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Song of the Day 10/6: Vanilla Fudge, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
Every year WXPN solicits listener opinions for a “top 885” list. This year the subject is cover songs, a topic that eliminates less than half of all recorded music from consideration. Thousands of great records have been made by johnny-come-latelies. Many are so much better than the original recording that nobody realizes they’re covers. I’m […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 6, 2025
A Trump-appointed federal judge put the kibosh on Trump’s plan to send the National Guard, any national guard, to Portland. We’ll see how long that lasts before the six SCOTUS ass-suckers overrule her. Why do they keep ruling in Trump’s favor? Because they’re a-skeered. You know what happens to judges who rule against Derp Fuhrer? […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 5, 2025
Coffee, Cheese, Wine: Nature’s Most Essential Foods? Or just my most essential foods?: Coffee: Coffee growers are dealing with a lot right now. Most immediately, the Trump administration’s tariffs, which threaten their sales, add to the ongoing challenges of pests and diseases for coffee production. In the longer term, experts say the coffee industry can’t […]
Song of the Day 10/4: Boy George, “The Crying Game”
Some celebrities don’t know when to shut up. Author J.K. Rowling isn’t the first billionaire superstar to destroy her reputation by airing views odious to the mainstream – hey there, Ye! – but she sure seems determined to make sure everyone knows she’s an asshole. You don’t have to be a Harry Potter fan to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Supreme Court Allows Trump To Deport 300,000 Venezuelans: The Supreme Court said Friday the Trump administration can for now strip temporary protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, pausing a federal judge’s order saying officials had acted improperly on the issue. The justices wrote in a brief, unsigned order that the case was fundamentally […]
Song of the Day 10/3: Sweet, “The Ballroom Blitz”
With the federal government shut down, everything except crucial work is supposed to stop. Apparently work on Trump’s turd of a White House ballroom qualifies as crucial, because it will continue regardless. Talk about a ballroom blitz. I suppose they want to get it finished before the Don keels over. Sweet’s ballroom blitz supposedly originated […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 3, 2025
The Knee-Jerks Didn’t Like This: The Trump administration has approved a new generic version of the mifepristone abortion pill, a decision made by the Food and Drug Administration this week that is now prompting uproar among antiabortion leaders. The approval of the drug on Tuesday comes less than two weeks after Health and Human Services […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 2, 2025
1. Dan Cruce Wants You To Know That He Reallyreallyreally Lives In Wilmington: He just resurfaced there after having been invisible since, well, since the Special Election. He’s trumpeting his Wilmington residency in a hastily-started door-to-door. Far be it from me to raise any questions about where he lives. I’ll leave that task to Dan […]
Song of the Day 10/2: The Lovin’ Spoonful, “Do You Believe in Magic”
There’s been some speculation recently that Donald Trump’s “advisers” (a more accurate term would be “manipulators”) are feeding him a steady diet of fake videos to influence his “decisions” (a more accurate term would be “ragegasms”). The latest evidence: Medbeds. As Wikipedia has been forced to explain, medbeds are “a type of nonexistent medical technology […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Gonna have to make this quick –Delmarva is doing maintenance work, and we’ll be w/o power starting at 8 am. I’ve poured myself a double (shot of TJ’s Cold Brew), so I should at least be semi-lucid. President Will Make Blue States Suffer During Shutdown. Hey, he’s already fighting the new Civil War, if you, […]
Song of the Day 10/1: The Guess Who, “Laughing”
Thanks to the Saudis, comedy is no longer a laughing matter. The country’s latest attempt to appear less odious is the currently running Riyadh Comedy festival, featuring a bunch of A-list American comedians, including Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and Louis CK, who were paid as much as $1 million for their performances. If […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Welcome, Blue Delaware Reader(s?)! Y’know, I used to joke that, in those rare instances when we broke a story over here, Blue Delaware would have it in 3-2-1, without attribution. Guess I’ve gotta come up with a new joke. That guy was a serial plagiarizer, presumably because he never came up with even a sentence […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: September 2025
A pleasingly-eclectic month. (Pleasing and eclectic to me. YMMV. Let me know.) Proof that their last one wasn’t a fluke: A Rorschach Test Song For You: What do you think?: Best Band In America? Suitably strange as well: For those of you new to Georgia Maq and perhaps the musical DNA of this blog, this […]
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