Archive for May, 2023
Song of the Day 5/31: Little Feat, “Fat Man in the Bathtub”
With Donald Trump in legal quagmire and Ron DeSantis flailing, the GOP’s scrubs see opportunity. Only Mike Pompeo has figured out that he has no constituency. The rest — Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, maybe Rick Perry — have donned track shoes for the presidential primary race. Come next Tuesday they’ll all have to move over. […]
What Does The Chamber Want?
Don’t worry, the answer is much clearer than Dr. Freud’s query about women. It would be an oversimplification to say that the Chamber wants the bad stuff, and wants to kill the good stuff. But not by much: When the General Assembly returns, there will be 13 legislative days remaining, and there are many bills […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday May 31 2023
According the the Aztec Debt Ceiling Calendar, this was supposed to be the last day prior to the world being consumed by the gods Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl. Oh Well. Onward. Your “truth in headline writing” winner to kick it off. Republicans are revolting WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from conservatives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked furiously […]
Song of the Day 5/30: The Zombies, “Care of Cell 44”
It looks like Elizabeth Holmes is finally headed to prison for defrauding investors (who included Rupert Murdoch and Betsy DeVos so, y’know, limited sympathy) with her bogus blood-testing device. Will she really serve 11 years? My Magic 8-Ball says “outlook not so good,” but I’m not going to take the chance I’d have to wait […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday May 30 2023
Trump and Desantis both loudly in favor of US credit default which would destroy world financial markets, crash the dollar and put millions of people out of work. Biden gets to run against one of them. ______________________________ Rich White Women, Elizabeth Holmes, reports to actual prison today The Theranos founder turned convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes […]
The Party of the Nostalgia
Chris Coons is roughly my age. He was born in ’63. He shouldn’t be in lockstep with the oldsheads, but he is. Senator Elect, Blunt Rochester was born in ’62. She is also old beyond her years. The biggest divide in the Democratic Party at this point is not liberals versus moderates. It’s age. It’s […]
Desantis puts American Leftists on notice
Being a proud lefty I sometimes get distracted by what we haven’t yet accomplished (like socialized medicine, gun safety, housing security, worker’s rights, living wages, etc), and so I forget that leftists are an omnipotent behemoth bestriding American politics like a colossus. Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski Desantis says Good Morning: “I will serve two terms, and […]
Song of the Day 5/29: Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells”
Fifty years ago last week, a new record label debuted with an unusual offering — an LP that consisted of two side-long compositions by a 19-year-old guitarist, Mike Oldfield, who played all the instruments himself. And the only vocals were a couple of minutes of caveman-like grunts deep into side 2. Though it was introduced […]
DL Open Thread Monday May 29 2023
Happy Memorial Day. We overcame our isolation and nativism to fight two good wars in Europe. We got some good movies and songs out of the last one and were clearly the good guys. Then we pretended to still be the good guys for a while in Korea which was a draw, and VietNam which […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 28, 2023
Biden Breaks Word, Negotiates With Terrorists, Cuts Shitty Deal. Retire, you fucking old fart!: President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached an “agreement in principle” on Saturday to raise the debt ceiling and cap federal spending, clinching a critical first step toward preventing a government default that could be nine days away. The […]
Song of the Day 5/27: Brad Paisley, “Alcohol”
The News Journal’s Ryan Cormier has a paywalled story about the latest trend in college drinking in Newark, where the University of Delaware apparently remains among the nation’s top party schools. It seems bars have improved their ability to screen out underage drinkers, so students have hopped on a TikTok-fueled trend — they fill gallon […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 27, 2023
D’s Ignored Yellen, Now Paying Debt Ceiling Ransom. Can’t anybody here play this game?: In the days after November’s midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was feeling upbeat about the fact that Democrats had performed better than expected and maintained control of the Senate. But as she traveled to the Group of 20 leaders […]
“It seems like you don’t have my best interests at heart.”
This week’s Highland’s Bunker is a tough, unflinching view of the Delaware’s penal system from the inside. Tortious and dehumanizing by design, it is a system we all endorse every election day with our votes, and every non-election day with our silence. E244 – Quality of Life (w/ Hasini Perkins) ACLU Racial justice organizer Hasini Perkins […]
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