Bob Weiner is easily New Castle County’s wackiest council member. Remember that time he tried to effect a citizen’s arrest on a guy putting unauthorized advertising on a telephone pole? He’s wacky that way. Now he’s at it again — not physically restraining anyone, thank goodness, but making a big issue over the fact that Wilmington University’s construction site on Concord Pike has an aging barn that Weiner considers an eyesore. More evidence that county council members don’t have enough actual work to do.
I missed this Charles Pierce post about the Russia investigation last week, but it’s still worth a read because it captures the sense pervading Washington that the noose is tightening around the flabby orange presidential neck. Josh Marshall has a useful rundown of where the obstruction of justice investigation stands.
Marcy Wheeler takes a blackjack to the notion that Mueller’s investigation is proceeding along any single track. As she points out, Mueller has 17 prosecutors working on the investigation. Not only do we not know what some of them are working on, we don’t even know who one is yet.
The area in which convictions should be easiest to obtain is the money-laundering front. What people might not understand is that Russia’s “leaders” at the moment are engaged mostly in the business of turning the country’s tax proceeds into their personal profits, so approaching a Russian oligarch with a business deal automatically links you to Russian politicians. More evidence: That bat-faced Russian lawyer who was at the Trump Tower meeting is now central to a corruption case in Switzerland. Remember, not all politicians are in it to get laid. Some are just after the money.
Want to get good and depressed?Take a look at all the Democrats who want the party’s nomination for president in 2020. The only vote I’d give three-quarters of these people is a vote off the island. Andrew Cuomo could swim off the island and the sharks would leave him alone out of professional respect.
Apparently they handed out Grammy awards last night. I enjoy music too much to pay attention to that shit, but lots of people who are paid to churn out content churned out plenty about it. From what I gather, it was too old, too white, too male and too unhip — all attributes that have described the Grammys since they were instituted. But every generation wants a chance to whine about it, like this mook at the Daily Beast. Yeah, woe is all of us because women and hip-hop artists get no respect from industry insiders. Funniest of all, though, is the notion that because Kendrick Lamar raps about the plight of being black in America, he’s performing some political function beyond hoovering dollars out of their pockets. Motherfucker couldn’t carry Chuck D’s microphone.
All the things wrong in this country and these “journalists” want to whine about artists who don’t get enough respect. We are well and truly fucked.