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FINALLY: The Auditor’s Report
Here are the quick takeaways. The audit covered the years 2019-2022. The University Of Delaware was singularly uncooperative. Yes, Bethany Hall-Long collected ‘coincident pay’ to which she was not entitled. We don’t know how much due to UD’s willing non-compliance. We do know, however, that then-State Senator Ernie Lopez reduced his pay at the time […]
Song of the Day 9/17: Tito Jackson, “Love One Another”
Tito Jackson, the Jackson 5 guitarist whose name became a punchline, died the Sunday of a heart attack at age 70. Tito knew standup comedians used his name for cheap laughs. “I’ve always been the quietest member of the group, so people make jokes about me,” he said in a 2018 interview. “One of my […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024
Republicans thought nothing of their constant threats of violence until people started shooting at Trump. Now they want Democrats to stop talking about the threat to democracy posed by Trump and, really, by all of them. Well, now they can feel what’s it’s like to run scared. Didja ever think that maybe the problem isn’t […]
Song of the Day 9/16: Jane’s Addiction, “Jane Says”
In Boston the other night, fans went to a Jane’s Addiction concert and a hockey game broke out. Mid-song, lead singer Perry Farrell turned his aggro act on Dave Navarro, body checking the guitarist and then taking a swing at his head before stage security wrestled Farrell off the stage. Naturally, scores of concertgoers had […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Sept. 16, 2024
I want to thank the idiot with a gun who invaded Trump’s golf course. I was beginning to despair of the media ever getting past their fixation on the culinary choices of Haitian immigrants. Now they can fixate instead on whether the guy is a Democrat or Republican. Or maybe not. Apparently people
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 15, 2024
Justin Trudeau Fidel’s Son? The latest from the syphilis-addled brain of Le Grand Orange: OTTAWA — Two former Canadian lawmakers are calling on former President Donald Trump to apologize for reviving and circulating a long-debunked rumor that is “vile, vulgar, and deeply offensive.” Their move comes after Trump falsely claims that Canada’s prime minister is […]
Song of the Day 9/14: Al Stewart, “Year of the Cat”
In case you hadn’t noticed, this year’s presidential election is all about cats. I’m not clear on whether Republicans hate cats. Their disdain for cat ladies seems to indicate they do, but on the other hand they’re equally incensed by the notion that Haitians in Ohio are eating pet cats. Frankly, I have a feeling […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 14, 2024
Send Those Haitians Back To–Venezuela. You don’t even need to read the article to know who said it: “We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio, large deportations. We’re going to get these people out. We’re bringing them back to Venezuela,” he said. It’s unclear if he meant to say Venezuela. True. Could be he […]
Song of the Day 9/13: Frankie Beverly and Maze, “Before I Let Go”
Soul singer Frankie Beverly, who died this week at 77, wasn’t well known to white audiences. He and his band Maze didn’t hit their commercial stride until the late ’70s, after the disco craze had died down. Beverly’s brand of smooth, funk-seasoned soul never crossed over to the mainstream – he never had a Top […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 13, 2024
Laura Loomer And Marjorie Taylor Greene In A Steel Cage? When you’re too racist for MTG…: GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized far-right activist Laura Loomer on Thursday, saying that her “rhetoric and hateful tone” is concerning and a problem and “doesn’t represent MAGA as a whole.” The comments from Greene, a Georgia Republican who has […]
Song of the Day 9/12: Linda Ronstadt, “La Cigarra”
Big shout-out to Linda Ronstadt, who took to Instagram on the occasion of a Trump rally in her hometown today to blister the immigrant-hating/immigrant-marrying ex-president. Donald Trump is holding a rally on Thursday in a rented hall in my hometown, Tucson. I would prefer to ignore that sad fact. But since the building has my […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 12, 2024
The Primary’s Over, But BHL’s Corruption/Ineptitude Continues Unabated. Turns out she handles her office’s FOIA duties as well as she and Dana handle the family finances: The office of Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long may have violated Delaware’s open records laws by not responding to Freedom of Information Act requests for several years encompassing nearly her […]
Things I Want To See: Post-Primary Edition
In no particular order. Feel free to add your own: Someone needs to immediately stop BHL from disbursing any more money from her opioid slush fund. Especially to herself. I want to see Matt Meyer make government transparency and openness a key issue in his campaign and, one hopes, his administration. The voters have eliminated […]
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