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Pete Schwartzkopf Rips Dover Downs a New One
As El Somnambulo predicted last week, the casino giveway relief bill that sailed through the state Senate on a 17-3 vote faces a tougher road in the House, where its chief opponent is the most powerful man in the legislature, House speaker Pete Schwartzkopf. Schwartzkopf has long been a critic of Delaware’s racinos, and for […]
April 30 Open Thread: Won’t Someone Think of the Trumpkins?
Washington is running out of fainting couches, as dozens of media figures have joined conservative snowflakes in expressing shock, shock at Michelle Wolf’s routine Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Even the Orange Excrescence took offense, calling her “filthy” (he’s totally skeeved by women unless he’s fucking them) and calling for an end […]
Lynching Memorial Opens to Near-Universal Praise
Last Thursday the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, better known as the lynching memorial, opened to wide coverage and effusive praise from all quarters — well, almost all quarters. The memorial stands in Montgomery, Alabama, near the former site of the city’s slave auction. Montgomery also is home to the Equal Justice Initiative, founded […]
April 29 Open Thread: NRA Convention Bans Guns for Veep
The jokes write themselves. The NRA convention, the ultimate gathering of self-defined good guys with guns, has banned their fetish objects for a speech by VP Mike Pence because the tyrannical federal government told them to. While conservatives have spontaneous orgasms about the prospect of peace on the Korean peninsula, Max Boot throws cold water […]
April 28 Open Thread: Pew Says Democrats No Longer Want Compromise
Somebody please show this Pew Research graph to Chris Coons: It shows that, while Democratic voters used to value compromise more than Republicans, but over the past year that’s no longer true. Perhaps if someone attaches a clue to a TV camera lens Coons will notice it. Andy Slavitt, who served as the acting administrator […]
Democratic Leaders to Liberal Candidates: Get Lost, We Prefer Moderates
Liberals have realized for a long time now that the leadership of the Democratic Party is beholden to business interests and therefore is only as liberal as corporate America will allow. Nobody has felt that more than liberals who dare to primary the Central Party’s chosen candidates. Now one of them has struck back. Levi […]
April 27 Open Thread: The More He Talks, the More He Accidentally Reveals
Pundits are still buzzing over Trump’s disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday’s “Fox & Friends,” which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne Conway appeared on the show today to say Trump loved it and wants to do it every month. How any Republican can listen to yesterday’s […]
Cosby Found Guilty, Calls DA an Asshole
Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault. The 80-year-old comedian faces up to 10 years in prison on each count. While discussing bail, the DA said Cosby was a flight risk. According to Stephanie Wash of ABC, Cosby screamed, “He doesn’t have a plane you asshole!”
Diamond and Silk Piss On Satire’s Grave
Fox News performers Diamond and Silk — Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson to authorities — repeatedly lied under oath to Congress today about a payment they received from the Trump campaign. “You have never been paid by the Trump campaign?” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee asked again. “We have never been paid by the Trump campaign!” […]
April 26 Open Thread: Deplorable Doesn’t Begin to Cover It
The pressure’s definitely getting to Cheetohlini. This morning Trump called in to his top advisers, Fox & Friends, and got so unhinged they had to cut him off before he did any more self-damage. As it was he managed to admit that he stayed overnight in Moscow in 2013, making clear he lied to James […]
April 24 Open Thread: Panel Finds No Savings in Merging School Districts
A General Assembly task force put together to study merging some of Delaware’s 19 school districts in search of savings couldn’t find any — the best they could do was save $1.1 million on a six-district combination that would have spanned from Middletown to Dover. They did, however, recommend that it’s way past time to […]
April 23 Open Thread: Delaware Last in Election Security
An Axios article looking at ballot security in the run-up to the midterms notes that Delaware is one of only 5 U.S. states that lacks any paper trail of voting records. Worse, the authors round up what the states on its 15-worst list are doing to fix their problems. Delaware is not among those cited […]
April 21 Open Thread: Stable Genius Implicates Himself
Very stable genius Donald Trump sort of admitted Michael Cohen has dirt on him this morning, tweeting that the New York Times would fail in its effort to get Cohen to flip on him. Of course, if he had nothing to hide, he has no reason to worry about Cohen flipping, a little detail the […]
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