Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 31, 2022
I Sure Hope That Madison Cawthorn Is Telling The Truth For Once. He almost certainly isn’t, but still: After Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) went on a podcast and alleged that some of his Republican colleagues in Congress are orgy-frequenting degenerates with a fondness for hard drugs, members of the House GOP had a simple response […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 27, 2022
Fascinating Portrait Of Vladimir Putin. Why he is the way he is. Well worth a NYTimes subscription. Too much to even excerpt. Read it online, or try to find a newspaper edition. Basically, he hated being humiliated. OK, just one excerpt: In 1993, Mr. Yeltsin ordered the Parliament shelled to put down an insurgency; 147 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 26, 2022
Rethug Congressman Found Guilty Of Lying About Illegal Campaign Contributions. Poor guy, after his conviction, he read a letter from his daughter saying how much she loves him anyway: A federal jury on Thursday convicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) on three felony counts for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign contributions from a foreign […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 25, 2022
Money For Nothin’. The coming-together of Carney’s brain-dead ‘budget-smoothing’, the lack of virtually any guardrails on that windfall of Federal money, and the cynicism of the Delaware General Assembly. Because there are apparently no problems that need addressing in Delaware. We have the region’s dirtiest streams and rivers? We’re overridden by pollutants? We have too […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Looks Like The Manhattan DA Ran Interference For Trump: Trump ‘Guilty Of Multiple Felonies’: The question, of course, is why did this Alvin Bragg pull the plug on the investigation? One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 20, 2022
Putin’s Placing Blame. Arresting advisors for failing to successfully carry out his war. More from the NYTimes: Signs of Russia’s challenges abound. Late last week, Russian news sources reported that Mr. Putin had put two of his top intelligence officials under house arrest. The officials, who run the Fifth Service of Russia’s main intelligence service, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 19, 2022
Bitcoin Miners Came To Appalachia. Lied about the impact. Hmmm, sounds like a promising story line for the Justified reboot: LIMESTONE, Tenn. — It started as a low hum one day last spring. Then it got louder, and soon some residents said the noise was like a jet engine idling on a nearby tarmac. The […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 18, 2022
China’s Dictator Having Bad Year. Because no one dared tell him the truth over his Covid policy, and that the Chinese vaccines were inferior: But while we’re all justifiably obsessed with the Ukraine war…it’s important to note that there’s a superficially very different yet in a deep sense related debacle unfolding in the world’s other […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 17, 2022
Back with my new hip. I’m taking great pains, and great pain meds (thanks for everything, Jacqi!), to bring you the stuff that I find interesting. Feel free, as always, to share with us the stuff you find interesting. It’s what the Open Thread is all about. Biden Labels Putin A War Criminal. Because he […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 13, 2022
First Amendment Lawyers Rooting For Media–To Lose? I might be right with them: The suits, which are being argued in several state and federal courts, accuse Project Veritas, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, One America News and others of intentionally promoting and profiting from false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election, and of […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 12, 2022
Abortions Are Illegal In Texas. The last in-state appeal of Texas’ draconian law was denied by the Texas Supreme Court: In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that state licensing officials do not have the ability to enforce the law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy. This lawsuit was widely seen as the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 11, 2022
The Latest On Putin’s War. More like Putin’s obsession. Looks like the only way it ends is if someone in Russia takes out Putin. If you want your propaganda with a positive spin, Kos is here to help. Based on his praising the inevitability of Hillary Clinton, I’d take his words with more than a […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 10, 2022
The Guardian Provides Excellent Source Of Up-To-Date Ukraine-Russia News. A go-to resource. Cause/Effect: Trump plane (allegedly) makes emergency landing. Trump fund-raises for new plane. Which reminds me: Has anyone outside the Trump orbit confirmed the plane’s distress, or are we just once again believing serial liars? Some More Ft. DuPont Stink. It won’t dissipate, not […]
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