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Granted, national news has been sucking up every bit of oxygen. But crimes are still being committed in Delaware. One criminal that isn't getting any attention is Mike Ramone. Where is the investigation into the fact that Ramone used his government position to get his political opponent fired from her job? On its face it is a crime. Why isn't Ramone facing a judge yet? For that matter why isn't this crime being reported outside of blogs? Where the hell is Allan Loudel? I'd ask, where the hell is the News Journal, but we all know that the NJ is basically useless.

The Style Council is probably my favorite band. I only say "probably" becuase the enjoyment of music is so context heavy. Paul Weller is my favorite musician. (For some reason,…

When 85-year-old country music legend Willie Nelson joined 46-year-old Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) on stage Saturday night in Austin, they were greeted by more than 50,000…

Coons has taken his victory lap on TV and in Delaware City and that's great. Good for you Chris. But's let's look at what passes for Coons style bipartisan comity…

America's pundits have had a chance to ponder the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process, and they have reached a sort of rough consensus: This is nuts. For those like Salon's Andrew…

When I first learned about him through his pop radio friendly "Workers Playtime" album (1988), Billy Bragg had been a pain in Thatcher's ass for a number of years. The…

From an article in The Atlantic by Mary Coppins, who asked Jeff Flake if the impassioned lecture he got from a rape survivor spurred his compromise call for a limited…

The songs I come back to are mostly English/80's/political/frequently gay. We'll start today with perhaps the most upbeat and dancebale protest song ever - Free Nelson Mandela by the Specials AKA (1984) [embed]https://youtu.be/2_G7vzJwcYM[/embed]

Sure sounds that way. We'll probably get more details by morning, but Sen. Chris Coons is getting prominent mention across the media for his role in brokering a deal with…

This morning's committee vote to push Brett Kavanaugh's nomination through to the full Senate served as a fitting anti-climax to yesterday's blockbuster hearings. The Common Wisdom on the Republican rush…

DELAWARE in 2068, like large portions of the lowland east coast, is a soggy economic ghetto populated by people who can't afford to move to higher ground and who live in moldy, chronically flooded homes. Science fiction? Nope. It has already begun:

“The Great Migration was out of the south into the industrialized north, whereas this is from every coastal place in the US to every other place in the US,” said Hauer. “Not everyone can afford to move, so we could end up with trapped populations that would be in a downward spiral. I have a hard time imagining what that future would be like.”