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‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: June 2024
Best month o’ tunes so far this year. By far. I also think I’m gonna nail Nathan Arizona’s fave this time! Let’s get ready to get down: Alisa Amador: I would have loved this band back in the early seventies. Which is one reason why I love them now. Both nostalgic and new. My fave […]
Song of the Day 6/30: Martin Mull, “Ukelele Blues”
Martin Mull, who died last week at age 80, is mostly remembered for his long career as a comic actor, which began in 1976 when producer Norman Lear tapped him for a role as a comic villain on his spoof of soap operas, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.” But he only landed the gig because Lear […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Sunday, June 30, 2024
The Big Story: Police Athletic League Of Delaware: $200,000 Jobs For Delaware Graduates: $1,395,197 (!!) That’s the funding that these two agencies will receive through the Grants-In-Aid bill. Two agencies run by two unqualified state legislators who receive their undeserved salaries and benefits because they feed at the public trough in an unethical manner to […]
Pride Goeth Before The Gavel Falls
Guest Post By The MoMo: Happy Pride Month from the Delaware General Assembly! Horrified onlookers will see the sarcasm in that title, as the General Assembly has a long way to go down the rainbow road. While there are efforts to improve the state for LGBT+ residents, many are annual (updating definitions), others don’t make […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 30, 2024
An Open Convention? I’m not always in tune with what Ezra Klein proposes, but this at least deserves consideration: In “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics,” Sam Rosenfeld and Daniel Schlozman tell the history of how the strong parties of yesterday have become the hollowed-out vehicles for presidential […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., June 29, 2024
Josh Marshall: Only Alternative To Biden Is Harris. Makes sense to me: The one thing that seems clear to me is that there’s only one Plan B and that’s Kamala Harris. I do not know any universe in which a party whose bedrocks are women and African-Americans does not split into open revolt if the […]
Song of the Day 6/28: Kinky Friedman, “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore”
They ain’t makin’ Jews like Kinky Friedman anymore, either. In the ’70s he was the singing-songwriting leader of the satirical Texas Jewboys, a Western swing forerunner of raucous acts like Mojo Nixon. After the band broke up at the end of the decade he became an author of offbeat detective novels and, in 2006, an […]
Delaware Political Weekly: June 21-27, 2024
1. Yo, Collin. It’s Time! There has been, to put it charitably, a dearth of visible political activity from you. Haven’t gotten any updates from you even though I’ve contributed. I mean, even photos from events you’re attending, something just to show that you’re, um, attending events. The latest update on your Facebook page is from […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 28, 2024
Anybody at that Debate Party at DelDems HQ last night? Or is it too early to have sobered up? I’ll merely cut-and-paste what I wrote yesterday: Anyone else not gonna watch tonight’s ‘debate’? I’m almost over the denial phase of my grief, headed towards–whatever comes after the denial stage of grief. As much as Biden […]
Song of the Day 6/27: Spin Doctors, “How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Can Have Me)”
The Spin Doctors’ lament is really about being friend zoned, but it’s the same question the Biden campaign could ask anyone who’s voting for his felonious opponent. The Spin Doctors came out of the same early ’90s jam band scene that produced Phish and Blues Traveler. Their debut album, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite,” was released […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 27, 2024
The Big Story: General Assembly Hands John Carney His Lovely Parting Gift. While I don’t know if any senators will vote against the veto override of HB 282, I know that the veto will be overridden. Particulars of the bill aside, this underlines one unassailable fact: The General Assembly as a whole has dismissed John […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Anyone else not gonna watch tonight’s ‘debate’? I’m almost over the denial phase of my grief, headed towards–whatever comes after the denial stage of grief. As much as Biden is to blame for his chutzpah, a moribund national Democratic Party is equally to blame. I mean, not even a discussion as to whether an increasingly-frail […]
Song of the Day 6/26: Neil Innes, “Brave Sir Robin”
This one’s for Bethany Hall Long who, put in a position to cast an important tie-breaking vote, showed her leadership skills: She bravely turned her tail and fled. Neil Innes was the guy the Monty Python troupe turned to whenever music was required. A veteran of the irreverent Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, he provided the […]
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