Comments

The wanderings of the Lewes Cannonball have come to a happy end. Whoever pried it loose from the Cannonball House apparently thought better of it and placed it on the…

News Journal’s Pro-Cop Bias Is Showing

By Alby February 23, 20233 Comments

Meredith Newman didn't just bury the lede in her story about Delaware's highest-paid employees, she left it out entirely. The story, based on data from 2021, focuses on the high…

Song of the Day 2/23: The Business, “Drinking and Driving”

By Alby February 23, 2023

Would-be politician Scott Walker, the guy who runs for office by setting up home-painted campaign signs along Delaware roads, has never come close to being elected, but his odd behavior…

Song of the Day 2/22: Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Say What!”

By Alby February 22, 20232 Comments

Marjorie Taylor Greene has caught on to how to become MAGAWorld famous -- say outrageous shit and count on the mainstream media to play it up under the category "Be…

Song of the Day 2/21: 10cc, “Art for Art’s Sake”

By Alby February 21, 20234 Comments

Is this the nightmare of every art gallery visitor? At a VIP art fair in Miami last weekend, a woman knocked over a glass sculpture by Jeff Koons, destroying it…

Song of the Day 2/20: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Mach 5”

By Alby February 20, 20231 Comment

As is traditional on Presidents Day, today's song is by the Presidents of the United States of America, the three-piece Seattle band that scored a triple-platinum debut album in the…

Song of the Day 2/19: Radiohead, “Paranoid Android”

By Alby February 19, 20232 Comments

The Media Freakout of the Week is ... drum roll, please ... no, not spy balloons, that was last week ... Chatbots! (cymbal crash) A lot of tech journalists have…

DL Open Thread Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023

By Alby February 19, 20236 Comments

An ex-president is dying, but it's the wrong one. Jimmy Carter, who at 98 has lived longer than any U.S. president, has entered hospice care. Speculation on how Republicans will…

Song of the Day 2/17: Hall & Oates, “It’s Uncanny”

By Alby February 17, 20235 Comments

Not long ago I heard something I didn't think was possible -- a song by Daryl Hall and John Oates I didn't know. And I don't mean some 21st-century recording…

Song of the Day 2/16: The Kinks, “Lola”

By Alby February 16, 2023

We all know Twitter has been experiencing lots of problems since boy genius Elon Musk bought it, but this one is more funny than ominous -- though not to Dave…

Song of the Day 2/15: De La Soul, “Eye Know”

By Alby February 15, 2023

Unless you were a rap fan back in the golden days of the genre, before copyright laws reined in free-for-all sampling and the creativity it inspired, you probably don't know…

Song of the Day 2/14: The Troggs, “Love Is All Around”

By Alby February 14, 20232 Comments

The Troggs didn't quite fit into the second wave of the British Invasion. Their version of Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966,…

Song of the Day 2/13: Maureen McGovern, “The Morning After”

By Alby February 13, 2023

Apparently I missed an exciting football game that ended badly for the Eagles on a questionable call by an official. At times like this it pays to remember the immortal…