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Song of the Day 8/22: Alicia Keys, “Girl on Fire”
I don’t know what song they’ll play when Kamala Harris takes the stage to deliver her acceptance speech tonight – the smart money would be on Beyonce – but they could do worse than this empowerment ballad. Alicia Keys made it the title track of her 2012 LP, and it’s one of the tunes the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 22, 2024
Missed the proceedings last night. Did Bill Clinton bite his lower lip? The Case Of The Missing Pancreata: At least 7000 have vanished without a trace: There are some mysteries that I fear I’ll never see resolved. Who was DB Cooper and what happened to him? Who robbed the Gardner Museum of its Vermeer and […]
Voter Outreach, BHL-Style
I just got an unsolicited text message: Hi, this is Ethan with Bethany Hall-Long for Governor. Bethany is a career educator, nurse and public servant endorsed by Governor Carney, the DE Democratic Party, the DE State Education Association, and many other state leaders. She has a bold plan to make Delaware the best place to […]
Margie Lopez Waite: A Walking, Talking Conflict of Interest
Guest Post By The One-And-Only Kevin Ohlandt Of Exceptional Delaware. In the 27th State Rep. District, incumbent Eric Morrison will have a primary against Margie Lopez-Waite on September 10th. I felt it was necessary for the voters to know what Lopez-Waite stands for. It is all about positions she is already in that would create […]
Song of the Day 8/21: Jason Isbell, “Something More Than Free”
The Democratic National Convention on Monday night featured Jason Isbell performing the title song from his 2015 LP. That album was his commercial breakthrough – it went to No. 1 on Billboard’s rock, folk and country charts.
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024
Big night at the Democratic National Convention, as both Michelle and Barack Obama showed off their skills. The contrast between the Obamas’ soaring oratory and Trump’s professional wrestling taunts and bluster could not be sharper. Look, clowns have their place – the circus. So if you let them run the country, they turn it into […]
Delaware’s Most Intriguing Primaries: #5: RD 29
Perhaps nobody is more ill-suited to his district than is Bill Bush. A Delaware Way insider, he served as a House Attorney to the Kop Kabal, destroyed the choice of the Del-Tech Board of Directors in order to install Lonnie George’s Chosen One as Del-Tech President, and perhaps has been the leading pro-business/anti-grassroots Democratic legislator […]
Song of the Day 8/20: The Youngbloods, “Get Together”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Those images of peace and love from Woodstock are engraved in our memory. Particularly vivid is the one where the Youngbloods sang their new good-vibes anthem “Get Together” – “Come on people/Smile on your brother” — as thousands of wet hippies hugged each other and sang along. Except it never […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024
The first day of the Democratic National Convention went off smoothly – the biggest glitch was James Taylor getting bumped from the schedule because cheering went on so long. The best news: the Gaza protest fell far short of organizers’ plans. “The turnout appeared to be well below the tens of thousands that organizers had […]
The Obligatory Democratic Convention Open Thread
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How Low Will Brain-Dead John Carney Sink?
Cut-and-pasting this: Friend, Thank you for everything you’ve done to support my campaign for Mayor. Today, I wanted to send a different message. I’m urging you to support Lieutenant Governor Bethany Hall-Long to be the next Governor for the State of Delaware. Over the last several weeks, Bethany’s opponents have distorted the truth and misrepresented the facts […]
BREAKING: Red Clay Teachers Call For DSEA To Withdraw Its Endorsement Of BHL
Never knew I had so many teacher friends. (Stating the obvious, none had to deal with me in the classroom.) But, starting this morning, several were in touch with me about this as I guess they all received the letter either at home or at school (I think this was the first day back for […]
Song of the Day 8/19: Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, “Stay”
Some obituaries for Maurice Williams, who died earlier this month at 86, called him a one-hit wonder. Yes, “Stay,” a No. 1 single in 1960, was his only hit with the Zodiacs, but it was just one of the tunes Williams wrote that reached Billboard’s Top 40. In 1957, when his group was called the […]
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