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Song of the Day 1/8: The Northern Pikes, “Girl With a Problem”
Trump’s desecration of the Department of Justice faces more roadblocks than most targets of his crime spree, if only because many federal judges – even Trump judges – are trying to apply the rule of law to a fundamentally lawless bunch of thugs. And while most get overruled by the Supremes, they keep trying. For […]
Song of the Day 1/7: Belá Fleck, “Rhapsody in Blue(grass)”
Everybody who’s anybody is cancelling gigs at the former Kennedy Center these days. The latest artist to join the honor roll: Bela Fleck, probably the world’s most famous banjo player. He was scheduled to perform with the National Symphony on three dates next month, but yesterday announced, “Performing there has become charged and political, at […]
In Which Chris Coons Tries to Reason With a Foxette
Chris Coons went on Fox News yesterday, as is his wont, but for a change broke decorum when confronted with his interrogator’s mushroom-sucking sycophancy. He even kept talking when she tried to talk over him. The anchor was trying to claim Trump has a plan for Venezuela, when it’s obvious even to Chris Coons that […]
Song of the Day 1/6: Björk, “Human Behavior”
The demented little asshole running the country, Stephen Miller, is a quivering wimp – you can tell by the way he takes every opportunity to act butch. His ego swelled by the Venezuela adventure, he went on CNN to proclaim that Greenland will belong to the Reich United States. This attitude has been criticized in […]
Song of the Day 1/5: Billy Squier, “The Stroke”
The signs are obvious – the drooping right side of his face, his slack right-handed salute, his inability to flip a coin at the Army-Navy game – but the strongest argument for “something is wrong with Trump” is his panicky reaction to the media reporting on it. The smart money says that, among other things, […]
Song of the Day 1/4: Billy Joel, “Big Shot”
I could dedicate this song to Trump, but the real reason for setting aside my aversion to Billy Joel is that he sang in public Friday for the first time since May, when he announced he had a brain condition that ruled out performing and cancelled all future concerts. Joel, who owns a home in […]
DL’s Most-Viewed Stories, 2025
People love Top 10 lists, so to wrap up the holiday weekend – you didn’t pretend to work Friday, did you? – here, in descending order, are the Top 10 most-viewed Delaware Liberal stories for 2025. No. 10: Wrap-up of a busy third-to-last day of General Assembly. General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 26, […]
Song of the Day 1/2: The American Breed, “Bend Me, Shape Me”
This song, a No. 5 hit for the American Breed in 1968, was prophetically titled – several bands covered it in the ’60s, and it sounded different each time. Credited to Scott English, best known for co-writing Barry Manilow’s “Mandy,” and Larry Weiss, who co-wrote “Rhinestone Cowboy,” it was first recorded by the Outsiders for […]
Song of the Day 1/1: Ferko String Band, “When You’re Smiling”
When I think of Mummers string bands, I imagine the string bands of my childhood – masses of banjos in parade formation, supplemented by saxophones and glockenspiels, all played by guys wearing sequins and plywood backpieces adorned with ostrich feathers. They probably had their heyday in post-WWII era, when Ferko String Band cut some LPs. […]
Song of the Day 12/31: Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, “Bonnie and Clyde”
Yesterday for Song of the Day I related the story of Serge Gainsbourg’s disastrous first date with Brigitte Bardot, who was married at the time, and how she told him that to make it up to her he should write “the most beautiful love song he could imagine.” He wrote the steamy duet “Je T’Aime…Moi […]
Song of the Day 12/30: Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, “Je T’Aime … Moi Non Plus”
Brigitte Bardot, who died Sunday at 91, owed her sex kitten image to the movies she made in the ’50s and ’60s, but her ambition, and the monetization of her erotic appeal, also extended to music. She wasn’t much of a singer, but after “Sidonie,” a song she recorded for the soundtrack of a 1962 […]
Song of the Day 12/29: Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, New Year’s Eve medley
Stephen Miller, the illegitimate child of Nosferatu and Joseph Goebbels, caused a stir the other day when he tweeted, “Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.” He was mocked widely for holding up two sons of Italian […]
Song of the Day 12/28: Suede, “Electricity”
There are lots of reasons Americans are firmly against AI, but perhaps the biggest is what it will do to your electric bills. A Bloomberg News analysis found that areas near data centers electricity costs increase as much as 267% compared to five years ago. And if you think it’s bad now, just wait until […]
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