The special election to replace the Lyin’ King, George Santos, as representative in New York’s 3rd congressional district wasn’t the squeaker predicted by polling. Democrat Tom Suozzi defeated his Republican rival by eight percentage points, 54-46. As is traditionally the case, reporters are falling all over themselves to explain why this isn’t good news for Democrats: It snowed, the Democrat was much better known, the sun got in their eyes, it took a bad hop…oh, wait, those last two are why the Mets sucked.
Bipartisan Boy, in his alter-ego as mild-mannered Sen. Chris Coons, offered some campaign advice for Joe Biden in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Joe Biden’s particular benefit has always been, it’s Joe and Jill, not President Biden and Dr. Biden, right? So get out from behind the podium. Go visit people where they actually live, record it on these stupid things. Post it … that’s where people are.
The president, in five minutes hanging out in someone’s kitchen in North Carolina … got 5 million views on a platform I’ve never heard of. Put on the quarter zip and put on some jeans and walk on into people’s houses and be Joe Biden. And they like you and they connect with you. Stop being presidential all the time.
I can’t say he’s wrong.
AG Merrick Garland’s time in the job is running out one way or the other. If Trump wins he’ll be out of there like shit through a goose, and if the gossip being printed by Politico and the Atlantic is accurate, Biden won’t keep him either. “What Democrats do is they bend over backwards not to look partisan, and then they end up hiring people that are partisan but in the other direction,” one unnamed source said. Gee, ya think?
The House Divided managed to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on its second attempt. Nice try, fellas, but pulling your trousers up after you’ve been pantsed doesn’t erase the embarrassment.
The University of Delaware, endowment $1.78 billion, owns more than 40 percent of the land in the city of Newark, but hasn’t upped its payment in lieu of taxes for city services for years (it pays $2 million for land that would be taxed at $6 million). So the city is moving ahead with a plan to tax the University of Delaware $50 per student per semester (subscription required). For the math-challenged, that endowment should earn nearly $18 million per annum per 1% return. Just guessing here, but I think the cheapskate bastards can afford it. Maybe someone in the General Assembly could stop lining her own pockets long enough to force their books open.
I once thought that gene editing gave us great hope of restoring species like the American chestnut and the American elm, both devastated by imported pathogens. Instead, it’s given us petunias that glow in the dark. A company called Light Bio has introduced its bioluminescent Firefly Petunia, the foliage of which emits a faint glow, as shown in their promotional video. For a mere $29 for a plant in a 4-inch pot you can blind yourself with science.