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Comment Rescue: Coons Wants Humanitarian Pauses – And Quiet

By Alby November 14, 202311 Comments

H/t to Joe Connor, who reads the New York Post so you don't have to. Seems our junior senator, Chris Coons, took an Amtrak train recently, where he had a…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023

By Alby November 7, 20239 Comments

Trump took the stand in his New York civil trial for fraud yesterday and, as was widely predicted, he did not comport himself in a professional manner. Y'all can believe…

DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 30, 2023

By Alby October 30, 202336 Comments

Israel's assault on Gaza has entered the there's-no-excuse-for-this stage. One indication of how bad it is: Desperate Gazans broke into UN aid centers and looted their already insufficient food supplies.…

DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 23, 2023

By Alby October 23, 202320 Comments

Anyone who's raised children recognizes Donald Trump as an overgrown toddler. The lies he tells are the sort of incompetent falsehoods even small children outgrow. After his attorney Sidney Powell…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023

By Alby October 18, 202322 Comments

The hospital bombing in Gaza has convinced his handlers that Joe Biden won't meet with Arab leaders in Jordan on his Middle East trip today. I'm not sure how yet,…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023

By Alby October 17, 202318 Comments

The media news-scape is cluttered with war porn, but not so much that it pushed the Trump porn out of the picture. Horse-race stories about the House speakership round out…

DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 16, 2023

By Alby October 16, 20237 Comments

Whatever you think about the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you have to admit that U.S. media picks and chooses its obsessions, and that dwelling on those stories stirs the deranged to…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023

By Alby October 11, 202317 Comments

Whether you're rooting for Israel or Hamas, the media has plenty of atrocity stories to stoke your righteous ire. I'm not linking to any of them because I don't think…

Song of the Day 10/10: U2, “Pride (In the Name of Love)”

By Alby October 10, 20232 Comments

Did Hamas deliberately single out the Tribe of Nova trance music festival, where they massacred at least 260 people and took an unknown number hostage? It wouldn't be the first…

Song of the Day 6/25: Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, “Too Late to Turn Back Now”

By Alby June 25, 2023

So let me get this straight: The revolt of the Wagner mercenaries got halfway to Moscow and then turned back. I'm no warlord, but I don't think that's the way…

Song of the Day 6/24: The O’Jays, “Backstabbers”

By Alby June 24, 20232 Comments

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary forces is marching 25,000 soldiers on Moscow, and Vladimir Putin has responded in classic fascist fashion, describing it not just as treason but that…

Song of the Day 6/20: A.L. Phipps and the Phipps Family, “The Great Titanic”

By Alby June 20, 20238 Comments

Five people have been lost descending to the wreck of the Titanic in a small submersible craft. A frantic search for them is underway, but unless the story gets a…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, May 9, 2023

By Alby May 9, 20237 Comments

Delaware holds school board elections today. The News Journal ran a useful voters' guide, but I don't know if it's behind the paywall. Meanwhile, RISE Delaware, the group fighting Gov.…