Unstable Isotope
Opinionated chemist, troublemaker, blogger on national and Delaware politics.
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The Ghost Whisperer
DADT repeal has been a hot topic this year, and surprisingly uncontroversial. The repeal is supported by more than 70% of Americans. John McCain has become one of the leaders in Congress against DADT-repeal. At one point during the hearing, McCain showed a letter which he claimed had been retired military officers against the repeal. […]
Friday Open Thread

It’s Friday and it’s time for your open thread. Let’s thread it up! Really, there’s literally nothing that the right can do to get the media to question their integrity. Right now, Liz Cheney is orchestrating a smear campaign against some lawyers in the Justice Department who wrote briefs in favor of habeas corpus for […]
NBC Covers Up Palin’s Cold Reception
Sarah Palin apparently made an odd appearance on Jay Leno’s show this week. She did a stand up routine as well. As I said – SHE’S INVADING, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! An Alaskan critic of Sarah Palin attended the taping and shares his take on her appearance. I’ve dealt with sound engineering for 30 years, […]
Thursday Open Thread
It’s Thursday and boy has this week flown by fast. It’s more than halfway over now! So, are you ready for your open thread? Sarah Palin may not be Vice President but she soon may be unavoidable. She’s reportedly shopping a Palin reality series around those Hollywood liberals: With Mark “Survivor” Burnett in tow, the […]
More Family Values
How many prominent California Prop 8 supporters have been shown to be huge hypocrites? I’m losing count. There’s the state legislator who bragged about his lobbyist mistress, and Miss California’s sex tapes and now there’s this: It’s no good for a family values Republican to get picked up on a DUI. But substantially worse to […]
Wednesday Open Thread
Welcome to Wednesday. It’s time for your open thread, so let’s get started. What’s worse than bad rap? Bad conservative rap! I love the part when he’s going on about pies. Why? Oh, and if you got through the whole thing – congratulations, you have a strong will. Now for something uplifting. Roger Ebert regains […]
Health Care Reform By Easter
A Democratic memo was released that laid out the timeline for health care reform. Democrats want to have the bill finished by the Easter recess. The thought is that right before a recess might reduce Republican shenanigans because they want to go home for recess (Jim Bunning want won’t to miss the NCAA tournament, I’d […]
Bunning Relents – Our Long National Nightmare Is Over
Jim Bunning found a flicker of compassion inside of his cold, dead heart: Under increasing pressure from Democrats and members of his own party, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Tuesday night abandoned his one-man filibuster of a one-month extension to unemployment benefits and other programs. In the end Bunning agreed to a deal allowing him one […]
Dispatches From the GOP Braintrust
Michael Zak, a blogger at Big Government (one of Andrew Breitbart’s sites) compares ACORN to the KKK: ACORN does indeed operate like the Mafia, but it more closely resembles another organization that began as an affiliate of the Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan. Aside from intimidating some bank executives, ACORN does not engage in […]
Tuesday Open Thread
Welcome to Tuesday! If we keep getting more of this springlike weather I might start getting used to it. Let’s start our open thread. Who knew, Wilmington is not the whole entire world: “January, according to satellite (data), was the hottest January we’ve ever seen,” said Nicholls of Monash University’s School of Geography and Environmental […]
Problem Solving 101
Washington, D.C. is the latest area to legalize same-sex marriage and this has caused a problem for Catholic Diocese of Washington. They’ve threatened to quite doing humanitarian work in Washington, D.C. but I guess the backlash and the taxpayer subsidies are too much to pass up. The Catholic diocese of Washington has found a unique […]
The Calorie Tax
We’ve spent a whole year talking about health care reform in our country but have spent very little time talking about lifestyle reform. As a calorie-watcher, I know how difficult it is to purchase the right kinds of foods. More nutritious foods are more expensive and don’t keep as long. The results of a new […]
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