Archive for May 28th, 2009
Sick Newton
The other day Unstable Isotope wrote about Newt Gingrich’s tweets from Auschwitz and let’s just say my interest was peaked like when you pass by a car accident or when Charlie Copeland starts a blog, you look because you have no other choice. So I started following @newtgingrich and it’s not a car wreck — […]
Deep Thought
When I lived in DC I hated that whenever I was going out somewhere, the first question my suburban friends would ask would be, “Is there parking?” Now, as I think about how much I am going to enjoy seeing everyone at drinking liberally, I find myself thinking, “Is there parking?”
Withheld Photos May Show Rapes
The Telegraph (U.K.) is reporting today that the photos withheld from release show pictures of rape and sexual abuse of prisoners. At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults […]
Buy Back Tom Carper’s Vote From the Banks
Via Atrios… 12% Just adding to what’s linked below, 12% of people with mortgages are behind in their payments or in foreclosure. And it’s going to get worse. Bankruptcy cramdown would have helped. Oh well. 11:16 Come to drinking liberally tonight and put $5.00 in to help us buy Tom Carper’s vote back from the […]
DE Supreme Court Rules Sports Betting Legal
This is Big News. From the Governor’s Office: In their 21 page opinion, the five Justices unanimously concluded that the authorization of a state-controlled “lottery” in the Delaware Constitution is not limited to games of pure chance. Rather, games involving some skill are constitutional as long as chance is the dominant factor. In so doing, the […]
Another Republican For Same Sex Marriage
Former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson is joining with David Boies to advocate for repeal of California’s Prop 8. Olson and Boies opposed each other in the Bush v Gore case in 2000 (I’m not sure if I can forgive Olson for helping to give us Bush). Olson is no doubt very conservative, his name […]
Delaware Ready for Medical Marijuana?
State Sen. Margaret Rose Henry has introduced legislation to provide for the controlled distribution of marijuana to relieve chronic pain in people suffering from serious medical conditions. Ginger Gibson writes in today’s News-Journal article: Under Senate Bill 94, residents would be allowed to have up to 6 ounces of marijuana, considered a month’s supply, Henry […]
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