White People Are Snowflakes
David Roberts, a writer at Vox, came across a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute that contained a telling question and answer. The question was whether the increasing demographic…
July 27 Open Thread: Cleanup in Aisle Trump
Trumpworld's seams haven't come apart, but they're getting looser now that Trump Co.'s CFO has been subpoenaed. Mike Pompeo and John Bolton apparently see their job the same way their…
Housekeeping Shit – Comments
Sometimes even my brilliant comments go into moderation, or the trash. Unless you've been banned for cause, your comments should appear the second you post them. However, they may end…
July 26 Open Thread: Media Falls for Yet Another GOP Stunt
Media fecklessness has been on full display since yesterday as outlets fell over each other to breathlessly report that the Freedom Caucus moved to impeach Rod Rosenstein. Very few of…
Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ Killer a Native of Delaware
This account by Florida TV station WFLA affirms that Michael Drejka, the armed dickhead who gunned down a black man for pushing him in a convenience store parking lot, is…
July 25 Open Thread: The Same Letters That Spell ‘Coward’ Also Spell ‘A Crowd.’
Do Republican senators like tariffs? No! What will they do about them? Nothing! A number of Republicans who support America's idea of "free trade" have questioned Trump's call for $12…
Green Delaware: Carper’s Environmental Record Has Always Sucked
Alan Muller of environmental watchdog Green Delaware read Tom Carper's claim last week that Delaware's environmental problems come from upwind coal-burning power plants and smelled revisionist history. So he penned…
Fox Scares Viewers With ‘Radical Agenda’ of Health Care, Education and Living Wages
Every timid Democrat needs to see this segment of "Fox & Friends." For the second time in two days, the propaganda operation tried to scare its viewers with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's…
Charles Pierce Turns Jack Markell Into Smoking Pile of Rubble
Esquire's Charlie Pierce has had it up to here with Democrats promulgating bullshit from the '90s, and to show it he turned his big gun on ex-Delaware Gov. Jack Markell:…
Just for Laughs
This is the kind of thing Chris Coons doesn't want you to laugh at because it might upset Republicans: Comedian Steve Hofstetter talking about the absurdity of conservative boycotts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxahMIVGyXg
July 24 Open Thread: Stand Your Ground = License to Kill
The latest Florida outrage -- I know, it's a new one almost every day -- involves the cold-blooded slaying of another black man by another white man who apparently will…
Maybe Coons is right?
If Dems would only stop talking about minimum wage, we might win over these Trump voters. In a continuation of the new genre in journalism that we'll call "Dumb Fucks…
July 23 Open Thread: Who’s Going to Clean Up This Mess?
At this point, Trump is like a drunken frat boy lying on the floor in a puddle of his own piss loudly declaring, "I'm all right!" A lot of Republicans…