May 18, 2010 – Delaware Liberal

Liveblogging the primaries, 5/18

By xstryker May 18, 201042 Comments

This is a liveblog to track the results from today's primary results in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oregon, and the special elections in Hawaii and PA-12. My bets: Pennsylvania -…

Beau Biden Released From Hospital

By Unstable Isotope May 18, 201013 Comments

Beau Biden was released from the hospital today, according to press reports. The Delaware Department of Justice released this statement: Attorney General Beau Biden returned home this afternoon from Jefferson…

Oilpocalypse: Who Should Pay?

By liberalgeek May 18, 201027 Comments

I started a small Twitter war last night when I suggested that perhaps we should tax gasoline to pay for the cleanup of the oil volcano in the Gulf. BP…

Teacher Uses Assassination To Explain Geometry

By pandora May 18, 20105 Comments

Crazy stuff. (via TPM) The Secret Service investigated an Alabama high school teacher for using the example of shooting President Obama while teaching a geometry lesson. [...] A student in…

Tuesday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope May 18, 20107 Comments

The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

Another “Family Values” Republican Fails To Practice What He Preaches

By pandora May 18, 201020 Comments

Typical. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), a champion of abstinence education and traditional family values, will resign effective Friday after an affair with a female staffer in his district office, he…

The Oceans Will Run Out Of Fish In 40 Years

By xstryker May 18, 201016 Comments

The greed of the developed world will be the tombstone of the planet. From AFP: The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are…

Conservatives Freak Out Over Unimportant Competition

By Unstable Isotope May 18, 20107 Comments

An Arab-American Muslim woman won the Miss USA title and wingnuts went crazy.