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Song of the Day 10/8: Joe Cocker, “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Kristi Noem has been stamping her little feet because she was denied access to a toilet by staff at a municipal building in suburban Chicago. The folks inside had watched her armed henchmen snatch people off the street and basically told her she could just hold it. Ice Barbie followed […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025
America’s ever-credulous mainstream media quickly broadcast a supposed Trump administration effort to deny back pay to furloughed federal workers, despite a law to the contrary that Trump himself signed in 2019 (whether he remembers doing it is another matter). As the indispensable Josh Marshall points out, if reporters got off their asses instead of simply […]
Song of the Day 10/7: Townes Van Zandt, “Dead Flowers”
In compiling my list of 10 cover songs for the WXPN countdown, I’m prioritizing versions that reimagine or redefine the first release. Sometimes that means taking the lyrical element more seriously than the original artist did. Townes Van Zandt’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers” is a case in point. Mick Jagger and Keith […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025
Is the AI revolution a boom or a bubble? A recent analysis found that 80% of the growth in the stock market is in tech stocks, with much of the capital flowing in from overseas. What worries some analysts is the circular nature of a handful of companies investing in each other. Others worry that […]
Song of the Day 10/6: Vanilla Fudge, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
Every year WXPN solicits listener opinions for a “top 885” list. This year the subject is cover songs, a topic that eliminates less than half of all recorded music from consideration. Thousands of great records have been made by johnny-come-latelies. Many are so much better than the original recording that nobody realizes they’re covers. I’m […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 6, 2025
A Trump-appointed federal judge put the kibosh on Trump’s plan to send the National Guard, any national guard, to Portland. We’ll see how long that lasts before the six SCOTUS ass-suckers overrule her. Why do they keep ruling in Trump’s favor? Because they’re a-skeered. You know what happens to judges who rule against Derp Fuhrer? […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 5, 2025
Coffee, Cheese, Wine: Nature’s Most Essential Foods? Or just my most essential foods?: Coffee: Coffee growers are dealing with a lot right now. Most immediately, the Trump administration’s tariffs, which threaten their sales, add to the ongoing challenges of pests and diseases for coffee production. In the longer term, experts say the coffee industry can’t […]
Song of the Day 10/4: Boy George, “The Crying Game”
Some celebrities don’t know when to shut up. Author J.K. Rowling isn’t the first billionaire superstar to destroy her reputation by airing views odious to the mainstream – hey there, Ye! – but she sure seems determined to make sure everyone knows she’s an asshole. You don’t have to be a Harry Potter fan to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Supreme Court Allows Trump To Deport 300,000 Venezuelans: The Supreme Court said Friday the Trump administration can for now strip temporary protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, pausing a federal judge’s order saying officials had acted improperly on the issue. The justices wrote in a brief, unsigned order that the case was fundamentally […]
Song of the Day 10/3: Sweet, “The Ballroom Blitz”
With the federal government shut down, everything except crucial work is supposed to stop. Apparently work on Trump’s turd of a White House ballroom qualifies as crucial, because it will continue regardless. Talk about a ballroom blitz. I suppose they want to get it finished before the Don keels over. Sweet’s ballroom blitz supposedly originated […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 3, 2025
The Knee-Jerks Didn’t Like This: The Trump administration has approved a new generic version of the mifepristone abortion pill, a decision made by the Food and Drug Administration this week that is now prompting uproar among antiabortion leaders. The approval of the drug on Tuesday comes less than two weeks after Health and Human Services […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending October 2, 2025
1. Dan Cruce Wants You To Know That He Reallyreallyreally Lives In Wilmington: He just resurfaced there after having been invisible since, well, since the Special Election. He’s trumpeting his Wilmington residency in a hastily-started door-to-door. Far be it from me to raise any questions about where he lives. I’ll leave that task to Dan […]
Song of the Day 10/2: The Lovin’ Spoonful, “Do You Believe in Magic”
There’s been some speculation recently that Donald Trump’s “advisers” (a more accurate term would be “manipulators”) are feeding him a steady diet of fake videos to influence his “decisions” (a more accurate term would be “ragegasms”). The latest evidence: Medbeds. As Wikipedia has been forced to explain, medbeds are “a type of nonexistent medical technology […]
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