Archive for February, 2019
Big Pharma gotta pharm!
Only in America are these companies permitted (encouraged?) to gouge consumers. More than three dozen drug companies welcomed the new year with sweeping price hikes on hundreds of medicines, according to a new analysis from Rx Savings Solutions, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The drugs that saw list-price increases on January […]
Northam Switches Parties, Becomes GOP Governor of Virginia
It isn’t a headline I expect to see, but it is the best outcome. Republicans don’t give a shit about blackface, and Democrats can keep their resentments simmering. Either that or just fucking gut it out. Hold a conference in Richmond about how terrible back-face is and what the Democratic process should be when some […]
Song of the Day 2/7: Bob Dylan and Friends, “My Back Pages”
Bob Dylan’s 30th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden was 27 years ago now, but this video of the show’s climactic number has aged pretty well. Highlights include a typically understated but brilliant guitar solo verse by Clapton (the note he bends at 2:22 is chill-inducing) and the jubilant performance of Neil Young, whom I’ve […]
Yet Another Cover-Up From DOC And the State Of Delaware
Delaware is the Secrecy State. You don’t have the right to know when cops, corrections officers, and/or entire agencies screw up to the max. Or let out their frustrations on people who get beaten just b/c they are there. Enter the News-Journal, which at least is covering the prison story superbly. If little else. Here’s […]
Coons on Prayer in Politics “I’m the most Jesus-ed up mortherfucker in the whole goddam shithole!!”
That’s a paraphrase of course. Coons actually takes a humanist approach to prayer. In fact, you could call it “new age” if it was 1997.
So the headline is more like a fabrication than a paraphrase.
Yes, Virginia, Democrats Can Be Racists, Too
The Democratic Party’s zero-tolerance chickens have come home to Virginia to roost. When Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook photo was “discovered” last week, Democrats fell over each other to demand his resignation. Among their justifications for the swift judgment was the fact that the lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, is an African-American whose politics are […]
Song of the Day 2/6: Tony Molina, “Nothing I Can Say”
Don’t settle in for a long listen here. Like most of Tony Molina’s songs, this lovely little jangle-pop melody clocks in at a brisk 1:12. The tune is one of 10 on last year’s “Kill the Lights” album, which has a total playing time of just about 15 minutes. The music draws comparisons to Elliott […]
Charter Schools Report Card: “Corruption, fraud and diminished learning opportunities”
Eschaton points out that reality has caught up with Democratic charter school advocates, and it was perfectly predictable. After more than 20 years of growth nationally, it is noteworthy that some of the trend lines for charters are on the decline. This experiment with deregulation has resulted in massive corruption, fraud and diminished learning opportunities […]
SOTU – Open Thread
Trump could be popular if he pretended to be normal for a little bit. Americans don’t want an idiotic child-man in the White House. Chuck Todd and large swaths of the country would eat up a “normal” Trump.
Democrats (eg. CHRIS COONS) would love to be bipartisan with a President under multi criminal investigations is he would only stop being so Trumpy all the time.
Is Park City Kathy going to be as execrable as everyone thought she would be?
The jury is still out, but this isn’t a good start. Who the fuck swears in their twerpy looking assistant? “I hereby promise, on this here novelization of the movie Bridget Jones’s Diary, to be a sniveling lackey….” Well shit, This twerpy looking guy IS a wingnut radio personality. Great work Park City, Crushing it!
A Boy Named Trump
The story of the Claymont boy who was bullied because his last name is Trump made the news in Delaware a few weeks ago, but it didn’t seem worth much attention at the time — there are lots of people named Trump in this country, about 5,000 of them according to Wikipedia, almost a fifth […]
After 70 Years, Harry Themal Caps His Pen as News Journal Shrinkage Continues
Last week’s latest round of Gannett layoffs sounded almost benign — only three people lost their jobs at the News Journal — until you realize that number represented almost 10% of the newsroom staff. And the full-timers aren’t the only things readers won’t find in its ever-diminishing pages anymore. Harry Themal, whose career in local […]
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