Sussex County, Alabama
Is Sussex County the Alabama of Delaware? It's not hard to make the case. Years before Roy Moore's love of...um, purity hit the news, Sussex produced pious hypocrite Vance Phillips,…
Delaware Political Weekly: November 17-23, 2017
1. 1982 Called. They Want Their AG Election Back. Faced with the possibility of having either a pro- marijuana legalization candidate (David Skoranski) or a 'nut' (Tom Neuberger), as one…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 24, 2017
Since I'm not Captain Obvious, or at least, try not to be, I'm skipping the obvious (not that the obvious is bad or anything) to go with this adrenaline rush…
Turkey Day Open Thread
There's something remarkable about that bird you're going to eat today -- it's twice the weight of its ancestors of 50 years ago. Turkeys in 1960 averaged just over 16…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 23, 2017
We Are Family!: What are your Thanksgiving faves? Post 'em!
Promise not to tell Rusty Dils about this…
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) apologized Wednesday for a nude photo of himself posted by an anonymous Twitter account that made the rounds on social media, saying he was “sorry that…
Carper pulled the old “we’ve got a bad line” trick on Trump
This is a good/news bad news story. The good news is that Carper recognizes that the President is an idiot. The bad news is that Carper was trying to get rid of the moron so that the grownup corporation loving centrists could find "middle ground" on the GOP's horrible tax cuts for millionaires scheme.
Lord only knows what hell will be unleashed on the middle class when that "middle ground" is discovered.
Open Thread Nov. 22: No Recipes
Here's a shocker -- Donald Trump supports Roy Moore. After days of silence on the matter, Trump must have figured out that he and ol' Roy are attracted to the…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 22, 2017
It's a family affair.
Paul Baumbach on the Shortage of Trade School Grads
Put the Vocational and Technical back into Vo-Tech. In my district, the Vo-tech school is treated by many parents as another college prep charter school. Part of the problem, nationally…
Open Thread Nov. 21: Sex and Politics Don’t Mix
With liberals arguing over Al Franken, Bill Clinton and the political power of opposing sexual harassment, here's a reminder that Republicans' Roy Moore problem, which is only partly about sexual…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 21, 2017
Homecoming. Coming home:
Tea and Clickbait Nov. 20: Firebugs, Idiots and Stacking the Bench
More "news" that requires no spoiler alert: Donald Trump is a "dope" and an "idiot." That's the opinion of his national security advisor, H.R. McMaster, according to four different people…