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Song of the Day 11/28: John Lennon and Elton John, “Whatever Gets You Through the Night”
50 years ago today marked John Lennon’s last public concert appearance, with Elton John at New York’s Madison Square Garden – to honor a lost bet. “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” sprang from something Lennon heard Reverend Ike say on TV one night, and Lennon considered it a bit of a throwaway. When he […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Safe travels, everybody, if you’re traveling. We’re traveling the less than a mile to our daughter’s house in Kingsridge, where I’ll plop myself on a couch and start drinking. Moderately, of course, Even the football games suck this year, but I’ll be with a great group of people, so it won’t matter. Hope you do […]
Song of the Day 11/26: The Rivingtons, “The Bird’s the Word”
Gotta make it quick today due to Thanksgiving prep, including picking up the bird and getting it brined, which made me think of “Surfin’ Bird,” the 1963 No. Billboard 4 hit by surf-rock Minnesotans the Trashmen. I never realized it was a cover of a song released earlier in 1963 by the Rivingtons, the doo-wop […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Smith Folds. He had to, you can’t try a sitting President. The villain amongst all the villains in the piece: Merrick Garland: A judge dismissed the federal election-obstruction charges against President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, ending a historic investigation that never went to trial but led to enduring changes in the legal landscape over a […]
Song of the Day 11/25: Boz Scaggs feat. Bonnie Raitt, “Hell to Pay”
Americans love horror stories, and Trump’s selection of a cabinet designed mainly to trigger the libs provides the media with plenty of them. As Boz Scaggs related in this blues tale, even if you buy a senator in Texas and a judge in New Orleans, there’s still hell to pay. This duet with Bonnie Raitt […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, November 25, 2024
Nancy Mace Has Done Us All A Favor–Inadvertently, Of Course. She has given Sarah McBride a platform to introduce herself and her message to the nation. We all know how good she is, now everybody else is finding out: Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who made history this month as the first openly trans person elected […]
Song of the Day 11/24: John Mellencamp, “American Fool”
“American Fool” is the name of John Mellencamp’s breakthrough 1982 album, the one that led off with “Hurts So Good” and “Jack and Diane,” the two biggest hits of his career. But in those pre-CD times there was only room for nine songs on the LP, so the album that sold 5 million copies and […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 24, 2024
Will ‘Prosecutors Be Prosecuted’ Under Trump? As good a test as to whether the Republic can hold as any: Again and again, when Donald Trump has faced scandal and scrutiny, Pam Bondi was there to defend him. Bondi said the Justice Department’s special counselinvestigation into whether Trump associates coordinated with Russian interference in the 2016 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 23, 2024
Hospital Lobbyists Try To Kill Diamond State Cost Review Board. Carney said he supports it–but will he appoint the members?: With about two months until a new executive administration takes over in the First State, Delaware Healthcare Association president and CEO Brian Frazee penned a letter Wednesday urging term-limited Gov. John Carney to defer making […]
Song of the Day 11/22: Was (Not Was), “11 MPH (Abe Zapp Ruder Version)”
A lot of music has been written about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In the immediate aftermath songs expressed the shock and grief that enveloped the nation, but within a few years they started to reflect the widespread belief that we weren’t being told the real story. These days more than two-thirds of Americans […]
SD 5 Candidates With Christiana Care Ties Oppose Hospital Care Review Board
Among the four candidates running for the Democratic nomination to fill the soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat currently held by Kyle Evans Gay are two with ties to Christiana Care. Both oppose the Hospital Care Review Board that was legislatively established to address the costs and lack of transparency on pricing from Christiana Care. For the record, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 22, 2024
‘The Salt Typhoon’: China’s Infiltration Of US Telecom Networks: The Chinese government espionage campaign that has deeply penetrated more than a dozen U.S. telecommunications companies is the “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history — by far,” a senior U.S. senator told The Washington Post in an interview this week. The hackers, part of a […]
Song of the Day 11/21: SSgt. Barry Sadler, “The Ballad of the Green Berets”
This one’s for George Frankel, the state senate candidate who wants to employ ex-Green Berets to keep order in high schools. “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” written by a Green Beret medic wounded in Vietnam, was released in January 1966; in the previous nine months U.S. troop presence in the country had increased from […]
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