Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 13, 2022
We’re back. Didn’t know what happened to Jason–until I got that ‘Wish You Were Here’ postcard from Hawaii. Did he win the lottery, or did he merely abscond with the Delaware Liberal treasury (which wouldn’t have gotten him as far as Marcus Hook)? Anyway, he’s OK, but we’ve put him in ‘time-out’ for the day. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 11, 2022
Pa. Rethugs Lose Election–Try To Steal It In Court. By, you know, opposing special elections for vacant seats: The top-ranking Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives asked a court late Friday to prevent voters from filling three vacant seats in February that will determine majority control of the chamber. Rep. Bryan Cutler of Lancaster, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 10, 2022
For All You Science Nerds, (Let’s see, there’s Unstable Isotope, and that’s about it), Is This How To Beat Covid?: As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolves to escape natural antibodies, it also loses sensitivity to therapeutic antibody drugs. By contrast, evolution selects for binding to ACE2, the cell-surface receptor required for SARS-CoV-2 infection. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 9, 2022
The Sinema Enema. Flushed herself out of the bowels of the Democratic Party. Here’s my quick early take: Well, we know she can’t run as a D in Arizona again. Maybe the R’s will have her, maybe they won’t. Maybe she’ll go the Sore Loserman route. Problem is–what, exactly, is her constituency? Going the Third […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 8, 2022
Brittany Griner Released! In exchange for an arms dealer: The deal, the second such exchange in eight months with Russia, procured the release of the most prominent American detained abroad. Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist whose monthslong imprisonment on drug charges brought unprecedented attention to the population of wrongful detainees. Biden’s authorization to […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 4, 2022
Dominion Vs. Fox Case Heats Up In Delaware Superior Court. For once, I’m a Dominionist: Although the law leans in the media’s favor in defamation cases, Dominion has what independent observers have said is an unusually strong case. Day after day, Fox hosts and guests repeated untrue stories about Dominion’s ties to communist regimes and […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 2, 2022
Last Call For Albert Cummings–We already have what I call a ‘Covid sellout’, meaning a sellout minus the 20% or so of our audience that still hasn’t come back. For those of you who like your blues with a side order of country, perhaps this will entice you: You know what to do. Just. Do. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Medicare Dis-Advantage. Just remember–this is what Carney and DeMatteis is trying to sell to state employees: Medicare Advantage plans, which are private insurance plans for seniors paid for with federal dollars, originated as a government savings strategy, on the theory that the private sector could improve on government performance at a lower cost. But over […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022
DeSantis’ Role Model–Michael Dukakis? This former R strategist thinks so–with the same result: Not satisfied with the obvious Dukakis-in-the-tank comparisons sparked by DeSantis’ “Top Gov” campaign ad, it’s as though the DeSantis brain trust closely studied past presidential campaigns and picked the Dukakis campaign as their model. Dukakis posed in a tank wearing a helmet. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 26, 2022
Russia’s Economy Is Tanking Due, In Large Part, To Western Sanctions: For months, Putin claimed that the “economic blitzkrieg” against Russia had failed, but Western sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine are digging ever deeper into Russia’s economy, exacerbating equipment shortages for its army and hampering its ability to launch any new ground offensive […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 25, 2022
How Long Could You Survive–In The Quietest Room In The World? Would you literally hear the blood flow through your body? Would your innermost thoughts drive you crazy? From one writer’s semi-hallucinatory experience: Certain people find the promise of such quiet irresistible; it entices them, like a soundless siren call, to visit the building at […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 24, 2022
Something to give thanks for–while ‘other’ political blogs (are there any?) abandon their readers for Thanksgiving, we here at DL give you top-shelf commentary replete with the snark you’ve come to love. Besides, who wants to watch parades when they could be blogging? OK, enough vamping. Georgia Supreme Court Helps Warnock Campaign. No, not on […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 20, 2022
5 Killed, 18 Injured, In Shooting At LBGTQ Club In Colorado Springs. It flat-out has to be a hate crime. I’ll post more as developments warrant. How Sports Gambling Bought Its Way Into Ubiquity. BTW, didja know that the guy who sponsored Delaware’s bills was Charles Potter? Now you do. Also John Viola. Markell and […]
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