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Song of the Day 1/7: Insane Clown Posse, “Miracles”

By Alby January 7, 20242 Comments

I still can't get over Trump's bonkers statement about magnets, to wit: "Now all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 7, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 7, 20243 Comments

Happy Anniversary! Three Jan. 6 Fugitives Arrested: WASHINGTON — Early Saturday morning at a ranch in Florida, on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol,…

Song of the Day 1/6: Lynyrd Skynyrd, “That Smell”

By Alby January 6, 20241 Comment

Given the media's eight-year obsession with Donald Trump, you would think the fact that he's odiferous would have emerged before now. A person of my close acquaintance who interviewed him…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, Jan. 6, 2023

By El Somnambulo January 6, 20243 Comments

Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Trump Ballot Eligibility Case, Slow-Walks Trump Immunity-From-Prosecution Case. Gee, wonder why. All that remains is to see how the Justices will weasel Trump back onto the ballot…

DL Open Thread: Friday, January 5, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 5, 20245 Comments

Trump Violated The Emoluments Clause Of The Constitution. Supreme Court Didn't Give A Shit: In January 2021, the justices dismissed two cases about then-President Trump’s alleged violations of the Emoluments Clauses,…

Delaware Political Weekly: Dec. 29, 2023 To Jan. 4, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 5, 2024

1. Where are those year-end campaign finance reports? So glad you asked. Although the reports had to be closed out as of the end of 2023, they can be filed…

Song of the Day 1/4: Coven, “One Tin Soldier”

By Alby January 4, 20242 Comments

Unless you grew up in the '60s, it's hard to imagine how naive the Boomers were in their youth. They actually thought singing about peace could bring it about. Nowadays…

DL Open Thread: Thurs., Jan. 4, 2024

By El Somnambulo January 4, 202412 Comments

MAGAt Brain Part I: Apparently Delaware Rethugs have concluded that the Scourge Of Electric Cars is their hot button issue. You know, like abortion. Specifically, Mike Ramone. Filed yesterday in…

Song of the Day 1/4: T Bone Burnett, “Humans From Earth”

By Alby January 3, 20242 Comments

T Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024

By Alby January 3, 20241 Comment

Gold Bar Bob Menendez used his position as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to run quite a racket, according to his new federal indictment. It doesn't add any…

Song of the Day 1/2: Green Day, “The American Dream Is Killing Me”

By Alby January 2, 20242 Comments

Punk-pop veterans and Rock Hall of Famers Green Day waded into America's politico-cultural wars on New Year's Eve when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong altered a line of the band's signature…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024

By Alby January 2, 20248 Comments

Former labor secretary Robert Reich used his year-end column to make a point I've long believed: The perception that America's quality of life is declining is linked to the fact…

Song of the Day 1/1: Uptown String Band, “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover”

By Alby January 1, 20243 Comments

The Mummers Parade is hanging in there, even if it's much diminished. The march nowadays runs only from City Hall to Washington Street, in the wrong direction, and it doesn't…