State Auditor Not Doing A Fucking Thing–On Purpose
Backwards reels the mind. You just have to read this article about Park City Kathy refusing, refusing, to do her job. Says she doesn't have the resources, so agencies will…
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 20, 2019
This looks promising...a grassroots progressive movement in West Virginia. That successful teacher's strike may well be bearing fruit. Solution to High-Tech Ransomware? Pay the kidnappers and charge the customers. Doesn't…
Game of Thrones
What to say about a TV show that promised more and delivered less? Maybe it only felt like it promised a lot because of the sick and sad straights that the country finds itself in these days? Maybe the promises were the only ones we invented in our minds as we jumped on the "willing suspension of disbelief" bus like a bunch of drunk and rowdy Spring Breakers on our way to the next wet-shirt contest?
Our lives are not perfect, so we crazily seek perfection in the arts when the next greatest thing appears, or sports when we find a team that we can knit our identity to, or in politics when we find a candidate that is THE one who gets it. But there is no perfect in Art, sports, or politics. There is only the thing that is good right now. There is only the thing that makes us think that things can better. That is the flame we fly towards.
And so T.S. Elliot was wrong. On Westeros as in America, the world doesn't end with a whimper, or with a bang. It doesn't end. It just keeps trudges forward. At times violent and terrible and at times beautiful. Always imperfect, but striving.
Song of the Day 5/19: ELO, “Mr. Blue Sky”
This isn't the original recording from "Out of the Blue." This is the title track from Jeff Lynne's 2012 album of re-recorded ELO classics, the release of which was accompanied…
AG Jennings Takes On–Environmental Racism?
8-Ball sez: "Signs Point To Yes": https://news.delaware.gov/2019/05/17/doj-seeks-outside-counsel-expertise-for-environmental-investigation-and-possible-legal-action/ The Department Of Natural Resources & Environmental Control has long since signaled that 'environmental control' means controlling the application of Delaware's environmental laws…
Song of the Day 5/18: Harold Dorman, “Mountain of Love”
Harold Dorman, a white guy from the Mississippi Delta, had only one hit record in his career, this classic from 1960. What I find interesting is his choice of metaphor.…
Corrections Officers Terrorize…Pre-School Teacher And Her Kids
Some things I can just not make up: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2019/05/17/delaware-correctional-officers-investigated-harassing-teacher-claims/3674060002/ Check out this excerpt: Four off-duty prison guards having a barbecue at Glasgow park for National Correctional Officer Appreciation Week allegedly…
Onion editor regrets portraying Joe Biden as skeevy yet loveable uncle
For years it was one of the most lighty-amusing running jokes in memedom: The Onion's ongoing series of stories about then-VP Joe Biden, portraying him as Diamond Joe, everyone's favorite…
Highlands Bunker – E15 – The Second Progressive Era
Highlands native Sarah McBride joins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about some of her experiences in progressive activism as well as the different strategies that are needed, or…
Song of the Day 5/17: Rolling Stones, “Paint It, Black”
I read yesterday that Donald Trump's obsession with The Wall has manifested itself as micromanagement of its design. He wants scary spikes on top, and he wants it painted black…
Fuck Fox News
Seriously. Fuck that Trump/GOP propaganda bullshit factory. Go on it, don't go on it, but for the love of SkyDad, stop pretending that it is a legitimate media company. It…
Song of the Day 5/16: Jackie DeShannon, “Bette Davis Eyes”
Everyone knows "Bette Davis Eyes" if they listened to the radio in 1981, when Kim Carnes' breakthrough single spent nine weeks at No. 1 and was single of the year.…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 16, 2019
This General Assembly has jumped the shark. Amoral leadership plus some new members coming up short. It's become difficult to write about this group of underachievers, but I figure that…