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Delaware Political Weekly: May 31 To June 6, 2024

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 7, 2024 34 Comments

I am El Somnambulo, and I am a political junkie. This is my kind of week. 1. State Rep. Rae Moore Draws Primary Challenger.  Well, it’s a candidate from the past.  One Matthew Powell.  He ran in a three-way primary to succeed DINO Quin Johnson in 2020.  Despite having Johnson’s endorsement, Powell finished behind both […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, June 7, 2024

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When A Former US Solicitor General in the Obama Administration Litigates In Delaware–you can bet that the case is of some import. It is.  He’s arguing on behalf of the State against Rethug attempts to make it more difficult to vote.  The case is The Honorable Anthony J. Albence and State of Delaware Department of […]

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Song of the Day 6/6: Jim Radford, “The Shores of Normandy”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on June 6, 2024 1 Comment

Certain minds think alike. Mike Dinsmore posted this in the Open Thread while I was writing it up. It’s worth hearing twice. Jim Radford was a British folksinger and peace activist who was just 15 when he served as a cabin boy aboard a tugboat that took part in the D-Day flotilla 80 years ago […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 6, 2024

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Some Guy Clear-Cut Around Silver Lake Because…: A legally questionable land deed and government agencies’ failure to act quickly on complaints may have led to the illegal filling of wetlands on Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach. Silver Lake and the adjacent Lake Comegys are glacial remnants, the Delaware Public Archives website says, as well as […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Filed in National, Open Thread by on June 5, 2024 7 Comments

Americans love scary stories, so it’s no surprise that American media dispenses countless articles about Trump. You rarely see his name in European newspapers, but their political leaders are frightened all the same. And, as in the United States, the constant drumbeat has a deleterious effect: As is true here, most are convinced Trump will […]

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Song of the Day 6/4: Cyndi Lauper, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on June 4, 2024 1 Comment

Cyndi Lauper announced her tour this fall will be her last. The now-70-year-old singer released the girl power anthem that defined her career in 1983 with a video that became an MTV landmark thanks to her sassy attitude and quirky thrift-shop wardrobe, a look Madonna swiped for her role in “Desperately Seeking Susan.” The video […]

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Implicated In Philly Ethics Probe, Now Starting PAC For Bethany Hall-Long

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 4, 2024 44 Comments

Is this even legal?  I don’t know, but let’s just lay it out there. There’s this Philly guy, see?  His name is Jimmy Cauley.  Dis Cauley guy was involved in the campaign of one Jeff Brown, a Shop-Rite owner who spent a bleepload of money on advertising in his run for Mayor of Philadelphia: Brown’s […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, June 4, 2024

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For years now I’ve been told that attacking Donald Trump only makes his support stronger. Yeah, sure it does, buddy. Unfortunately for that argument, post-conviction polling says the opposite is true. On the other hand, lots of evidence points to facts not mattering anymore. In a rare sign of fight, Democratic senators Sheldon Whitehouse and […]

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Song of the Day 6/3: Gladstone, “A Piece of Paper”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on June 3, 2024 2 Comments

June 1 marked the 25th anniversary of the launch of Napster, the file-sharing network that destroyed the music industry as everyone knew it. Stories marking the date mostly focus on the its negative effects on artists and record labels, but a few acknowledge why it spread so fast and so far – it was the […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, June 3, 2024

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Their dangerous rival just got convicted on 34 felony charges, and the reaction from Democrats is just what we’ve come to expect: They not only don’t know how to capitalize on it, they’re not even sure they should mention it. Now do you understand why they lose? Self-doubt is not something that Republicans ever have […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 2, 2024

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Shout-Out To The Portland Fruit Tree Project!  My daughter has volunteered here.  Come to think of it, even I spent a day there pulling up weeds.  Seems to me that something similar could work right here in our heat deserts and food deserts: A group aiming to battle food waste planted 162 fruit trees in […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 1, 2024

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Yo, Joe:  It’s Time To Throw Netanyahu Under The Bus.  He’s playing you for a fool, and you’re playing the part of the fool perfectly: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Saturday that Israel would not agree to a permanent cease-fire before the destruction of Hamas’s “military and governing capabilities,” a day after President […]

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Song of the Day 5/31: Nazareth, “Guilty”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on May 31, 2024 2 Comments

Yes, that’s Scottish rockers Nazareth covering Randy Newman on their breakthrough 1975 LP, “Hair of the Dog.” The tune, from Newman’s controversial “Rednecks” album of the year before, got lots of blues covers back then, notably by Bonnie Raitt and Joe Cocker. Though Nazareth is lumped into the hard rock genre, it covered lots of […]

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