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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 13, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 13, 20259 Comments

The Big Story: Delaware Prepares To Legalize Prostitution. Again. No, not legalized sex work, which I support. We're talking Delaware prostituting itself because apparently we're desperate. There is ample precedent. …

Song of the Day 3/13: Sara Bareilles, “Brave”

By Alby March 13, 2025

I don't care that Democrats haven't made angry noises about the end of our constitutional republic because I only care what they do, not what they say. Now that it's…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 13, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 13, 20251 Comment

Senate Democrats (Kinda Sorta) Grow A Spine. In their pathetically-wimpy way. Will they, for once, remain resolute?: Senate Democrats haven’t even surrendered yet on a government shutdown — but already…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 12, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 12, 20254 Comments

Pull up a chair. If yesterday was (barely) an amuse-bouche, today's a full-fledged legislative banquet. Starting with plutocrats seeking to gorge themselves courtesy of a watered-down corporate law bill. But…

Song of the Day 3/12: Dropkick Murphys, “Where the Trouble’s At”

By Alby March 12, 2025

If you're only dimly aware of the Dropkick Murphys, chances are you think of the Celtic punk band as a bunch of white working-class louts, and probably sympathetic to Trump…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 12, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 12, 20254 Comments

Just Another Day In Dystopia. Education Department Fires 1300 Workers. EPA To Close All Environmental Justice Offices. USAID Workers Ordered To Shred And Burn All Documents. USDA Takes $1 Billion…

Song of the Day 3/11: Roy Ayers, “Running Away”

By Alby March 11, 2025

Vibraphonist Roy Ayers, an oft-sampled pioneer of jazz-funk fusion, died last week at age 84. Ayers started out in the post-bop jazz scene in the early '60s. His first LP,…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 11, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 11, 202510 Comments

A major tip of the sombrero to an intrepid reader, who pointed me to this article (it's free, but you have to sign up). This is what the corporadems seek…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 11, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 11, 20258 Comments

Lots happening this week, the least of which is the seating of two undistinguished Corporadems to replace Sarah McBride and Kyle Evans Gay. Their names, like them, are unimportant. Talk…

Song of the Day 3/10: Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Soul to Squeeze”

By Alby March 10, 2025

Anthony Keidas doesn't articulate what was squeezing his soul – he descends into babbling actual nonsense in the last verse – but if you read the news these days you…

A Very Special Pre-Pre-Game Show: Delaware General Assembly, March 2025

By El Somnambulo March 10, 2025

Been posting here since 2009. Been doing the General Assembly previews since then. I can't recall a more uncertain legislative landscape than what we face now. 1. There is no…

DL Open Thread: Monday, March 10, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 10, 202510 Comments

Trump Won't Rule Out Recession. Because, you know, he's not into making predictions. Stock market should love this: Referencing “rising worries about a slowdown,” Ms. Bartiromo asked Mr. Trump: “Are…

Song of the Day 3/9: Chris Cornell, “The Times They Are a-Changin’ Back”

By Alby March 9, 2025

Here's a point in favor of those who believe Trump is not sui generis but rather the culmination of the reactionary right's long war against equality and civil rights: The…