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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: January 18, 2026
Can We Treat The Oceans’ Tummy Aches With Antacids–And Help Slow Global Warming?: Since the advent of the industrial age, the oceans have absorbed about one-third of humanity’s heat-trapping carbon emissions. Were it not for that immense buffer, the planet would be substantially warmer and more tempestuous than it is today. As carbon dioxide from […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 17, 2026
Finally, The Story Of Trooper Snook’s Killer. A paranoid guy who thought he was being followed by police ‘gangs’: Delaware State Police said Friday that Corporal Grade-One Ty Snook was the victim of a targeted attack against law enforcement when he was gunned down while on overtime duty at the Hessler Boulevard DMV December 23rd. […]
Song of the Day 1/16: The Police, “Can’t Stand Losing You”
Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, the two members of the Police who aren’t Sting, have taken the band’s songwriter and vocalist to court over royalties for their best-known song, “Every Breath You Take.” As this article from the Guardian explains, Sting agreed in 2016 to give Summers and Copeland 15% of the royalties as an […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 16, 2026
Laurel Police Shared Haitian Immigrants’ Addresses With FBI. In a seemingly unprecedented move in Delaware, a local police department in Sussex County created a list last year of where officers believe Haitian immigrants spend their time, and then sent it to federal officials. During the early days of the Trump administration, the Laurel Police Department […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 15, 2026
Had to rewrite this due to this late-breaking news: 1. President Pro-Tem Dave Sokola Will Not Seek Reelection. I flat-out can’t believe he’s been there for 36 years. I really am old. I was one of the people at his very first Sunday evening kitchen campaign meetings. Some people govern through fear, Dave governed with kindness. In my […]
Song of the Day 1/15: Dolly Parton, “Here You Come Again”
Fans have been worried about Dolly Parton’s health since October, when her sister put out a public appeal for prayers, a couple of weeks after the country music diva missed a scheduled event at her theme park, Dollywood. Despite reassurances that the situation was nothing serious, she hasn’t appeared in public since, and this week […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 15, 2026
The big news, such as it is, took place in the committee meetings yesterday. I also guess it’s worth noting that SB 27 (Brown), which creates the Office Of New Americans, unanimously passed the Senate. Perhaps of interest only to me is that an amendment was added to the bill calling for a Sunset review […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Anybody Missing From This Obituary? Let me rephrase: Anybody Missing From The Obituary For Linda Stevenson?: Passed away unexpectedly on December 29, 2025. She was born on April 29, 1961. Linda was preceded in death by her beloved parents Charles and Bernice Barnes. She is survived by her daughter, Christina (Jeremy); her granddaughter, Ciara (Madison […]
Song of the Day 1/14: Jake Xerxes Fussell, “The Bells of Rhymney”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona The best-known version of “The Bells of Rhymney” came out of sunny southern California when the Byrds put it on their first album in 1965. But the song was born amid the dank coal mines of South Wales. It grew from a poem written in 1938 and based on an […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Suxco Council Rejects Mega-Development. I did not expect this: The Sussex County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to deny a rezoning needed for Atlantic Fields, a major retail project that would have brought a Costco, Target and Whole Foods to Delaware’s beach corridor, but has also raised concerns over traffic. The shopping center, proposed by Baltimore-based […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
There were no surprises in either the House or Senate today. The House unanimously passed SB 106 (Buckson), which requires school districts to craft cell phone policies for students. Because the bill didn’t pass the House last year, an amendment changing the effective date was added to the bill. The Senate will no doubt pass […]
Song of the Day 1/13: The Moody Blues, “Isn’t Life Strange”
Scanning one of those People We Lost in 2025 lists the other day, I realized I missed memorializing John Lodge, bassist for the Moody Blues, back when he died in October at age 82. Lodge wasn’t an original member of the band. He joined along with guitarist Justin Hayward in 1966, after its first lineup […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Another Day, More Trump Shit You Never Thought Would Happen. Like: Yet Another War Crime: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. […]
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