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DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 27, 2021
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Interview With Sondheim. Sondheim was a sounding-board for Miranda during the creation of Hamilton: Sondheim was one of the first people I told about my idea for a piece about Alexander Hamilton, back in 2008. It was in this townhouse, on the first floor. I’d been hired to write Spanish translations for a […]
A Brief Musical Tribute To Stephen Sondheim
My musical sensibilities have been shaped by Sondheim far more than by any other artist. I’m certain that I’ve listened to his music far more than anybody else’s. His death today has made it impossible for me to think of anything else. So many songs run through my head. But when it came time to […]
Delaware Political Weekly: November 19-25, 2021
1. Unashamed RWNJ Announces Congressional Run. He displays promising comedic potential: Christopher Hill is currently a geotechnical driller; he previously spent time as a board certified alcohol and drug dependency counselor in the state, but he majored in political science in college. His interest in politics led to his involvement with campaigns for Terry Spence, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 26, 2021
In case you were wondering: The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 25, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving! Best holiday of the year by far, at least for us. Let me just emphasize how disgraceful giving the Kathleen McGuiness the Pharmacist Of The Year Award is. With one move, that professional association has lost all credibility. Especially when there are real pharmacists making real differences out there–like Dr. TaQuina Warren: Dr. […]
BREAKING: All Three Defendants In Killing Of Ahmaud Arbery Found Guilty On Multiple Accounts…
..including felony murder. Finally, something to give thanks for. In this case, we give thanks that the three killers weren’t cops: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial
Whoa. Brian Pettyjohn Isn’t Going Anywhere.
DD has the story over at Blue Delaware, and I gotta admit, I didn’t see this coming. He wanted to go somewhere (Deputy Director For Sussex County Department of Elections). Ruth Briggs King wanted him to go somewhere. But it was kiboshed by: Only the GOP members of the Board of Elections could vote on […]
Song Of The Day 11/23: The Drifters, ‘Up On The Roof’
I retired from Trader Joe’s on Sunday. My right hip and my right leg made the decision for me. A fantastic 12-plus year run. The perfect post-career gig. Anyway, at least in part as a salute, they had on my fave satellite music station, ‘Mo-Soul’, during my shift. Nothing but soul and r & b […]
Darius Brown’s Latest ‘Woman Problem’
There’s more, perhaps much more, than meets the eye when it comes to his latest indefensible outburst. But first, for those of you who haven’t paid attention, here’s the story: The senator got into a heated verbal altercation with Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown, a New Castle Democrat, during a press event on Nov. 8 when Gov. […]
Seeking Our DL 2021 MVP (Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause) Nominees
Who deserves recognition this year? We wanna hear from you. You’ve got ’til December 10 to let us know.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 21, 2021
Could Traffic Circles Actually Be Good? I grant you, they confuse me, especially when you’re supposed to ‘take the third right’ at the roundabout. However: Carmel, a city of 102,000 north of Indianapolis, has 140 roundabouts, with over a dozen still to come. No American city has more. The main reason is safety; compared with […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 20, 2021
‘Kyle Rittenhouse And The New Era Of Political Violence’. Might as well go back and place the burgeoning movement featuring Rittenhouse and like-minded individuals in context. Add to that blatantly-biased judges, and the notion of justice in America is more besmirched than ever, at least in recent times. Yet another supporter of armed ‘self defense’ […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 19, 2021
Biden To Reverse Disastrous Trump Policy Aimed At Despoiling Alaska: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will propose reinstating a Bill Clinton-era rule to ban logging and road building in more than half of North America’s largest temperate rainforest,the department confirmed. The restrictions had managed to stay in place for years because of a series of court […]
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