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Your All-Purpose SD 10 Special Election Preview

By El Somnambulo February 9, 201713 Comments

The Date: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017, polls open from 7 am to 8 pm. The Stakes: Control of the Delaware State Senate. The Party Standard Bearers: John Marino (R); Stephanie…

News Journal Kisses Lisa’s Behind

By El Somnambulo February 4, 20176 Comments

One of the poorest excuses for 'journalism' I've read in a long time. Made me want to 'fwow' up: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2017/02/03/after-month-blunt-rochester-finding-her-direction/97395588/ The guilty journalist is one Adam Duvernay. Who may well…

‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: Jan., 2017

By El Somnambulo February 1, 2017

For all you newbies out there (and welcome, it's great to have so many people who have found us!), this might seem a little, shall we say, self-indulgent. Using this…

Chris Coons–Maybe Worse Than Carper

By El Somnambulo January 31, 201722 Comments

Do you all have your phones handy? Today would be a very good day to flood Sen. Chris Coons' office with irate phone calls. Why? Here's why: Sen. Chris Coons,…

What Al Thinks You Need To Know: Mon., Jan. 30, 2017

By El Somnambulo January 30, 20179 Comments

A Guest Post from Alby Damned Welcome to the Protest Presidency of Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, proprietor. It's becoming obvious, at the start of the second week of the Trump…

What Al Thinks You Need To Know: Jan. 28, 2017

By El Somnambulo January 28, 201712 Comments

A Guest Post from Alby Damned If you're collected indications that Trump is either different or incompetent, take your pick, here's one that went mostly unnoticed: No Friday news dump.…

R. I. P. Maggie Roche

By El Somnambulo January 27, 20173 Comments

For those of you younger than a certain age, you may never have heard of the Roches. I aim to correct that oversight. To me, they were a wonderful, though…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 26, 2017

By El Somnambulo January 26, 201713 Comments

Nemski's already written about the big news. In a preview of things-to-come should the R's take over the State Senate, the Rethugs banded together to block the nomination of Shawn…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 25, 2017

By El Somnambulo January 25, 20178 Comments

Some days, you, meaning I, start to write this and then realize that there's next to 'no there there'. Such was yesterday. For you completists, here is the Session Activity…

BREAKING NEWS: World Cafe Live at the Queen to Close In May

By El Somnambulo January 24, 201736 Comments

This is not good news for music lovers or for the revitalization of the City. WCL at the Queen will close its doors on May 25. The reason? They just couldn't make a financial go of it.

How Democrats Created Betsy DeVos

By El Somnambulo January 22, 20176 Comments

While educators and politicians throughout the land are recoiling at the notion of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, Democrats created her. Or someone like her. The Democratic Party's embrace of corporate education, corporate textbooks, corporate testing and corporate-sponsored 'education reform' is what led to this.

Back From the Philly March

By El Somnambulo January 21, 201723 Comments

Wow. Just...wow. We must have had at least 50,000 people there. My wife really wanted to go, and I was more than happy to tag along. My wife and I…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 19, 2017

By El Somnambulo January 19, 2017

The first set of John Carney's nominees sailed through the Senate yesterday. Republicans could not contain themselves from raining effusive praise on these nominations. And why should they? It's basically…