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Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health-care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer’s explanation often seem arbitrary and absurd, that might be because companies appear increasingly likely to employ computer […]
Song of the Day 5/18: The Everly Brothers, “Gone Gone Gone”
Colorado Congressclown Lauren Boebert has been demonstrating those Republican family values again, this time by serving her husband with divorce papers. He reportedly didn’t take it well; the process server who delivered them said he sicced the dogs on him. I’m not sure if Don and Phil Everly wrote this about a romance or their […]
“Is Joe Biden the most horrible monster to ever run for President?”
The whole game for the GOP is raising enough wariness in the minds of Democratic voters to mute their election day enthusiasm. I can’t believe I still have to be saying some version of this every fucking day. And I can’t believe that enough dopes will fall for shit like this that it could work… […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 18, 2023
Last Session Day until June 6. Joint Finance Committee finalizing the budget until then. Meaning, in the unlikely event that Speaker Pete is true to his word, he has only 12 remaining Session days as Speaker after today. ‘True to his word’ being the operative variable. Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Good day in the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Three Headlines From This Morning’s NYTimes: South Carolina House Passes Six-Week Abortion Ban Texas Legislature Bans Transgender Medical Care for Children Montana Governor Signs Total Ban of TikTok in the State. The New Normal. Might As Well Add This One: A federal appeals court on Wednesday seemed prepared to limit access to a key abortion […]
Song of the Day 5/17: Samuel E. Wright, “Under the Sea”
A Florida man has set a new record for living underwater without depressurization — at this point, 78 days and counting. University professor Dr. Joseph Dituri intends to stay in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, which bills itself as the only underwater hotel in the United States (it’s at the bottom of a 30-foot lagoon off Key […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 17, 2023
Collegiality reigned in Dover yesterday. Don’t think there was a no vote anywhere on the Agenda. While collegiality isn’t necessarily ‘good’, as in unanimous passage of the corporate law package, it is in other cases, as in the unanimous vote on SB 9. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Someone even woke up John Carney […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday May 17 2023
Here is some stuff that happened… Is Carper really running? Roll Call is asking. Democratic Sen. Thomas R. Carper has yet to announce his plans as well and after Cardin, he had the lowest fundraising total among Democrats whose terms are up next year, raising just $195,000 in the first quarter. The 76-year-old incumbent has […]
BREAKING: Guiliani Accused Of Selling Pardons From Trump For $2 Mill Apiece
Along with some especially disgusting alleged sexual harassment. I won’t post the details. But you can click on the link. As to the pardons: A woman who said she worked for Rudy Giuliani during the last two years of the Trump administration alleged in a wide-ranging lawsuit that Giuliani, the former president’s personal attorney, discussed […]
Song of the Day 5/16: Shuggie Otis, “Strawberry Letter 23”
Everyone knows the version by the Brothers Johnson, a. No. 5 hit in 1977. Fewer realize that it’s a cover of a tune written by guitar prodigy Shuggie Otis, who included it on his 1971 LP “Freedom Flight.” Otis, the son of R&B and early rock ‘n’ roll bandleader and impresario Johnny Otis, was 17 […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Looks like the Seaford ‘LLC’s Are People’ Bill is dead. For now. Wouldn’t be shocked if Rep. Danny Short is breathing a sigh of relief. The bill was on last Thursday’s House Agenda, but wasn’t worked. It is not on today’s agenda. Charter changes are generally not controversial. The legislators who have a given municipality […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday May 16 2023
Unless you are a migratory bird or a mosquito, there is absolutely no reason to go to any of these so-called “beaches”. The best ‘secret’ beaches in Delaware: Broadkill, Pickering, Slaughter. Plan your visit. _________________________________ I get all of my news from the comments section of this blog, and the Highlands Bunker Podcast. Anyhoo….The last […]
Song of the Day 5/15: Loreen, “Tattoo”
Most Americans know little and care less about Eurovision, the annual international music contest that’s sort of a cross between the Olympics and a Simon Cowell sing-off. Each participating country — there are nearly two dozen, and the United States isn’t among them — is represented by a performance of an original song. The winner […]
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