Month: April 2021

Lots of "is this a watershed moment for police reform?" stuff in today's internenet web tubes. One hopes. My reform suggestion is simply - HEY COPS, STOP FUCKING MURDERING PEOPLE. Listen to Highlands Bunker: E123 - No Confidence (w/Crystal Womack)

No way they're acquitting him this quickly.  Chauvin is already in the courthouse. Verdict announcement likely within 30 minutes. Back with the verdict as soon as it happens...

The prelims are out of the way.  We're in the 'Put Up Or Shut Up' phase of the legislative calendar.  Starting with Wednesday's committee consideration of the $15 minimum wage…

In today’s Open Thread….The nation holds its breath. Will one stupid fucking Trumper try to nullify the jury? I think “yes” is a safe bet. OK. Everyone share your favorite Walter Mondale story. I kid, Walter Mondale’s wife doesn’t have a favorite Walter Mondale story. Chinese President Xi Jinping has had it up to here with the American century. The best way to fight poverty is direct payments to everybody. Are we brave enough to support this popular, effective, relatively inexpensive policy? But first… cancel culture comes to Bethany Beach Delaware.

Tribalism, stupidity, paranoia, micro-dick syndrome, grifters gifting, our gun safety debate lays bare all of the DEGOP's virtues. But first, Delaware State Sportsman Association President, Jeff Hauge, says gun safety legislation is motivated by a strong desire to make women easy targets for rapists. If that makes sense to you, congratulations - you are the everything that is wrong with America. (No link for that one because it is running as an ad on WSTW).

I have to admit, I've been in both the "go big" and "be realistic" camps. Obviously, the anti-gun safety/radicalized right is a real threat to our life, liberty and well being. Every mass-murder urges us to treat easy access to military weapons like the public health crisis it is. But I also get the more cynical electoral "x's & o's" argument that this issue is a proven loser for Dems.

Jesse Chadderdon is right to heap laurels on the head of outgoing NCC Dem Chair, Whatshisname. But I think "he welcomed new people into the Party, kept long-serving members meaningfully engaged" does not do justice to how the outgoing chair dragged the party into the modern era by allowing Democratic Party voters to decide primaries - not the party. As Joe Biden might have said, that's a big fucking deal.