Open Thread

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Don't forget, kids--DL's 2024 MVP's drops tomorrow! Also my way of saying that I'm not all that confident that I'll find much to write about today.  But you never know. …

Totally Unnecessary Shutdown Averted.  Trump doesn't get his shutdown while Biden is President.: Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would…

Three Notable Trends From This Year: 1.  The News-Journal is no longer an essential newspaper. While the paper broke a couple of stories, most of the big stories were reported…