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April 18 Open Thread: Scary Stuff

By Alby April 18, 201817 Comments

As much as I enjoyed "Goldfinger" back in the day, I was always skeptical about the denouement, in which Auric Goldfinger, who's almost as fat as Trump, gets sucked out…

April 12 Open Thread, Bulldog Edition: GOP Has So Much Sex and Drugs They Don’t Need Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Alby April 11, 201813 Comments

Josh Marshall highlights an overlooked passage from Michael Wolff's book, about Trump's longtime lawyer Mark Kasowitz dealing during the campaign with "hundreds" of women who came forward accusing Trump of…

April 9 Open Thread: I Hate That Not-Real Guy

By Alby April 9, 201816 Comments

You know those insufferable people on Twitter who drive you crazy by tweeting you links about Bernie or Hillary or whichever candidate you hate? There's a two-to-one chance they're bots.…

April 3 Open Thread: Delaware Hoops Star Goes Nationwide

By Alby April 3, 201813 Comments

Delaware figured prominently in last night's NCAA men's basketball championship, as former Salesianum standout Donte DiVincenzo -- known as the Michael Jordan of Delaware when he led the Sals to…

April 2 Open Thread: Irony, Where Is Thy Sting?

By Alby April 2, 20184 Comments

A friend of mine maintains that conservatives just don't get irony, which makes the story about right-wing broadcast syndicate Sinclair Broadcasting a bit less surprising: The company forced reporters at…

March 30 Open Thread: Contain Your Enthusiasm

By Alby March 30, 20189 Comments

At last we know what all the bashing of the Coastal Zone Act over the past few years has been about. The long-discussed Port of Wilmington expansion project has finally…

March 29 Open Thread: How Real Bipartisanship Works

By Alby March 29, 20187 Comments

Chris Coons could take a lesson in bipartisanship from his 22 female colleagues. All 22 of them -- 17 Democrats, 5 Republicans -- signed a letter to Mitch McConnell demanding…

March 28 Open Thread: St. Anthony’s Finds Its Misplaced Good Sense

By Alby March 28, 20183 Comments

You couldn't write a better ad for the effectiveness of Tom Neuberger in fighting the Catholic authorities: He got St. Anthony's parish and the Diocese of Wilmington to back down…

March 26 Open Thread: Big Bust Might Lead to Big Bust

By Alby March 26, 201819 Comments

The March for Our Lives turnout exceeded my expectations, and produced hours of riveting testimonials from children about the effects shooting have on their lives. That's unbeatable TV, and the…

March 23 Open Thread: Trump Wants Trade Wars and Hot Wars

By Alby March 23, 20187 Comments

Among all the distractions in the 24-hour news cycle, the most important story got buried amid the detritus: Trump slapped tariffs on a bunch of Chinese goods, and the American…

March 22 Open Thread: Facebook Faces the Music

By Alby March 22, 20187 Comments

It's hard not to feel some schadenfreude over Facebook's sudden fall in fortune. Mark Zuckerberg finally addressed the issue of privacy with some vague promises, but the potential legal problems…

March 19 Open Thread: Money Is the Root of All Greed

By Alby March 19, 201832 Comments

WDEL's Amy Cherry has the best story on the kerfuffle over the firing of Padua Academy's principal. The Diocese of Wilmington is trying to split hairs about it, but it…

March 16 Open Thread: Go to Jail. Go Directly to Jail.

By Alby March 16, 201825 Comments

The Mueller investigation passed Go and collected $200 yesterday, when it was revealed that Mueller has subpoenaed documents from the Trump Organization. I think Mueller is moving slowly to give…