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Song of the Day 2/24: Dion, “Runaround Sue”
He was just Dion, sans the Belmonts and without his surname DiMucci, in 1961 when he assembled an impromptu doo-wop chorus at a party and started ad-libbing lyrics about a girl who wouldn’t be true. When he brought it to songwriter Ernie Maresca they came up with a No. 1 hit. Guys have been writing […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026
How Epstein’s ‘Male Gaze’ Toxicity Created A Glass Ceiling For Women. Academia: In 2018, an elite group of academics and scientists planned to gather for an exclusive retreat at a luxury farm in the woods of Connecticut. The guests had been hand-picked by prominent New York literary agent John Brockman, who frequently hosted similar salons […]
Song of the Day 2/23: America, “A Horse With No Name”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona When listeners first heard America’s “A Horse With No Name” in 1972 a lot of them had questions. Why did this new Neil Young song seem to pop up out of nowhere? And why would Neil write a line like “the heat was hot?” Well, at least they knew where […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 23, 2026
Anybody OK With ICE Building Concentration Camps? Without the ovens–so far: A once sleepy rural town named Social Circle, Ga. — just over 40 miles east of Atlanta off Interstate 20 — has become the epicenter of the stealthy plan by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to rapidly create an American gulag archipelago of […]
Song of the Day 9/22: Snoop Dogg, “Sexual Eruption”
The 2026 Winter Olympics close today, and the most titillating story out of Milano Cortina, Italy, was that the 2,800 athletes on hand ran through 10,000 condoms in three days. Don’t worry, they restocked the supply so the, um, games could continue safely, but it does make one wonder where they find the energy to […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 21, 2026
Frederick Wiseman–America’s Irreplaceable Documentarian: Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 96. He consistently dismissed categorizations of his work. “I like to call them films” […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026
Trump Proclaims Tariffs Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night. You expected anything different from Der Furor?: Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling them a “disgrace to the nation”, and later signing documents imposing a 10% tariff on all countries. Trump said he […]
BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Most Trump Tariffs
From the NYTimes: The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, a major setback for his administration’s second-term agenda. The court’s 6-3 decision has significant implications for the U.S. economy, consumers and the president’s trade policy. The Trump […]
Song of the Day 2/20: U2, “American Obituary”
U2 released its first new music in nearly a decade on Ash Wednesday, and the lead track on the six-song EP “Days of Ash” joins the growing list of anti-DHS protest songs. Though “American Obituary” sounds like the title for a requiem for the United States, it’s actually an elegy for Renee Good. Renee Good, […]
DL Open Thread Friday, Feb. 20, 2026
Spotlight Delaware unveiled a major project yesterday that assesses the statewide reassessment that has gored many an ox. Not surprisingly, it found that poor people and minorities got hit the hardest. The data, compiled through Freedom of Information Act requests by Spotlight Delaware and mapped in partnership with Tech Impact’s Data Lab, show that in […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending February 19, 2026
1. R Nikki Miller Drops Out Of RD 20 Race. I’m surprised, TBH. She almost beat Stell Parker Selby in 2024, and she almost beat Alonna Berry in the 2025 Special Election to replace the terminally-absent Selby. This leaves, as of now, no Republican clallenger in this race. Although, alleged Democrat Ruby Schaeffer has filed […]
Song of the Day 2/19: Joe Frazier and the Knockouts, “Knock on Wood”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona It seems wrong to put a movie-prop statue right next to a major collection of great art, yet there’s Rocky at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In fact, he’ll be moving from his place near the bottom of the steps to an even more prominent spot at […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026
For those who pay attention to polls, this recent one contains an interesting phenomenon, noted on BlueSky by Adam Bonin, a lawyer from Philadelphia. For months I’ve banged the drum that “not sure” has become the safe harbor answer for “Republicans who know Trump’s probably wrong, but don’t want to admit it.” Today’s Economist/YouGov Poll: […]
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