Open Thread

Does This Have The Faint Aroma Of Kathleen McGuiness Stench To It? No, it has complete and total McG stench affixed to it. A PAC was registered with the Delaware…

Bloody Rethug Primary Set For Georgia: The looming Republican primary opens a new front in the Georgia GOP’s civil war, which traces back to Trump’s loss in Georgia in November.…

C'mon, folks, get your nominees for 2021 MVP's (Most Valuable to the Progressive Cause in Delaware) in.  Time's running short. The thread's a little late this morning.  Last night's Twisted…

'Her Snowless Mountains Majesty Above The Barren Plains'.  Snowless mountains (literally) loom large in Mountain West: A new study provides a glimpse into the future of Western U.S. snow and…

Rethugs Will Pay The Price When Roe v Wade Is Overturned.  Here's why the Democratic 'gloom-'n-doom' narrative perpetuated by Politico and (oxymoron alert) centrist think-tanks can be obsolete almost overnight:…

BREAKING: Auditor's Office Has Spent $262,000 On Attorney's Fees Since 2019: Nobody's Talking.  Articles like this are why I subscribe.  From Xerxes Wilson's piece: In the same time period during…

Federal COVID Relief Has Been Unfairly Maligned.  It's doing a lot of good: To date, the federal government has allocated $4.52 trillion in response to Covid-19 — a staggering figure,…

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Interview With Sondheim.  Sondheim was a sounding-board for Miranda during the creation of Hamilton: Sondheim was one of the first people I told about my idea for a…

In case you were wondering: The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the…

Happy Thanksgiving!  Best holiday of the year by far, at least for us. Let me just emphasize how disgraceful giving the Kathleen McGuiness the Pharmacist Of The Year Award is. …

Could Traffic Circles Actually Be Good?  I grant you, they confuse me, especially when you're supposed to 'take the third right' at the roundabout. However: Carmel, a city of 102,000…

'Kyle Rittenhouse And The New Era Of Political Violence'.  Might as well go back and place the burgeoning movement featuring Rittenhouse and like-minded individuals in context.  Add to that blatantly-biased…

Biden To Reverse Disastrous Trump Policy Aimed At Despoiling Alaska: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will propose reinstating a Bill Clinton-era rule to ban logging and road building in more than…