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Song of the Day 2/18: Billie Jo Spears, “Blanket on the Ground”
The tale of “Kristi Needs Her Blankie” is even sadder and sillier than first reported. You may recall from, oh, last week sometime that DHS chief Kristi Noem tried to fire a Coast Guard pilot mid-flight for leaving her blanket behind. Petty and pathetic, sure, but almost innocent compared to the real story. It seems […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026
Why Not Colbert For President?: Stephen Colbert addressed the fervor around Monday’s “Late Show” on Tuesday, remarking that he’d said his piece after CBS wouldn’t air his interview with James Talarico, a Democratic Texas state representative. “We made some jokes — that’s what they pay me for — and I was ready to let it […]
Song of the Day 2/17: Robert Duvall, “I’ve Decided to Leave Here Forever”
The obituaries for Robert Duvall, the greatest character actor of his generation, all lauded his amazing versatility. Some of them mentioned that for his lone Oscar-winning role, as washed-up country singer Mac Sledge in the 1983 release “Tender Mercies,” Duvall played the guitar and did all his own singing. Few noted that he also wrote […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026
RIP: Jesse Jackson: “I may be poor …” began the call-and-response Rev. Jesse Jackson led in various forms before rapt audiences for more than half a century. “But I am … somebody! I may be on welfare. But I am … somebody! I may be in jail. But I am … somebody! I may be […]
Song of the Day 2/16: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Naked and Famous”
Though today is widely known as Presidents Day, the federal holiday is still officially called Washington’s Birthday. Many states have switched the name to Presidents Day, but nine states, including Delaware, don’t observe it at all. Luckily for kids, public schools are closed anyway. I understood celebrating George Washington, his slave-holding notwithstanding, but I’m not […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 16, 2026
Everyone But Trump Takes Fall Over Epstein Ties. Casey Wasserman: Prominent US agent Casey Wasserman is selling his talent company after documents linking him to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were published in the US. Several high-profile clients, including singer Chappell Roan, quit the firm this week after it emerged he flew on Epstein’s private […]
Song of the Day 2/15: Kate Bush, “Wuthering Heights”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Many adaptations of “Wuthering Heights” have come along since Emily Bronte wrote it in 1847, but there’s been little agreement about which has best captured the spirit of the novel. Was it the movie with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon that got the Hollywood treatment in 1939? Maybe. Was it […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 15, 2026
The ‘Looksmaxxing Mainstream’. Is this what Michael Jackson was going for?: Clavicular is 6-foot-2, weighs 180 pounds and has a 31-inch waist. His biacromial width — basically the span of the clavicle, from which the 20-year-old streamer gets his name — is 19.5 inches. He has a midface ratio, which is derived by dividing the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026
This Is Not Fascism. Right?: The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency. In recent months, Google, Reddit, […]
Song of the Day 2/13: Martin Denny, “Quiet Village”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona In a deep freeze like the one we’ve been locked into, one’s thoughts naturally turn to palm trees, tiki torches and exotic bird calls to warm us up in mind if not body. And if your thoughts need a little nudging, well there’s music for that. Exotica is an easygoing, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 13, 2026
The Conspiracy Theorists Were Right: Journalists and researchers will spend the next months ferreting through the Epstein files in search of further criminal conduct or a new conspiratorial wrinkle. But one truth has already emerged. In unsparing detail, the documents lay bare the once-furtive activities of an unaccountable elite, largely made up of rich and […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Feb. 12, 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 […]
BREAKING: Trump ‘Erases Government Power To Fight Climate Change’
From the New York Times: President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and […]
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