Ides of March Open Thread: Where’s Brutus When You Need Him?
The Delaware State News continues to push hard for Dover Downs to get the tax break it's been demanding for the past several years. The paper is so eager it…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 15, 2018
We hear all the time about the NRA's bullying tactics. And it's true. However, when faced with a Hall full of students demanding gun control measures, the NRA cowers in…
Song(s) Of The Day: March 15, 2018
I consider Sondheim's score for 'Follies' to be one of the greatest ever written for Broadway. Depending on what version of the show you see, you could hear up to…
GOP’s Tax “reform” lays an egg as a campaign issue
I hadn't tracked on the fact that the GOP was thinking that their clusterfuck "tax cut" scam was going to be a big vote getter. But it became evident a…
March 14 Open Thread: Blame the Pornstache
Republicans have figured out why they lost that special election last night: Rick Saccone's pornstache. No, I'm not making that up; one GOP operative actually blamed the mustache, as if…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 14, 2018
Once again, the so-called D 'leadership' is caving to the NRA. Check out the rewrite of HB 330, the bill that was supposed to raise the legal age for purchasing…
Dem Voters Continue to Regard Fighting Trump’s GOP as a National Emergency
I don't know why Tom Carper and Chris Coons don't get it. Where is the urgency? Trump is just another President for Carper to cut deals with on behalf of banks. Coons is just AWOL.
Fortunately Democratic voters have a sense of urgency. They are turning out in droves to oppose Trump's GOP. Cynics will say that Connor Lamb was a conservative, and that Democrats didn't really gain much, but that misses the point. It mistakes the movement of the clock's minute hand for the whirling internal mechanism that moved it.
Song Of The Day: March 14, 2018
The Ballad Of Booth from 'Assassins'. If you ever get a chance to see this show, go. You won't soon forget it. Victor Garber, unbleepingbelievable:
Trump F*cked Stormy Daniels: A Timeline
January 2005
Trump marries Slovenian-born model Melania Knauss in West Palm Beach, FL, in a lavish $1 million reception at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
March 2006
Melania Trump gives birth to son Barron in NYC on March 20. “I continue to stay young, right?” Trump boasts 20 minutes after the delivery. “I produce children, I stay young.”
March 13 Open Thread: Rex T Follows T Rex Into Extinction
Rex Tillerson finally managed to get himself fired yesterday, apparently for telling the obvious truth that the Russians assassinate people in other countries, often England. His no-class piece of shit…
General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., March 13, 2018
Oh, no, we're not letting the House cowards who couldn't even vote to ban bump stocks off the hook. Yes, the bill passed, 25 yes, 3 no, 11 not voting.…
Song Of The Day: March 13, 2018
Nobody does Sondheim like Bernadette Peters. This song is from "Merrily We Roll Along", initially a flop that featured a great Sondheim score, one of his greatest in fact. The…
Gun-Hugger John Sigler Working Behind the Scenes to Scuttle HB 300
I hadn't thought of John Sigler since May 2013, when he abruptly quit as chairman of the state GOP, after overseeing one of the worst periods in the party's history.…