Song Of The Day: Oct. 28, 2017
A new free-association musical treat brought to you daily. I first saw Buckwheat Zydeco do this at a festival the day before I hopped a plane to a conference in…
Mueller Drops Really Big Shoe
CNN is reporting that the grand jury in Robert Mueller's probe of Russian involvement in the election has filed its first charges. It's been sealed by a judge so we…
I’m torn on Catalonian Independence
Philosophically I'm for it. But Russia has ben very active in supporting separatist and secessionist groups in Europe and America. So does supporting Catalonia play into Putin's grand plans to…
Open Thread for Friday, October 27, 2017
Sorry for the delayed open thread. Three reasons: 1) I'm still figuring out how to code this, 2) my gout is acting up and 3) I got sidetracked by a…
Delaware Political Weekly: October 20-26, 2017
1. Rachel Blumenfeld To Challenge Deborah Hudson in RD 12. She's a great candidate. An English Special Education Teacher in Delaware's public schools. Here is a Delaware Voices piece she…
D __ __ __ __ D__ __ __ __ __Touts Its Terrible Management Once Again
Q: What Delaware business (a monopoly), celebrates its own bad management in order to suck up tax dollars?
UPDATE: Trey Paradee rushes to jump into bed with Fat Cat McGlynn.
DEGOP’s Decent Senate Recruiting Continues
On a prima facie basis, Jason Stewart is another example of some decent recruiting by the DEGOP. Like their Senate picks last time out, Stewart is untested but looks fairly good on paper.
Ted Cruz Running for President of Crazy America
By setting himself up as the most stridently pro-Trump member of the Senate, Cruz is now looking to be the GOP front runner when Trump inevitably quits, is fired, or…
Mo’ Better Democrats: RD 7
The incumbent: Bryon Short. The district: The 7th RD encompasses some of the more Democratic areas of Brandywine Hundred. The district includes the Ardens, much of Claymont, Radnor Green, Ashbourne…
Open Thread for Thursday Oct. 26, 2017
You don't need ESP to sense there's a much deeper story here. Kathleen Davies, Tom Wagner's chief administrative auditor, has been on administrative leave for more than a year. Now she…
Authentic Biden
Joe Biden is in the news again, having opened the door to a 2020 run.
It is easy for me to be angry at Joe Biden for not running against Hillary Clinton and sparing the country from her shit-ass campaign, but I think it is safe to say that if he knew how shit-ass that campaign was going to be - he would have run. If any of us had known what a terrible candidate Hillary Clinton was going to be - we would have Shanghaied him into the campaign.
Open Thread For October 25, 2017
Taxpayer-Funded Police Slush Fund Under Investigation. Talk about a bare-bones story. Maybe it's all that Randall Chase could glean from the cops. Which would be par for the course. Guess…
The slow, slow, slow….then fast of change
Remember Bill Cosby? Rumors circulated for years that he was a basically raping women. Stories were discussed online, an accuser might win a small mention in some out of the way paper like the Village Voice... then...
...the dam breaks. And it is all over.
The first accusers are the gutsy ones. "Bill Cosby? America's Dad, raping? P'shaw." They were twice victimized. Once by Cosby and once again by Cosby's enablers. The ones that stream out into the open once the ground is softened, they are victims too, but they owe a huge debt to the vanguard.
Similarly, all Republicans will owe a debt to John MCCain, Jeff Flake and Bob Corker. These men are conservative a-holes who in normal times would be worthy of contempt. But these are not normal times.