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Song of the Day 4/19: Dr. Feelgood, “Down at the Doctors”
I hoped it was just rockin’ pneumonia or the boogie-woogie flu, but the test strip says it’s Covid. Lee Brilleaux and Dr. Feelgood claim to have a cure — he’s gonna shoot some rock ‘n’ roll in my arm. This isn’t the original lineup of the pub rockers who paved the road to punk — […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday April 19 2022
Whackjob Trump appointed judge unilaterally sets new public health policy. Remember when Coons worked feverishly to push through a mess of whack-job Trump judges by voting them out of committee, then covered his ass by voting “nay” in the full Senate? Good times. A former caseworker and campaign aide for Rep. Madison “fun drives” Cawthorn […]
Gov. Carney Owes Delawareans An Answer To This Question:
If a marijuana legalization bill reaches your desk, will you: A. Sign it? B. Let it become law without your signature? Or: C. Veto it? I ask this question because your stock answer, “I’m looking forward to hearing the debate on the floor”, doesn’t apply. As if it ever did. You’ve by now heard countless legislative debates […]
DL Open Thread Monday April 18 2022
Ladies and Gentlemen, your modern GOP…Crabs in a bucket. Trump holds bum fights in his Palm Beach palace to decide who he is going to endorse.
Also.. Coons did suggest more direct US involvement in Ukraine might be something to consider.
And… Guns, guns, guns.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 17, 2022
Happy Whatever-It-Is-You’re Celebrating-Or-Not-Celebrating-Day! Child Poverty Is Back: All of this was data from just a couple of months. The real power of money like this comes over time. A different paper, also out of Columbia, looked at a range of studies on the benefits of cash payments to families with young children. Here’s the takeaway: […]
Song of the Day 4/17: The Rascals, “Good Lovin'”
Yesterday I mentioned songwriter Rudy Clark, whose “Got My Mind Set on You” became a No. 1 hit for George Harrison in 1988, 25 years after its first release. It was Clark’s second No. 1 record. The first one also failed to connect until a white band covered it, but it didn’t take nearly so […]
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 – […]
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