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Song of the Day 4/6: Queen, “Hammer to Fall”
Another day, another deadline. Mad Donald, ever projecting, says Iran had better “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” or tomorrow he’ll commit more war crimes by bombing civilian targets. Given that all the bombing so far hasn’t budged the mullahs’ regime, people are worried Trump will go nuclear, literally rather than figuratively. When “Hammer […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 6, 2026
Delaware Rethugs–Coal Power To The Rescue?: The Indian River Power Plant shut down the last coal-fired energy generators in Delaware a year ago, but the hulking industrial site near Millsboro has emerged at the center of a debate over whether it could factor into the state’s energy future. As new, high-demand energy users like hyper-scale […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: April 5, 2026
The ‘Braiding’ Of Western Scientific Knowledge With Indigenous Culture. My kind of synergyL “I’m a glorified clam counter.” So said Marco Hatch, a marine ecologist at Western Washington University and an enrolled member of the Samish Indian Nation. Hatch has been conducting surveys of mollusks growing in and around clam gardens in the Pacific north-west, […]
Song of the Day 4/5: Murray Head, “Superstar”
Before the movie, before the stage show, before even the concept album, “Jesus Christ Superstar” began with this single. Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice couldn’t get financial backing to mount the stage production, a retelling of the Passion of Christ with Judas Iscariot as the central character, so they decided to record it as […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 4, 2026
NCC Marcus Henry On NCC’s Budget Deficit. Read and/or listen: Henry says the county’s $42 million deficit stems from issues like using one-time federal relief funds to cover recurring operating expenses, while using reserves to fund permanent costs. Henry offers one example of how that played out. “There was an increase back in 2024 where […]
New Poll: Who’s Next Redux
After our last poll, it took just one week for Trump to pull the trigger on Pam Bondi, so let’s see if it takes that long for the next domino to fall. The rumor mill is awash with possibilities. Most pundits, noting the femalitude of Trump’s first two sacrificial lambs, see Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Tulsi […]
Song of the Day 4/3: The La’s, “There She Goes”
Buh-bye, Pam Bondi. The jangle-pop classic “There She Goes” stands as the crowning achievement of a songwriter who’s been called “the J.D. Salinger of pop.” Liverpool native Lee Mavers, frontman of the La’s, earned the comparison because, like the reclusive American author, he created a critically acclaimed album and then stopped letting the public hear […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 3, 2026
Carney’s New Tents Not ‘Soak-Proof’: Suh-prize, suh-prize. Hey, man, the City can’t afford decent tents. You know, ‘budget-smoothing’: The city of Wilmington is assessing its next steps after a heavy rain soaked through newly city-issued tents to unhoused people living in Christina Park. Mayor John Carney’s office and the site manager, the nonprofit organization Friendship […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending April 2, 2026
1. Leader Of Flock To Be Sacrificial Lamb To Sarah McBride. A Black preacher named Earl Cooper. You just know what the first thing out of his mouth was: “Our children are our greatest treasure, and if we don’t protect them, we fail the very future of Delaware! Let me be clear: boys should not […]
BREAKING: Trump Fires AG Bondi
Those who predicted her firing in our DL Poll may collect their prize–a free subscription to Delaware Liberal. She apparently was fired because most of the attempted prosecutions of Trump’s enemies fell apart. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/02/us/trump-news” “The dismissal of Ms. Bondi, 60, ends a turbulent 14-month tenure as attorney general in which she tried desperately to appease […]
Song of the Day 4/2: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, “Against the Wind”
H/t to Cape Gazette editorial cartoonist Jim Paterson, whose recent cartoon used the title of the Bob Seger song as the headline for his take on the battle between the state and Sussex County over an offshore wind farm. Delaware’s Chancery Court ruled last week that Sussex County can’t deny a permit that would allow […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 2, 2026
Guaranteed: John Carney Will Screw Up Policy For The Homeless Whether He Intends To Or Not: A chaotic scene unfolded during a sunny Wednesday afternoon at Christina Park as Wilmington officials attempted to carry out a plan to move residents of a city-sanctioned homeless encampment out of their personal tents and into government-issued ones. The […]
Song of the Day 4/1: Elvin Bishop, “Fooled Around and Fell in Love”
Fate played a mean joke on blues guitarist Elvin Bishop. Bishop, who cut his teeth playing with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, is remembered as a one-hit wonder for his composition “Fooled Around and Fell in Love,” but he didn’t even get to sing it. Bishop thought his gravelly voice wouldn’t do the song justice, […]
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