Day: August 11, 2011

Even I think that title's horrible. Yes, I groaned while typing it. But Governor Markell reports that he has signed an agreement in Chile that will bring Chilean fruit to the Port of Wilmington through 2014, a deal that will create jobs in Delaware.

Tom Noyes, the man behind Tommywonk, an expert in the filed of alternative and renewable energy, is leaving the blogging world for a job with the State of Delaware "in the area of renewable energy." I hear he will be Governor Markell's top energy advisor, but Mr. Noyes is more circumspect in his announcement this afternoon.

You should see Twitter right now. It is brutal, and hilarious, at the same time. This is one of those huge major gaffes that's simultaneously partly true, partly funny, and totally devastating. And the Romney campaign is so tone deaf that it just defended the line by saying "Do folks think corporations are buildings?" It reminds me of Kerry's "I voted for it before I voted against it." It reminds of Dean's scream. Gingrich's line of credit at Tiffany's. Bush, Sr.'s amazement at the use of the bar code scanner and then not knowing the price of milk. A gaffe so simple yet so memorable.

Mitt Romney just told an Iowa crowd: "Corporations are people, my friends." There is video. And it will be a killer campaign ad. Meanwhile, Obama leads all comers, including the mysterious generic Republican.

Talk about your local, sometimes non-political news stories here, or talk about the political stories we aren't talking about... yet.

A Message from Cindi Saadi, Case Manager for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sussex County, Delaware:

One of our commentators thinks we are behind the interesting cyber vandalism on the Amazon page for Christine O'Donnell's new book, but I swear, we had nothing to do this. Remember, Christine O'Donnell is a national joke, not just a local one.

We read Celia Cohen because she is the canary in a gold mine. Like a Seven of Nine liberated from the Borg, but still has a direct link to the hive mind. Actually, considering she is sponsored by Pete DuPont and all his Chateau Republican friends, she is really none of those things, rather she is a bought and paid for spokesman for the Castle blue bloods that formerly ran the Delaware Republican Party. So it is interesting that her new target is Terry Spence.