May 14 Open Thread: He Who Commands the Media Has Command of Everything
Despicable as he is, Trump is unquestionably great at one thing: Playing the media. That's the answer to the perpetual question, "How did Trump win?" and it explains a lot…
May 12 Open Thread: Maryland Peckerwoods Threaten Civil War
The ignorant will always be with us, but I'll be satisfied when they go back to being ashamed of it. As it stands, "Ignorant and Proud of It" is the…
May 11 Open Thread: Study Finds Charters an Existential Threat to Public Education
The problem with arguing from facts is that you have to take the time to gather them. So now we have a study that reaches the same conclusion Delawareans reached…
Yesterday Proved Again Why Russia and Stormy Matter
A lot of otherwise right-thinking people seem to think that the Trump controversies involving Russia on the one hand and porn stars on the other are distractions from the real…
May 8 Open Thread: Pervs ❤️ New York
Calling all pervs -- there's a government job for you in New York, at least if you're a male Democrat. Eliot Spitzer's call girl problem looks tame next to Anthony…
May 7 Open Thread: Anything Trump Can Do, He Can Do Trumpier
If you're having a race to the bottom, you shouldn't invite a guy who makes his living underground. Don Blankenship, America's most lethal boss, went ballistic this morning when Trump…
May 1 Open Thread: Refuse to Lose, Even After You’ve Lost
To everyone else, "refuse to lose" is a sales-motivational cliche. To Republicans, it's an operating system. So even if you're Roy Moore, and you lost not just the election but…
April 30 Open Thread: Won’t Someone Think of the Trumpkins?
Washington is running out of fainting couches, as dozens of media figures have joined conservative snowflakes in expressing shock, shock at Michelle Wolf's routine Saturday night at the White House…
April 29 Open Thread: NRA Convention Bans Guns for Veep
The jokes write themselves. The NRA convention, the ultimate gathering of self-defined good guys with guns, has banned their fetish objects for a speech by VP Mike Pence because the…
April 27 Open Thread: The More He Talks, the More He Accidentally Reveals
Pundits are still buzzing over Trump's disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday's "Fox & Friends," which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne…
April 26 Open Thread: Deplorable Doesn’t Begin to Cover It
The pressure's definitely getting to Cheetohlini. This morning Trump called in to his top advisers, Fox & Friends, and got so unhinged they had to cut him off before he…
April 24 Open Thread: Panel Finds No Savings in Merging School Districts
A General Assembly task force put together to study merging some of Delaware's 19 school districts in search of savings couldn't find any -- the best they could do was…
April 23 Open Thread: Delaware Last in Election Security
An Axios article looking at ballot security in the run-up to the midterms notes that Delaware is one of only 5 U.S. states that lacks any paper trail of voting…