Posts by Alby

Some rock stars wear their opposition to Donald Trump on their sleeves. Rod Stewart is not one of them. Yet Sir Rod has made clear his opinion of his erstwhile…

Weird contradiction about Trump: He loves being on camera, but he often wants you to not believe what you see. Yesterday people saw him catch 40 winks in an Oval…

I don't know how widespread this trend is, but for months now I've been seeing articles about a so-called flip-phone (or sometimes dumb phone) revolution – people giving up their…

The paean to his mother that Maurice White wrote tugs a little harder on the heartstrings when you realize that she didn't raise him. He was a boy when his…

One welcome feature of European media: They don't bother with what Trump tweets, they report on what he does, so they don't dwell on the daily chaos that dominates American…

As El Somnambulo noted in the Open Thread news roundup, if Kash Patel doesn't want people to think he's a boozehound, maybe he should quit handing out personalized bottles of…

Like most malls across the United States, North Wilmington's Concord Mall has been struggling for years. Now a Philadelphia-area developer that specializes in repurposing moribund malls wants to buy it…

Cinco de Mayo, like St. Patrick's Day, is observed more in the United States than in the country it honors, and for much the same reason: Beer. The Mexican military…

I suppose Satan stopped worrying that David Allen Coe would take over, because the cantankerous country singer and songwriter finally got to meet Old Nick last week when he –…

Donald Trump, in another fit of pique against another erstwhile NATO ally, abruptly announced that the U.S. will move 5,000 of its troops out of Germany, apparently because its prime…

For decades, the first weekend in May has been circled on the calendars of Delaware's horse racing fans. The Kentucky Derby is always run on the first Saturday of the…

As the breezy B-side to "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," the most successful single of Steely Dan's career, "Any Major Dude" got some airplay and has long been a fan…

I knew the nation's NIMBYs will use any argument to fight the scourge of wind farms. The most prominent excuses are that they kill birds (true, but in far fewer…