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Song of the Day 7/24: Bryan Ferry, “Positively 4th Street”
Bob Dylan has had some excellent musical interpreters over the years — the Byrds, the Band, early Rod Stewart — but one of the most consistent and surprising is Roxy Music lead singer Bryan Ferry. Ferry’s mannered, louche vocals would seem an odd match for the material, but he has covered Dylan repeatedly since his […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 24, 2020
DeMatteis ‘Manages’ Prison COVID Outbreak Same Way Yrene Waldron ‘Manages’ Covid Outbreaks In Nursing Homes. If anything, DeMatteis comes across as the more cold-blooded of the two. She betrays nothing but contempt for her charges. Carney loves ‘team players’ like these two. Humanity is not a trait he values. DHS Admits Lying In Order To […]
Song of the Day 7/23: Graham Parker, “Local Girls”
Graham Parker is nearly forgotten today, but back in the ’70s, during British music’s transition from pub rock to punk/new wave, Parker was viewed as one of the scene’s angry young men, on a par with Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson. His record company thought this song, from his third LP, “Squeezing Out Sparks,” would […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 23, 2020
Feds Tear-Gas Portland Mayor. Of course, the Portland cops had tear-gassed the protestors for weeks before he finally deigned to show up at a protest. Here is a lot more on the ‘secret force’ occupying Portland. This is Nixon in 1968, except the protests have largely been peaceful, and Trump is fomenting violence for his […]
Delaware Stonewall Corrects 2018’s Colossal Endorsement Fuckups
As you may recall Delaware Stonewall PAC really screwed the pooch with their 2018 endorsements. That fuckup seems to be addressed with this year’s primary race endorsements which include an endorsement of Spiros Mantzavinos over Trump-loving Anthony DelCollo, and a belated endorsement of Stephanie Barry over execrable in every way, Mike Ramone.
I guess you can go back to giving money to Delaware Stonewall PAC if you are into that sort of thing.
MOT Area School Board Election Turnout Bodes Well for Harrington Upset of Hensley in the 9th RD
You can typically win an Appoquinimink School Board seat with 450 votes. Not this year. Michelle Wall got 3.5 times the usual winning number. And while schools board elections are not officially partisan, Wayne Meadows ran openly as a Trumper, so this result is clear evidence that MOT area voters are champing at the bit to punish Republicans motherfuckers at the polls.
ODESSA — Michelle Wall, 42, of Odessa, won re-election to a second, five-year term on the Appoquinimink school board July 21, defeating political newcomer Wayne Meadows by a vote of 1,370 to 806 in the largest school board election turnout of the past two decades.
Michelle Wall wins re-election to Appoquinimink Board of Education July 21.
The turnout for the 2020 election was fourfold to 2019, with 552 voting last year compared to 2,176 this year. The last election to receive nearly 2,000 voters was in 2000.
Song of the Day 7/22: Randy Rainbow, “Gee, Anthony Fauci!”
With apologies to bamboozer, another topical tune, the latest number from Randy Rainbow, this one to the music of “Gee, Officer Krupke” from “West Side Story.” There are lots of people doing political parody songs, but nobody can match the production values the valuable Mr. Rainbow displays (btw, that’s his real name — his father, […]
Chris Coons Exposes His Brazen Hypocrisy For All To See
The great John Lewis died last week. A man who was beaten by police for the crime of championing voting rights. A man who rose to Congress and into history for his relentless battle to enable all to vote. One of America’s giants. The great John Lewis died last week. US Senator Chris Coons of […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Trump To Pardon Sexual Predator? Hey, they all had some good times together in Palm Beach. If it’s in his head, he’ll say it. Ghislaine Maxwell is in his head. I’ll say it: She has more than a little something on him. Remember, he’s a serial sexual predator too. It’d be like pardoning himself. Trump […]
Song of the Day 7/21: Squeeze, “Crying in My Sleep”
Another one for Diaper Donnie’s lachrymose playlist. I can keep this up until they pry his oval orifice out of the Oval Office. From the album I consider Squeeze’s masterpiece, the criminally underrated “Play,” released in 1991.
Post-Filing Ruminations
A couple of random thoughts following last week’s madness featuring Bait-And-Switch Friday: 1. The Potter Family Is In Checkmate. A breathless headline on another site proclaims “The Potter Family Must Be Stopped”. Hello, is this mike on? The Potter family has already stopped itself. Velda Potter abandoned her run for reelection as Wilmington’s treasurer after […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Chris Tigani, The Bidens, And The Delaware Way. Read it, critically. Tigani portrays himself as the victim. Yes, the Bidens are part of ‘The Delaware Way’. As is every Delawarean in this article, including Norman Veasey, who could have made a difference, but chose to give the casually-corrupt politicos a pass. Fascism Comes To American […]
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