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DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 3, 2023

By El Somnambulo September 3, 20235 Comments

RIP: Bill Richardson. He Made A Real Difference: “There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom,”…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 2, 2023

By El Somnambulo September 2, 20239 Comments

Jimmy Buffett Dies--Price Of Cheeseburgers To Plummet? The Poet Laureate of lassitude who turned branding into an art form. The linked profile from 2018 captures the conundrum/contradictions therein: Because that,…

DL Open Thread: Friday, September 1, 2023

By El Somnambulo September 1, 20237 Comments

Biden Administration Moves To Reclassify/Declassify Pot: If a recommendation by the nation’s top health agency to reclassify marijuana is adopted, the drug could gain wider acceptance as a medical treatment,…

BREAKING: Kyle Evans Gay Running For Lieutenant Governor

By El Somnambulo August 31, 202337 Comments

The press release in its entirety: NORTH WILMINGTON — State Senator Kyle Evans Gay announced Thursday morning her campaign to become Delaware’s next Lieutenant Governor. VIEW HER LAUNCH VIDEO HERE A…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 31, 2023

By El Somnambulo August 31, 202316 Comments

Submitted Without Comment... ...From Mitch. Lest we feel smug, Biden's the same age as Mitch. Home-Schooling And Christian Millionaires: A perfect match for siphoning off billions in Federal education dollars:…

‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: August, 2023

By El Somnambulo August 31, 20231 Comment

Quality and quantity. Let a few good ones go since I didn't want this to be too unwieldy: Betcha weren't expecting this. I wasn't: Power pop doesn't suck: A great…

DE’s Most Intriguing Legislative Races Of 2024: #6–RD 28

By El Somnambulo August 29, 202313 Comments

I doubt that any legislator has been less distinguished, yet wielded as much power, as Lumpy Carson. At least in recent times. He has been Pete 'n Val's Useful Idiot…

Good People Doing Great Things

By El Somnambulo August 28, 20233 Comments

This story made me feel real good. So this is literally a feel-good story: The more than 30 proud, self-described gutter-pagan, mostly queer dirtbags in their early 30s gathered ‘round…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 27, 2023

By El Somnambulo August 27, 20233 Comments

Don't Read This At The Airport: 5000 Pilots Hiding Major Medical Issues?: Federal authorities have been investigating nearly 5,000 pilots suspected of falsifying their medical records to conceal that they…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 26,2023

By El Somnambulo August 26, 20231 Comment

Republican Moms, Black Legislators, Join Forces In Tennessee. Against gun violence: A group of mothers from The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, reached across the aisle to show their support…

DL Open Thread: Friday, August 25, 2023

By El Somnambulo August 25, 202312 Comments

That. Mug. Shot. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office) At first, I was fixated by the Death Stare, figuring that Trump had rehearsed this ad nauseum in order to look as resolute…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 24, 2023

By El Somnambulo August 24, 20237 Comments

Didn't watch the debate. Didn't watch the commentary after the debate. That 'climate change is a hoax' would seem to be disqualifying, though. Even to Rethugs. Pretty sure that farmers…

BREAKING: Wagner Boss Prigozhin Killed In Plane Crash?

By El Somnambulo August 23, 20237 Comments

Let the conspiracy theories begin: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/23/yevgeniy-prigozhin-plane-crash-ukraine-russia-live/ At least 10 people died in the crash of a Wagner-linked private plane outside Moscow, according to Russia’s emergency services. Prigozhin, who led a…