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Song of the Day 2/9: Twisted Sister, “I Wanna Rock”
Try to contain your disappointment: Twisted Sister had to call off its 50th anniversary tour, its first comeback in a decade, because frontman Dee Snider unexpectedly quit, citing his declining health. Per a statement at the band’s web site, Snider suffers from degenerative arthritis and has had several surgeries over the years just to keep […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 9, 2026
Anecdotal Becoming The Empirical, Ctd. There’s only one reason, and it’s not the quality of D candidates, and it’s not that people love the Democratic Party: Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle by a dominant 62-38 margin—a massive 37-point overperformance compared to […]
Song of the Day 2/8: Guy Clark, “Desperados Waiting for a Train”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Texas politics are looking better after a Democrat trounced the MAGA candidate last week in a special election, boosting the party’s chances to gain the House majority in Congressional elections later this year. But Texas being Texas, we can’t always count on the politics there. What we can count on […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: Feb. 8, 2026
Why the Internet sucks, and what we can do about it. A real deep dive, perfect for a lazy Sunday morning: It’s clear something has gone so wrong. But what do we do about it? My guests today have two theories. Cory Doctorow is a longtime blogger, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 7, 2026
He’s In-SA-A-A-A-A-NE. Trump says portraying Obamas as monkeys wasn’t a mistake: President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, but he insisted he had nothing to apologize for even after he deleted the video following an outcry. The clip, set to […]
Song of the Day 2/6: Nazareth, “Too Bad Too Sad”
“Everything Trump touches dies” is becoming nearly as immutable as the law of gravity. Bitcoin, the favorite pretend currency of money launderers and drug traffickers, experienced a sudden crash the past few days. Now, just like the now-discontinued penny, a bitcoin now costs more to produce than it’s worth. According to data from analytics firm […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 6, 2026
How Capitalists Killed Capitalism. A ‘Guest Essay’, and I like it: Since Mary Poppins’s day (I spared you the ‘Mary Poppins’ analogy), the financial sector as a whole — investment banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, cryptocurrency platforms and all the rest of it — has exploded as a share of the United States’ gross […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Feb. 5, 2026
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
Song of the Day 2/5: Supertramp, “Crime of the Century”
Only half of the Epstein files have been released and already the sleaze quotient is off the charts – and this is with them redacting as much as possible to protect the guilty. Is it too early to proclaim it the Crime of the (Last) Century? Supertramp made this the title track of their third […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 5, 2026
For those who missed it, Al (not A I) alerted us to this comment from Sen. Stephanie Hansen re data centers: “Given the growing emphasis on technology and artificial intelligence, it’s clear that data centers are here to stay – and it’s up to us to implement meaningful regulations that balance economic opportunity with energy […]
BREAKING BIG NEWS!!: DNREC Says That Proposed Data Center Violates Coastal Zone Act
Reader Drew Knox (hmmm, Drew Knox–I wonder…Sen. Andy Knox was a key proponent, and sponsor, of The Coastal Zone Act) beat me to it. But it is, in fact, true. From the Spotlight Delaware report: Delaware’s environmental agency ruled Wednesday morning that a plan for a massive data center near Delaware City is not allowed under […]
Song of the Day 3/4: The Orlons, “South Street”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Where did all the hippies meet? The Orlons told us well before the 1967 summer of love in San Fransisco. They met in Philadelphia on “South Street, South Street . . . Where the dancin’ is elite.” (Some people think they say “hippest” instead of “hippies,” but you only have […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Judges Blister Trump’s Thugs For Blatant Extra-Constitutional Violations: Judge Richard Leon: “A federal judge appears likely to side with Mark Kelly in the Democratic senator’s case alleging the Pentagon is violating his First Amendment rights through its effort to punish him over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders. During a high-stakes […]
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