Alby's Latest Posts
SCOTUS Scraps Federal Ban on Sports Betting
The News Journal is spinning today’s Supreme Court decision 7-2 decision throwing the sports-betting decision back to the states as a loss of Delaware’s East Coast monopoly on sports betting, but that’s misleading. Delaware could only offer NFL parlay bets, greatly limiting public interest. If the state now moves to legalize other forms of bets, […]
May 14 Open Thread: He Who Commands the Media Has Command of Everything
Despicable as he is, Trump is unquestionably great at one thing: Playing the media. That’s the answer to the perpetual question, “How did Trump win?” and it explains a lot of the daily mayhem surrounding his administration. He learned long ago that the best way to distract from controversy is with another controversy, and in […]
Politico Names Coons GOP’s Favorite Democrat
Last week Politico published a story that’s probably been framed and hung in Chris Coons’ study already. It’s approving headline: “Meet the GOP’s Favorite Democrat.” It recounts in some detail Coons’ solicitous attitude toward his colleagues across the aisle and is studded with fulsome praise from Republican senators. Here, for example, is a quote from […]
Greg Lavelle Is a Republican. Pass It On.
I woke up this morning to a hand-delivered election mailer in my front door touting the candidacy of one “Greg Lavelle, Our State Senator.” According to this mailer, Mr. Lavelle stands up for taxpayers, is reforming government “by working with Democrats and Republicans,” is working for a brighter future and is always listening to us. […]
May 12 Open Thread: Maryland Peckerwoods Threaten Civil War
The ignorant will always be with us, but I’ll be satisfied when they go back to being ashamed of it. As it stands, “Ignorant and Proud of It” is the order of the day, as a bunch of stump-jumpers in Maryland’s Calvert County dmonstrated with this billboard, which basically threatens that if a political solution […]
May 11 Open Thread: Study Finds Charters an Existential Threat to Public Education
The problem with arguing from facts is that you have to take the time to gather them. So now we have a study that reaches the same conclusion Delawareans reached a decade ago: charter schools are an existential threat to public education, and for the same reason we have witnessed: In siphoning off students from […]
Yesterday Proved Again Why Russia and Stormy Matter
A lot of otherwise right-thinking people seem to think that the Trump controversies involving Russia on the one hand and porn stars on the other are distractions from the real damage being done by Republicans. I’ll put this as simply as I can: They are wrong. This was demonstrated late yesterday by porn star Stormy […]
May 8 Open Thread: Pervs ❤️ New York
Calling all pervs — there’s a government job for you in New York, at least if you’re a male Democrat. Eliot Spitzer’s call girl problem looks tame next to Anthony Weiner’s texting his junk to minors, which looks harmless compared with the allegations, revealed in the New Yorker, that state AG Eric Schneiderman slapped around […]
May 7 Open Thread: Anything Trump Can Do, He Can Do Trumpier
If you’re having a race to the bottom, you shouldn’t invite a guy who makes his living underground. Don Blankenship, America’s most lethal boss, went ballistic this morning when Trump tweeted his support for the other two Republicans running in tomorrow’s West Virginia Senate primary, tweeting out (of course) his claim that he is “Trumpier […]
Open Thread, May 6: Approaching the Event Horizon
Sorry for the interruption, I had a lot of gardening to catch up on. I also developed a theory that Donald Trump is a black hole of such massive proportions that reality itself is being stretched apart as it approaches his event horizon. The laws of political physics don’t apply anymore. Today’s madness included another […]
Open Thread May 4: No More Fucks to Give
Sorry, but I’ve run out of fucks to give. I think it was Trump’s Dr. Bizarro that tipped me over the edge, actually admitting that he didn’t write the statement about Trump’s amazing health. Or maybe it was Camille Cosby comparing her sick-fuck husband — the one she didn’t rat on for 50 years because […]
Who’s Against Taking Guns From the Mentally Ill? That Answers Itself
You might have heard of a fella name of Earl Lofland, Earl R. Lofland, Earl R. Lofland of Clayton, Del. This fella seems to harbor a grudge of long standing against some of America’s institutions, which he thinks aren’t operating under the principles of the Constitution as the Founders intended that Constitution to be interpreted. […]
May 1 Open Thread: Refuse to Lose, Even After You’ve Lost
To everyone else, “refuse to lose” is a sales-motivational cliche. To Republicans, it’s an operating system. So even if you’re Roy Moore, and you lost not just the election but a referendum on your entire ethos — the Bible-fundie practice of selecting a “pure” virgin for marriage, and test-driving her by feeling her up in […]
Recent Comments