The Straight Dope on Masks
For some reason, a few MAGAts got tired of buffing their muskets and decided to weigh in on scientific matters that they don't understand. Don't be too hard on them…
Song of the Day 2/25: The Breeders, “Cannonball”
Andrew C. is right -- it's unlikely I'll ever get another chance to hang a song about a cannonball on an actual news peg, so here's his choice for the…
Song of the Day 2/24: Damien Rice, “Cannonball”
The wanderings of the Lewes Cannonball have come to a happy end. Whoever pried it loose from the Cannonball House apparently thought better of it and placed it on the…
News Journal’s Pro-Cop Bias Is Showing
Meredith Newman didn't just bury the lede in her story about Delaware's highest-paid employees, she left it out entirely. The story, based on data from 2021, focuses on the high…
Song of the Day 2/23: The Business, “Drinking and Driving”
Would-be politician Scott Walker, the guy who runs for office by setting up home-painted campaign signs along Delaware roads, has never come close to being elected, but his odd behavior…
Song of the Day 2/22: Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Say What!”
Marjorie Taylor Greene has caught on to how to become MAGAWorld famous -- say outrageous shit and count on the mainstream media to play it up under the category "Be…
Song of the Day 2/21: 10cc, “Art for Art’s Sake”
Is this the nightmare of every art gallery visitor? At a VIP art fair in Miami last weekend, a woman knocked over a glass sculpture by Jeff Koons, destroying it…
Song of the Day 2/20: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Mach 5”
As is traditional on Presidents Day, today's song is by the Presidents of the United States of America, the three-piece Seattle band that scored a triple-platinum debut album in the…
Song of the Day 2/19: Radiohead, “Paranoid Android”
The Media Freakout of the Week is ... drum roll, please ... no, not spy balloons, that was last week ... Chatbots! (cymbal crash) A lot of tech journalists have…
DL Open Thread Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023
An ex-president is dying, but it's the wrong one. Jimmy Carter, who at 98 has lived longer than any U.S. president, has entered hospice care. Speculation on how Republicans will…
Song of the Day 2/17: Hall & Oates, “It’s Uncanny”
Not long ago I heard something I didn't think was possible -- a song by Daryl Hall and John Oates I didn't know. And I don't mean some 21st-century recording…
Song of the Day 2/16: The Kinks, “Lola”
We all know Twitter has been experiencing lots of problems since boy genius Elon Musk bought it, but this one is more funny than ominous -- though not to Dave…
Song of the Day 2/15: De La Soul, “Eye Know”
Unless you were a rap fan back in the golden days of the genre, before copyright laws reined in free-for-all sampling and the creativity it inspired, you probably don't know…