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DL Open Thread Thursday, April 29, 2021

By Alby April 29, 202110 Comments

Biden's speech is getting good reviews -- I thought I heard thunder last night, but it was just exploding Republican heads -- but not so much for the rebuttal from…

Song of the Day 4/27: Alan Price, “O Lucky Man”

By Alby April 27, 20213 Comments

We have entered a world where British tabloids now print the truth in order to dispel internet rumors. Take the case just this week of British musician Alan Price --…

Song of the Day 4/26: The Kinks, “Celluloid Heroes”

By Alby April 26, 20216 Comments

I should have posted this yesterday in advance of the Academy Awards, though the Hollywood Ray Davies was singing about -- most of the stars he names were dead or…

DL Open Thread Sunday, April 25, 2021

By Alby April 25, 20213 Comments

How did America's police forces react to the Derek Chauvin verdict? They shot and killed six people in various jurisdictions. Hey, when all you have is a gun, everything looks…

Song of the Day 4/24: Digital Underground, “The Humpty Dance”

By Alby April 24, 20212 Comments

Old school rap lost an influential figure this week. Greg Jacobs, better known as Shock G, the rapper who fronted the Oakland rap collective Digital Underground, was found dead in…

Song of the Day 4/23: Bay City Rollers, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Love Letter”

By Alby April 23, 2021

You know rock is over the hill when the lead singer of the first boy band dies at age 65. Les McKeown, the lead singer for the Bay City Rollers…

Song of the Day 4/22: Ennio Morricone, “For a Few Dollars More”

By Alby April 22, 2021

The proposal to increase Delaware's minimum raise to $15 an hour over the next several years got a House committee hearing longer than a Sergio Leone spaghetti western yesterday. It…

DL Open Thread Thursday, April 22, 2021

By Alby April 22, 20216 Comments

Republican officials in Georgia are getting scared because they can't convince Trump's hardcore fans to move on, and Trumpism disgusts the suburban voters the party needs to win elections. Ironic,…

Song of the Day 4/20: Peter Tosh, “Legalize It”

By Alby April 20, 20211 Comment

Peter Tosh once told an interviewer that ganja would someday be as legal as cigarettes. That's still years off, but as this handy map shows, in only six U.S. states,…

Song of the Day 4/19: Pixies, “Here Comes Your Man”

By Alby April 19, 20214 Comments

Why did rock music sputter out after the 1990s? I don't know the answer, but the anti-commercial pose that became de rigueur with punk and extended into the era of…

Chris Coons Is Worse Than Useless

By Alby April 19, 20216 Comments

I'm starting to think Chris Coons is taking revenge on Joe Biden for failing to name him Secretary of State. Delaware's bipartisanship show pony is at it again, going on…

DL Open Thread Sunday, April 18, 2021

By Alby April 18, 20213 Comments

Why do so many Central Americans seek asylum in the United States? Because so many U.S. guns have migrated to Mexico and Central America. Officials estimate about 2 million guns…

Song of the Day 4/16: Toronto, “Your Daddy Don’t Know”

By Alby April 16, 20213 Comments

Protectionism has a bad name among economists, but as with most things, in some circumstances it's absolutely the right thing for a country to do if it wants to grow…