Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread Friday, Sept. 27, 2024

We’ll have another damp day, but nothing like the inundation in the Southeast, where Helene dumped an amount of rain seen once every thousand years. Given the lack of progress on climate change, I’m gonna to take the under on that one.

Delaware’s Public Integrity Commission proved itself incapable of doing its job, declining to investigate why the public wasn’t told about embezzlement in the state’s unemployment insurance fund. While that might be defensible, it’s explanation wasn’t. It claimed this secrecy “did not create an appearance of impropriety” when it quite obviously did. Given the choice, yes, I’m gonna believe my lying eyes.

I’m not a joiner, so I’ll never really understand the appeal of any cult. But cartoonist Ruben Bolling has a good idea of how people fall into the rabbit hole.

As a confirmed Luddite, I have mixed feelings about technology – I’m not sure whether it’s a threat or a menace. I know this much, though: Tech bros lie even more than politicians, so it’s not actually the technology I don’t trust. It’s the technicians.

The floor’s yours.

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