Archive for July, 2018
White People Are Snowflakes
David Roberts, a writer at Vox, came across a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute that contained a telling question and answer. The question was whether the increasing demographic diversity was good or bad for the country. As Roberts notes, [T]he question is not about illegal immigrants, or even immigrants at all; it’s not […]
July 27 Open Thread: Cleanup in Aisle Trump
Trumpworld’s seams haven’t come apart, but they’re getting looser now that Trump Co.’s CFO has been subpoenaed. Mike Pompeo and John Bolton apparently see their job the same way their predecessors did: Damage control and toxic cleanup. How did the Europeans talk Trump off the trade-war ledge? Apparently by using colorful cue cards to walk […]
Housekeeping Shit – Comments
Sometimes even my brilliant comments go into moderation, or the trash. Unless you’ve been banned for cause, your comments should appear the second you post them. However, they may end up in the spam file. If that happens shoot us an email through tip-line and we’ll fish them out. I’m looking into it. In the […]
Song Of The Day: July 27, 2018
There was some pretty good stuff on MTV in the ’80’s. Always liked this one:
July 26 Open Thread: Media Falls for Yet Another GOP Stunt
Media fecklessness has been on full display since yesterday as outlets fell over each other to breathlessly report that the Freedom Caucus moved to impeach Rod Rosenstein. Very few of them bothered to point out that it’s a mostly symbolic effort with no chance of succeeding, or that it was done mostly to get Jim […]
Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ Killer a Native of Delaware
This account by Florida TV station WFLA affirms that Michael Drejka, the armed dickhead who gunned down a black man for pushing him in a convenience store parking lot, is indeed from Delaware. He’s been in Florida for the past 12 or 13 years, and proved himself a racist hothead several times. One patron of […]
Why Isn’t John Atkins In Jail?
After allegedly strangling a woman earlier this month, Atkins was arrested again this week for harassing the same victim and for breaching the conditions of his release: www.wdel.com/news/ex-state-lawmaker-atkins-charged-with-harassing-victim His punishment?: He’s free on his own recognizance. This man is a serial abuser of women. He is not wired right. While many people accused of non-violent […]
July 25 Open Thread: The Same Letters That Spell ‘Coward’ Also Spell ‘A Crowd.’
Do Republican senators like tariffs? No! What will they do about them? Nothing! A number of Republicans who support America’s idea of “free trade” have questioned Trump’s call for $12 billion in relief for farmers who are going to be hurt by retaliatory tariffs. Will they act? Please. Remember, until more than 30 members agreed […]
Most Intriguing Primaries: New Castle County Council Districts 1, 4 & 6
We have two insurgent candidacies challenging back-benchers, and we have an outlier. Let’s start with the outlier. Perpetual candidate and realtor Vincent White is challenging Penrose Hollins in Council District 4. If elected, White would join fellow family members Charles Potter and Velda Jones Potter in feeding off the taxpayers. Not to mention the unwillingly-retired […]
Song Of The Day: July 25, 2018
A wonderfully-noirish song from Chris Isaak. Combines the Secret Agent Man theme w/Isaak’s Orbisonesque vocals:
Green Delaware: Carper’s Environmental Record Has Always Sucked
Alan Muller of environmental watchdog Green Delaware read Tom Carper’s claim last week that Delaware’s environmental problems come from upwind coal-burning power plants and smelled revisionist history. So he penned this handy recap of Carper’s record, which boils down to the same policy Delaware’s Democrats have always had towards the environment — fuck it, let’s […]
Fox Scares Viewers With ‘Radical Agenda’ of Health Care, Education and Living Wages
Every timid Democrat needs to see this segment of “Fox & Friends.” For the second time in two days, the propaganda operation tried to scare its viewers with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “radical leftist agenda.” Problem is, some viewers might get the wrong impression. The segment was an interview with a Daily Caller writer named Virginia Kruta, […]
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