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Song of the Day 12/15: The Ray Coniff Singers, “Jolly Old Saint Nicholas”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona You don’t find many Christmas songs with St. Nicholas in them. Santa Claus took over in the 19th century with a big boost from Clement Moore’s poem “The Night Before Christmas” and the illustrations of Thomas Nast. Their Santas were kind of elfin, not exactly like ours. The poem described […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 15, 2025
BREAKING: Rob Reiner and Wife Stabbed To Death: Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead Sunday afternoon inside their Brentwood mansion, according to officials. The Los Angeles Fire Department said a man and a woman were found deceased inside, approximately 78 and 68 years old, around 3:30 p.m. A source close […]
Song of the Day 12/14: Stevie Wonder, “Someday at Christmas”
Today we kick off Song of the Day’s 12 Days of Christmas Music with a song I’m hearing more this year than I have in a long time, and with good reason. “Someday at Christmas” was written by Motown staff writers Ron Miller and Bryan Wells, who were responsible for some of Wonder’s earlier hits, […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: December 14, 2025
If you live in an area with lots of trees, you might want to check out some spectacular winter sights this morning. The heavy snow has clung to the trees, creating some gorgeous tableaux. How Do You Lose 110 Billion Pounds Of Pig Poop?: More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like […]
Song of the Day 12/13: Lenny Kravitz, “Fly Away”
Lenny Kravitz was viewed as a promising young talent when he debuted in the late ’80s, but by 1998 he was written off as someone who could emulate his multiple influences but couldn’t make anything new or distinctive out of them. Though his albums were selling and he was hob-nobbing with the glitterati, his last […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 13, 2025
Trump To Veterans: Drop Dead Sooner: The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff, according to an internal memo, VA staffers and congressional aides. The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the […]
Song of the Day 12/12: Talking Heads, “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”
The WXPN 885 cover songs countdown ended last evening, and there were no surprises among the top finishers: Jimi Hendrix covering “All Along the Watchtower” was No. 1, Johnny Cash doing “Hurt” No. 2 and Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” No. 3, all of which were easy to predict. There were plenty of surprises further down the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 12, 2025
Circle yesterday on your calendar. I think it might mark a bounce off the bottom. I also think it might be a turning point. Not because of anything that Democrats did, but because Rethugs have (a) finally realized that they are an endangered species en masse; and (b) some have simply had enough of Trump’s bullying. Indiana […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending December 11, 2025
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
Song of the Day 12/11: The Mavericks, “Here Comes the Rain”
Raul Malo, founder and lead singer of the Mavericks, died of cancer Monday at 60, silencing one of the best voices of his generation. Malo, the son of Cuban immigrants, formed the group in Miami, but they were signed as a country band and relocated to Nashville. Their sound, which owed as much to rock […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker. Um, why? Chris, you’re on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Care to hazard a guess? Or say anything?: The United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a dramatic escalation in President Trump’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela. Speaking at the […]
Song of the Day 12/10: Simple Minds, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona There’s an ‘80s revival going on. It’s been going on since about 1990. It’s the decade that wouldn’t die. Eighties pop culture nostalgia spiked in the 2000s, bubbled on low heat for a while and now Gen Z can’t stop TikToking about big hair, bold colors, Game Boys, shoulder pads, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
When Does The Anecdotal Become The Empirical? Rethugs lose two more elections: Georgia: Georgia Democrats scored a major upset in a special election on Tuesday night, flipping a conservative legislative district in the Athens area—the 25th such gain for the party nationwide this year, against zero for the GOP. Democrat Eric Gisler, who works in […]
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