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Song of the Day 2/25: Bettye LaVette, “Everything Is Broken”

By Alby February 25, 20261 Comment

A true State of the Union address would have sounded a lot like this Bob Dylan number from "Oh Mercy," the 1989 LP that critics treated as a comeback album.…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026

By Alby February 25, 20263 Comments

I don't watch State of the Union speeches because I avoid self-promotion no matter who the president happens to be, but apparently the Screeching Shitbag delivered the longest-ever such speech,…

Song of the Day 2/24: Dion, “Runaround Sue”

By Alby February 24, 20261 Comment

He was just Dion, sans the Belmonts and without his surname DiMucci, in 1961 when he assembled an impromptu doo-wop chorus at a party and started ad-libbing lyrics about a…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 24, 20263 Comments

How Epstein's 'Male Gaze' Toxicity Created A Glass Ceiling For Women. Academia: In 2018, an elite group of academics and scientists planned to gather for an exclusive retreat at a…

Song of the Day 2/23: America, “A Horse With No Name”

By Alby February 23, 20269 Comments

Guest post by Nathan Arizona When listeners first heard America’s “A Horse With No Name” in 1972 a lot of them had questions. Why did this new Neil Young song…

DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 23, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 23, 20266 Comments

Anybody OK With ICE Building Concentration Camps? Without the ovens--so far: A once sleepy rural town named Social Circle, Ga. — just over 40 miles east of Atlanta off Interstate…

Song of the Day 9/22: Snoop Dogg, “Sexual Eruption”

By Alby February 22, 2026

The 2026 Winter Olympics close today, and the most titillating story out of Milano Cortina, Italy, was that the 2,800 athletes on hand ran through 10,000 condoms in three days.…

DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 21, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 22, 20269 Comments

Frederick Wiseman--America's Irreplaceable Documentarian: Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking,…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 21, 20264 Comments

Trump Proclaims Tariffs Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night. You expected anything different from Der Furor?: Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked…

BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Most Trump Tariffs

By El Somnambulo February 20, 20264 Comments

From the NYTimes: The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, a major…

Song of the Day 2/20: U2, “American Obituary”

By Alby February 20, 20267 Comments

U2 released its first new music in nearly a decade on Ash Wednesday, and the lead track on the six-song EP "Days of Ash" joins the growing list of anti-DHS…

DL Open Thread Friday, Feb. 20, 2026

By Alby February 20, 20265 Comments

Spotlight Delaware unveiled a major project yesterday that assesses the statewide reassessment that has gored many an ox. Not surprisingly, it found that poor people and minorities got hit the…

Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending February 19, 2026

By El Somnambulo February 20, 20264 Comments

1. R Nikki Miller Drops Out Of RD 20 Race. I'm surprised, TBH. She almost beat Stell Parker Selby in 2024, and she almost beat Alonna Berry in the 2025…