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Song of the Day 1/13: The Moody Blues, “Isn’t Life Strange”
Scanning one of those People We Lost in 2025 lists the other day, I realized I missed memorializing John Lodge, bassist for the Moody Blues, back when he died in October at age 82. Lodge wasn’t an original member of the band. He joined along with guitarist Justin Hayward in 1966, after its first lineup […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Another Day, More Trump Shit You Never Thought Would Happen. Like: Yet Another War Crime: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
This is the hors d’oeuvre portion of the legislative session–in for just three weeks, get those few ‘must-pass’ bills done by the end of the month, listen to the Governor’s State Of The State Address, then clear out for six weeks of Joint Finance Committee hearings. We’ll soon learn what those ‘must-pass’ bills are. There’s usually […]
Song of the Day 1/12: The Grateful Dead, “Playing in the Band”
Bob Weir, the co-founder of the Grateful Dead who died Saturday at 78, was the subject of countless Deadhead debates over the years. Was he an essential member of the band, or totally extraneous? Did he add to their jams or gum them up? Did his songs help structure their sprawling concerts or interrupt the […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 12, 2026
Starting tomorrow–the General Assembly returns. My favorite time of year. Also my busiest. More Trump Corruption: The Department Of Injustice Targets Fed Chair. You all know why: The U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, over the central bank’s renovation of […]
Song of the Day 1/11: Bob Dylan, “Barbara Allen”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona “Barbara Allen” is the best known of all the old ballads, its different versions collected more than any other folk song by preservers of the past. Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson, felt “perfect pleasure” when he heard a young woman sing it at a New […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: January 11, 2026
Any ‘Mincefluencers’ Here? An obsessive fan tries to understand her obsession. My fave piece of the week: Maybe if I start from the beginning, I can make sense of it. Last March, I went to a press preview for the new Broadway musical “Operation Mincemeat.” Two weeks later, a friend came to town from Los […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 10, 2026
Venezuela’s Oil: ‘Uninvestable’: President Trump has put a number on how much he wants the biggest U.S. and European oil giants to pour into Venezuela: at least $100 billion. During a meeting at the White House on Friday afternoon, oil executives made it clear that they were not yet prepared to follow through. Darren Woods, […]
Remember Lymond Moses
The Trump cabal rightfully is catching shit for maintaining that Renee Good was driving at ICE agent Jonathan Ross despite multiple videos showing that’s not true. That unimaginative response has been the LEO standard for decades. Anytime they shoot someone in a vehicle, they claim the officer feared for his life because the victim was […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 9, 2026
Instruction To All ICE Agents: 1. Stand in front of vehicle. 2. Detect, or claim to detect, the slightest hint of movement. 3. Shoot to kill. 4. Claim you were in fear of your life. 5. Wash, rinse, repeat. Lemme ask you a question: If a bunch of armed goons surrounded your car, would you […]
Song of the Day 1/9: Jesse Welles, “Good vs. ICE”
The execution of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross has shocked and horrified everyone but MAGAts and their enablers, but I’m still impressed by how fast modern protest singer Jesse Welles has made his feelings known.
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 8, 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 […]
Song of the Day 1/8: The Northern Pikes, “Girl With a Problem”
Trump’s desecration of the Department of Justice faces more roadblocks than most targets of his crime spree, if only because many federal judges – even Trump judges – are trying to apply the rule of law to a fundamentally lawless bunch of thugs. And while most get overruled by the Supremes, they keep trying. For […]
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