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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
It’s deja vu all over again as I think I wrote virtually this same intro a few weeks back: The State is facing a budgetary crisis precipitated by Trump’s insanity. The Governor and (particularly) Senate leaders aren’t on the same page. The Rethugs have grasped onto partisan talking points to oppose increased taxes on Delaware’s wealthiest. […]
Song of the Day 4/7: Ohio Players, “Love Rollercoaster”
I was all set to go with “Free Fallin’,” but the stock markets fluctuated wildly this morning, so the Ohio Players it is. “Love Rollercoaster” became their second No. 1 hit in January 1976. An urban myth arose about the song. At the 2:32 mark you can hear a high-pitched scream, supposedly the sound of […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 7, 2025
Take Your Medicine, America: President Donald Trump said Sunday evening that he is not intentionally engineering the ongoing stock market sell-off, but said little to try and dissuade it. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday […]
Song of the Day 4/6: Steely Dan, “Home at Last”
This song from the 1979 album “Aja” is unique in Steely Dan’s catalog: It’s the only one with solos by both Donald Fagen, on synthesizer, and Walter Becker on guitar. So it might be the only time they trusted themselves and each other simultaneously. Lyrically about an interstate Ulysses, “Home at Last” is revered by […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 6, 2025
DOJ To Court: ‘You’re Not The Boss Of Us’: Government attorneys slammed a judge’s order to return a Salvadoran immigrant to the United States, arguing in a Saturday filing that the judge’s directive was “indefensible” and that the United States has “no authority” to make a sovereign nation release the man. On Friday, U.S. District […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 5, 2025
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Song of the Day 4/4: Randy Newman, “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country”
Randy Newman wrote an advance obit for the USA a while back that seems as if it were written to run today (h/t Lawyers, Guns & Money). It first appeared as an op-ed in the New York Times in January 2007, in response to President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address. It was […]
Pre-File Profile: April 4, 2025
The Delaware House and Senate each had a pre-file of new bills this week. A ‘pre-file’ is when bills are introduced while the General Assembly is out of session. Here is the entire list, all bills dated 4-3-2025: https://legis.delaware.gov/Legislation/RecentLegislation. Here are the bills of most interest to me: The Momo had asked whether anybody would […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 4, 2025
Something Just Broke–Trump and the Rethugs broke it. From The Economist: IF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It’s hard […]
Song of the Day 4/3: R.E.M., “Man on the Moon”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona In a post-Andy Kaufman world, it was perfectly natural for R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe to question the moon landing in “Man on the Moon.” The song is (sort of) about Kaufman, whose comedy was all about confusion between reality and fiction. You could see how that worked in the 1999 movie […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 3, 2025
“It’s A Disaster”: Trump screwing the defenseless is one thing, but this, this, is a whole ‘nother thing: Markets around the world tumbled on Thursday after President Trump announced across-the-board tariffs on America’s main trading partners, including the European Union and Japan. Futures on the S&P 500, which allow investors to trade the index outside normal […]
Song of the Day 4/2: Killing Joke, “Pandemonium”
I’ll be traveling today, so I’ll be spared whatever freakout ensues from whatever bilious bullshit Trump spews. I am, however, assuming pandemonium as the baseline outcome. Killing Joke’s 40-year career has been better appreciated in Great Britain, where all but one of their 14 LPs reached the charts, than in America, where only one eked […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race. Hope those newly-minted Musk millionaires cashed those checks already: The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court defeated a challenger endorsed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday, cementing a liberal majority for at least three more years. Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to […]
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