Open Thread Jan. 8: Oprah Winfrey, Come On Down!
We are well and truly fucked. Oprah Winfrey gave a moving speech at the Golden Globe award show last night, and it's already fueling the "Oprah for President" chatter. This…
Open Thread Jan. 7: Trump Would Totally Watch a Gorilla Channel
I've scoured the interwebs all morning but the only interesting thing I've learned is about The Gorilla Channel, and I have only my absence from social media to blame for…
DNC moves to make the Democratic Party more democratic
A DNC "unity" committee recommended the effective abolition of 60 percent of superdelegates back in November. I don't know if the changes have been ratified yet. If the Unity and…
Pax Americana was short-lived and pretty f*cked up, Maybe China will have a better run
Pakistan is ditching the dollar for trade with China — 24 hours after Trump denounced the country A day after President Donald Trump slammed Pakistan on Twitter, the South Asian…
Open Thread Jan. 6: Trump Makes Wolff Rich
Michael Wolff might look like Dr. Evil, and "Fire and Fury" might be, in NYTimester Maggie Haberman's words, "thin" and "light on fact-checking," but that hasn't stopped it from becoming…
$18,000,000,000
You can spend a lot of money building a wall that (mostly) will not work. Some people will get some construction jobs for a year or two. It seems like a dumb investment to me. Where's the ROI?
Also, where are the Democrats promoting other, better, investments that we could blow $18 billion on? Where is the shadow government, throwing a spotlight on this President's shitty policies? We all know that he is a mentally impaired blithering idiot, but only reacting to the latest stupid twitter statement isn't opposition. it is being played.
Open Thread Jan. 5: Fire, Fury and a Bomb Cyclone
Yesterday's "bomb cyclone" brought Slower Lower Delaware all the way to a standstill, but the high winds and near-foot of snow were nothing compared with what happened in Boston, where…
Open Thread Jan. 4: Trumpapalooza
The infotainment media was rocked yesterday by a salvo of revelations from the upcoming book by Michael Wolff, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which describes a workplace…
Public Advocate Breaks Tradition, Advocates for Public
Delaware's new Public Advocate, Andrew Slater, has only one flaw I can see: He doesn't know how to play to the media. Releasing any news of value on the Friday…
Open Thread Jan. 3: Rallying for the Right to Fleece the Rubes
Conservatives must have money to burn. That's the only explanation for why some of Sussex County's more cretinous politicians are still thumping the tub for a county-specific "Right to Work"…
Open Thread Jan. 2: Global Warming Shit Just Got Serious
The looming extinction of polar bears is a tragedy, but their disappearance won't affect our day-to-day lives. But what if we had to live without chocolate? That's right -- climate…
Open Thread Jan. 1: Keeping Up With the Jones Campaign
Didja notice that during the weeks leading up to Alabama's special Senate election you heard and read almost nothing about Doug Jones and the kind of race he was running?…
