Archive for September 16th, 2011

Blue Hen Football Prediction: Week 3

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Of all the major college sports, football is the most momentum based. A losing team wilts under the weight of its own low expectations, and a winning team picks up steam as the season unfolds. A wining team is like a spinning fly wheel, with each rotation multiplying the torque or some shit like that. I’m not sure, I’m no physicist. In fact, I can barely spell physicist. (My first three attempts at spelling that word confounded my poor overburden spell checker and cause it to suggest that I was trying to spell the word “psychotic.” True story.) BUT I DO KNOW THIS….

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Music I Like: Chicks Rule! Edition

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Some Bulo Musical Selections for your Friday, including Davina and the Vagabonds, Otis Taylor and Cassie Taylor, The Sky Drops, Wild Flag and the Slow Club.

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Friday Open Thread [The Return of Bacon Blogging Friday]

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Friday Open Thread [The Return of Bacon Blogging Friday]

Bacon Cups!!!! And, for a pictoral glimpse of the mysterious and forbidden North Korea, check out the Boston Globe’s Big Picture. The pictures look like recently colorized black and whites from the 1950’s.

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Daily Delawhere [New Feature]

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Daily Delawhere [New Feature]

Recently, an online photographer was doing this project posting a photo from every state. For the life of me, I cannot find the link to it right now. But the photographer’s photograph for Delaware was a picture of driving through a highway tunnel not unlike the Harbor tunnels in Baltimore. Now, I was born in Delaware. I have lived in Delaware most of my life. I consider myself to be a native Delawarean who has the right and privilege to look down upon the rest of the 49 states. I have traveled up and down this state, and to each corner. And I have never driven through a highway tunnel here. And that is because there is no highway tunnel in the state of Delaware. There just isn’t. Not under the C&D Canal. Not under the Delaware River and/or Bay.

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New Castle County Police Officer Stabbed to Death

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New Castle County police officer Joe Szczerba was stabbed to death in a fight with a suspect he was taking into custody early this morning, officials have told the News Journal. Officer Szczerba was responding to a call about a disorderly person in the Penn Acres neighborhood near New Castle, at the corner of East Roosevelt Avenue and Fithian Drive.

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