Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Paid Medical And Family Leave. I've been around so long that I can recall the debate on unpaid Medical And Family Leave. The Chamber warning of the 'slippery slope' this…
DL Open Thread Tuesday March 8th 2022
Just take a look at this graph. We've got the most expensive third-world health outcomes money can buy! In Delaware we have a congressional delegation fully in the pocket of…
Song of the Day 3/7: Every Mother’s Son, “Come on Down to My Boat”
This seems like a good time to get a bargain on a super-yacht, as governments around the world (not the US, yet) have begun seizing atop-the-liquid assets owned by oligarchs…
BREAKING: DeShanna Neal Announces Run Against Kop Kabalist Larry Mitchell!!
No way this was gonna keep until Friday. Mitchell has known for awhile, hence my 'sweating bullets' reference on Friday. Make no mistake, this is big. I see no way…
DLOpen Thread Monday March 7th 2022
Let me ask you, the smartest political observers in Delaware, other than Paul Baumbach's "Death with Dignity" legislation, Sarah McBride's "Paid Family Leave" and Senator Pinkney's SB149 to amend LEOBOR -…
Why are young people not joining the Democratic Party?
Is it because the Democratic Party sucks ass? The centrist agenda, which is based on the primacy of the private sector and private markets and the importance of the…
Song of the Day 3/6: Cake, “I Will Survive”
A song for Ukraine, which Putin thought would crumble, lay down and die. Not so far. There have been nearly 200 covers of this song, in more than a dozen…
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 6, 2022
Bud Wins. So Do Guinness And Harp's. 2210 to 1015. IMO, that's an excellent turnout for a Special Election. Registration is destiny: "This wasn't something I went looking for," Freel…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 5, 2022
The Roger Stone Tapes. When a vain person participates in a vanity project, the results often don't paint said person in a positive light: As a mob ransacked the Capitol…
Song of the Day 3/4: Electric Light Orchestra, “Showdown”
It's raining all over the world. From "On the Third Day," ELO's third LP and its first without co-founder Roy Wood, released in 1973. The single reached No. 12 in…
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 4, 2022
Former Producer For Sean Hannity Arrested For Helping Russian Oligarch. For setting up a Russian propaganda network. When the history of democracy's demise is accurately written, the creation of Fox…
Delaware Political Weekly: Feb. 25-March 3, 2022
1. Sen. Bruce Ennis Announces Retirement. Which opens up the SD 14 seat. It has a strong D edge, and should remain in the Democratic column. The only candidate who…
Song of the Day 3/3: Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Exodus”
As might be expected, the Russian war on Ukraine has produced lots of refugees -- more than 1 million so far, according to the United Nations, about 2% of the…