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Song of the Day 3/4: Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, “Carnival Time/Mardi Gras Strut”

By Alby March 4, 20251 Comment

Hey, gang, it's Mardi Gras! Yeah, I don't feel much like celebrating either, but the celebration will still go on in New Orleans today, though the weather forced Krewes to…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 4, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 4, 20252 Comments

Dems Suck. Third Way Dems Really Suck. Because they're not Dems: A group of centrist Democrats is being mocked and criticized for their new strategy to defeat Donald Trump and…

Song of the Day 3/3: Tears for Fears, “Shout”

By Alby March 3, 2025

This seems to be a preferred response to the Trusk administration. Though Tears for Fears took its name from Arthur Janov's writings about his primal scream therapy, Roland Orzabal said…

DL Open Thread: Monday, March 3, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 3, 202516 Comments

Canceled my Delaware Online subscription, divvied up the monthly cost, and started sending it monthly to Friendship House and Ministry of Caring. My wife's idea, and a great one. Tried…

Song of the Day 3/2: Rhiannon Giddens and the Resistance Revival Chorus, “All You Fascists Bound to Lose”

By Alby March 2, 20251 Comment

Rhiannon Giddens was scheduled to play the Kennedy Center in May, but instead she's become the latest performer to tell the Trump-controlled venue to shove it up their ass. Not…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 2, 2025

By El Somnambulo March 2, 20251 Comment

I'm BACK, be-yotches! Ya miss me? Big props to Al, Our Man In France, for keepin' youse guys in line during my absence. I'm glad I did Spring Training--once. Especially…

DL Open Thread Saturday, March 1, 2024

By Alby March 1, 20256 Comments

Elect a professional-wrestling president, you get professional-wrestling kayfabe. Everyone knew the moment Trump was elected that the U.S. would abandon Ukraine. Everything else is Trump's reality show. Historian Timothy Snyder's…

DL Open Thread Friday, Feb. 28, 2024

By Alby February 28, 20257 Comments

In case you hadn't heard, you're supposed to refrain from buying anything today, which supposedly will teach Corporate America a lesson. It's a nice thought, but I don't think a…

‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: February 2025

By El Somnambulo February 28, 20253 Comments

Prepared this before my trip to Phillies' Spring Training. Some late additions turned this into an incredible musical month. About as diverse as it gets, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IENkqTXtyQc OK, just gotta…

Song of the Day 2/27: Neil Diamond, “America”

By Alby February 27, 2025

I wanted to get this one on the record before the Trusk Administration fuckwads ban it. Don't laugh – Clear Channel, now iHeart Radio, banned its stations from playing it…

DL Open Thread Thursday, Feb. 27, 2024

By Alby February 27, 20257 Comments

Progressive politicians' Sisyphean struggle to increase Delaware's tax rate on high earners has resumed. Spotlight Delaware runs down the proposal in Sean Lynn's bill: Income above $250,000 would be taxed…

Oscar the Obscure

By Alby February 26, 20254 Comments

Guest post by Gary Mullinax Which of these movies have you seen? “Anora,” “I’m Still Here,” “Emilia Perez," “Conclave,” “Nickel Boys,” “The Substance.” None, I’m guessing. But they’re all nominated…

Song of the Day 2/26: Father John Misty, “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All”

By Alby February 26, 2025

Ever since it was released last summer, I've heard this song a lot on WXPN, a radio station Father John Misty has an interesting history with. Misty, whose real name…