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DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 11, 2023
Rethug Lawyer, Former NCC Councilman, Disbarred. Richard Abbott. Man, you just gotta read this opinion. An excerpt: We cannot help but lament that a seemingly mundane lawsuit would escalate into a nasty feud and, in turn, prompt Abbott, an experienced litigator, to ignore fundamental ethical constraints, putting his privilege to practice law at risk. The genesis of […]
Song of the Day 11/10: Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit”
Grace Slick faded relatively young, but back in the ’60s she was among the most important female artists in rock, the face of the San Francisco sound that turned made psychedelia the soundtrack to the Summer of Love. Slick joined the Jefferson Airplane in 1966, when singer Signe Anderson quit after the birth of her […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 10, 2023
Government Shutdown Next Week? You’d forgotten all about that, hadn’t you? So had I. But it’s almost upon us: At odds with one another on spending, House Republicans abruptly scrapped their legislative work on Thursday and left Washington with little progress toward funding the government and no plan to avert a shutdown next week. Instead […]
Delaware Political Weekly: November 3-9, 2023
1. Carney For Wilmington. First, even with the lowered journalistic standards that have become the new normal, I can’t believe that, as I’m writing this, not a single news organization has picked up this story. What I want to talk about, though, is a comment that Bane made in the Carney thread that got me […]
Song of the Day 11/9: Janis Joplin, “Mercedes Benz”
Several Janis Joplin songs will make WXPN’s Greatest Songs by Women Countdown next month. This, the last one she ever recorded, got my vote. Joplin recorded the tune in one take on Oct. 1, 1970, three days before she died. She wrote it two months earlier in a bar in Port Chester, N.Y., by riffing […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 9, 2023
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Actors’ Strike Over: The union is so far providing some details of the agreement, more of which will likely emerge in the next few days prior to the union’s ratification vote. In a message to members on Wednesday night, the union said the pact is valued at over $1 billion and includes pay increases higher […]
Song of the Day 11/8: Kristin Hersh, “Me and My Charms”
I engaged in lots of strategic voting when I filled out my list of the 10 greatest songs by women for WXPN. I didn’t agonize over which Joni Mitchell song to include, because I figure she’ll have 20 entries among the 885-song countdown. She doesn’t need my help. And while the rules allow any song […]
Great Night For Democrats–And Working Families Party
Let’s start with WFP. Despite (or perhaps in part because of) a crumbling Democratic machine in Philly: Working Families Party candidates Kendra Brooks and Nicolas O’Rourke appeared to have won a pair of seats on Philadelphia City Council Tuesday, scoring an unprecedented victory for progressives and ousting Republicans from seats they’d held for more than […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2023
Voters in Ohio added abortion rights to the state constitution Tuesday, and it wasn’t particularly close – more than 56% voted “yes.” Abortion wasn’t on the ballot in Virginia but Democrats ran on the issue and took control of both houses of the legislature. The Democratic governor of Kentucky was re-elected, even as most down-ballot […]
Song of the Day 11/7: Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, “Out of Control”
In honor of Trump’s meltdown on the stand in his fraud trial yesterday. Wayne County, who became Jayne County more than 40 years ago, was involved with Andy Warhol in the New York avant-garde scene and formed a proto-punk band in the early ’70s that influenced David Bowie and the glam rock trend. Her penchant […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023
Trump took the stand in his New York civil trial for fraud yesterday and, as was widely predicted, he did not comport himself in a professional manner. Y’all can believe what you want to believe, but I believe a country that could elect this malicious fucknugget is probably beyond redemption. As always seems to happen, […]
BREAKING: Carney Files Committee To Run For Mayor Of Wilmington
This is not The Onion, this is real life. He filed his campaign committee today. It’s obvious that this Delaware Way fix was in for some time. He promises to bring his same paucity of vision and unquestioning support for the Chamber of Commerce to Wilmington that he’s inflicted on the State of Delaware for […]
Song of the Day 11/6: The Sugarcubes, “Birthday (Ammæli)”
Here’s one from my WXPN list of Greatest Songs by Women. The not-yet-mononomous Bjôrk Guðmundsdóttir fronted the Icelandic avant-rock sextet the Sugarcubes when she wrote the lyrics to the song that broke the band, and Icelandic music in general, to a world audience in 1987. Of the enigmatic lyrics she said, “It was only an […]
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