Open Thread Nov. 30: Lies and Lunacy
No, it's not just you. Trump has been especially loony the past several days. Evidence of bad news on the way, according to pal-turned-critic Joe Scarborough. Evidence of a deteriorating…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 30, 2017
Underground Motown Week brings you the very sad story of Rodger Penzabene. The Motown songwriter found out that his wife had cheated on him, became inconsolable, wrote the lyric for…
Hey, Feminist Democrats — What About Carper?
I awoke this morning to my wife's triumphant claim of "I told you so." She predicted about a couple of weeks ago that Matt Lauer would fall in the sexual-harassment…
Open Thread Nov. 29: Matt Lauer, Closing Schools and Police Behaving Badly
Whoever had the Today Show's Matt Lauer as the next media heavyweight to fall in the sexual harassment pandemic, contact management to claim your prize. The ax fell just this…
Song Of The Day: Nov. 29, 2017
Underground Motown Week continues. Written by Ivy (not Ivory) Joe Hunter and a very young Stevie Wonder, this 4 Tops song was adopted by The Band, who I saw do…
Delawareans Among Protesters Removed From Capitol Ahead Of Vote On Tax Bill
Our Senators seem like solid No votes on the Tax Scam currently working its way through congress. Nevertheless, it is important to keep the heat on the entire Senate. Props to the Delawareans who got involved and ended up wearing the zip tie bracelets. More on this as it comes in.
No Illusions
A number of commenters have forecast a Roy Moore victory in the Alabama special election, and the first post-Thanksgiving poll, released today, shows Moore with a 5-point lead. It's a…
The Chuck and Nancy Show
A lot of progressive Democrats want younger, more liberal leaders in Congress. I say let's give the geezers a chance. I'd like more young, liberal members of Congress, but I…
Transgendered Student Policy: Threat or Menace?
I've been warning for weeks now that Delaware's Republicans -- the party so stupid it loses to Delaware Democrats -- intend to make the Department of Education's transgendered student policy,…
Rehoboth Beach Mayor And Park City Kathy: LLC’s Are People, Too
This is why we have the Tip Line. I can't make this up. Rehoboth Beach's shiny new mayor Paul Kuhns and Rehoboth Beach Commissioner/would-be State Auditor Kathy McGuiness want to…
Open Thread Nov. 28: Coastal Zone and Taxes
The Delaware Audubon Society has called bullshit on the Coastal Zone Gutting Act, refusing to participate in the "workshops" at which the state intends to collect comments before ignoring them.…
Occasional Words From the Resistance
"And that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" ----Mario Savio, Sproul Hall, Berkeley, December 2, 1964Godspeed and good luck to today's resistors.
Song Of The Day: Nov. 28, 2017
Relegated to Motown's lowest priority imprint, the VIP label, this group consistently outperformed their second-class status. Perhaps the fact that they were not from Detroit, but Kalamazoo, hindered their notoriety. …