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DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 16, 2022
Trump Seeks To Impose His Will With Dubious Endorsements. Dr. Oz? J. D. Vance? I dunno: Trump’s decision, against the advice of some of his advisers, plunged the former president deep into a messy primary — sparking an internecine fight among some of his own advisers along with considerable backlash from many other Republicans. “I’m […]
Song of the Day 4/16: George Harrison, “Got My Mind Set on You”
When the Beatles landed in New York in February 1964, it was the first time in the United States for three of them, but not George Harrison. While his bandmates vacationed in Europe in September 1963, 21-year-old George visited his older sister, Louise, at her home in Benton, Ill., where her Canadian husband worked as […]
Delaware Political Weekly: April 8-14, 2022
1. DeShanna Neal Files To Primary Kop Kabalist Larry Mitchell In RD 13. Make no mistake-this immediately becomes one of the highest-priority contests for Delaware progressives this election cycle. Who She Is, and Why She’s Running. Right on time, you can listen to DeShanna’s interview with the Rev in the Highlands Bunker. You can then […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 15, 2022
Stop Minor Traffic Stops. Save Lives: Los Angeles last month became the biggest city to restrict the policing of minor violations. In Philadelphia, a ban on such stops has just taken effect. Pittsburgh; Seattle; Berkeley, Calif.; Lansing, Mich.; Brooklyn Center, Minn.; and the State of Virginia have all taken similar steps. Elsewhere across the country, […]
Song of the Day 4/15: The Robert Cray Band, “1040 Blues”
Here’s a song you’ll never hear the likes of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk singing. They don’t hate taxes — because they don’t have to pay any! This was the first single off Cray’s 1993 LP, “Shame + a Sin.” It didn’t chart, even in the UK, where Cray’s albums consistently score higher than they […]
DC Consultants to Re-Brand Dems as the “Octogenarian Party”
Doddering oldsters like Carper will never retire When a California Democrat in Congress recently engaged in an extended conversation with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion like those they’d had with her many times over the last 15 years. Instead, the lawmaker said, they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein multiple […]
Why not listen to, and support the Highlands Bunker? It is better than grease trap grease.
I’m catching up on some Highlands Bunker this weekend. I’m about halfway through Kathy v Kathy, but I’ll come back to apply my trademarked 1-5 buckets rating when I’m done. (1 = a bucket of grease trap grease from Long John Silvers, 5 = Five buckets of this summer’s finest garden fresh tomatoes.) E170 – […]
Song of the Day 4/14: The Gaslight Anthem, “45”
I knew guitar rock was over back in 2012, when this single didn’t break this band out of obscurity. The Gaslight Anthem had been on a steady climb since their formation in 2006. Their sophomore album, 2008’s “The ’59 Sound,” made year-end lists and got them noticed. Springsteen comparisons were inevitable given the band’s New […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 14, 2022
Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Both HB’s 371 and 372 were released from House committees, meaning marijuana legalization is not dead yet. I was pleased and somewhat surprised that HS1/HB293 was released, but now I know why: The bill doesn’t do what I thought it did. The General Assembly would indeed to continue to exempt […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 14, 2022
Absolute Must-Read: Pro Publica On Tax Avoidance By The Wealthy. Award-worthy, great graphics, and exceedingly aggravating. You Ever Get Mail From Hillsdale College? I do. Buncha RWNJ’s pretending to be a college. They’re now building a string of charter schools to combat ‘leftist academics’: With only 1,500 students on a small-town campus in southern Michigan, […]
The Rebecca Walker Story
It’s dawned on me that we’ve added quite a few new viewers in the past few years. Readers who are not familiar with some of the corruption that has been part of the Delaware Way forever. As you can see from this story from WDEL, (or more accurately from Randall Chase of the Associated Press, […]
Song of the Day 4/13: Julian Lennon, “Imagine”
Julian Lennon, now 59 years old, never sang this song for the public until last week, when he released this video, along with this statement. He’s accompanied by Nuno Bettencourt, best known as lead guitarist for Extreme. The War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy… As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 13, 2022
Uneventful day yesterday. Stephanie Bolden was back, but the Ft. DuPont Cash Cow bill wasn’t run. There’s always Thursday. Only real item of note was that HB 259 (Lambert) was tabled in the Senate. Likely either a technical glitch or a request for more information. Everything else passed on both agendas with no controversy. Take […]
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