Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 3, 2021
Delaware Rethugs Have An AG Candidate. Chuck Welch, a retired Common Pleas Court judge in Kent County and, before that, for six years, a state representative. He’s focusing his campaign on the poor underappreciated police who have not been sufficiently loosed upon the citizenry: Law enforcement officers in the state are also need to feel […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021
Today’s media freak-out is over the Committee of GileadU.S. Supreme Court upholding a Texas abortion ban by a 5-4 vote. The real test will be when it’s put into practice, because the state won’t enforce it — it’s relying on private citizens to file lawsuits against providers and patients, and SCOTUS acknowledged it’s constitutionally questionable. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 29, 2021
We can now definitively state that Joe Biden was wrong when he predicted that the Republican fever would break once Trump was out of office. A nation in which Republican governors push experimental antibody treatments but shun vaccines and masks and the public responds by consuming large-animal dewormer, causing an enormous spike in poison control […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 28, 2021
Floridians Turning Against DeSantis? Signs point to yes: Covid infection rates continue to climb as the state faces shortages of health care staff, morgue space and even oxygen for patients. About 16,000 people are hospitalized. Child infection rates have shot up. School districts — even in Republican strongholds — have rebelled against DeSantis’ anti-mask mandates. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 27, 2021
Why So Many Politicians Are Jerks–And How To Bring Them Down. Something we always ingrained in our candidates: Thank your volunteers, treat them well, and feed them. Meaning, I particularly enjoyed this vignette: Landesman, the former political staffer, once worked on a campaign where he and other staff had to go door to door and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 21, 2021
U-Va: No Vaccine, No School For You. Dis-enrolls 49 students who didn’t follow mandatory policy. Oh, well, there’s always Falwell U. Krugman: ‘The Quiet Rage Of The Responsible’: Also, it’s striking how quickly supposed conservative principles have been abandoned wherever honoring those principles would help rather than hurt attempts to contain the pandemic. For decades, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 20, 2021
Virginia Redistricting Panel Ends Up Exactly As I Thought It Would. Same thing would happen here: When Virginians voted nearly 2-to-1 last fall to establish a bipartisan redistricting commission, the idea was to embrace a fairer method of drafting the state’s political maps. There was certainly reason to hope for an end to the brazen […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 19, 2021
Why would a guy, a Florida governor let’s say, dissuade people from getting vaccines or wearing masks, but go all-out on a treatment for people once they come down with Covid? Why do you think? Um…could it be that his second-biggest political donor owns a big chunk of the treatment company? Didn’t have to turn […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 16, 2021
Yo, Joe, Stop This Pipeline Now. They voted for you. The filthiest oil in the United States, headed here ‘courtesy’ of a Canadian corporation, will soon flow through Indigenous lands if you allow this. 5 billion gallons of water diverted, 760,000 barrels of crude per day to flow through across 14 counties in northern Minnesota. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 15, 2021
One of them finally spilled the beans. A congressional aide told journalist Julia Ioffe the reason Republican politicians are getting their own constituents killed: About a month ago, I was talking to a pretty senior Hill aide on the Republican side. Vaccinated, everybody in his shop was vaccinated. I said, ‘What is the deal, why […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 14, 2021
Is Louis DeJoy Currently The Most Corrupt Federal Official? Well, consider this: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy purchased up to $305,000 in bonds from an investment firm whose managing partner also chairs the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board, the independent body responsible for evaluating DeJoy’s performance. Between October and April, DeJoy purchased 11 bonds from Brookfield […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 13, 2021
House ‘Can’t Say’ Whether Ethics Complaint Has Been Filed Against Brady. Gee, you know they’d just love to tell you, but, unfortunately, their very own rules preclude them from doing so: But the public may not get confirmation for some time because the process of investigating an ethics complaint in the House is so shrouded […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 8, 2021
Alexander Pope was right: A little learning is a dangerous thing. He put it more poetically, but his observation was spot on. People who know a lot usually know how much they don’t know, whereas people who learn only a little tend to overestimate their knowledge. A perfect example played out yesterday at Christiana Hospital, […]
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