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Pete Schwartzkopf Rips Dover Downs a New One

By Alby April 30, 20185 Comments

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…

April 30 Open Thread: Won’t Someone Think of the Trumpkins?

By Alby April 30, 20184 Comments

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…

Lynching Memorial Opens to Near-Universal Praise

By Alby April 30, 201829 Comments

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.…

April 29 Open Thread: NRA Convention Bans Guns for Veep

By Alby April 29, 20181 Comment

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…

April 28 Open Thread: Pew Says Democrats No Longer Want Compromise

By Alby April 28, 201810 Comments

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…

Democratic Leaders to Liberal Candidates: Get Lost, We Prefer Moderates

By Alby April 27, 20187 Comments

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…

April 27 Open Thread: The More He Talks, the More He Accidentally Reveals

By Alby April 27, 20186 Comments

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…

Cosby Found Guilty, Calls DA an Asshole

By Alby April 26, 20186 Comments

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…

Diamond and Silk Piss On Satire’s Grave

By Alby April 26, 20182 Comments

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…

April 26 Open Thread: Deplorable Doesn’t Begin to Cover It

By Alby April 26, 2018

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…

April 24 Open Thread: Panel Finds No Savings in Merging School Districts

By Alby April 24, 20184 Comments

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…

April 23 Open Thread: Delaware Last in Election Security

By Alby April 23, 201812 Comments

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…

April 21 Open Thread: Stable Genius Implicates Himself

By Alby April 21, 201817 Comments

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…