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DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 17, 2022

By El Somnambulo March 17, 202211 Comments

Back with my new hip. I'm taking great pains, and great pain meds (thanks for everything, Jacqi!), to bring you the stuff that I find interesting. Feel free, as always,…

Song of the Day 3/16: Dolly Parton, “Jolene”

By Alby March 16, 20226 Comments

Millions of people think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should stick to honoring musicians who actually play rock music instead of inducting rappers and dance-pop superstars, but it…

Zelenskyy Addresses Biden Directly

By jason330 March 16, 20224 Comments

In words and images, Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an impassioned case for US intervention in Ukraine by means of a "No Fly" zone. The images of a happy successful Ukraine prior to Putin's invasion, contrasted with the same views during the invasion with broken and bombed buildings and people were powerful. The only captions.... "this is a murder" and at the end..."close the sky over Ukraine"

DL Open Thread Wednesday March 16 2022

By jason330 March 16, 20222 Comments

People hate the clock switching nonsense. Now it is gone (in about a year). Huzzah! But did you know we tried this 48 years ago and it didn't go well?…

It’s Not a Memory Hole, It’s a Cone of Silence

By Alby March 16, 20225 Comments

The idea that issues fall, through some accident or fault of their own, into a "memory hole" is a blatant lie. It's a false frame, a construction the media uses…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 16, 2022

By El Somnambulo March 16, 2022

Everything on both agendas passed. Nobody in the Senate cared about the Ft. DuPont rip-off or the giveaway to out-of-state veterans who would move here. A Delaware Way kind of…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 15, 2022

By El Somnambulo March 15, 20227 Comments

I've been writing about the ethical sewer that is the Fort DuPont project since 2014. With no, no, impact on the General Assembly. Other advocates, armed with all sorts of…

Song of the Day 3/15: The Wailin’ Jennys, “One Voice”

By Alby March 15, 20222 Comments

One voice, the adage goes, makes more noise than 1,000 voices that remain silent. Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor of Russian state TV's Channel One, staged a one-woman protest by interrupting…

Julianne Murray is Running for AG as a Full On Trumpist Psycho

By jason330 March 15, 20228 Comments

She seems to be vying with Witzke for the spot of de facto leader of Delaware's racist nutbags.

DL Open Thread Tuesday The Ides of March 2022

By jason330 March 15, 20225 Comments

Oh Crap BEIJING, March 15 (Reuters) - China posted a steep jump in daily COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, with new cases more than doubling from a day earlier to hit…

Song of the Day 3/14: Hot Butter, “Popcorn”

By Alby March 14, 20221 Comment

EARWORM ALERT One of the first compositions written expressly for the synthesizer is also one of the best-selling instrumentals of all time -- but not in its original version. "Pop…

DL Open Thread Monday March 14th 2022

By jason330 March 14, 20225 Comments

Quick Q before we start this week...What's your spirit flower? I'm a daffodil. I know that's a hackey, obvious flower but I didn't pick it. The daffodil picked me. Anyhoo...I…

Cruelty is the point

By jason330 March 13, 2022

Chris Coons is a very popular and relevant politician. I'm an unpopular and irrelevant microbe in comparison. But if I was as popular as say... a Chris Coons, I might…