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Sad News: Dr. William Markell, Governor’s Father, Has Passed Away
Members of the Delaware State House of Representatives received this information last evening: It is with regret and much sadness that I inform you the Governor’s father, Dr. William Markell, passed away earlier this evening. He did so the presence of his loving family. Please keep Dr. Markell and his family in your prayers during […]
Comment Rescue: What’s Going On With the SEU?
Anon posted the following question, and El Somnambulo would hope that our environmental watchdogs could answer it: “Speaking of environmental stuff… Anyone know what this means? NEWS FROM THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL March 10, 2009 Vol. 39, No. 82 Contact: Charlie Smisson, Delaware Energy Office, 302-735-3480; or Melanie Rapp, Public Affairs, […]
Right-Wing ‘Dirty Bomber’ Killed in Maine-Media Ignores
If you were reading the mainstream media, you would have missed this. A Nazi-sympathizer and white supremacist, distraught over the election of Barack Obama, purchased ‘depleted uranium’ over the ‘net (!?). According to the dispatch from ‘Raw Story’, trust-fund millionaire James Cummings had the resources to construct a ‘dirty bomb’ and had been in contact […]
Evolution Vs. Swedish Socialism: What’s a Wingnut to Do? UPDATED with Video!
No, this is not a hypothetical from El Somnambulo’s psychedelics-ravaged mind. From our friends in socialist Sweden comes news that a chimpanzee at a Swedish zoo calmly collects rocks in the morning to hurl at onlookers later in the day. “These observations convincingly show that our fellow apes do consider the future in a very […]
Claymont Steel Poisoning the Air-Will DNREC Act?
Claymont Steel continues to pollute the air at an alarming rate, according to a piece by Jeff Montgomery in today’s News-Journal. University of Southern California professor Constantinos Sioutas made the observations in a newly released report based on data collected by a Claymont Coalition monitoring team working with the international group Global Community Monitor. Levels […]
Pastor Slayer Almost Died of Lyme Disease
The alleged assailant at yesterday’s rampage at a St. Louis-area church had suffered from a severe case of Lyme Disease and had lesions on the brain as a result, according to this CBS News report. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had written extensively of the plight of Terry Sedlacek last August. His was a severe case […]
UPDATED W/ Instructive Video: Can the News-Journal…And Newspapers Survive?
As a newspaper junkie, and as one who believes that the Free Press is an essential pillar of a democracy, El Somnambulo is deeply concerned with the dire situation currently facing the industry. While ‘Bulo has been critical of the News-Journal and other media outlets, one has but to only look at how he and […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers
El Somnambulo digs up the good stuff so that you don’t have to: President Obama proposes outreach to the Taliban in a wide-ranging NYTimes interview: Mr. Obama pointed to the success in peeling Iraqi insurgents away from more hard-core elements of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a strategy that many credit as much as the increase of […]
Breaking: Obama to Overturn Ban on Stem Cell Research
Monday is the day, according to Jake Tapper. Further proof that elections matter.
A Week In the Life of a Progressive Governor
El Somnambulo is not paranoid (although he can’t explain this insidious humming in his ears), so he will not accuse the News-Journal of going all ‘Delaware Way’ over its failure to chronicle a substance-filled week, courtesy of Gov. Markell. He will merely ascribe said failure to the by-now familiar twin causes of slothfulness and journalistic […]
Markell to Team With Feds to Help First-Time Homebuyers
El Somnambulo has managed to turn his cabezo away from the self-immolation of the Rethuglican Party (maybe they should rename themselves the Donner Party since they’re busy eating each other) to notice that Jack Markell is actually doing some good things here in Delaware. Today, he announced that the state’s housing authority (DSHA) will be offering […]
Poll: You Can Only Choose One
El Somnambulo is glad that, in reality, he can watch both. But, if you could only watch one one, would it be Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow? And please explain why you made the selection you did. In the immortal words of the Radiants, Voice Your Choice.
TO Gone from Dallas Zoo
Pro football’s most famous opera singer (me-me-me-me) has sung his last aria for the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry ‘Kids, Don’t Let Cosmetic Surgery Do This To You’ Jones has parted ways with the man Bill Parcells referred to as ‘that player’. Of course, football’s finest diva will not be out of the spotlight for long: The […]
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