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‘Bulo’s Music for the Masses-Lost in the ’80’s, Vol. 2.

By El Somnambulo May 2, 20099 Comments

El Somnambulo's favorite REM song, from back in the day when Michael Stipe had hair, and '80's hair at that: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ouyl7k_iU&feature=related[/youtube] REM: 'Harbor Coat' from "Reckoning" (1984) This aurally-gorgeous album…

‘Bulo Seeks Help from Internet Sophisticates

By El Somnambulo May 1, 200913 Comments

The Beast who Slumbers has been cruising surfing the nets for some time now. He likes to think that he is able to learn new things. He has long since figured…

Action Alert: HB 1 Scheduled for Senate Hearing

By El Somnambulo April 30, 20098 Comments

The new Senate committee meeting notices have been posted, and HB 1 is scheduled for consideration in the Senate Executive Committee next Wednesday. Karen Peterson's SB 57 is also on…

…Because, Of Course, Black People Really Don’t Matter

By El Somnambulo April 30, 20097 Comments

Rethug talking butthole Bryon (oops, it's Byron, like the Lord) York says that Obama's high job approval ratings are deceptively high b/c, well, let's just let the Duke of York…

Withholding Sex the Key to Political Reform?

By El Somnambulo April 30, 20093 Comments

Seems like Kenyan women are recycling a strategy first pioneered in 'Lysistrata'. In the classic comedy by Aristophanes, first performed in 411 B. C.: Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece…

By All Means, Fix the Veterans’ Home, and Fix Every Other Delaware Nursing Home

By El Somnambulo April 30, 200921 Comments

While the News-Journal's recent series chronicling chronic patient care problems at the Delaware Veterans' Home is invaluable, it misses the most vital point: The same conditions found at the Delaware…

More Tales from the Lunatic Fringe

By El Somnambulo April 29, 20095 Comments

Two more stories you couldn't make up even on days when you took acid by mistake. From the Moonie (aka Washington) Times: RNC to Vote on Resolution Labeling Democrats 'Socialists'…

Quote of the Day

By El Somnambulo April 29, 200911 Comments

Nobody cuts brutally to the quick quite like Vanity Fair's James Wolcott. On the wingnuts who drove Specter out of the Republican Party, he writes: Many of them appear defiantly…

What Should (and Just May) Happen in Pennsylvania

By El Somnambulo April 28, 200928 Comments

Being out of work has its dubious perks. One of which is unfettered access to television. And that is how El Somnambulo came to watch Arlen Specter's press conference today.…

‘Bulo’s Top 10 Targets for 2010-Numero Uno

By El Somnambulo April 27, 200918 Comments

24th Representative District-Bill Oberle If the House Republican Caucus of the past 20 years was, as a whole, the Buffalo Springfield (it wasn't, but bear with 'bulo), then Bill Oberle…

Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-April 26 Edition

By El Somnambulo April 26, 20098 Comments

LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: US Major Claims US Torture Has Caused More American Deaths than 9-11 Patrick Cockburn, winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize for Journalism, shows the counterproductivity of…

Breaking: Markell to Address Joint Session of General Assembly

By El Somnambulo April 24, 20098 Comments

When the Governor speaks to a joint session of the General Assembly in late April, you can bet it isn't to swap Easter/Passover stories. In fact, 'bulo can't remember the…

‘Bulo’s Top 10 2010 Republican Targets-#2

By El Somnambulo April 24, 200922 Comments

5th Senatorial District-Cathy Cloutier Caustic film critic Pauline Kael once famously called quasi-film star Don Ameche, "The zero who sings." Don Ameche, meet Cathy Cloutier. Like Ameche, Cloutier is likable…