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Last Week’s Poll Results and This Week’s Poll

By jason330 September 26, 20237 Comments

Only 2 readers and lurkers have ever been displaced by fire or flood. 95% of us haven't been displaced yet. Aren't we lucky? This is a poll I'd like to…

NCC Council & Developers Vs. The Public

By El Somnambulo September 26, 202317 Comments

The ongoing unholy alliance, with money as the catalyst. Kids, wanna get your project rezoned and approved far from the prying eyes of the public? Here's how: A proposed New…

Song of the Day 9/26: The Replacements, “Bastards of Young”

By Alby September 26, 2023

The Replacements' status as the greatest missed opportunity in rock history has gotten a major boost with the release of a newly remixed edition of their fourth LP, their major-label…

DL Open Thread Tuesday September 26 2023

By jason330 September 26, 20231 Comment

I'll be adding to thins open thread this afternoon, but in the meantime listen to this Highland's Bunker. In the best tradition of Highlands Bunker, it is an eyeopener in…

Won’t anyone think of the children!?!

By jason330 September 25, 2023

I feel like everything I link to nowadays can run under the Headline: We Are so Fucked WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR YOUUUUUUU Brian's writing about the general age…

Song of the Day 9/25: The Association, “Everything That Touches You”

By Alby September 25, 2023

No group suffered a sharper drop in popularity when rock music turned from psychedelic pop to blues-based hard rock than the Association. Terry Kirkman, one of the group's founders and…

302news.com is going to be sold at auction

By jason330 September 25, 20238 Comments

If you are looking to start an online news aggregator for Delaware to compete against the ones backed by rightwing lunatics, I reserved your domain and the corporate name for…

Chris Coons Reallyreallyreally Wants To Be Secretary Of State

By El Somnambulo September 25, 20238 Comments

It's a little unseemly and more than a bit desparate, but I'm all for it: Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said he would "consider it seriously" if he was asked by…

DL Open Thread Monday September 25 2023

By jason330 September 25, 20231 Comment

Uh... Lots of stuff happened, but I overslept so here are some hastily assembled headlines: Here is your thanksgiving dinner topic. Enjoy trying to tell your father in law that…

DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023

By Alby September 24, 202313 Comments

More evidence that once the fetus is out he's on his own: Texas' razor-wired Rio Grande has claimed three more victims, one of them a 3-year-old. The Rude Pundit nails…

Song of the Day 9/23: The Band, “Ophelia”

By Alby September 23, 2023

It's rare that the Atlantic has 15 named storms in a hurricane season, so the odds were slim that we'd get a storm named Ophelia dumping all this rain on…

DL Open Thread Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023

By Alby September 23, 202318 Comments

If you ever decide to hide ill-gotten gains, be smarter than "Gold Bar Bob" Menendez. When stashing cash in the pockets of your jackets, don't choose one with your name…

Song of the Day 9/22: Tower of Power, “Don’t Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream)”

By Alby September 22, 2023

Kevin McCarthy's inability to control the Cuckoo Caucus has pundits speculating that he's not long for his gavel, because the cuckoos are all for 86ing him. I don't expect they'd…