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Songs Of The Day August 26: The Muslims-‘Fuck These Fuckin Fascists’/’Unity’

Filed in National by on August 26, 2021 13 Comments

Punk the way it’s supposed to be: crude, obnoxious and funny. In their own words:  “THE MUSLIMS is a crunchy, kickass punk band of Black + brown queer muzzies. Your racist dad is a piece of shit and THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE.” They’re from, of all places, Durham, North Carolina.  Seeing them at […]

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The Arden Concert Gild & El Somnambulo Present…

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on August 24, 2021 2 Comments

…the following great concerts. My musical dance card is officially full–at least through February.  I’m really psyched about these shows that I’m bringing to the Gild Hall this year: An Evening With Sierra Hull.  Friday, October 22. I’m co-producing this one with our Gildmaster Ron Ozer.  She was a true child prodigy (not Ron), making […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 21, 2021

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U-Va: No Vaccine, No School For You.  Dis-enrolls 49 students who didn’t follow mandatory policy.  Oh, well, there’s always Falwell U. Krugman: ‘The Quiet Rage Of The Responsible’: Also, it’s striking how quickly supposed conservative principles have been abandoned wherever honoring those principles would help rather than hurt attempts to contain the pandemic. For decades, […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 20, 2021

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Virginia Redistricting Panel Ends Up Exactly As I Thought It Would. Same thing would happen here: When Virginians voted nearly 2-to-1 last fall to establish a bipartisan redistricting commission, the idea was to embrace a fairer method of drafting the state’s political maps. There was certainly reason to hope for an end to the brazen […]

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(At Least) Twelve Years Of Wilful Idiocy…

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on August 18, 2021 6 Comments

And Racism.  Don’t forget racism.  Especially racism. Scarlet Woman (Personal to SW: There’s a spot on our writing team if you’re interested) exhumed perhaps the precise moment where the Delaware GOP was taken over by the loonies.  This is a must-watch: 12 years later, the same idiots are disrupting school board meetings because they can. […]

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Unmasked Idiots Cause Cancellation Of Brandywine School District Meeting

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on August 17, 2021 19 Comments
Unmasked Idiots Cause Cancellation Of Brandywine School District Meeting

Here’s the point: They showed up at this meeting for the expressed purpose of causing the meeting to be postponed. A meeting that was scheduled to provide parents and students with all the information they would need for the reopening of schools.  From the News-Journal story: Skrobot told the room of about 75 people – […]

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DL Open Thread: Monday, August 16, 2021

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Yo, Joe, Stop This Pipeline Now.  They voted for you.  The filthiest oil in the United States, headed here ‘courtesy’ of a Canadian corporation, will soon flow through Indigenous lands if you allow this.  5 billion gallons of water diverted,  760,000 barrels of crude per day to flow through across 14 counties in northern Minnesota.  […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 14, 2021

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Is Louis DeJoy Currently The Most Corrupt Federal Official?  Well, consider this: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy purchased up to $305,000 in bonds from an investment firm whose managing partner also chairs the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board, the independent body responsible for evaluating DeJoy’s performance. Between October and April, DeJoy purchased 11 bonds from Brookfield […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 13, 2021

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House ‘Can’t Say’ Whether Ethics Complaint Has Been Filed Against Brady.  Gee, you know they’d just love to tell you, but, unfortunately, their very own rules preclude them from doing so: But the public may not get confirmation for some time because the process of investigating an ethics complaint in the House is so shrouded […]

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Gerald Brady…Pete ‘N Val’s Useful Idiot…

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on August 7, 2021 6 Comments

…but not for long. Wasn’t gonna write this until Monday (our readership is down on the weekends), but the REV’s right-on-time podcast (listen to it) changed my mind.  Consider a patronage.  I did. And, um, patronized.  Never let it be said that I’m not patronizing. Someone far less cynical than me planted this idea with […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 7, 2021

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Corrupt Postmaster General Steers $120 Mill Contract To His Former (And No Doubt, Future) Company: DeJoy’s former company, the contractor XPO Logistics, will get that $120 million over the next five years and DeJoy could realize as much as $23.7 million from the company in the next decade. DeJoy and his family foundation, as well […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 6, 2021

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RWNJ’s Have No Problem ‘Kicking The Shit Out Of Black People. But When We’re Kicking The Shit Out Of White People… …that’s a problem.’  Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack on January 6, calling out those seeking to downplay the Insurrection. Is The Gulf Stream Endangered?  Yes.  Somebody? Anybody?: Such an event would […]

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‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: July 2021

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on August 2, 2021 2 Comments

Kids, if you haven’t gotten vaccinated yet, and you don’t like any of these tunes, then don’t get vaccinated.  Self-selection isn’t just for anti-vax mouthbreathers, it’s for music hate-ahs too. Enjoy. That’s an order.   I hereby predict that this will be Nathan Arizona’s Fave Of The Month:         One of our […]

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