Open Thread Jan. 17: No Tacos For You!
The folks who run the city of Dover have made a successful stand against the 21st century, killing plans to allow food trucks to park on downtown streets at lunchtime.…
Open Thread Jan. 16: Would You Rather Live in a Hole or a House?
Turns out the guys who say Trump didn't say "shithole" really meant that he said "shithouse" instead. Well, that's much different. Never mind, then. The whole incident proves nothing beyond…
Lies, Liars and the Lying Liars Who Lie About Them Open Thread
As last Thursday recedes into the mists of time, what happened in that infamous immigration meeting gets murkier and murkier. Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue went from not remembering…
Open Thread Jan. 13: Tighty-Whitie Nationalist
I think Donald Trump wasted $130,000 if he really did pay off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about a relationship they had, according to the Wall Street Journal.…
Open Thread Jan. 12: Shithole Fallout
Maybe the mind is so shot that Donald Trump truly believes he didn't call countries full of dark-skinned people "shitholes" yesterday. That's certainly how he tried to play it today,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…