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Song of the Day 4/6: Bill Haley and His Comets, “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
The battle outside is ragin’, but that’s not what shook your windows and rattled your walls yesterday. It was a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered in northern New Jersey. It came just six and a half years after the big Dover shaker of 2017, clear evidence that we’re living in the end times. Though 1955 is often […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 6, 2024
When Is A Bond Not A Bond? When it’s not valid in the State of New York. Watch the video: The video explains the details behind NY AG Letitia James’ objections to the $175 million bond that TFG filed against the $454 million judgment in the tax fraud case. Turns out the company that posted […]
Bob Marshall: An Appreciation
When I went to work for the Delaware State Senate in 1985, all I knew about Bob Marshall was what I had been told–he was the nephew of Wilmington City Democratic Boss Leo Marshall, and that he had benefited from that relationship. Our paths hadn’t crossed during my first two years in the House and […]
Song of the Day 4/5: MGMT, “Kids”
Are the misogynistic people behind the forced-birth movement really so oblivious to popular opinion that they think they can put the birth-control toothpaste back in the tube? Do they really think their irresponsible moron-bro base will be in favor of impregnating the women they use sexually? Apparently so. If history is any guide, those new […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 5, 2024
First, A Public Disservice Announcement: Delaware Political Weekly will be a little late this week. As in tomorrow. I’m working on the Bob Marshall piece, and I think I’ve finally figured out how to write it. Algorithms Decide Assisted Living Staffing Levels. Which is why the government must: Two decades ago, a group of senior-housing […]
Song of the Day 4/4: Eurythmics, “Here Comes the Rain Again”
H/t KentCoCat, who alerted me with how many days of heavy rainfall Delaware has gotten since the weather was supposed to turn cold – according to this article, triple the historical average. Apparently El Nino is to blame. Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox wrote this song, a No. 4 hit on the Hot 100, on […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 4, 2024
Truth Social Was Kept Alive By Russian Money Launderer. Great reporting from The Guardian: Trump Media almost did not make it to the merger after regulators opened a securities investigation into the merger in 2021 and caused the company to burn through cash at an extraordinary rate as it waited to get the green light […]
Song of the Day 4/3: Wilco, “War on War”
If we can have Peacekeeper missiles, why can’t we have a war on war? One would come in handy about now. From Wilco’s album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” posted online by the band in 2001 when their record company refused to release it. After changing companies, the official release the next year earned rave reviews and […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Just when you thought that Israel couldn’t sink any lower, they drone-bombed a World Central Kitchen vehicle, killing seven people working to bring food to famine-stricken Gaza – despite having cleared the trip with Israel’s defense department ahead of time. Which demonstrates that this regime isn’t just evil, it’s also incompetent. RFK Jr. tried to […]
Song of the Day 4/2: Al Wilson, “Show and Tell”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Everybody knew Johnny Mathis could sing. His satiny voice sold a lot of records. But he didn’t exactly swing and his voice didn’t have that earthy soul-man thing. So his recording of a song called “Show and Tell” never got farther than the lower regions of the easy listening charts […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 2, 2024
The Billionaires Who Prop Up Trump: We already know about Jeff Yass, Pennsylvania’s richest man, who has bankrolled the Trump pump-and-dump shell company housing Truth Social. We also know that Trump has not invested one penny in the shell company. We know that the company literally has no chance to make money, meaning the only […]
A Double-Edged Abortion Ruling If Ever There Was One
BREAKING: From The NY Times: The Florida Supreme Court overturned decades of legal precedent on Monday in ruling that the State Constitution’s privacy protections do not extend to abortion, effectively allowing Florida to ban the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. But in a separate decision released at the same time, the justices allowed Florida […]
Song of the Day 4/1: Aretha Franklin, “Chain of Fools”
Written by Don Covay, a singer and songwriter who got his start working for Little Richard – as both his chauffeur and his opening act – when Atlantic Records head Jerry Wexler asked him for a song for Otis Redding. Covay dusted off something he had written back when he was singing gospel in his […]
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