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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Spoiler Alert: The first two paragraphs of this article have been cut-and-pasted from 2023. With, of course, the dates changed to reflect this year’s legislative calendar. Today’s Opening Session is merely ceremonial. Swearing-in of the Senators and the Reps, followed by receptions, and pictures with families and friends. For all you legislative newbies out there, […]
Song of the Day 1/13: Ian and Sylvia, “Four Strong Winds”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona As the guy who signed and managed Bob Dylan, smart, aggressive, tyrannical Albert Grossman has a big part in the new Dylan movie, “A Complete Unknown.” He was a driving force behind the whole 1960s folk movement. Grossman created Peter, Paul and Mary, one of the most important acts of […]
The Final Legislative Pre-File*
*Before the new General Assembly is sworn in tomorrow. They consist of bills filed on January 9 and 10. You can find them all here. The highlight, of course, is the bill creating the Office Of Inspector General: This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 13, 2025
Bannon Vs. Musk. Can we root for two losers?: President-elect Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon is ramping up public attacks on billionaire Elon Musk amid an intensifying debate on the right about Musk’s influence in the incoming administration. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this past week, Bannon […]
Song of the Day 1/12: The Move, “Fire Brigade”
Those wily Mexicans have launched a new front in their invasion of El Norte: They’ve sent firefighters to help battle the Los Angeles blazes. I don’t know how much it will help in containing the devastation, but it certainly sticks a thumb in the eye of the xenophobic asshole politicians catering to the xenophobic asshole […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 12, 2025
Dog Bites Man: Delaware Rethugs Disgrace Themselves: South Carolina House Republican Nancy Mace spoke at a private Delaware GOP event in Newark Friday following controversy with Congresswoman Sarah McBride. Mace filed a bill in November that would ban transgender women from using facilities on federal property that do not correspond with the sex assigned at […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 11, 2025
How Michigan ‘Moderates’ Foiled Progressive Legislative Agenda. Controlled all three branches of government, but watered down agenda for electoral reasons. Then lost: Michigan Democrats led all branches of government for the past two years, for the first time in about four decades, and they started with a multibillion-dollar budget surplus to boot. But the trifecta […]
Song of the Day 1/10: Peter, Paul and Mary, “Puff, the Magic Dragon”
Peter Yarrow, who died earlier this week at age 86, fought a decades-long battle against an insidious rumor: that “Puff, the Magic Dragon” was about marijuana. In his defense, Yarrow pointed out that he wrote the song while an undergraduate at Cornell in 1959, a time and place where marijuana was still rare. The story […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 10, 2025
Supreme Court (Barely) Refuses To Postpone Trump Sentencing. 5-4: A closely divided Supreme Court refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case, clearing the way for the president-elect to face judgment in a New York courtroom on Friday and to be formally classified as a felon before he returns to the White […]
Song of the Day 1/9: Ohio Players, “Fire”
You know the California fires are bad – Hollywood is cancelling movie premieres and awards shows. In a way, the victims are lucky this happened now and not next month, when Lex Luthor with a bad rug will take over the White House. “Fire” defined the Ohio Players, the finest funk band ever to come […]
RIP: John Daniello
I think I first met him in my parents’ living room circa 1964. I would have been thirteen at the time. He was running for a spot on New Castle County Levy Court, and I remember him saying he was ‘running to get rid of my job’. Meaning, running to seek a different kind of […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Horrific SoCal Fires. Trump blame Dems for disaster: “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning […]
Song of the Day 1/8: Guns N’ Roses, “You’re Crazy”
Axl Rose wrote it about an overenthusiastic female fan, but when a senile dolt elected president by a nation of dolts talks about going to war over Greenland, the only response is this song’s refrain: “You’re fuckin’ crazy.” The profanity wasn’t originally part of the song – Rose ad-libbed it one night in concert when […]
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