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A Great Candidate For RD 38!
A real tough district, but check out the background of recently-announced D candidate Maureen Madden: A retired federal civil servant and a multi-degree black belt-holder across several disciplines, Mo Madden served for nearly 23 years at the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and more than 7 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
Song of the Day 8/26: Tavares, “More Than a Woman”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Now that “Saturday Night Fever” (maybe) and the Bee Gees (probably) have been rehabilitated by the cool kids, think back to the soundtrack. Did you notice, maybe just vaguely, that “More Than a Woman” shows up twice? Not one version that plays twice, but two groups doing the same song. […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Dog-Killer Persecutes Kilmar Abrego Garcia: This wouldn’t be possible in anything other than a banana republic: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to remove noncitizens from the U.S., was detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore on Monday to face renewed efforts to deport him after a […]
Babbling Like a Brook: When Will the Media Give Trump the Biden Treatment?
Looks like all those Republican accusations about Biden’s age and mental befuddlement were, as usual, confessions. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been in a war of words with Donald Trump. After Trump threatened to deploy National Guard troops to Baltimore, calling it “crime-ridden,” Moore invited the president to “come walk the streets with us.” Trump […]
Do You Want An Audit Of Tyler Technologies?
To me the answer is an obvious YES. Rep. Eric Morrison just shared the following: Three NCC councilpersons have introduced a resolution calling for an audit of Tyler Technologies, how the company performed their property reassessment work, how the county instructed them to do so, and if the company followed those instructions. The resolution will be […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 25, 2025
So. You Think A Second Civil War Hasn’t Started Yet? Troops coming to a city near you, fortified with soldiers from the Confederacy: President Trump has escalated his threat to deploy National Guard troops to major cities to address crime as the federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., enters its third week. Trump expanded his federal […]
Song of the Day 8/25: The Mary Wallopers, “Frost Is All Over”
The Israel-Gaza War started with a massacre at a music festival, and nearly two years later the music festival business is still feeling the effects. Israel’s brutal response to the terrorist attack brought on widespread condemnation, and bands who have spoken out against it have faced censorship. The Mary Wallopers, a punk-influenced Irish folk band […]
Song of the Day 8/24: John Schneider, “Cracker Barrel”
Hayseed-Americans – formerly hicks, rubes, shit-kickers, stump-jumpers and chawbacons, all now subsets of MAGA – are in a dither over a corporate logo change. The restaurant/retail chain Cracker Barrel has been accused of “going woke” for scrubbing the seated man and his barrel (though printed in brown-outlined yellow, he codes as white), leaving just the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 24, 2025
History Survives In The Hands Of Syrian Seamstresses: By the time Ameera al-Hammouri was 10, her hands were dancing across the taut fabric beneath her grandmother’s aghabani embroidery machine. She was too short to sit, so she stood, working the foot pedal to coax floral patterns from metallic thread and her own memory. Decades later, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 23, 2025
Fascism ON THE MARCH–Pretty much all the defense experts are gone because disagreeing with the Tangerine Tyrant is a firing offense: The Pentagon has fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a senior defense official and a senator said on Friday, weeks after the agency drafted a preliminary report that contradicted President Trump’s contention […]
Song of the Day 8/22: Laura Nyro, “Stoned Soul Picnic”
Summer’s waning fast, and you won’t get many days as perfect as today for a picnic. Delawareans can legally make it a stoned one, and Laura Nyro can provide the soul. Like most of Nyro’s compositions, it was a hit for somebody else, in this case the 5th Dimension. The song appeared on her second […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 22, 2025
Texas And Cali Battle To A Draw. Not just good, but necessary: California leaders on Thursday approved a sweeping plan to elect more Democrats by redrawing congressional districts, delivering an immediate counterpunch to the gerrymandered map that Republicans in Texas are passing at the request of President Trump. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two redistricting bills […]
Song of the Day 8/21: Foghat, “Fool for the City”
Guest post by Gary Mullinax Foghat is a boogie-rock band that thrilled headbangers in the ‘70s with songs like “Fool for the City” and “Slow Ride.” Foghat is not the real Spinal Tap, no matter what some people think. But one time the guys did wander from their bus through a Colorado snow storm and […]
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