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Song of the Day 2/16: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Naked and Famous”
Though today is widely known as Presidents Day, the federal holiday is still officially called Washington’s Birthday. Many states have switched the name to Presidents Day, but nine states, including Delaware, don’t observe it at all. Luckily for kids, public schools are closed anyway. I understood celebrating George Washington, his slave-holding notwithstanding, but I’m not […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 16, 2026
Everyone But Trump Takes Fall Over Epstein Ties. Casey Wasserman: Prominent US agent Casey Wasserman is selling his talent company after documents linking him to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were published in the US. Several high-profile clients, including singer Chappell Roan, quit the firm this week after it emerged he flew on Epstein’s private […]
Song of the Day 2/15: Kate Bush, “Wuthering Heights”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Many adaptations of “Wuthering Heights” have come along since Emily Bronte wrote it in 1847, but there’s been little agreement about which has best captured the spirit of the novel. Was it the movie with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon that got the Hollywood treatment in 1939? Maybe. Was it […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: February 15, 2026
The ‘Looksmaxxing Mainstream’. Is this what Michael Jackson was going for?: Clavicular is 6-foot-2, weighs 180 pounds and has a 31-inch waist. His biacromial width — basically the span of the clavicle, from which the 20-year-old streamer gets his name — is 19.5 inches. He has a midface ratio, which is derived by dividing the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026
This Is Not Fascism. Right?: The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency. In recent months, Google, Reddit, […]
Song of the Day 2/13: Martin Denny, “Quiet Village”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona In a deep freeze like the one we’ve been locked into, one’s thoughts naturally turn to palm trees, tiki torches and exotic bird calls to warm us up in mind if not body. And if your thoughts need a little nudging, well there’s music for that. Exotica is an easygoing, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 13, 2026
The Conspiracy Theorists Were Right: Journalists and researchers will spend the next months ferreting through the Epstein files in search of further criminal conduct or a new conspiratorial wrinkle. But one truth has already emerged. In unsparing detail, the documents lay bare the once-furtive activities of an unaccountable elite, largely made up of rich and […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Feb. 12, 2026
“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 […]
BREAKING: Trump ‘Erases Government Power To Fight Climate Change’
From the New York Times: President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and […]
Song of the Day 2/12: 3 Doors Down, “Kryptonite”
Tragedy has stalked 3 Doors Down, one of the most successful rock bands of the ’00s, yet again. Lead singer and original drummer Brad Arnold, the last original member of what began as a trio, died Saturday of kidney cancer at age 47. Original guitarist Matt Roberts, who left the band in 2012, died in […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026
You Helped Kill The Daedalus Proposal. Along with some great reporters who wouldn’t let go of the story. Sarah Mueller: The idea of Daedalus doing business with either state sparked controversy because company executives are profiting from ICE deportations. The proposal drew widespread attention after activists spotted it on the DRBA’s December meeting agenda. Delaware […]
Taxpayer-Funded Bribes Could Only Keep Incyte Here–Until Today
Breaking News from WDEL: Less than two years after buying two downtown Wilmington properties known as Bracebridge I and III on 11th Street at King and French streets, Incyte Corporation announced on Tuesday afternoon, February 11, 2026, that they are selling the buildings to Buccini Pollin Group (BPG). WDEL learned in early December that work […]
Song of the Day 2/11: Pete Seeger, “Little Boxes”
H/t El Somnambulo, who wanted to know if this song was inspired by Levittown, the early suburban development whose 750-square-foot houses would qualify as “tiny homes” today. First off, El Som, no, Burl Ives never sang it. You’re thinking of the version by Pete Seeger, who had his only charting record with the tune – […]
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