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Song of the Day 6/7: Klaatu, “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”
I don’t know if you saw this, but a whistleblower with a high security clearance says there’s a secret government program that has retrieved wreckage of non-human origin. This isn’t some anonymous source — he’s a highly respected intelligence agent who has gone public with this. Though mainstream media has been suspiciously slow to pick […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday June 7 2023
Is it possible Fox News did the right thing for the right reason? …Nah. Tucker Carlson goes full Nazi on Twitter. Tucker Carlson calls Ukraine’s Jewish leader ‘rat-like’ as he launches new Twitter show with pro-Kremlin rant The far-right former Fox News host also questioned the official story about 9/11 and claimed that the US […]
Song of the Day 6/6: The Beatles*, “Grow Old With Me”
The asterisk is because this isn’t really the Beatles. People who worry about the AI menace have been too busy fretting about job losses and armageddon to notice it much, but the technology that allows for deep fakes is about to disrupt the music industry, too. One of the demos of this John Lennon song, […]
Blood Money Always Wins
In this case, the blood money of Saudi Murderer Mohammed bin Salman, the man behind the killing of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi. You may recall that bin Salman tried to sportswash Saudi Arabia into international acceptance by backing the LIV golf league, where top golfers were paid obscene guarantees to defect. You know the […]
Matt Meyer Makes It Official: He’s Running For Governor
Who knows? He might win. It’s not as if there’s an undeniable powerhouse in the race, or a progressive candidate who can galvanize the grassroots: Meyer, who has been county executive since 2016, launched into Delaware politics as a progressive outsider. He primaried and defeated then three-term incumbent Tom Gordon, an embattled politician who had […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Imagine for a second that you support police reform. You know that a draft bill was finished in February. You know that, despite numerous requests from numerous supporters, the draft is not being made available to you or to any other supporters. Imagine that you and numerous others have contacted the prime sponsor of the […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday June 6 2023
Pence may face an uphill battle to win the support of a GOP primary voters, most of whom still want to see him swinging from a lamppost and doing that sad little jig that hanged people do. Mike Pence files paperwork to launch 2024 Republican presidential campaign ___________________________ HEY LOSER… Yeah..That’s what a loser would […]
Happy Indictment Day! (Maybe)
Is it me or does Trump sound more like the adult in Peanuts cartoon WITH EACH PASSING DAY?
Song of the Day 6/5: Max Frost and the Troopers, “Shape of Things to Come”
Cynthia Weil, the lyricist who with her composer husband Barry Mann wrote some of the hits that made the Brill Building famous, died last week at age 82. Their biggest hit, the one that made the headline in obituaries, is “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” but it tops a long list of tunes by artists […]
DL Open Thread Monday June 5 2023
Two people Trump nearly killed last time, Mike Pence (hanging) and Chris Christie (c0vid) are planning to enter the race for the GOP presidential nomination this week. Christie says he is entering to “…do to Trump what I did to little Marco” which is the most homoerotic reason given for running for president since Martin […]
Last Week’s Poll Results and this Week’s Poll
Q: What office should Eugene Young run for? A: Governor of Delaware (53%) Vox populi, the people have spoken. There is one other open seat statewide and it isn’t getting too much attention. That office is Lt Governor. So…Who would you like to see doing this… The lieutenant governor serves as the President of the Delaware […]
Song of the Day 6/4: Guster, “Demons”
In the modern Republican Party, the measure of success is the ability to attract media attention, which is why Lauren Witzke is the leader of Delaware’s cackle of hyenas. She landed a mention in the Philadelphia Inquirer last week by tweeting out a graphic that shows the term “pride month” morphing into just its middle […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 4, 2023
The False Equivalency Between ‘Hard Right And Hard Left’ In Debt Ceiling Debate. Meant to write about this when I saw the WaPo headline about this. It’s lazy journalism and lazy editing, and it perpetuates a lie: Here’s how, in its lead story Thursday, the New York Times described the House’s vote to resolve Republicans’ […]
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