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Around the Horn Sunday

By Delaware Dem October 4, 20097 Comments

This week's roundup of local political news from around the Delaware blogosphere.

More Republican Patriotism

By Unstable Isotope October 4, 20099 Comments

I think a lot of us were stunned yesterday not by Chicago losing their Olympic bid, but at the glee to which the right reacted to the news. If we…

Only in Delaware

By Delaware Dem October 4, 200925 Comments

Those damn Capanos. Gerry Capano, the monster who shot a hole into Anne Marie Fahey's ice chest coffin so it would sink, had a little domestic dispute this past week.…

Late Night Video – Tears Of A Clown

By Unstable Isotope October 3, 20091 Comment

You knew Glenn Beck was a phony, but here's a video with the proof. Glenn Beck has Vick's Vapo-Rub under his eyes to make himself cry during a photo shoot.…

Weekend Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope October 3, 20096 Comments

What are you doing this weekend? Here's something interesting, the 2009 Ig Nobel prizes. The Ig Nobels are given by the satirical magazine The Annals of Improbable Research (I've told…

Anger in America

By cassandra_m October 3, 20091 Comment

The ever funny Lewis Black riffs on the current fad of pundits stringing together a bunch of unrelated incidents to say that we are now an Angry Nation:

‘Bulo’s Music For the Masses-40th HS Reunion Tonight!!

By El Somnambulo October 3, 20092 Comments

I wonder how many of these great songs from 1968-69 I'll hear tonight. With any luck, quite a few...: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMhWQgkZ8c[/youtube] Wedding Bell Blues-5th Dimension [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zmkzshUvE&feature=related[/youtube] Something In the Air-Thunderclap Newman…

Big Trouble For John Ensign

By Unstable Isotope October 3, 20097 Comments

This summer John Ensign held a press conference and admitted to engaging in an affair with one of his campaign aides, Cynthia Hampton. Both Ensign and Hampton were married and…

Late Night Awesome — Photos of the Solar System

By cassandra_m October 2, 20094 Comments

We've been sending up exploratory missions (mostly unmnanned) through our solar system for quite some time -- they are so routine that there generally isn't much news when they go up. Unless something fails. We forget that scientists and engineers are working daily to discover more about the planets and other bodies close to us and that they are still making jaw-dropping discoveries. The October edition of Smithsonian Magazine has an article about the very high quality photos that are coming out of these expeditions, which are themselves jaw-dropping

UnPatriotic

By Delaware Dem October 2, 200989 Comments

UnAmerican

By Delaware Dem October 2, 200938 Comments

During the Bush Administration, supporters of President Bush (the very same critics of President Obama today) called any criticism of the President's policies to be treason and unAmerican. Obviously they…

Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Bacon is Good for Me Remixed!

By cassandra_m October 2, 20097 Comments

First up -- RSmitty is totally in the spirit with this for lunch today with Bacon Alfredo Pizza from Lean Cuisine. Now, Bacon Alfredo does not exactly compute with Lean Cuisine, but one day we'll hook this Independent brotha up with an expense account lunch of filet wrapped in bacon:

Friday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope October 2, 200949 Comments

The weekend starts in only 5 hours! Have you been feeling anything different these days? Rachel Maddow uncovered the reason - it's the Liberty Council's (affiliated with Falwell's Liberty University)…