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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 […]
Last Fortnight’s Poll Results & This Fortnight’s Poll
It was supposed to run for a week, but I don’t think keeping it open for a fortnight changed the results much. Rochester is the person most of us think is going to be the next Jr Senator from Delaware. That makes sense. She is next in line and there is a depressing predictability to […]
DL Open Thread Monday May 15 2023
Remember the migrant caravan from 2018 that turned out to be nothing? Migrants crossing the border without documentation dropped on Friday, the first day after Title 42 was lifted, two U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials told NBC News. U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped just over 6,200 undocumented migrants on Friday compared with roughly 11,000 on […]
Song of the Day 5/14: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, “Sofa No. 1” and “Sofa No. 2”
Happy Mother’s Day. Get off your feet and onto a couple of sofas. From “One Size Fits All,” the 1975 LP that was the last one credited to the Mothers of Invention, who would have been the Mothers until record company execs balked.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 14,2023
Rethugs Fundraise, Pocket All The $$’s For Themselves: A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of using the money to promote issues and candidates, an analysis by The New York Times shows, nearly all the money went to pay the firms […]
The fallacy of Debt Limit “Brinksmanship”
The media continues to cover the “debt ceiling / budget negotiations” as if there are two sides trying to win concessions for their side. As if the Republicans are simply using the threat of financial disaster as bargaining leverage. It’s all bullshit. The GOP wants to destroy the world economy to own the libs and […]
Contract Bridge Players Overrun Rehoboth
Read this and answer a quick non-political question below the fold.
Bridge players from up and down the Eastern Seaboard recently competed in the second annual Rehoboth Beach Regional.
Tournament co-chair Kim Holm said about 600 players from Nova Scotia to Florida participated in the weeklong District 4 regional hosted by the American Contract Bridge League. Primarily, the players were from Virginia, Washington, D.C.,
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