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El Somnambulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2021: #’s 50-41

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, Featured by on December 26, 2021 1 Comment

Presented, as always, in reverse numerical order. The only proper way to do a countdown. Otherwise it’s an anti-climactic count-up. Said Captain Obvious.  Spotify list once we reach # 1.  Let’s get this party started: 50. 49. 48. 47. 46.  45.  44. 43. 42.  41.  

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 25, 2021

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A Christmas Miracle? The James Webb Telescope Takes Off.  It’s quite the undertaking: Astronomers around the world will be watching (and perhaps biting their nails) as the Webb telescope undergoes a $10 billion, monthlong game of origami. Tightly packed into a container atop the rocket during launch, the telescope will separate from the spacecraft in […]

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DL Wraps Up The Year In Style

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on December 24, 2021 0 Comments

Set your calendars and your alarms.  In addition to our generous ongoing e-stream of Delaware flotsam and jetsam, we present to you, free of charge, the following features to close out 2021: Sunday, December 26-Thursday, December 30: El Somnambulo’s 50 Fave Tunes Of The Year! Monday, December 27-DL’s MVP’s (Most Valuable to the Progressive Cause […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, December 24, 2021

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RIP: Joan Didion.  Not only was she America’s greatest essayist, her methodology was beyond reproach: I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. If you haven’t read Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, at the […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 23, 2021

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Shop-Rite To Deep-Six Cashiers.  Most of them anyway.  You know, to ‘improve the customer experience’.  Not quoted in the article? Anybody from the Kenny family.  Pretty weak article, TBH. Amazon Takes Advantage Of Tax Break Intended To Help Impoverished Communities: Amazon has been heavily expanding into areas that the government designates for special tax incentives, […]

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January, 2021: Cops Murder Lymond Moses. December, 2021: Cops Skate On Murder Of Lymond Moses.

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on December 20, 2021 12 Comments

The only Bill of Rights that applies in Delaware is the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill Of Rights.  They have the right to kill with impunity, and never suffer consequences.  It will ever be thus as long as cops dominate the leadership of the Delaware House Of Representatives. January, 2021:  NCC Cops Kill Lymond Moses. Lie […]

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RIP: Sen. Bob Venables

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on December 20, 2021 10 Comments

If you are to know just one thing about Bob Venables, it’s this:  He was a tremendously empathetic human being.  Whenever anyone needed help, he tried, and often succeeded. Didn’t matter one’s station in life, didn’t matter how someone could help him, he just wanted to help.  He was a good person, without malice, without […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 19, 2021

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‘Bloodless’ Air Strikes Were Anything But Bloodless.  ‘The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs.  Documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths–and scant accountability.’  This is a report that must be read: The trove of documents — the military’s own confidential assessments of more than 1,300 reports of […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 18, 2021

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‘Ye’s Campaign Run By GOP Operatives Attempting To Siphon Off Votes From Biden.  Some damn good reporting from The Daily Beast. Kanye was a GOP plant.  Looks like a lot of campaign laws were violated.  Good thing the campaign was a disaster. Speaking Of Campaigns With The Whiff Of Disaster About Them…Take Herschel Walker. Please.  […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, December 17, 2021

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Top HS Football Player Signs With–Jackson State. Big $$ Cheater Schools Go Apoplectic: Players, coaches and administrators from Florida’s state universities have for months encouraged him and other legislators to amend portions of the state’s NIL law that puts them at a disadvantage when recruiting against other schools located in states with either no state […]

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DL Open Thread: Thurs., December 16, 2021

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Face It, Joe. Manchin’s Playing You And All The Democrats.  He’s never gonna support the package.  He is a Republican. He’s loving every second of his slo-mo betrayal, and the on-screen facetime he gets.  Time to offer Murkowski whatever Alaska wants in exchange for her vote. The standoff nonetheless evinced the political divide between Biden […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 12, 2021

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Trump ‘Orders’ Underling To Boycott Jan. 6 Hearings. Underling ‘Complies’.  Huh, didn’t think the Last Guy could issue such orders.  Or, didn’t think he had the power to issue such orders: Peter Navarro, who served as trade adviser to former President Donald J. Trump and who fought with government scientists while helping to orchestrate the administration’s […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 11, 2021

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Trump Supporters Face Little Opposition As They Move To Steal Elections: Mr. Lindemuth’s victory in November in this conservative rural community is a milestone of sorts in American politics: the arrival of the first class of political activists who, galvanized by Donald J. Trump’s false claim of a stolen election in 2020, have begun seeking […]

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