Posts by jason330

I remember the cold war fondly. As a kid, I never thought that we were all going to be blown up. I never thought that Russians were evil or that we were even at war with "The Soviet Union." I thought we despised a very small cabal of Soviet leadership and that we weren't going to play a part abetting their injustice. It all felt like peace and prosperity to me.

All it would require is just a little cooperation from the countries around the world so very busy protecting their own "national" interests, and the subordination of the temporary interests of the global jet set plutocrats to the future of the species. It's not even that the billionaires wouldn't still be billionaires. They'd just have a little less, in exchange for a decent middle class and protecting our collective future.

Good luck finding anyone with a bacon number greater than 2 when you leverage google's new search by typing “bacon number” followed by the name of any actor. I found one that is 4, but don't want to give it away until others try this thing. WARNING: 3 hours will race by, so if you have to pick up the kids from music lessons - DON'T TRY IT!

I read this and giggled my ass off.

A Barack Obama win in November will lead to a meltdown within the Republican Party, said Bryan Fischer, an influential official at the American Family Association. And he isn’t too optimistic about Mitt Romney’s chances.

If Jonathan Starkey's candidate forum report from the Siegel Jewish Community Center in Talleyville was any thinner it could be measured in microns. Here are the reported facts:

- Carper, Markell, Cragg, Pires, Kovach, Mobley, Wade and some other people who didn't say anything quotable took part in a "mostly friendly event" hosted by the Jewish Federation of Delaware at the Siegel Jewish Community Center in Talleyville.....

I've included the intro to this speech as it is presented at TPM. I think as Delawareans we are sometimes too close to Joe Biden to see him as he is seen by the rest of the country.

Check out this stump speech quote:

“That’s because all [the Republicans] got to offer is the same prescriptions that they’ve had for the last 30 years -- tax cuts, tax cuts, gut some regulations, oh, and more tax cuts. (Laughter.) Tax cuts when times are good; tax cuts when times are bad. Tax cuts to help you lose a few extra pounds. (Laughter.) Tax cuts to improve your love life. (Laughter.) It will cure anything, according to them.

Great right ? About f---ing time too. Let's mock the f-ck out of the stupid bastards currently calling themselves "conservative". They earned it. Let's teach children to point and laugh at Grover Norquist But...

If the Romney/Ryan campaign is an experiment in post-truth politics, it is also an avant guard performance art piece which explores the negative space created when absolutist claims of positive outcomes are made that are completely devoid of any details. In this act Romney/Ryan will not disclose what tax loop holes will create their budget surpluses. Also this weekend, they blew audiences away with, "Tax cuts for the wealthy will not reduce the tax burden of the wealthy. Trust us."

Television bombards us with a starkly brutal version of reality. There is an alarming focus on deviant behavior and the acts of the mentally deranged minority of society. So powerful an slick are the dramatic portrayals of the most revolting human biographies that society is methodically being transformed by example into a working model for losers.

The quote above is from New Castle County Council member Jea Street. In a August 9, 2012 News-Journal article about the City of Wilmington's impact on the New Castle County Executive's contest street implied that it is possible to win the City of Wilmington by such a large margin that the candidate could afford to lose suburban and rural New Castle County and still win. It sounds good, but how true is it? at Politics by the Numbers Tobin crunches the numbers and looks at a some races that put the lie to Street's axiom.