DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Jury selection continues in Trump’s criminal trial in New York. It could take forever to find 12 sentient beings who live, breathe and haven’t concluded that Trump is a piece of shit.

You think it’s been a wet spring in Delaware? Yesterday in Dubai 5 inches of rain – more than the desert city averages per year – fell in a single day, closing the airport and causing widespread flooding.

Too much rain isn’t the only thing falling from the sky lately. Some guy in Naples, Fla., has to contend with a piece of space trash crashing through his roof – a piece of jetsam from the International Space Station that NASA thought would burn up on re-entry. Oopsie!

Elsewhere in Florida, Ron DeSantis found out that banning books isn’t as easy as Hitler made it look. He had to sign a new law limiting the number of books a non-parent could challenge in school libraries because, he said, people were making a mockery of the system. Golly, who would want to go and do a thing like that?

The floor’s yours.