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‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: October 2024

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, Featured by on November 1, 2024 12 Comments

A surprisingly superb selection this month. ‘Surprising’ in that I have a rule. It’s a stupid rule, but a rule nonetheless:  If a song comes out, but is on an album that will not be released until the following year, I don’t include it.  I will say that January and February of 2025 sound real […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 31, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on October 31, 2024 21 Comments

Personal To Feckless Joe: Can’t you just shut up for one more week?  Or, you know, maybe stop sending more weapons to Israel? Or both? A Garbage Truck Named Trump.  Doubling down on the notion that lots of Americans are garbage while sitting in a garbage truck with ‘TRUMP’ emblazoned on it strikes me as […]

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I’m Calling It: Harris Will Win

Filed in Featured, National by on October 30, 2024 19 Comments

Not only that–she’ll have coattails that will flip the House and quite possibly at least lead to a 50-50 Senate. Yes, I think the polls are wrong.  I think that they have failed to account for what I see as being an overwhelming female vote that will result in something like a blue wave. I […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 27, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on October 27, 2024 5 Comments

Yes, It Was A Great Speech.  At least in part because Michelle made a very important point: “If your wife is shivering and bleeding on the operating room table during a routine delivery gone bad, her pressure dropping as she loses more and more blood, or some unforeseen infection spreads and her doctors aren’t sure […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on October 26, 2024 5 Comments

The Relentless Rethug Campaign To Disenfranchise Voters. Virginia: On Friday, a Virginia judge ruled that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent purge of close to two thousand voters from state rolls—within 90 days of November’s election—was illegal. Now, with that election less than two weeks away, the state must reinstate all 1,600 revoked registrations. Fourth Circuit […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, October 25, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on October 25, 2024 36 Comments

Melissa Brayman For NCC President.  Monique Johns’ behavior since she won a five-way primary has revealed who she is:  A money-grubbing grifter and a narcissist. The best that we could hope for her in office is that she becomes a laughingstock.  The worst?  She and the County wind up with a bunch of lawsuits on […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 24, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on October 24, 2024 22 Comments

Monique Johns Is Who We Thought She Was.  A grifter only in it for personal gain.  Rarely has our Tip Line lit up (OK, the Tip Line doesn’t technically light up, but bear with me here) as it has. for what is the first of what presumably will be many attempts to rip off the […]

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‘Bulo’s XPN Top Ten Songs Of The 21st Century

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, Featured by on October 23, 2024 4 Comments

For all of you, those of you, any of you(?) clamoring for more musical content, I’m your man. This year, XPN is counting down the 885 Best Songs Of The 21st Century as chosen by You, The Listeners. It’s an impossible task, so here’s what I did.  I made a list of favorites that I’m […]

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Our PAL Val Tries, Fails, To Designate Her Successor As Speaker From Beyond The Political Grave

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on October 22, 2024 22 Comments

We start, however, with a juicy bit of schadenfreude from primary night.  Turns out Val didn’t see her defeat at the hands of Kamela Smith (!) coming.  She and her political team are in her basement adding up the totals while, upstairs, a joyous victory celebration is taking place.  Because the celebrants don’t see it […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, October 18, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on October 18, 2024 20 Comments

The Big Story Is That Trump Is Unhinged And Suffering From Something Very Much Like Dementia: “What’s alarming is how the rate of Trump’s bizarre speech and political decisions have been increasing. He gave an answer about childcare to the Economic Club of New York so incoherent that even his supporters were concerned. Last week […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 17, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on October 17, 2024 5 Comments

Brett Baier Tries To Mansplain Trump’s Superiority To Kamala Harris.  If the Fox interview accomplished anything, it likely turned women off to Trump’s toxic masculinity as channeled through Baier: The interview with Mr. Baier gave Ms. Harris access to a large audience of Republican women whom her campaign is trying to win over. Her advisers […]

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Towards A Delaware Transparency Agenda

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on October 16, 2024 12 Comments

Premature?  No. It’s long past time to drive a stake through the secrecy that practitioners of the Delaware Way have used to perpetuate the casual corruption at its core. We’ll have a new governor who ran against some of the worst elements of the Delaware Way.  We’ll be free of the likes of John Carney, […]

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WHYY Reports On Progressive Agenda For Transparency

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on October 16, 2024 5 Comments

Matt Meyer makes clear that transparency on police actions would be part of that agenda: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Meyer said he supports absolute transparency in policing and would assess if more needed to be done beyond last year’s legislation, if elected governor. “You can’t have a system where a small group of police officers […]

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