Ah, the smell of conservative civil war napalm in the morning…

... or evening, as the case may be. I agree with Nancy, I can't tell what the actual policy difference is between Frank Knotts and his new Delaware Right blog and David Anderson and Don Ayotte and their Delaware Politics blog, except that the latter calls the former a RINO just because the former found his inner libertarian and decided that maybe the Republican Party in Delaware should not follow the path of insane Sheriff Jeff Christopher. Here is the latest on the battle from Don Ayotte.....

I cleaned up the Blog Roll…

Over on the right side of our blog, and down below the Recent Comments section, we have our Local Blogroll, divided into various categories: The Left (for liberal / progressive blogs) The Middle (for Delaware blogs that are either centrist / moderate or that are nonpartisan or even nonpolitical) The Right (for conservative blogs) Contributors (for links to the various and wonderful Delaware Liberal Contributors) The News I have removed old dead links to some of the news sites and blogs and updated them with the correct links. And I have also removed some old dead blogs and sites, and I also removed links to Daily Kos and the Onion, because they are not really local Delaware blogs or news sites, and that is what our blog roll is for. But, with the shocking and yet unwitting help of the reich wing king of Delaware, the one and only Hube, I have also added some long overlooked blogs and some new ones, so take a look. And if you know of a blog that we have missed, let me know. I also wanted to give a shout out to Steve Newton and The Delaware Libertarian for reaching the 300,000 visitor milestone recently. It is indeed an accomplishment you should proud of. Congrats! But to correct your guess at our traffic, we are at 5,224,112 views since late December 2007, when we moved over to Wordpress and started keeping track. I am sure the Jason and Dr. Nick show that was Delaware Liberal before garnered untold millions of more views, or at least that is what Jason tells me.

Has Facebook’s Time Passed?

Okay, I've never been a big Facebook user so I might be jumping the gun.  Here's what I have noticed in the past six months - almost all of my new friend requests are coming from family and friends over 60.   What's funny is the comments that accompany these friend requests.  Most say the same thing:  "Look who finally joined Facebook!" Basically, I'm not the one to judge whether Facebook's time has passed.  I have an account I glance at about once a month and while I find some of the comments/posts interesting, most are not. Two years ago, my then 13 year old daughter deleted her Facebook account, citing its useless drama as the reason.  She did rejoin, because it was where her school posted its information on Cross Country and Track meets and practice changes.  The last time she posted anything on Facebook was on March 20, 2013.   Her previous post was on February 23, 2013.   Seems to me if Facebook is counting on her to keep them going strong they might be in trouble.

Friday Open Thread [4.5.13]

I said on Wednesday at the PDD Meeting that Gun Control on the Federal level so long as the Republicans are in control of the House, and hell, so long as Democrats are cowardly preserving the filibuster privileges of the Senate Republicans. Indeed, it is a mystery to me why some Democrats and everyone in the media thought somehow that Republicans would abandon the NRA and pass even the most innocuous gun control measure. On state level, things look better, in Connecticut and Colorado and Maryland, and also here in Delaware, where at least one bill, the Universal Background Check bill, has a good chance of passing if we lobby our legislators so that the hear sane reasonable voices in addition to the insane pro-gun arguments. But whether legislation is successful on the state or national level, the issue is back as a cultural wedge issue, and this time the case can be made, based on the poll numbers I showed you in the Polling Report today, that it benefits Democrats.

The Polling Report [4.4.13]

We've got a lot of national polls this week on a host of issues, from immigration to gun control to job creation, spending cuts, and raising revenue, and on each the Democrats' and the President's positions are preferred, in some cases overwhelmingly, by the majority of Americans. Their respective job approvals are higher than that of their Republican counterparts. So why is it that Republicans like Speaker Boehner and Congressman Paul Ryan, or basically any Republican in front of a microphone or a camera, say that the American people want what they are selling. It never fails. It is what they always say. Are they just lying because our cowardly limp press will never challenge them on it? Or are they trying to move polls to their favor by repeating a lie?

I read it as a joke. Others read it as a vile sexist attack. Your thoughts?

"She's brilliant and she's dedicated, she's tough. She also happens to be, by far, the best looking attorney general." -- President Obama, quoted by the Washington Post, on California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D). Yes, it was a comment, and yes, a compliment, on Harris' appearance. But it is also a joke. He said it to get a laugh and a cheer. He obviously did not say it to belittle her, as some who are yelling sexism are saying. To the contrary, he said as a joke, or a bonus, after he listed Harris' true and most relevant characteristics.