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The Party of the Nostalgia
Chris Coons is roughly my age. He was born in ’63. He shouldn’t be in lockstep with the oldsheads, but he is. Senator Elect, Blunt Rochester was born in ’62. She is also old beyond her years. The biggest divide in the Democratic Party at this point is not liberals versus moderates. It’s age. It’s […]
Desantis puts American Leftists on notice
Being a proud lefty I sometimes get distracted by what we haven’t yet accomplished (like socialized medicine, gun safety, housing security, worker’s rights, living wages, etc), and so I forget that leftists are an omnipotent behemoth bestriding American politics like a colossus. Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski Desantis says Good Morning: “I will serve two terms, and […]
Song of the Day 5/29: Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells”
Fifty years ago last week, a new record label debuted with an unusual offering — an LP that consisted of two side-long compositions by a 19-year-old guitarist, Mike Oldfield, who played all the instruments himself. And the only vocals were a couple of minutes of caveman-like grunts deep into side 2. Though it was introduced […]
DL Open Thread Monday May 29 2023
Happy Memorial Day. We overcame our isolation and nativism to fight two good wars in Europe. We got some good movies and songs out of the last one and were clearly the good guys. Then we pretended to still be the good guys for a while in Korea which was a draw, and VietNam which […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 28, 2023
Biden Breaks Word, Negotiates With Terrorists, Cuts Shitty Deal. Retire, you fucking old fart!: President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached an “agreement in principle” on Saturday to raise the debt ceiling and cap federal spending, clinching a critical first step toward preventing a government default that could be nine days away. The […]
Song of the Day 5/27: Brad Paisley, “Alcohol”
The News Journal’s Ryan Cormier has a paywalled story about the latest trend in college drinking in Newark, where the University of Delaware apparently remains among the nation’s top party schools. It seems bars have improved their ability to screen out underage drinkers, so students have hopped on a TikTok-fueled trend — they fill gallon […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 27, 2023
D’s Ignored Yellen, Now Paying Debt Ceiling Ransom. Can’t anybody here play this game?: In the days after November’s midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was feeling upbeat about the fact that Democrats had performed better than expected and maintained control of the Senate. But as she traveled to the Group of 20 leaders […]
“It seems like you don’t have my best interests at heart.”
This week’s Highland’s Bunker is a tough, unflinching view of the Delaware’s penal system from the inside. Tortious and dehumanizing by design, it is a system we all endorse every election day with our votes, and every non-election day with our silence. E244 – Quality of Life (w/ Hasini Perkins) ACLU Racial justice organizer Hasini Perkins […]
Eugene Young, don’t primary the wrong person
I know I don’t have a say, but C’mon. The prospect of Hall-Long being anointed to fill Carney’s third and fourth lackluster terms is heartbreaking.
Song of the Day 5/26: The Rascals, “A Beautiful Morning”
It is indeed a beautiful morning, but gardens aren’t going to stay beautiful long if we don’t get some rain soon. Don’t worry, not on the holiday weekend — no wet stuff is forecast for a week or more. This song, released in 1968, was the first to sport the name Rascals instead of Young […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 26, 2023
Red State MAGAts Can’t Dump People Off Medicaid Fast Enough: Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent weeks as part of a sprawling unwinding of a pandemic-era policy that prohibited states from removing people from the program. Early data shows that many people lost coverage for procedural reasons, such as […]
Delaware (Occasional) Political Weekly: May, 2023
Posted only when I gather enough facts, rumors, innuendo and snark to justify publishing. Until the fall. Then it legit becomes weekly. ‘Cept when I’ve got nothing. I’ve now got a bleepload: 1. A McBride vs. Young Primary For Congress? 8-Ball sez: “Signs point to yes”. I love them both. I hope that Gene […]
Song of the Day 5/25: Ike & Tina Turner, “Proud Mary”
On her final visit to the United States in 2019 for the opening of a musical about her life, Tina Turner, who died Wednesday at 83, reflected on how far she had come. Despite her fame and fortune, “It wasn’t a good life,” she told an interviewer. “The good did not balance the bad.” Anna […]
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