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DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 22, 2022
Russians Turn On Putin. Who will put the poisoned needle in him? Young males head for the exits, prisoners conscripted, protestors arrested. He’s screwed, all by himself. Russia’s answer to Speaker Pete: Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a partial military mobilization Wednesday to call up as many as 300,000 reservists in a dramatic bid to […]
El Som: ‘I’ve Got Some Money, I’ve Got My Legs, And I’ve Got Some Time. Any Suggestions?’
Why, yes, yes I do. Thanks for asking. Geography, of course, plays a part. If you’ve got a good race close to home, consider doing some canvassing and/or calling. Ho-kay, here we go: Kyra Hoffner. She won a 5-way primary to succeed Sen. Bruce Ennis in SD 14. If she can garner the support of […]
Primary Day Results ‘Rejoicing And Recriminations’ Thread
Polls have just closed. It’s up to the Department of Elections now. In recent years, Zero Hour has been somewhere around 9:30. That’s when the results have proceeded from a trickle to a gullywasher. Maybe, just maybe, with a slimmer slate of races and more people taking advantage of early voting, we’ll know more earlier. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Ukraine Offensive: Blip Or New Reality?: As the advancing Ukrainian troops regained lost territory with shocking speed, liberating the town of Balakliya and raising their blue-and-yellow flag over the city of Izyum, jubilant Ukrainians and officials in Kyiv and Western capitals indulged in a daring hope: maybe the grinding, stalemated war was swinging their way. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 10, 2022
I Finally Cut The Cord! No, not cable, not yet, although that’s coming soon. I finally unsubscribed from the Team LBR e-mail list that, come to think of it, I’d never subscribed to in the first place. I figured that, as a District committee person, I should give the incessant begging the benefit of the […]
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 […]
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