DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 24, 2024
If you were wondering what kind of coverage the News Journal would give the race for governor, today's paper is discouraging. They've got a story touting – I kid you…
Song of the Day 4/23: Foreigner, “Urgent”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2024 the other day, and the list of inductees was greeted not with the usual griping but rather a…
DL Open Thread Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The media desperately wants Trump on Trial to be as big a ratings hit as O.J. was, but the dynamics are different. O.J. had a dream team of lawyers, so…
Song of the Day 4/22: Simon & Garfunkel, “April Come She Will”
Paul Simon learned a lot on his trips to England in 1965. He learned how to fingerpick, for one thing. He learned that British folk audiences, unlike those in Greenwich…
DL Open Thread Monday, April 22, 2024
Republicans stay in disarray, most recently over Marjorie Taylor Greene's unabashed Russia-humping. Even the New York Post called her Moscow Marjorie on its cover. Meanwhile Texas GOP rep Tony Gonzales…
Song of the Day 4/21: Richard Thompson, “I Can’t Wake Up to Save My Life”
Donald Trump is said to be furious that reporters are reporting on his napping in court. I wonder what he's dreaming about when he nods off. I hope it's nightmares…
Song of the Day 4/20: Fraternity of Man, “Don’t Bogart That Joint”
Another April 20 and Delaware continues to creep slowly towards making recreational marijuana not just legal but obtainable. Don't bogart that process! The Fraternity of Man was a psychedelic blues…
DL Open Thread Saturday, April 20, 2024
Nobody seems to know who got House speaker Moses/Mike Johnson to change his mind – some say it was fundies from The Family who don't like Putin's religious intolerance –…
Song of the Day 4/19: Allman Brothers Band, “Jessica”
Duane and Gregg got top billing, but the Allman Brothers wouldn't have become a household name, or forged a sound that spawned an entire genre of rock, without the contributions…
Song of the Day 4/17: Doris Troy, “Just One Look”
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman made the news for claiming that Donald Trump, once he woke up, subjected her to his mighty stare as retribution for reporting that Don…
DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Jury selection continues in Trump's criminal trial in New York. It could take forever to find 12 sentient beings who live, breathe and haven't concluded that Trump is a piece…
Song of the Day 4/16: Daryl Hall & John Oates, “Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)”
John Oates, who's headlining this year's newly resumed Philadelphia Folk Festival, is widely perceived as the junior partner in Hall & Oates because Daryl Hall sang lead on most of…
DL Open Thread Tuesday, April 16, 2024
And so the torch is passed. Just days after O.J. Simpson, defendant in last century's Trial of the Century, hurdled off this mortal coil, Donald J. Trump donned the mantle…