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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., January 29, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 29, 20254 Comments

THE BIG STORY: End-Of-Life Options Bill Gets Its First Hearing Today. Should've been law already, but Delaware's Worst Governor Ever couldn't get past his own blinkered Catholicism. Didn't try. Rep.…

‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: January 2025

By El Somnambulo January 29, 20258 Comments

January can be pretty sparse when it comes to new music. Not this January. Could be a contender for best music month of the year. I'm posting it a couple…

Song of the Day 1/28: Grace Jones, “Demolition Man”

By Alby January 28, 2025

It's easier to wreck things than build them. It requires very little brain – three-year-olds are good at it, which lines right up with Trump being good at it. When…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 28, 202513 Comments

Post-Democracy America: Trump Fires Justice Department Prosecutors: Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired several Justice Department officials yesterday who worked on the federal criminal investigations into President Trump, according to…

Delaware’s IT Department Is In Crisis–And No One Is Holding Them Accountable

By El Somnambulo January 28, 202528 Comments

Guest Post From An Anonymous IT Insider: Technology is more critical than ever in shaping government services. But what is Delaware’s state technology agency, DTI, doing? Unlike Delaware, states like…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 28, 20251 Comment

The Big Story: Can Matt Meyer And Bryan Townsend Smoke A Peace Pipe (preferably filled with homegrown Delaware herb)? They're gonna have to. Looks like Meyer will have a pretty…

Song of the Day 1/27: Noël Coward, “Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans”

By Alby January 27, 20252 Comments

There are those who think we should be nicer to MAGAts, because – this is their theory, not mine – MAGAts vote against their own self-interests in response to liberals…

DL Open Thread: Monday, January 27, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 27, 2025

War With Colombia Averted! Irony intended: The United States and Colombia averted a trade war, for now, after the White House said late Sunday that Bogotá agreed to accept deportation…

Song of the Day 1/26: Cheap Perfume, “It’s Okay to Punch Nazis”

By Alby January 26, 20251 Comment

Elon Musk told Germany's far-right party that Germans should get over their guilt about that whole Holocaust thing. So here's a message for "Misunderstood Gesture" Musk from the – gasp!…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 26, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 26, 202526 Comments

Post-Democracy America Day 6: Trump Destroys The EPA: President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical…

Song of the Day 1/25: Willie Nelson, “I Gotta Get Drunk”

By Alby January 25, 20256 Comments

Raise a glass for Pete Hegseth. He's probably already raised a few himself. Willie Nelson recorded this in 1970, before he became an outlaw, though he does look a lot…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 25, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 25, 202514 Comments

Post-Democracy America Day 5: Trump Fires Inspectors General In Late-Night Purge: The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a…

Song of the Day 1/24: Stan Rogers, “Barrett’s Privateers”

By Alby January 24, 20254 Comments

It's said that if you walk into any bar in Nova Scotia and sing, "Oh, the year was 1778," you're sure to be answered, "How I wish I was in…