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‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: January 2025
January can be pretty sparse when it comes to new music. Not this January. Could be a contender for best music month of the year. I’m posting it a couple of days early because I’ve already got seventeen songs. Plus, February’s a short month. Check it out. Before you do, though, for all you new […]
Song of the Day 1/28: Grace Jones, “Demolition Man”
It’s easier to wreck things than build them. It requires very little brain – three-year-olds are good at it, which lines right up with Trump being good at it. When a powerful man with the mind of a three-year-old throws a tantrum, the clean-up is going to take a lot more time. Sting wrote this […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Post-Democracy America: Trump Fires Justice Department Prosecutors: Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired several Justice Department officials yesterday who worked on the federal criminal investigations into President Trump, according to two DOJ officials. At least a dozen people who worked with special counsel Jack Smith received dismissals. It is not clear how many officials involved […]
Delaware’s IT Department Is In Crisis–And No One Is Holding Them Accountable
Guest Post From An Anonymous IT Insider: Technology is more critical than ever in shaping government services. But what is Delaware’s state technology agency, DTI, doing? Unlike Delaware, states like Maryland, Washington, Vermont, and California use public-facing dashboards to track IT project performance and spending, ensuring transparency and accountability. Meanwhile, Delaware’s DTI operates behind closed […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Big Story: Can Matt Meyer And Bryan Townsend Smoke A Peace Pipe (preferably filled with homegrown Delaware herb)? They’re gonna have to. Looks like Meyer will have a pretty significant agenda, including items that he and Townsend have in common. Including the fact that both of them hate the Carney pension giveaway to retired […]
Song of the Day 1/27: Noël Coward, “Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans”
There are those who think we should be nicer to MAGAts, because – this is their theory, not mine – MAGAts vote against their own self-interests in response to liberals looking down on them. That’ll show us, I suppose. Noël Coward wrote the tune in 1943 as, he said years later, “a satire directed against […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 27, 2025
War With Colombia Averted! Irony intended: The United States and Colombia averted a trade war, for now, after the White House said late Sunday that Bogotá agreed to accept deportation flights from the United States. The two nations had spent much of the day in a tense standoff, with President Donald Trump threatening to impose […]
Song of the Day 1/26: Cheap Perfume, “It’s Okay to Punch Nazis”
Elon Musk told Germany’s far-right party that Germans should get over their guilt about that whole Holocaust thing. So here’s a message for “Misunderstood Gesture” Musk from the – gasp! – female-fronted, Denver-based punk band Cheap Perfume. “It’s Okay to Punch Nazis” appeared on the group’s LP “Burn It Down,” released in 2019 during the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Post-Democracy America Day 6: Trump Destroys The EPA: President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical industries, many of whom worked in his first administration to weaken climate and pollution protections. Top appointees include David Fotouhi, Mr. Zeldin’s second-in-command, a lawyer […]
Song of the Day 1/25: Willie Nelson, “I Gotta Get Drunk”
Raise a glass for Pete Hegseth. He’s probably already raised a few himself. Willie Nelson recorded this in 1970, before he became an outlaw, though he does look a lot like Johnny Cash in that cover photo for “Both Sides Now.” It didn’t help; the album failed to chart. Willie Nelson wrote the song back […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Post-Democracy America Day 5: Trump Fires Inspectors General In Late-Night Purge: The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the […]
Song of the Day 1/24: Stan Rogers, “Barrett’s Privateers”
It’s said that if you walk into any bar in Nova Scotia and sing, “Oh, the year was 1778,” you’re sure to be answered, “How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!” because everybody knows what’s become the province’s most popular drinking song. You might have heard “Barrett’s Privateers” during the pandemic, when TikTok set […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 24, 2025
Merely Another Random Photo From The Trump Inaugural… W-wait. That can’t be, it must be an optical illusion. You know, like, what’s it called, photo-shopping? a dope-lganger, perhaps? Perhaps this is the Meyer Inaugural? No, the Lady In Red was nowhere in sight there. Somebody’s gonna have to help me here, but isn’t that Bethany […]
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