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Song of the Day 7/31: Prince, “On the Couch”
JD Vance, the Ted Cruz of the North, did not write in his memoir that he once had sexual congress with a latex glove wedged between his couch cushions. But when someone on the internet said he did – the since-gone-viral tweet cited specific pages, which helped sell the gag – the claim took off. […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Everyone knows the story of the emperor’s new clothes, but I think they miss the point of it. As Hans Christian Andersen told it, two con-men told the king their cloth was invisible to stupid people, so everyone pretended they saw it to avoid appearing stupid. It took a child to blurt out that he […]
Song of the Day 7/30: Flavor Flav, “Unga Bunga Bunga”
OK, who saw this one coming? A major financial backer and official hype man for the U.S. women’s water polo team is none other than Flavor Flav, who came to fame as Chuck D’s sidekick in Public Enemy before he went mainstream on reality TV. If you have to ask why, you don’t understand modern […]
It Takes A Village…
…TO UNCOVER ALL OF THE GRAFT IN BHL’S OPIOID SLUSH FUND. You, my friends, comprise that village. Let’s all do this together. First, the raw materials. Here are all of the 2023 grants: https://ltgov.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/07/1A_2023_Grant-Awardees-and-Descriptions-List_website-1.pdf https://ltgov.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/03/1B_2023_Grant-Awardees-and-Descriptions-List_website.pdf If anyone has the 2024 list, please share. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to identify grants […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, July 30, 2024
I’ve kept up my vaccinations, so I’m immune to Olympic fever, but as a part-time resident of Paris I’ve been following organizers’ quixotic quest to have athletes swim in the Seine, always a sketchy plan because the water is often polluted. Sure enough, the triathlon, scheduled for this morning, was postponed because fecal coliform levels […]
Song of the Day 7/29: The Police, “Every Breath You Take”
Though 1983 was the year Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” put five singles on Billboard’s Year-End Top 100 chart, even “Billy Jean” missed the top spot. It finished second to what became The Police and Sting’s signature song, “Every Breath You Take,” the highlight of the band’s best-selling LP, “Synchronicity,” which was just rereleased with lots of […]
BREAKING: Matt Meyer Calls For Federal Investigation Into BHL’s Campaign Finances
He made the call today at a downtown press conference. I attended. To be honest, there was a relative paucity of detail. Meyer didn’t specify what alleged criminal activity he wanted the Feds to investigate. No, the campaign had not yet sent a letter to the Feds. However, campaign manager Nick Merlino said that the […]
DL Open Thread Monday, July 29, 2024
I was assured several days ago that Republicans would welcome a race against Kamala Harris because they had lots of ways to attack her. So far the attacks have been off-the-bottom-shelf specials noting that, hmm, let’s see…Apparently she’s a woman and she’s Black, so she slept her way to the top when she wasn’t being […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 28, 2024
Been watching the political attack ads, interrupted, albeit briefly, by the Olympics. Can we simply recognize the fact that the Delaware Way denizens are just pushing their chips all in on Bethany Hall Long’s candidacy? They’ve become the Democratic equivalents of MAGAts in that they are now overlooking what is clearly criminal behavior in order […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 27, 2024
Y’know, Trump makes ‘Low Energy Jeb’ look downright peppy. As someone pointed out on one of those news shows, optimism almost always wins in an election. Trump looks flat-out miserable. And Vance is already a disaster of Palinesque proportions. I hear that the Harris campaign is gonna have a ‘white dude’ event next week. I […]
BREAKING: Former Democratic State Chair Calls On Party To Rescind Endorsement
Not just any former chair. The best Party Chair we ever had: “In light of the recent independent investigative report that found Lt. Governor Hall-Long broke the law and repeatedly lied to voters, I am calling on the Delaware Democratic Party to immediately rescind their endorsement of her gubernatorial campaign. Our party has an obligation […]
Song of the Day 7/26: The Who, “Did You Steal My Money”
A musical question Bethany Hall Long’s campaign donors should be asking her husband. From “Face Dances,” the 1981 album that was the band’s first with Kenney Jones in place of the late Keith Moon.
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 26, 2024
BREAKING: Bethany Hall-Long Broke The Law: Delaware Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long’s political campaigns repeatedly violated Delaware law by not disclosing $298,000 in payments to her husband, and by failing to record advances the couple made to her campaigns as loans, a report from the state Department of Elections concluded. Hall-Long’s campaign reports for 2016 through […]
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