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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024
Former labor secretary Robert Reich used his year-end column to make a point I’ve long believed: The perception that America’s quality of life is declining is linked to the fact that wealth is increasingly concentrated in fewer hands. In his words, the American Dream is vanishing. Over the past 40 years, the earnings of the […]
Song of the Day 1/1: Uptown String Band, “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover”
The Mummers Parade is hanging in there, even if it’s much diminished. The march nowadays runs only from City Hall to Washington Street, in the wrong direction, and it doesn’t air on WPHL-17 anymore (you can livestream it, though). As critics note in this Philadelphia Inquirer article, the parade has roots in minstrelsy, and a […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 1, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu must think the high road has been mined, because he steadfastly refuses to take it. As the slaughter in Gaza continues, he promised to continue what he calls a war for another year. I think history is more likely to call it a massacre. Frustration makes people say things they haven’t thought through. […]
Song of the Day 12/31: Ella Fitzgerald, “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”
We apparently have the Romans to thank for the annual night of bacchanalia that accompanies the final hours of the waning year. But it’s German folklore, which held that how you rang in midnight determined your luck for the coming year, that made the midnight kiss a tradition. That’s why New Year’s Eve is, after […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Biden Bypasses Congress, Sends More Lethal Weaponry To Netanyahu: On Friday, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, had approved the sale of 155mm projectiles and related equipment valued at $147.5m, an increase from an earlier approved order for tens of thousands of rounds of the heavy artillery […]
2023: The Good. The Bad. The Ridiculous.
As usual, the ‘Good List’ is much smaller than the other two. I can not so humbly state that this is the only list you’ll need to sum up Delaware in 2023. It’s long, but well worth your time, replete with generous links to the stories: THE GOOD: Jan. 18: Gov. Carney proposes a 9% […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., December 30, 2023
Strawberry The Pop-Tart And Jesus: Sacrificing Themselves For The Sake Of Humanity: The Pop-Tart mascot at the 2023 Pop-Tarts Bowl at Camping World Stadium in Orlando (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images) Strawberry’s life was short but sweet. The giant Pop-Tart spent this year’s Pop-Tarts Bowl game in Orlando on Thursday running around referees, almost being licked by […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: The Top 10!!
But, first, for those of you who want to gorge yourselves on the Top 50 all at once, here’s a handy recap: ‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 50-41 ‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 40-31 ‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 30-21: ‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 20-11 OK, let’s put a […]
Song of the Day 12/29: Matthew Sabatella & The Rambling String Band, “The Battle Cry of Freedom”
Nikki Haley’s answer to the trick question “What caused the Civil War?” has caused her no end of grief in much of the country, but should sound familiar to anyone educated in the South. Public schools there might not call it the War of Northern Aggression anymore, but I’ll bet a lot of the home […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Dec. 22-28, 2023
1. Maybe some candidates filed for the ballot this week, maybe they didn’t. You see, the Delaware Department Of Elections chose this week to roll out their new ‘improved’ website. Yes, it’s more visually appealing. And less informative. Here’s what I got when I was finally able to burrow down to click on the list […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 29, 2023
The Maine Course. Trump off Maine ballot–for now. Either the Constitution means something, or it doesn’t. El Supremos will decide: “I do not reach this conclusion lightly,” said Bellows, a Democrat, in the decision. “I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2023: #’s 20-11
20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. My favorite match of song and video this year. A little tab’ll do ya’: 11.
Song of the Day 12/28: The Smothers Brothers, “Boil That Cabbage Down”
Tom Smothers, the comic half of the squabbling Smothers Brothers, died Tuesday at age 86. Though they’ll always be remembered for having their top-rated variety show axed by CBS in 1969 for its criticism of the war in Vietnam, I remember them more for bringing some levity to audiences years earlier, during the Great Folk […]
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