Alby's Latest Posts
Leaving the Rails Far Behind
The Trump train jumped the tracks today, as an immigration meeting at the White House prompted him to ask the gathered senators, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He was referring to Haiti and Africa. It did not go unnoticed. The Washington Post included the word “shithole” in its […]
Open Thread Jan. 11: Stumbling Through the Fog
Donald Trump’s mental fog was on display again this morning, when a “Fox & Friends” story about government surveillance prompted him to tweet against his own policy. This is what I mean by his decline making it impossible for him to finish his term. Propping up a derelict president only works if the president in […]
Open Thread Jan. 10: First Syllable, Rhymes With ‘Thumb’
You have to wonder how long the charade can continue. Is there anybody left — besides Trump himself — who still thinks that he’s a mastermind, a genius whose tweets mean anything beyond demonstrating that this is a guy with a big ego, a big mouth and not much going on upstairs? Anyone left who […]
Open Thread Jan. 9: Bad Ideas Abound
Why not Oprah? Lots of reasons, but three of them are named Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and Jenny McCarthy. Of all the many reasons to oppose such an idea, her ready embrace of a parade of charlatans is the one that perhaps should give us the most pause. Republicans don’t have the luxury of looking […]
Open Thread Jan. 8: Oprah Winfrey, Come On Down!
We are well and truly fucked. Oprah Winfrey gave a moving speech at the Golden Globe award show last night, and it’s already fueling the “Oprah for President” chatter. This notion, by definition, assumes that our problem wasn’t choosing an unqualified celebrity for the presidency, it was choosing the wrong unqualified celebrity. The gynocracy hasn’t […]
Open Thread Jan. 7: Trump Would Totally Watch a Gorilla Channel
I’ve scoured the interwebs all morning but the only interesting thing I’ve learned is about The Gorilla Channel, and I have only my absence from social media to blame for not getting this to you sooner. It all started, as everything does now, with a tweet. Some guy named Ben Ward appears to be a […]
Open Thread Jan. 6: Trump Makes Wolff Rich
Michael Wolff might look like Dr. Evil, and “Fire and Fury” might be, in NYTimester Maggie Haberman’s words, “thin” and “light on fact-checking,” but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming the biggest story since the Space Shuttle blew apart (the first one, not the second one that nobody remembers). One writer put aside his jealousy […]
Open Thread Jan. 5: Fire, Fury and a Bomb Cyclone
Yesterday’s “bomb cyclone” brought Slower Lower Delaware all the way to a standstill, but the high winds and near-foot of snow were nothing compared with what happened in Boston, where the sea reclaimed the streets in the worst flooding in a century. Global warming? Not entirely. Some of the blame goes to, believe it or […]
Open Thread Jan. 4: Trumpapalooza
The infotainment media was rocked yesterday by a salvo of revelations from the upcoming book by Michael Wolff, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” which describes a workplace that makes a shark tank seem like a community swim, along with a bumbling, rageaholic president who is both feared and mocked by those who […]
Public Advocate Breaks Tradition, Advocates for Public
Delaware’s new Public Advocate, Andrew Slater, has only one flaw I can see: He doesn’t know how to play to the media. Releasing any news of value on the Friday before the New Year’s weekend is a rookie mistake, provided you want people to see it. And I’m pretty sure Slater wanted people to notice […]
Open Thread Jan. 3: Rallying for the Right to Fleece the Rubes
Conservatives must have money to burn. That’s the only explanation for why some of Sussex County’s more cretinous politicians are still thumping the tub for a county-specific “Right to Work” anti-union law. They held a rally yesterday to support the bill, which already has been declared invalid by the attorney general’s office and therefore seems […]
Open Thread Jan. 2: Global Warming Shit Just Got Serious
The looming extinction of polar bears is a tragedy, but their disappearance won’t affect our day-to-day lives. But what if we had to live without chocolate? That’s right — climate change could all but eliminate the growing conditions cacao needs by 2050. Genetic engineering is hoping to develop a plant that will tolerate the drier […]
Open Thread Jan. 1: Keeping Up With the Jones Campaign
Didja notice that during the weeks leading up to Alabama’s special Senate election you heard and read almost nothing about Doug Jones and the kind of race he was running? That was no accident. The team behind Jones included Joe Trippi, the strategist who ran DL patron saint Howard Dean’s presidential campaign. Trippi sat for […]
Recent Comments