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DL Open Thread: Friday, September 9, 2022
Isn’t Charles The Guy Nobody Likes? Oh well, I’ll always have that commemorative bottle opener. You know the one that reads, ‘Drink Up, Chuck and Di’. Say it three times fast. Could Be A Blue Wave In Michigan. ‘Right To Abortion’ will be on the ballot: The Michigan Supreme Courton Thursday ordereda proposal enshrining the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 8, 2022
Steve Bannon: A Case Study In Conservative Grift: The outsize role of grift in American conservatism is a story that goes back at least a half century. But Trump glommed on to those tendencies while also exacerbating them in his own ugly ways, and the Bannon saga is a particularly grotesque example of that. Bannon […]
El Somnambulo Predicts ‘Em (Almost) All For You
Not gonna waste precious e-space on Kent and Suxco Levy Court, County Council or row offices. Need to save room for all the snark I can muster. Auditor Of Accounts D Primary. Some people say I overthink too much. Well, I think I’ve overthought this one. (Am I still overthinking it? What if I’m underthinking […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 4, 2022
News Of Lydia York’s Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated. She had a great day of campaigning at the Arden Fair. Three hours spent equally between the parking lot where the visitors get the buses and at the Fair proper campaigning with the indefatigable Colleen Davis. No sign of her convict opponent. It’s precisely where Lydia should […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 3, 2022
Happy Arden Fair Day! Sen. McConnell Is–Mitcher Lonely: Not even Peter Thiel will return his calls: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s grand vision for a Republican sweep in the midterm elections is not going according to plan. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that billionaire Peter Thiel, who funded the insurgent primary campaigns of J.D. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 2, 2022
Trump And MAGAts Threaten Democracy, Biden Says. Yes, they do. Or, at least, what passes for democracy: “We are still at our core a democracy — yet history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader, and the willingness to engage in political violence, is fatal to democracy,” Biden said. “There is no question […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 1, 2022
Trump Tries His Hand At Three-Dimensional Chess, Loses At Checkers. His call for a special master to review documents led to this photo: Those Secret and Top Secret documents are but a few of those that a special master would have been expected to review. Trump tried to play rope-a-dope, but the dope got roped. […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: August 2022
I cull the wheat from the chaff so that you don’t have to. Sit back, relax. The Master knows what He’s doing: Wonder if I can get this guy on a double-bill with Catbite at the Gild Hall…: This haunting footage was recorded just days before the Great San Francisco Earthquake Of 1908. Have I […]
Symphony Steve’s First Show Of The Arden Concert Gild Season!
I’m really psyched to announce that Chris Pierce and Special Guest Sug Daniels will grace the Gild Hall stage on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022 at 8 pm. Chris Pierce writes some of the most powerful songs I’ve heard in a long time. Check him out: Which doesn’t mean that he can’t turn out a kick-ass […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 28, 2022
Trump Judge Makes New Law To Give Trump ‘Special Master’ To Review Classified Documents. Pure insanity: And now the Trump-appointed judge has broken with all legal precedent, and written wholly new law in the process, to give Donald Trump exactly what he wanted—a special master. Judge Aileen Cannon didn’t stop with saying she intends to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 27, 2022
Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of ‘Probable Cause’ To Raid Mar-A-Lago: The details contained in a search-warrant affidavit and related memo crystallize much of what was already known about the criminal probe into whether Trump and his aides took secret government papers and did not return all of the material — despite repeated demands from […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 26, 2022
Don’t Intellectuals Have Anything Better To Do? ‘Some’ argue against using the term ‘progressive’: But a backlash has been brewing. Some thinkers on the left question whether embracing “progressive” implies a certain level of comfort with the idea that history is guided by a hidden hand and somehow moves in a way that makes each […]
My Influencers
I’ve been aware of electoral politics since I was four. My father ran as a Republican for New Castle County Sheriff in 1958. The Delaware Democratic party was still a Dixecrat party and Black registrations did not begin to switch over in any numbers until the JFK race. Anyway, I remember the rush when the […]
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