Markell Town Meeting – Nice Lead Time

From the press release. Governor-elect Jack Markell will host a public town hall meeting, Tuesday, December 16, to solicit ideas from Delawareans as to how his administration can make state…

Deliberate Incompetence

I have reached the conclusion that the last eight years weren't the stumblings of an incompetent frat boy, but rather, a deliberate effort to bring our country to its knees.…

Big Send Off For Joe ?

WDEL reported this morning that Barack Obama will be taking the train from Philly to DC and picking up Joe BIden along the way in Wilmington. Does that mean that…

Deep Thought

Having a shoe thrown at him is the only consequence Bush will ever have to contend with for having killed tens of thousands of people, and utterly destroyed the economy.

Question(s) of the Nite

Okay. What's with this facebook crap? Do I get something out of having a facebook? Why does facebook make me sound so stupid and Ted Stevens-like? Is facebook punking me?…

Sunday Morning Press Blackout

I’ve been thinking again about the 3,000 or so ancestors I have (a great many of which are your ancestors as well) and that long imaginary line of men snaking back into history to ancestor number 1 who lived, had sex at least once, and died near what is now Ethiopia around 10,000 years ago.

And what I am thinking is this: I’ll bet that line of 2,999 men are pretty boring guys. If the world is as statisticians tell us it is then there were some a little taller than me, some shorter. There were some outliers on the smart side and some outliers on the dumb side, but most of the 3,000 were probably fairly undistinguished.

I don’t harbor any illusions that my genetic heritage is terribly interesting or noteworthy.