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Open Thread Jan. 11: Stumbling Through the Fog

By Alby January 11, 20187 Comments

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’

By Alby January 10, 201812 Comments

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

By Alby January 9, 201811 Comments

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!

By Alby January 8, 201825 Comments

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

By Alby January 7, 201811 Comments

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

By Alby January 6, 201810 Comments

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

By Alby January 5, 201820 Comments

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…

Open Thread Jan. 4: Trumpapalooza

By Alby January 4, 20182 Comments

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…

Public Advocate Breaks Tradition, Advocates for Public

By Alby January 3, 20182 Comments

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…

Open Thread Jan. 3: Rallying for the Right to Fleece the Rubes

By Alby January 3, 201810 Comments

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"…

Open Thread Jan. 2: Global Warming Shit Just Got Serious

By Alby January 2, 201814 Comments

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…

Open Thread Jan. 1: Keeping Up With the Jones Campaign

By Alby January 1, 20183 Comments

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?…

Open Thread Dec. 30: Trump as History’s Hairball

By Alby December 30, 201713 Comments

Hey, kids, remember the Tea Party? Seems like a long time ago that the greatest threat to moving America forward was a bunch of middle-aged guys dressing up in tricorns.…