St. Patrick’s Day Daily Delawhere [3.17.13]

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Most Irish immigrants worked at the mills lining the Brandywine River and some tributaries. Many worked at Eleutherian Mills near Henry Clay Village, where the DuPont company produced gunpowder. One of the jobs at the powder yard was to grind the saltpeter for production, which was done with this grinding wheel.

The Weekly Addresses

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The weekly addresses from President Obama and Governor Markell (who hands it off to Secretary O'Mara this week), as well as the West Wing Week video about this past week at the White House. And we also have a video of the Governor playing a charity ping pong game. I am not sure why he is shorts and a t-shirt for a ping pong game.

Hall-Long outed as gay marriage swing vote

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I don't know how true this is with regard to BHL being a gay marriage swing vote, but I think the more pressing question is - when did Bruce Vilanch start writing for Pray4de.org?
"Please pray for the technology of the righteous to work speedily and properly and the technology of the unrighteous to fail!!"
Really? That's a thing now?