Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 4, 2025
Battling Climate Change Via–Ocean Antacid?. It’s a matter of scale: The world’s oceans stow vast amounts of carbon dioxide. Now, a growing group of scientists and companies say they’ve found a way to increase that storage capacity by tweaking ocean water chemistry. The technique, known as ocean alkalinity enhancement, usually involves dissolving acid-neutralizing rocks in […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 3, 2025
Mike Johnson’s Day Of Reckoning. For all the breathless supposition, he’s gonna be reelected Speaker. There’s nobody else who could get the votes. Now, it may not be today, but it’ll happen. With his bid to keep his speakership on the line — despite support from President-elect Donald Trump — the Louisiana Republican is looking […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 2, 2025
Tesla Cybertruck Explodes Out Of Trump Vegas Hotel. That can’t be coincidence, can it? Signs point to ‘no’: A Tesla Cybertruck filled with large firework mortars and gas canisters exploded near the entrance of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday morning, killing the driver and injuring seven others, according to police. Just Your […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Day 1 of our Dry January. Which will mostly be spent working off the effects of the three glasses of champagne we had last night. Wonder if my prose will become more lucid. I mean, it almost has to, doesn’t it? N’Awlins Mass Murder: At least 10 people have been killed and 30 injured after […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
While there are still great reporters plying their craft at legacy media outlets like the NYTimes and Washington Post, I find that the consistently-best outlets for the stories I like to cover and that our readers like to read are coming from non-corporate media. If you value their work as much as I do, you […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 30, 2024
Why Jimmy Carter Lost In 1980: For Jimmy Carter, the 12 months that culminated in the 1980 general election were marked by economic turmoil, international humiliation and a political challenge from the most recognizable family name in the Democratic Party. Together, they would drive Carter from office, leaving a punctuation mark on his one-term presidency […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 29, 2024
Matt Meyer Gives His Developer Friends This Lovely Parting Gift. Kevin Caneco’s take is right on: My statement on outgoing CE Matt Meyer veto of ORD 24-008 (Impact fees)You’re a mean one Mr. Grinch…Last night I learned outgoing CE Matt Meyer vetoed Substitute No. 1 to ORD 24-008 which adjusted and raised impact fees on […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 28, 2024
Meet The New Audit, Same As The Old Audit: Delaware Unemployment Compensation Fund Still Unauditable: The State’s Department of Labor was unable to provide sufficient appropriate audit evidence for the balances and financial activity of the account balances of the unemployment fund. The State’s records do not permit us, nor is it practical to extend […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 27, 2024
How Cops Routinely Mistreat Our Most Vulnerable: The Biden administration launched the probes in the wake of the national outcry over the police killings in 2020 of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. Reports issued over the last two years have focused largely on excessive use force and the kind of racial […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 26, 2024
Let’s get this out of the way first: Wednesday NFL football is bad NFL football. At least Beyonce was there to save halftime. Israel: Fuck The Civilians. And you believed them when they said that they weren’t targeting civilians: At exactly 1 p.m. on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel’s military leadership issued an order that unleashed […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Been a tough month for those born on December 25. Rickey Henderson. Justin Trudeau. December boys got it bad: Hey, it’s December 25. Howzabout a double shot?: This is what we in the Open Thread biz refer to as ‘vamping’. Ho-kay, let’s see if I can dig up some, you know, real stuff… Yikes, America’s […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Just because we don’t get nearly as many readers the next two days as normal, that’s no excuse for me to just mail in the Open Thread. If you’re gonna read, I’m gonna try. Let’s start with ‘salacious’: Well She Was Just Seventeen, You Know What I Mean: Citing text messages, travel receipts, online payments […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 23, 2024
Biden Commutes Sentences Of Death Row Inmates: President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row, sparing the lives of 37 men just a month before Donald J. Trump will return to the Oval Office with a promise to restart federal executions. Those affected by Mr. Biden’s action, all […]
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