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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024
Now that Israel has decapitated Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, Iran itself has decided to get into the act, firing off almost 200 missiles at Israel. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to see this won’t end well for Iran, or anyone else. Is a proportional response too much to hope for? Media spin is that Tim […]
What We’ve Accomplished, What We Need To Do
The primaries have come and gone. If anything, I don’t think people realize just how much things have changed as a result. There’s more to do, coming later in this piece, but here’s what has already happened: Bethany Hall Long is toast. In a just world, she should and would be indicted for misuse of […]
Oregon Odds ‘N Ends
Needed to get these vacation thoughts out of my head so that I can return to (Memo To Self: Find a therapist) the harsh reality of Delaware politics: 1. The Buick Envision is a suck-ass car. Keyless ignition, which is un-American (more on that later); A series of sounds that you would need to memorize […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024
Israel has let slip its dogs of war with a military invasion of Lebanon. If the idea is to wipe out Hezbollah, well, it didn’t work last time, it almost certainly won’t work this time, and it won’t work next time they try it, either. Biden was willing to get us out of Afghanistan. Why […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: September, 2024
Yet another cool band out of Philly. Power pop fans, check this one out: How’s this for a last-minute unexpected surprise?: Kind-of a Sonic Youth feel. ”Cept they really ARE youthful: Jonatan Leandoer 96: Voice like Ryan Adams, attitude like early Mac Demarco (‘Viceroy’), with a soupcon of Freedy Johnston. Nathan’s favorite?: “I dropped all […]
Song of the Day 9/30: Kris Kristofferson, “The Law Is for Protection of the People”
If Kris Kristofferson, who died Saturday at 88, had been invented by a novelist, the author would be accused of engaging in magical realism. C’mon, a Rhodes Scholar helicopter pilot turned country music star turned Hollywood actor with a string of famous wives and paramours – who’s buying that a real person could do all […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Sept. 30, 2024
Reading the news has convinced me that there are way, way too many people writing about the election, which most people don’t want to read about because Republicans make them want to vomit. So I’m ignoring all that crap, and you probably should, too. If you want something to worry about, the looming strike by […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 28, 2024
Politicians will lie about anything, but a Republican running for Congress in Virginia’s 7th District has taken it to a new level. Derrick Anderson, an ex-Green Beret, is single, but he wanted to project a family-man vibe – so he borrowed a friend’s family for campaign photos and posed as if they were his own. […]
Song of the Day 9/28: Stevie Nicks, “The Lighthouse”
Stevie Nicks has never been a topical songwriter. Almost all her songs are personal and emotional, which makes the single she released Friday, her first new song in years, all the more powerful. It’s plenty emotional, but it’s a straight-up protest song, an outright feminist battle cry. [E]arly one morning I was watching the news […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024
When Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, many pundits pointed out that what seemed like a truncated campaign, a three-month “sprint” to Election Day, was the full length of campaigns in most Western nations. Skip ahead two months, and with six weeks still to go it already feels like it’s been going on […]
Song of the Day 9/27: The Cure, “Friday I’m in Love”
The Cure, the venerable British band led by Robert Smith, released its first new song in 16 years this week ahead of the November release of a new album. “Alone” doesn’t sound goth but it won’t dispel the label that’s dogged Smith since the ’80s, regardless of what his music has sounded like. That’s what […]
DL Open Thread Friday, Sept. 27, 2024
We’ll have another damp day, but nothing like the inundation in the Southeast, where Helene dumped an amount of rain seen once every thousand years. Given the lack of progress on climate change, I’m gonna to take the under on that one. Delaware’s Public Integrity Commission proved itself incapable of doing its job, declining to […]
What Else I Want to See Happen
El Somnambulo asked this question last week, but unlike others, my answer is backward-looking. I still want to see an actual audit of Bethany Hall-Long’s books, because I still don’t understand how her husband managed to ring up tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of campaign expenses on personal accounts that the campaign then […]
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