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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023
Proof, as if more were needed, that politics is now professional wrestling: Disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos is monetizing his graft in various ways. One of them is selling cameo greetings – give him a few hundred dollars and he’ll record a short message for someone. Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, one of the few Democrats who […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Dec. 4, 2023
This story came out a week ago and sank without a trace: The president of the United Nations’ annual climate summit planned to use the talks to lobby dozens of countries and business leaders to increase their use of oil and gas, a fact that’s a lot easier to understand when you know that Sultan […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023
This isn’t getting the media play it should: Hunter Biden said he’d testify in the House GOP “investigation” of his business dealings, but only if the session were open to the media. The Republican response: They shit themselves with fear and explained that they won’t do that, because they’ve already admitted that the sole purpose […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023
Good things happen when you get people to stop killing each other, even temporarily: The ceasefire in Gaza has been extend to Thursday, with the option open for further extensions. Biden, or more properly his people, helped make this happen, but I’m sure they did it wrong. Ask around. Here’s a story that violates Betteridge’s […]
Song of the Day 11/27: Hall & Oates, “Possession Obsession”
We now know what Daryl Hall’s lawsuit against John Oates is about: Oates wants to sell his half of their catalog and Hall sued to stop it. A chancery court judge in Nashville put the sale on hold. While some legendary musicians have made headlines by selling their publishing rights for nine-figure sums, Hall and […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 27, 2023
There’s a nasty civil war going in in Sudan, where the ethnic Arabs are slaughtering the ethnic Africans in what looks an awful lot like genocide.. Nobody elsewhere seems to be protest marching for or against either side. I’m not sure, but I think there might be a First World bias in our media. There’s […]
Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023
Today’s Thanksgiving prep – stuffing, or more properly dressing, since we don’t actually put it inside the bird. We always have three different kinds – traditional, cornbread with oysters, and sausage with fennel and wild rice. We make so much dressing we don’t actually need a turkey. It’s not Thanksgiving tomorrow anywhere but the United […]
Open Thread Tuesday Nov. 21, 2023
Short one today with Thanksgiving prep on tap. Today: Pies – pumpkin, apple and pecan. Republicans should spend more time baking pies instead of thinking of ways to make life as miserable for the rest of us as it is for them. Elon Musk, who wants to play Nazi and not get called out for […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 20, 2023
President Jimmy Carter’s wife Rosalynn died at yesterday at 96, two days after entering hospice care, with her husband of 77 years by her side. Their marriage lasted as long as the average American lives. Every Trump mouthfart gets wall-to-wall coverage – I suppose tweets are fingerfarts, but those get the same constant attention – […]
Fighting Against Medicare Advantage
Guest post by Representative John Kowalko (25th District, retired) Over the past year and a half, I have dedicated much of my energy to exposing the fraudulent and dishonest Medicare Advantage Plans for what they are. This issue has now become the focal point of thousands of ads on television promoting the private insurance industry’s […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
They held a session of Congress yesterday and the Jerry Springer Show broke out. In a Senate hearing, Oklahoma Sen. Sen. Markwayne Mullin threatened to fight Teamsters union President Sean O’Brien until Bernie Sanders made Mullin sit down. In the House, defenestrated speaker Kevin McCarthy bumped Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee in a hallway while […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
Republicans in Ohio are showing how little regard their party has for democracy, and by extension the public: As soon as the state’s electorate rejected their forced-birth agenda by a not-close 13-point margin, the GOP started laying plans to overturn the results. Here’s a little secret: They’ve always been this way, but they only show […]
Is Collin O’Mara Running for Governor?
We’ve seen lots of chatter lately about former state Secretary of Natural Resources Collin O’Mara exploring a run for governor. I just can’t see it. Since stepping down from the Markell administration in 2014, O’Mara has been CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, an environmental nonprofit with 4 million members and an annual budget of […]
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