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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 30, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 30, 202523 Comments

The Big Story: State Senate Prepares To Disgrace Itself. Man, I was wrong, didn't think it would come to this: The Delaware State Senate is going through with hearing Bethany…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 30, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 30, 202512 Comments

I rarely (perhaps never) talk about how many people read the blog, and what they read when they read it. However, the Guest Post on the State IT Office has,…

Song of the Day 1/29: Billy Strings, “Gild the Lily”

By Alby January 29, 20251 Comment

I don't think this song, released last fall, made it onto any of El Somnambulo's monthly new music roundups, but it's gotten lots of airplay on WXPN. Beware – it…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 29, 2025

By El Somnambulo January 29, 202517 Comments

I've delayed this long enough. Here goes: We're in the midst of an unprecedented attack on government safeguards that more or less stop us from sinking into oligarchy. Or autocracy. …

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!…