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Song of the Day 8/25: The Mary Wallopers, “Frost Is All Over”

By Alby August 25, 20251 Comment

The Israel-Gaza War started with a massacre at a music festival, and nearly two years later the music festival business is still feeling the effects. Israel's brutal response to the…

Song of the Day 8/24: John Schneider, “Cracker Barrel”

By Alby August 24, 20253 Comments

Hayseed-Americans – formerly hicks, rubes, shit-kickers, stump-jumpers and chawbacons, all now subsets of MAGA – are in a dither over a corporate logo change. The restaurant/retail chain Cracker Barrel has…

DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: August 24, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 24, 20254 Comments

History Survives In The Hands Of Syrian Seamstresses: By the time Ameera al-Hammouri was 10, her hands were dancing across the taut fabric beneath her grandmother’s aghabani embroidery machine. She…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 23, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 23, 202512 Comments

Fascism ON THE MARCH--Pretty much all the defense experts are gone because disagreeing with the Tangerine Tyrant is a firing offense: The Pentagon has fired the head of the Defense…

Song of the Day 8/22: Laura Nyro, “Stoned Soul Picnic”

By Alby August 22, 20255 Comments

Summer's waning fast, and you won't get many days as perfect as today for a picnic. Delawareans can legally make it a stoned one, and Laura Nyro can provide the…

DL Open Thread: Friday, August 22, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 22, 202510 Comments

Texas And Cali Battle To A Draw. Not just good, but necessary: California leaders on Thursday approved a sweeping plan to elect more Democrats by redrawing congressional districts, delivering an…

Song of the Day 8/21: Foghat, “Fool for the City”

By Alby August 21, 2025

Guest post by Gary Mullinax Foghat is a boogie-rock band that thrilled headbangers in the ‘70s with songs like “Fool for the City” and “Slow Ride.” Foghat is not the…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 21, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 21, 202516 Comments

'White America IS America': Under Trump's Fascist Dictatorship, That Is The New Truth: President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution this week of focusing too much on “how bad slavery was”…

Song of the Day 8/20: The White Stripes, “There’s No Home for You Here”

By Alby August 20, 2025

Jack White won't be getting any Kennedy Center gigs anytime soon, not with his attitude. He posted a photo of Trump with Zelenskyy in the redecorated Oval Office, along with…

Our PAL Val Out At PAL – Might Be Taking PAL Down With Her

By El Somnambulo August 20, 202515 Comments

Shoutout to Spotlight Delaware for reporting this positively delicious story: The Police Athletic League of Delaware, a celebrated and taxpayer-funded nonprofit, is facing an upheaval after its prominent executive director…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 20, 202512 Comments

'Slavery Was Good'. Trump's would-be un-Woke Smithsonian: "The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of 'WOKE.' The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL,…

Song of the Day 8/19: David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group, “This Is Not America”

By Alby August 19, 2025

How many times have you thought this since Trump took office? When this song appeared in the 1985 spy movie "The Falcon and the Snowman," it was meant literally –…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

By El Somnambulo August 19, 20255 Comments

ICE To Use 'Moral Character' In Determining Who To Deport. You know what that means, kids--politics: The Trump administration has signaled it will further scrutinize immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship by…