Want to know why Republicans in Delaware will have a chance in November, blue wave notwithstanding? Employment numbers. While growth has slowly but steadily improved nationally over the past two years, Delaware’s rate remains stagnant. No matter what happens elsewhere, that’s a problem the state’s ruling Democrats have resisted fixing.
Of all the wounds inflicted on the country by the GOP coup last November, the courts will bear the most lasting scar. The results are already being felt: One of the most unqualified of the Trump judges just ruled that police can ransack your home if you own a computer. (If you’re interested in legal weed, check out the link for the original case, a clear case of entrapment.) On the other hand, he also made a completely legitimate ruling in another case on his docket, so maybe we’ll only have to dodge the occasional grenade instead of a steady bombardment.
Sometimes it’s the little things that show you how eager some minor functionaries are to live in a Nazi country — such as the tale of a British writer who got a rude welcome to the U.S. from an immigration official at the airport who wanted to know if he was going to write “bad stuff about our president.” The writer in question, James Rebanks, is a sixth-generation Lake District shepherd.
The top story in France today — I checked, it was top of Page 1 in Le Monde — was the death of chef Paul Bocuse, the father of nouvelle cuisine, at age 91. Had he not revolutionized restaurant fare, my years as a restaurant critic would have been unbearable. The obituaries noted something those scandalized by the satyriasis of our president should realize — he’s not unique:
For many years, Mr. Bocuse resisted writing the story of his life, but he eventually worked with Eve-Marie Zizza-Lalu to produce an as-told-to memoir, “Paul Bocuse: The Sacred Fire,” published in 2005. Even in France, eyebrows lifted a little when Mr. Bocuse revealed that for more than 30 years, he had enjoyed the company of not only his wife, Raymonde, the mother of his daughter, Françoise Bernachon, but also of two mistresses, one of them the mother of Jérôme. His wife survives him, as do his two children.
