Month: September 2011

Steve Carell will be playing murder John du Pont in "Foxcatcher" a movie by Moneyball director Bennett Miller. Via Iwatchstuff.com: "In the film, Carell will play John du Pont, a…

I once work along side of a woman who thought that if she rubbed cedar blocks under her arms, she wouldn't have body odor. She thought wrong. Ever since then I guess I've had a visceral distaste for drum circle dancing, ironic sign holding, Ralph Nader voting hippies. This news via boing boing seems like a good thing though.

First Read: "No president since George H.W. Bush has had more foreign-policy successes happen under his watch than President Obama. The death of bin Laden. The dismantling of al Qaeda.…

Exploring whether Christine O'Donnell is delusional enough for yet another quioxitic run for high office? Whether the tea party message is so toxic in Delaware that it would doom his chances right from the start? Whether Tom Carper is one of those politicians that everyone dislikes but still wins going away every time.

BofA To Charge Debit Card Use Fee Bank of America plans to start charging customers who make purchases with a debt card a fee of $5 per month starting early next year, Reuters reports.

Okay, it is $5.00 per month, when I first read it I thought it was $5.00 per ATM transaction. But still.... BofA if awfully grabby.

So there are two pictures on eBay purporting to be taken during the Civil War (the left photograph) and years before in 1850 (the right photo). These pictures prove that Nicholas Cage and John Travolta are undead vampires of the night.

I still think Perry will end up as the GOP's "Not Romney" but this is a horrible development for the Perry campaign.

- Seven days have passed since Bill Colley posted a racist screed on the WGMD web site stating that the Mother of the President of the United States had sex with African "savages" to "civilize" them. [The racist rant is still posted on the WGMD web site, and has since been cross posted on an Aryan Nation web site.] - Five days have passed since DE GOP chair John Sigler was informed that Bill Colley jocularly tweeted that the event would include burning homosexuals and lynching blacks. - Four days have passed since Sigler...

Last night, we had a great turnout at the PDD event for Sen. Coons. Unfortunately, at the same time, an important meeting was taking place down in Dover. The Public Service Commision was holding a hearing on Bloom Energy's plan for turning the old Chrysler plant into a factory making fuel cells and "Bloom Boxes." The hearing also concerned Delmarva's plans to place two clusters of Bloom Boxes on two sites in New Castle County adjacent to Delmarva electrical substaions. These clusters themselves will generate approximately 30 megawatts of power for the electrical grid, which is enough to power approximately 25,000 homes. And guess what? The hearing room was filled with 9/12 Teabaggers, who all probably said Bloom Boxes were Boxes full of Socialism, or some such tripe, and that global warming is a hoax, and they we should drill baby drill off Rehoboth. Yes, that is what our public officials on the Commissions heard last night. The News Journal was there last night. They won't be coming to the meeting tonight in Wilmington, because they have their story: Bloom Boxes are evil. So tonight and tomorrow, progressives get their second chance, not to sway public opinion through the News Journal, but to buck up our public officials that the plan does have support, and that some of their public, if not most of their public, wants renewable and alternative energy. The meeting is tonight at 7 pm at the Carvel State Office Building Auditorium, Mezzanine Level, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington, Delaware. Tomorrow, our great Progressive neighbors in Sussex County get their chance, with a meeting at the Del Tech Community College, Owens Campus, Arts and Sciences Building, Theater, Georgetown, DE 19930. And if can't make either of these meetings, then you simply must send a written comment to the Commission supporting the Bloom Energy plan. Email your comments by Friday, September 30, 2011 to Kevin Neilson, Regulatory Policy Administrator for the PSC at kevin.neilson@state.de.us