Open Thread
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 19, 2022
Garland Appoints Special Prosecutor For Trump. Good Idea, Or Bad Idea? I’m with Charles Pierce on this one: Garland seems more concerned about the perception of a political prosecution than he is the perception of a DOJ paralyzed by politesse and standards and norms that the suspects don’t respect in the least. Does Garland think […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 18, 2022
House Dem Leadership To Get A Lot Younger. Gotta say, I think Pelosi was a terrific Speaker, an all-timer, and got more stuff through the House than you would ever expect. An historical and successful figure on the American stage. Also gotta say, this new younger leadership team will almost invariably make mistakes. Having said […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Musk Demands Pledge Of Love From Twitter Workers. By end of day today: SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning: Commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter or leave the company with severance pay. Twitter is shifting to an engineer-driven operation — one that “will need to be extremely hardcore” […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 13, 2022
Terrible Night For Election Deniers. Meaning, it was a good night for democracy: Every election denier who sought to become the top election official in a critical battleground state lost at the polls this year, as voters roundly rejected extreme partisans who promised to restrict voting and overhaul the electoral process. The national repudiation of […]
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