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Song of the Day 7/23: Ozzy Osbourne, “Mama, I’m Coming Home”
Many metal fans are bemused by the outpouring of respect for Ozzy Osbourne now that he’s gone. If all you knew about him came from the obituaries, it would be hard to tell that critics scorned the genre of music he did so much to invent and for most of his career treated him as […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
First, some thoughts on tomorrow’s scheduled Delaware City meeting on the proposed data center. We will almost certainly be able to figure out what Speaker Mimi’s and Nicole ‘No Longer’ Poore’s agenda is. We’ll know, in part, not only by who attends, but who wasn’t invited to attend. All we’ve been told is that Starwood […]
Song of the Day 7/22: Paul Revere and the Raiders, “Indian Reservation”
Donald Trump is impressive, in a twisted way: He manages to give voice to every moronic, bigoted opinion you’d hear from the drunk at the end of the bar, all without touching a drop. In most people, that kind of belligerent ignorance comes only after years of destroying brain cells with alcohol. Trump is that […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
$64 Billion In Data Center Projects Have Already Been Blocked Or Delayed. TL;DR: $64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back. Report Objective: This report catalogs and […]
Song of the Day 7/21: Connie Francis, “Stupid Cupid”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona She watched this year as she became a TikTok sensation. She was a pop sensation for the first time 67 years ago when she released “Who’s Sorry Now” on those little records that went around 45 times a minute and had big holes in the middle. There’s been a lot […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 21, 2025
Build Data Center, Destroy Water Supply: After Meta broke ground on a $750 million data center on the edge of Newton County, Ga., the water taps in Beverly and Jeff Morris’s home went dry. The couple’s house, which uses well water, is 1,000 feet from Meta’s new data center. Months after construction began in 2018, […]
Song of the Day 7/20: Coldplay, “Fix You”
If only every scandal was resolved this quickly. The Kiss Cam Canoodler – as a human with access to the internet, you surely know who I mean – has resigned his post as CEO of a tech company called Astronomer. I’ve seen a couple of plausible theories on why this couple’s accidental humiliation went viral. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: July 20, 2025
50 Years On, Who Ya Got? ‘A Chorus Line’ Or ‘Chicago’? Back in 1975, or maybe 1976, me and a bunch of my theatre friends went to NYC and saw both ‘A Chorus Line’ and ‘Chicago’ on the same day. ‘A Chorus Line’ at the matinee performance, and ‘Chicago’ in the evening. We were unanimous: […]
Song of the Day 7/19: BJ Leiderman, “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” theme
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Donald Trump has pointed his gun at the head of National Public Radio (and PBS) for months, and Congress has finally pulled the trigger for him. Stations around here have said they expect to scrape by without federal funding, but who knows? So it seems like a good time to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 19, 2025
‘It Was The Advertising, Stupid’. Wonder how much the Feckless Dems are spending on this: The Democratic National Committee’s examination of what went wrong in the 2024 election is expected to mostly steer clear of the decisions made by the Biden-turned-Harris campaign and will focus more heavily instead on actions taken by allied groups, according […]
Song of the Day 7/18: Stevie Wonder, “I Wish”
Trump tried to bury the Epstein List controversy, and it almost worked. He made a few phone calls and every right-wing news source dropped all discussion of it. (Yesterday, while most of the media breathlessly reported the Wall Street Journal’s letter from Trump to Epstein, Fox played a segment on “Biden’s Greatest Gaffes.”) The conspiracy-hungry […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 18, 2025
Trump On His Way Out? A conspiracy theory I can get behind: I think Donald Trump and his closest supporters may be laying the groundwork for the option of leaving office for medical reasons. I’m not saying that’s what they’re going to do. I’m not saying it’s what he’s likely to do. But I am […]
Song of the Day 7/17: The Kinks, “Young Conservatives”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona A surprisingly rich Wilmington CPA named Robert L. Siegfried Jr. has donated $71.5 million to the University of Delaware’s business college so it can be more like Trump University. No, UD won’t start offering degrees online, but the money will support “rule of law,” “free enterprise” and “property rights,” he […]
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