Archive for June, 2018
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: June, 2018
Pretty strong stuff this month, due, in part, to a couple of ‘Best-Of’ lists I found highlighting music from the first half of the year. Think I’ll do it alphabetically by artist, just to see how it comes out: These guys are Da Bomb. Yes, it’s the guitars:
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: June 30, 2018
That was quite the mixed bag on Thursday. The bad? The House ‘cut the baby in half’ on relief to the racinos. Hey, as long as Rep. Lynn is happy, I can’t be too upset. Still, rewarding Denis McGlynn for his serial incompetence hardly seems fair. The really good? The House pushed back against the […]
Song Of The Day: June 30, 2018
Bessie Smith needs ‘a little sugar in my bowl’. Wonder what she means:
June 29 Open Thread: The Trump-Kennedy Connection Runs Through Russia
Wow. Talks about the fix being in. Turns out that retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy has a son who was global head of real estate capital markets at Deutsche Bank, which just happens to be the only legitimate Western bank that would lend money to Trump. This apparently was the cornerstone of a high-pressure charm offensive […]
Delaware Political Weekly: June 22-28, 2018
1. BREAKING NEWS: Mike Ramone’s Successor To File Today. Wow, Was I wrong! And was Dave Woodside right! Stephanie Barry will officially file today to challenge The Mediocrity That Is Mike Ramone in the 21st RD. Who is Stephanie Barry, you might ask? She is the Director Of Operations and Programs For the Newark-based PAWS […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 28, 2018
“No ganja for you.” Thus saieth the Somoronic solons in Dover. The bill got 21 votes, needed 25. Only one R, Jeff Spiegelman, voted for it. Here are the D’s who went not voting and effectively defeated the bill: Bolden, Carson, Jaques, M. Smith, and, of course, Speaker Pete. To his credit, ex-cop Larry Mitchell […]
Song Of The Day: June 28, 2018
Betcha didn’t think I could come up with yet another household appliance double entendre. But I did, sorta. Not much subtlety to this one:
June 28 Open Thread: The Foxification of America Continues
High-school dropout Sean Hannity, Trump’s de facto chief of staff, recommended ousted Fox News executive Bill Shine, Roger Ailes’ right-hand man, as White House communication director and, hey presto! He’s hired! Many media accounts call him a “disgraced” former exec, but that assumes he has shame, a supposition for which no supporting evidence exists. There’s […]
In Disaster of Biblical Proportions, Kennedy Retires
At some liberal web sites pundits already see rivers and seas boiling, fire and brimstone falling from the sky, and the walls in the 39th precinct bleeding. Cooler heads point out that Kennedy was no centrist; by one rating he was the 10th most conservative justice of the 20th century. But he did provide the […]
Nancy Pelosi Building Her Own Coffin
Nancy Pelosi is a goner. When the Democrats retake the House, she will not be elected Speaker, and it’s her own doing, because she has alienated members from both the right and left wings of the party. Michael Tomasky had a piece this morning (see the Open Thread) about the cluelessness of the Democratic establishment, […]
June 27 Open Thread: Youth Will Be Served
Many people are taking the primary victory by Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over a 20-year incumbent as a positive sign for more liberal policies, but Michael Tomasky sees her as part of the same demographic current that helped conservative Democrat Conor Lamb win in western Pennsylvania: Democrats are going younger. It’s an interesting take, highlighted […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 27, 2018
While the Budget Bill passed in the House and was sent to the Governor, there might be problems with the bill that gives state employees and pensioners a one-time bonus. How else to read this quote from Speaker Pete?: “If we don’t pass that after we put it out, there are going to be some […]
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