Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 3/25: Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez, “Red Dog Tracks”
Songwriter Chip Taylor, the younger brother of actor Jon Voight, died Monday, two days after his 86th birthday. All the obituaries lead with “Wild Thing,” the most iconic song in his voluminous catalog. He wrote hundreds of songs and released almost three dozen albums, the most recent earlier this year, in a career that began […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, March 25, 2026
New Castle County residents should brace for a tax increase. County Executive Marcus Henry proposed a 17.2% hike of the property tax rate to the county council last night. The median annual payment on the new rate in unincorporated New Castle County is $102 more per year, according to finance chief Del Grande. The 25th […]
Song of the Day 3/24: Hank Williams, “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Trains and prison have always been favored subjects in country music. The train whistle calls to farm boys who long to ramble or need to escape. Sometimes they start to miss home. Sometimes they end up in prison. Then the lonesome whistle calls again. “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle” has […]
Song of the Day 3/23: Incubus, “Megalomaniac”
Predicting Donald Trump’s behavior is fairly easy: Just ask yourself, “What would an asshole do?” Robert Mueller – a Republican, mind you – dies? Anyone else would heed the advice, “Better to remain silent and be thought an asshole than speak up and remove all doubt,” but Trump has long since removed the doubt, so […]
Song of the Day 3/22: Afroman, “Lemon Pound Cake”
That cops frequently act like bullying dicks is hardly news. They usually demonstrate it through immunity-enabled violence. But they sometimes show it with the whining victimhood that bullies display when someone hits them back. So here’s a shoutout to Afroman, who hit them back twice. You might remember Afroman, the stage name of Joseph Edgar […]
Song of the Day 3/20: Tom Waits, “Big in Japan”
Donald Trump considers himself a very funny guy. His rallies, back when he was capable of holding them, were long, boring exercises in his putative stand-up comedy. Many of his tasteless outbursts, like his mockery of reporter Serge Kovaleski’s congenital joint condition, are his attempts at so-called jokes. He was at it again Thursday, when […]
Song of the Day 3/19: Prince, “Purple Rain”
Malign techbro Peter Thiel is a world-class loon, as he’s been demonstrating by trotting around the globe giving lectures on (checks notes)…the Antichrist. (View the photo above that linked article and tell me it’s not Niedermeyer.) As the New York Times summarized it, Mr. Thiel, an investor in artificial intelligence, says he is drawing on […]
Song of the Day 3/18: Gerry Rafferty, “Baker Street”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Mention Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” to somebody and there’s good chance a saxophone solo starts playing in their head. The one Billboard called “the most recognizable sax riff in pop music history.” A lot of listeners think “Baker Street” was one of the best songs of the 1970s. The sales […]
Song of the Day 3/17: Luke Kelly, “On Raglan Road”
This popular Irish ballad would not exist if a young Luke Kelly had not run into an aging Patrick Kavanaugh in the Dublin pub The Bailey one night in 1966. Kelly was the lead singer of the Dubliners, Kavanaugh a celebrated poet who 20 years before had penned a lament about an unrequited love. Kavanaugh […]
Song of the Day 3/16: The Beatles, “Help!”
When he was younger, though not all that much younger than today, Donald Trump was adamant about not needing the help of any of America’s allies – you know, the ones the country has actual treaties with. Now those days are gone and he’s not so self-assured. Of course, Trump’s fragile ego won’t let him […]
You Believe What You Want to Believe
Commenter Eric Blair took me to task the other day for being too old to realize that fake videos can fool people. Here’s a story that demonstrates age isn’t the determining factor for gullibility. MAGA Men Humiliated After Being Duped by AI Foot Fetish Model The account, “jessicaa.foster,” has amassed 1 million followers on Instagram, […]
33.09% of Delaware Voters Have Only Themselves to Blame
You might well be one of them. That’s the percentage of voters, as of March 6, who are registered as Unaffiliated. I have just one question: Why? I bring this up because Mike Smith – the original one, the Republican House member who represents Pike Creek, not the johnny-come-lately who’s running for state treasurer as […]
Song of the Day 3/14: The Bee Gees, “Jive Talkin'”
It’s difficult if not impossible to determine which of Trump’s clown-shoed cabinet members is furthest out of his depth, but Pete Hegseth’s constant thumping of his Nazi-tattooed chest makes him most likely to get the bends. It’s been widely noted that his macho boasting consists mostly of lines lifted from action movies, but he outdid […]
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