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DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 23, 2021
Shop-Rite To Deep-Six Cashiers. Most of them anyway. You know, to ‘improve the customer experience’. Not quoted in the article? Anybody from the Kenny family. Pretty weak article, TBH. Amazon Takes Advantage Of Tax Break Intended To Help Impoverished Communities: Amazon has been heavily expanding into areas that the government designates for special tax incentives, […]
January, 2021: Cops Murder Lymond Moses. December, 2021: Cops Skate On Murder Of Lymond Moses.
The only Bill of Rights that applies in Delaware is the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill Of Rights. They have the right to kill with impunity, and never suffer consequences. It will ever be thus as long as cops dominate the leadership of the Delaware House Of Representatives. January, 2021: NCC Cops Kill Lymond Moses. Lie […]
RIP: Sen. Bob Venables
If you are to know just one thing about Bob Venables, it’s this: He was a tremendously empathetic human being. Whenever anyone needed help, he tried, and often succeeded. Didn’t matter one’s station in life, didn’t matter how someone could help him, he just wanted to help. He was a good person, without malice, without […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 19, 2021
‘Bloodless’ Air Strikes Were Anything But Bloodless. ‘The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. Documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths–and scant accountability.’ This is a report that must be read: The trove of documents — the military’s own confidential assessments of more than 1,300 reports of […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 18, 2021
‘Ye’s Campaign Run By GOP Operatives Attempting To Siphon Off Votes From Biden. Some damn good reporting from The Daily Beast. Kanye was a GOP plant. Looks like a lot of campaign laws were violated. Good thing the campaign was a disaster. Speaking Of Campaigns With The Whiff Of Disaster About Them…Take Herschel Walker. Please. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 17, 2021
Top HS Football Player Signs With–Jackson State. Big $$ Cheater Schools Go Apoplectic: Players, coaches and administrators from Florida’s state universities have for months encouraged him and other legislators to amend portions of the state’s NIL law that puts them at a disadvantage when recruiting against other schools located in states with either no state […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., December 16, 2021
Face It, Joe. Manchin’s Playing You And All The Democrats. He’s never gonna support the package. He is a Republican. He’s loving every second of his slo-mo betrayal, and the on-screen facetime he gets. Time to offer Murkowski whatever Alaska wants in exchange for her vote. The standoff nonetheless evinced the political divide between Biden […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 12, 2021
Trump ‘Orders’ Underling To Boycott Jan. 6 Hearings. Underling ‘Complies’. Huh, didn’t think the Last Guy could issue such orders. Or, didn’t think he had the power to issue such orders: Peter Navarro, who served as trade adviser to former President Donald J. Trump and who fought with government scientists while helping to orchestrate the administration’s […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 11, 2021
Trump Supporters Face Little Opposition As They Move To Steal Elections: Mr. Lindemuth’s victory in November in this conservative rural community is a milestone of sorts in American politics: the arrival of the first class of political activists who, galvanized by Donald J. Trump’s false claim of a stolen election in 2020, have begun seeking […]
Delaware Political Weekly: December 3-9, 2021
1. Kathleen McGuiness Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night. She has adopted the Big Lie approach that is the Rethugs’ electoral model. Here is her latest fundraising screed, which appeared in my inbox yesterday: When I ran for State Auditor in 2018, I pledged to bring my small business background and common-sense solutions […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 10, 2021
Some Good (Temporary) Drought Relief News? I’ve recently found myself scanning the weather maps in hopes of seeing some relief from the west/mountain west’s ongoing drought. Looks like we’re finally getting some: Over the next week, three storms should bring substantial precipitation to California and then head east into the Rockies. The first storm is […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 9, 2021
TransPerfect Music City Bowl, Anyone? No, we’re not talking an enlightened LGBTQ sponsor tie-in. We’re talking the batshit-crazy company that seems to exist only to lament their fate in front of Delaware’s Court Of Chancery. Matt Bittle alerted me to this. BTW, some other sponsor tie-ins to meaningless bowl games this year: Famous Idaho Potato […]
RIP: Barry Harris
One of jazz’ greatest pianists, and highly-revered by fans, fellow musicians, and his countless students. I was fortunate enough to see Harris and tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan put on a master class in bop at the Flight Deck (Wilmington version). It might have sounded something like this: Harris performed on an album of duets with […]
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