New Castle County executive Matt Meyer claimed he was confident his proposed 15% tax increase would pass, which makes him 0 for 3 in his arithmetic: Everybody else thought 15% was too much to ask for, everybody else knew even-numbered years have elections in them (though not for his job) and last night county council voted 10-3 against the proposal, making Meyer look like an idiot.
Not as big an idiot as Sen. Dave Lawson, yet another former state trooper forming the state trooper Republican caucus in Dover. I’ve always attributed Lawson’s rank stupidity to the fact that he ran a gun range, meaning he almost certainly has had his already-modest IQ diminished by lead poisoning. He demonstrated it again by introducing a bill that would piss away spend $65 million on school security while demanding each school hire two armed security guards at their own expense. I wonder if these morons, who are quick to blame violent video games for school shootings, realize they are actually making this more like a video game by introducing such obstacles?
The State News continues its state-best Dover reporting by going into detail on the budget markup. Did you know that half of the “extra” money is now spoken for?
That poor guy who got hit with a lava bomb talks to a local TV station about almost losing his leg from the impact. Just as you might expect, not only was it the hardest he’d ever been hit — the leg shattered above the ankle but doctors managed to save it — it was also hot. So there’s your preview of life in hell.
In more News of the Obvious, a Pew international survey found that Americans, on average, are prudish, delusional and selfish religious fanatics. Alternet has a longish summation of the findings.
Back on Earth 1, an expert in international diplomacy explains, step by step, why team Trump is even worse at this than you expected he’d be.