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Song of the Day 6/21: Blue Cheer, “Summertime Blues”

By Alby June 21, 20211 Comment

The year: 1968. The place: San Francisco, home to the blues-rock hybrid that came to be known as psychedelic or acid rock. The band: Blue Cheer, named for one of…

Song of the Day 6/20: Nat King Cole, “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer”

By Alby June 20, 2021

Has there ever been a summer better suited to nostalgia than this one? After the Year Without a Summer, people are going to appreciate every little pleasure a good bit…

DL Open Thread Sunday, June 20, 2021

By Alby June 20, 2021

Bipartisan Boy, in his secret identity as mild-mannered Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, has used his progressivism-fighting powers to issue a press release, co-signed by nine other Democrats and 10 Republicans,…

Song of the Day 6/18: Bowling for Soup feat. Hanson, “Where’s the Love”

By Alby June 18, 2021

How's this for postmodernism in practice: A punk-pop band popular in the '00s covers a hit by a '90s boy band, gets them to sing back-up on the single, then…

Song of the Day 6/17: Boz Scaggs, “We Were Always Sweethearts”

By Alby June 17, 20213 Comments

This one's for El Somnambulo, the biggest Boz Scaggs fan I know -- and not just of the "Silk Degrees" tunes that remain in classic-rock rotation today. This song led…

DL Open Thread Thursday, June 17, 2021

By Alby June 17, 20218 Comments

The Intercept got ahold of a Zoom call between West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and a centrist money-dispensing outfit called No Labels -- founded by ex-Sen. Joe Lieberman -- in…

Why Do Americans Claim to Love Bipartisanship?

By Alby June 16, 20211 Comment

Spineless Democrats cling to bipartisanship the way Cletus and Lurleen cling to guns and religion, and for a simple reason: In every poll, overwhelming majorities, regardless of political affiliation, claim…

Song of the Day 6/16: Steve Miller Band, “Space Cowboy”

By Alby June 16, 20216 Comments

Jason330 posted a photo of Jeff Bezos' mighty Space Dildo the other day, which drove home the fact that we're now in the age of the space cowboys -- not…

Song of the Day 6/15: Lisa Loeb, “Stay (I MIssed You)”

By Alby June 15, 2021

Using popular hits in TV ads is nothing new, but I'm frequently surprised at the songs that turn up in commercials. This tune, for example, an inescapable hit in 1994,…

Song of the Day 6/13: The Band, “Up on Cripple Creek”

By Alby June 13, 20211 Comment

For no other reason than this video from the Ed Sullivan Show of Nov. 2, 1969, popped up on my YouTube feed. "Up on Cripple Creek" had just been released…

DL Open Thread Sunday, June 13, 2021

By Alby June 13, 20215 Comments

Delawareans should do a slow burn every time the national media call out Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for siding with Republicans. Everyone knows that another handful of Democratic senators…

Song of the Day 6/10: Cab Calloway, “The Reefer Man”

By Alby June 10, 20215 Comments

With Delaware lawmakers debating a marijuana legalization bill, it seems worthwhile to remind them that cannabis wasn't always illegal, and its effects weren't considered dangerous until a wave of refugees…

DL Open Thread Thursday, June 10, 2021

By Alby June 10, 20213 Comments

The week's biggest story has been brought to us via Pro Publica, which got its hands on a trove of secret IRS files that show many famous billionaires pay a…