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Song of the Day 2/13: Martin Denny, “Quiet Village”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on February 13, 2026 0 Comments

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, […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, February 13, 2026

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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 […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Feb. 12, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Open Thread by on February 13, 2026 36 Comments

“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 […]

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BREAKING: Trump ‘Erases Government Power To Fight Climate Change’

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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 […]

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Song of the Day 2/12: 3 Doors Down, “Kryptonite”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on February 12, 2026 0 Comments

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 […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026

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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 […]

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Taxpayer-Funded Bribes Could Only Keep Incyte Here–Until Today

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on February 11, 2026 10 Comments

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 […]

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Song of the Day 2/11: Pete Seeger, “Little Boxes”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on February 11, 2026 1 Comment

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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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026

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‘Flooding The Zone’ In The Age Of Trump: FBI Takes Marching Orders From Discredited Conspiracy Theorist: The FBI’s rationale behind raiding the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month was based on debunked claims from election deniers and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election, […]

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Song of the Day 2/10: Frank Sinatra, “Fly Me to the Moon”

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After 20 years of blathering about his intention to colonize the Red Planet, big-brained super-genius Elon Musk announced yesterday that because Earth and Mars only align every 26 months, he was switching his focus to the Moon, which is, scientifically speaking, much closer. Of course, that’s been true for hundreds of millions of years, not […]

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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026

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Total ‘Victory’ Over Climate Change.  As in ‘no more pesky regulations’: In the summer of 2022, Democrats in Congress were racing to pass the biggest climate law in the country’s history and President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declaring that global warming posed a “clear and present danger” to the United States. But behind the […]

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Song of the Day 2/9: Twisted Sister, “I Wanna Rock”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on February 9, 2026 0 Comments

Try to contain your disappointment: Twisted Sister had to call off its 50th anniversary tour, its first comeback in a decade, because frontman Dee Snider unexpectedly quit, citing his declining health. Per a statement at the band’s web site, Snider suffers from degenerative arthritis and has had several surgeries over the years just to keep […]

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DL Open Thread: Monday, Feb. 9, 2026

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Anecdotal Becoming The Empirical, Ctd.  There’s only one reason, and it’s not the quality of D candidates, and it’s not that people love the Democratic Party: Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle by a dominant 62-38 margin—a massive 37-point overperformance compared to […]

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