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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 15, 2023

By El Somnambulo March 15, 20234 Comments

If this post isn't the worth the price of a non-subscription, I don't know what is. So much stuff that I'm gonna have to up the Snark Factor to keep…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 14, 2023

By El Somnambulo March 14, 20238 Comments

Stop the presses! Stephanie Bolden wants EVERYONE to know that she would have voted for HB 2 had she shown up for session on Thursday, and anyone who says otherwise…

Memo To The Following: Return The BobbyByrd/Norfolk Southern Blood Money

By El Somnambulo March 10, 20238 Comments

I'm occasionally a reasonable person. I will assume that Bobby Byrd delivered these checks along with all the other checks he bundled from his clients, and that you didn't discern…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 9, 2023

By El Somnambulo March 9, 20231 Comment

"This amendment makes technical corrections and clarifications requested by the Office of the Governor." Yeah (you're asking)? So what? The 'so what' is that this is HA2/HB 2. HB 2…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 8, 2023

By El Somnambulo March 8, 20236 Comments

Hate to be THAT guy, but I told you that yesterday's pot legalization bill vote was a freebie. Far too many Pete acolytes voted for the bill. There's hope only…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 7, 2023

By El Somnambulo March 7, 202316 Comments

It's ba-a-a-ck. Polished to a diamond gleam by Rep. Osienski. We're talking HB 1, which: ...removes all penalties for use or possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana and…

Song of the Day 2/24: Damien Rice, “Cannonball”

By Alby February 24, 20233 Comments

The wanderings of the Lewes Cannonball have come to a happy end. Whoever pried it loose from the Cannonball House apparently thought better of it and placed it on the…

News Journal’s Pro-Cop Bias Is Showing

By Alby February 23, 20233 Comments

Meredith Newman didn't just bury the lede in her story about Delaware's highest-paid employees, she left it out entirely. The story, based on data from 2021, focuses on the high…

Song of the Day 2/23: The Business, “Drinking and Driving”

By Alby February 23, 2023

Would-be politician Scott Walker, the guy who runs for office by setting up home-painted campaign signs along Delaware roads, has never come close to being elected, but his odd behavior…

Defeat These Three Candidates For School Board

By El Somnambulo February 20, 202332 Comments

There will no doubt be others who join the fray before the filing deadline, which is Friday, March 4. In at least one race, there had better be. For now,…

Confederacy-Loving Delaware Man Gets Three Years in Union Prison

By Alby February 10, 202312 Comments

Kevin Seefried, the Laurel drywall hanger who paraded a huge Confederate battle flag through the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection and menaced a Capitol cop with it, was handed…

News-Journal FINALLY Wakes Up To Ft. DuPont Boondoggle

By El Somnambulo February 7, 20239 Comments

9 years too late. Maybe someone, anyone, from the News-Journal could have read our coverage dating back to 2014? I'll only link to one article this time. You can find…

Let Joe Drive!

By Alby January 27, 20236 Comments

I never thought about this until I saw some stray comment on some automotive web site: Once someone is elected president, he never drives again. While he's president he's driven…