Alby – Page 67 – Delaware Liberal

Song of the Day 6/19: The Treniers, “Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)”

By Alby June 19, 20244 Comments

Baseball's greatest all-around player, Willie Mays, died yesterday at age 93. He retired 50 years ago, so unless you're a Boomer you never saw him play, and it might be…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, June 19, 2024

By Alby June 19, 202414 Comments

My 10-year-old grandson asked me what Juneteenth was. When I told him it was when the news of the Union victory in the Civil War, which had technically been over…

Song of the Day 6/18: Arrow, “Hot Hot Hot”

By Alby June 18, 20242 Comments

The heat dome that had monkeys falling dead from the trees in Mexico is headed our way. Delaware is expected to dodge the worst of it – places in the…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, June 18, 2024

By Alby June 18, 20245 Comments

Democrats would have an easier time drubbing Republicans for corruption if there weren't so many corrupt Democrats. New Jersey is proving a happy hunting ground for indicting crooked ones. While…

DL Open Thread Monday, June 17, 2024

By Alby June 17, 20245 Comments

There is no news today outside of the usual huffing and puffing from Trump and his acolytes in politics and the media, so feel free to discuss what you want.…

Song of the Day 6/15: Françoise Hardy, “Tous les Garçons et les Filles”

By Alby June 15, 2024

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Singer Françoise Hardy might have been the coolest person in a cool era, the pre-hippie 1960s. Pretty and waif-like, perfect shoulder-length hair, soulful eyes, legs…

Song of the Day 6/14: James Cagney, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”

By Alby June 14, 20241 Comment

It's Martha Ann Alito's favorite holiday, so here's George M. Cohan's tribute to Old Glory, as delivered by James Cagney in his Oscar-winning turn as Cohan in the 1942 film…

Song of the Day 6/12: The Unusual Suspect, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

By Alby June 12, 20244 Comments

This YouTuber's shtick is editing together movie clips to substitute them for the real vocals in popular songs. It looks like a lot of work, and most of the results…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, June 12, 2024

By Alby June 12, 20243 Comments

Hunter Biden was convicted of being a gun-toting drug addict – or was it a drug-addicted gun toter? – and MAGAts, in true Old Man Yells at Clouds form, are…

Song of the Day 6/11: Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets, “I Went to a Party”

By Alby June 11, 2024

Nick Lowe has been playing and touring with surf-rock revivalists Los Straitjackets for a decade now, and he's finally done an album with them. "Indoor Safari" is set for release…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, June 11, 2024

By Alby June 11, 202411 Comments

Ever wonder why the American public opposes Israel's war on Gaza but its elected representatives are for it? Here's why: AIPAC funneled money from Republican donors to Democratic candidates more…

Song of the Day 6/10: Imagine Dragons, “Sharks”

By Alby June 10, 2024

Donald Trump's fear of sharks is well-documented, but I think it's confined to the oceanic sort. That's not the kind of shark Imagine Dragons sang about in this 2022 single,…

DL Open Thread Monday, June 10, 2024

By Alby June 10, 20244 Comments

If you're looking for something more esoteric to worry about than World War III or the climate-induced collapse of civilization, you might want to look into the latest outbreak of…