Posts by jason330

Melanism is the opposite of albinism. Instead of lacking in dark pigment, animals with melanism have an over abundance of dark-colored pigment. When that happens in large cats like leopards and jaguars you end up with a panther. So Panthers aren't a species of large cat, but leopards and jaguars super adapted to jumping on your head and tearing your neck out as you try to colonize the jungle parts of what was once called Burma. How does this factor into the Mascots Matchups theory of picking the Super Bowl Champion? It might not be an straightforward as you think. Sit tight and I'll let you know this Wednesday.

You can get Celia's take on these numbers here. As for me... Governor Elect Carney is the Governor Elect. Park City vs. BHL looks like it could turn into a donnybrook. Bonini vs Lafferty looks to be over before it started. Except maybe Lafferty doesn't need money? Maybe she has something more valuable than money? Scoff away unbelieving heathens. Townsend laps the competition... except,

***Townsend announced his contributions in a press release but has not filed a report

What's that about? Allow Del Dem to explain in the comments.

The word establishment above is enclosed in quotes, because like so-called "narwhals" I don't know if the "DEGOP establishment" is a real thing. In the past I've used, "Charlie Copeland, Dave Burris, and Ken Simpler" to personify the term establishment, but who knows? Rather than a rhetorical device, I may have accidentally hit the bulls-eye and actually named the DEGOP establishment's last remaining members? That would be weird. But questions of cryptozoology aside, supposing "the DEGOP establishment" is a real thing, and that there are more than three remaining members, I can't help wondering how they will react when Donald Trump becomes their party's presidential candidate. My sense is that they will meekly fall in line and discover that Trump is actually pretty good. It will take some rationalizing, and McGyver like defusing of some cognitive dissonance, but Republicans are well practiced at living with the nonsensical as if it was sensical. How else can they still be in favor of tax cuts as an economic policy, right?

According to Tabelog ..and it isn't some slide show you have to click through. Congratulations to the Cultured Pearl.

DOVER — Amidst questions about lieutenant governor candidate Kathy McGuiness’ eligibility, the Department of Elections has ruled she meets the residency requirement and thus is able to run for office. The Delaware Constitution mandates the lieutenant governor must be a resident of the state for 12 years, the last six consecutively before the election. Ms. McGuiness, a Rehoboth Beach resident and one of six Democrats currently running for the office, has maintained an address in Delaware for her entire life, but she also had a condominium in Park City, Utah, and had voted there and obtained a Utah driver’s license.

This NYT article feels like the left jab. The uppercut that sends us to the canvas is going to be finding out that taxpayers must urgently subsidize Exxon and underwrite their profits, or risk economic CALAMITY!

When Governor Elect Carney announced this "FB chat" I promised myself that I wouldn't jump in with cranks and crackpots to shake my puny, impotent fist at the staffer playing the role of Carney on social media. Then... I went there anyway because, of course I did. You can see my brief dialogue with the staffer playing the role of Carney on social media below, but underneath that cordial small talk, I stuck around a bit to chit chat with some wingnuts. If you have a few minutes to kill, you can read the back and forth, but the bottom line is this: Broke-ass, middle class Republicans have been instructed by the media and their political "thinkers" that the Poors are bad and the Richs are virtuous. They are very comfortable with that as a world-view. It makes sense to them. Beyond that simple formulation, they have a few programmed rhetorical tools at their disposal, such as "If you hear 'X' , say 'Y'" but no real political or economic philosophy to defend, NOR any real interest in politics or economics beyond the ability of politics to give them a team to identify with.