Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 22, 2022
Finally figured it out: There’s no such thing as a ‘digression’ in an Open Thread. That’s why it’s an Open Thread. Which reminds me, did anybody place a bet on ‘Early Voting’ in the Preakness b/c the horse was named ‘Early Voting’? Were I a wagerer, I would have. Would’ve cashed a winning ticket. Something […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., May 21, 2022
Mastriano Was MAGAt Before MAGAt Was Mainstream. Wrote of left-wing ‘Hitlerian putsch’ back in 2001: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin with the dismantling of the U.S. military and end […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 20, 2022
COVID Ain’t Over, Y’All. I think everybody should be a little more cautious. Two of my friends have caught it in the last week or so–one here, one on the west coast. They feel like shit. I’m gonna mask up a little more. And, of course, being naturally anti-social, stay away from people. Which is […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Georgia County Booms, Dispelling ‘Great Replacement’ Theory. A century after whites drove prospering Black farmers out of the county, and kept them out: CUMMING, Ga. — In October 1912, after the raped and brutalized body of Mae Crow, a white 18-year-old, was laid to rest beside the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, the white men of […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Busy, busy busy. No time to waste. Unless you’re the House. In which case, you can consider legislation designating the official dinosaur and reptile of Delaware. To be fair, these bills are likely both the products of school projects. You know, ‘how a bill becomes law’. The dinosaur designation certainly is. In that case, the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 15, 2022
Yes, The Racist Who Massacred Mostly Black Victims In Buffalo Got His ‘Info’ From The Internets: Investigators are reviewing a screed that they suspect was posted by the gunman describing his white-supremacist motivations and ideology. The 180-page document was uploaded to Google Drive and details the author’s radicalization on Internet forums, as well as a […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Still recovering from producing a great show by Shamarr Allen & The Underdawgs last night. If you ever get a chance to see them, go see them. Thankfully, my Bionic Booty held up well. Even did the Freddie on the dance floor: But, I digress. (Maybe someday I’ll do an entire open thread of digressions…) […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 12, 2022
Georgia Cops, Sheriff, Caught Flat-Out Lying About Stop Of DSU Lacrosse Team: Body camera footage from Georgia deputies who stopped a Delaware State University women’s lacrosse team bus late last month directly contradicts Tuesday statements by the sheriff who defended the stop. In a public address, Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman said “no personal items on the bus […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
QAnon Devotees Call Each Other Pedophiles, Deny QAnon Allegiance. Submitted just because I, at least, need to take my mind off all the shit that’s going down. At least for a moment: The new thing, it seems, is to pretend you aren’t a conspiracy theory-pushing Q advocate, while very clearly being a conspiracy theory-pushing Q […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 8, 2022
Happy Mothers’ Day–whether you want to be a mother or not. You may soon have no choice. The 49-Year Crusade To Overturn Roe v Wade. The Federalist Society, yet another pox on America: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell still remembers the shock he felt when Donald Trump won the 2016 election. He also recalls what […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 5, 2022
Abortion Pills The Next Battleground: Medication abortion — a two-drug combination that can be taken at home or in any location and is authorized for use in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy — has become more and more prevalent and now accounts for more than half of recent abortions in the United States. If […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Everything pales in contrast to the Supreme Court killing Roe v. Wade. Thankfully, Delaware enacted legislation retaining all the protections of Roe v. Wade in the event that this day would ever come. I believe that the ‘gentlemanly’ Orrin Hatch helped put Alito on the Court. As did Tom Carper, who voted against filibustering Alito. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 1, 2022
Tucker Carlson: American Nationalist. When the history of the death of American democracy (or what passes for it) is written (whether it’s permitted to be published or read depends upon the whims of whoever ends up as America’s Orban), the creation of a 24/7 TV propaganda news cycle will loom large in the story. As […]
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