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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 15, 2011

By El Somnambulo March 15, 201152 Comments

They're ba-a-a-ck, and so am I. The Delaware General Assembly reconvenes this afternoon in Legislative Hall, and they are primed for a run of about a month or so before…

Time To Make the Districts: Part Deux

By El Somnambulo March 10, 20116 Comments

In Which We Create Two A Brand New Senate Districts. OK, some simple math. If you create two new senate districts, and if you leave the total number of senate…

Time To Make the Districts

By El Somnambulo March 8, 201111 Comments

OK, kids, time to play the political equivalent of fantasy baseball. Sign up now. This opportunity only comes along once every ten years. The numbers are out and the numbers…

Shared Sacrifice, My Ass

By El Somnambulo March 3, 201138 Comments

I tried. I really tried. I tried to understand and even rationalize Gov. Jack Markell's argument that any additional taxation of the wealthy would work against his efforts to create…

‘Bulo on Al’s Show Tuesday

By El Somnambulo February 28, 201115 Comments

I'll be on the Al Mascitti Show Tuesday, March 1 at 10 a. m. We'll be talking the latest political and governmental issues, including the ongoing controversies facing Tony DeLuca,…

Some Revisionist Pseudo-History From Tom Carper

By El Somnambulo February 25, 201117 Comments

I simply could not let this piece of self-aggrandizement from Tom Carper pass following the death of Russell W. Peterson. The News-Journal article noting Peterson's passing and his many accomplishments…

The Further Misadventures of Tiny Tony DeLuca

By El Somnambulo February 24, 201134 Comments

In Which the Napoleonic Martinet Tries to Explain Away the Unexplainable...Not to Mention the Inexplicable. Which He Doesn't. Let's all first get on the same page. Please read the Alice…

A Buncha Cool Music Hangin’ Around On the Same Blog Together

By El Somnambulo February 22, 20114 Comments

First in a series of occasional posts...unless it's the last in the series. I find so much cool stuff cruising the 'nets that I just have to share sometimes. Old…

Google ‘Santorum’

By El Somnambulo February 22, 20113 Comments

I'm stealing this directly from Daily Kos b/c I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. Click the link and watch Stephen Colbert's take on the Rick Santorum…

THIS Investment Makes Sense

By El Somnambulo February 18, 20113 Comments

Buried in the Business Section of today's News-Journal is, IMHO, a much better economic development engine than the one handed to the DuPont Company: State economic development officials will announce…

Holy Bleep! The Two Stephens, Sondheim & Colbert, Together At Last!

By El Somnambulo February 8, 20116 Comments

How cool is this? My all-time favorite composer, Stephen Sondheim, is gonna have a NYC revival of his groundbreaking musical, Company, featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone and...Stephen Colbert! "Company"…

The Markell Budget: Comfort the Comfortable, Afflict the Afflicted

By El Somnambulo February 8, 201123 Comments

As the Joint Finance Committee peels back more layers of this rancid budgetary onion, we see the priorities of this administration, and what we see is an ostensibly progressive administration time and time again comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted.

‘Bulo On Al’s Show Today-Thurs., Feb. 3

By El Somnambulo February 3, 20114 Comments

Sorry for the late notice. I'll be on the Al Mascitti Show on WDEL-1150 AM at 10 am today. Al's show, as always, starts at 9. We'll likely discuss "The…