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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023

By Alby October 24, 202314 Comments

Handicapping the Speaker Stakes? Now there are only eight entrants as Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania has scratched himself from the race. Meuser, who represents a big slice of the…

Bethany Beached: Day 36!

By El Somnambulo October 24, 202312 Comments

BREAKING BHL NEWS: There is none. I looked. I scoured. But not my kitchen. We'll fill the gap with bon mots from the bethanyforde site. Her last two--tweets? I was excited…

Song of the Day 10/23: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, “A Nightmare on My Street”

By Alby October 23, 2023

Will Smith's spoof of the Freddy Krueger movies fits the Halloween season, but he's living a more substantial nightmare these days, what with all the publicity his apparently estranged wife…

Bethany Beached: Day 35!

By El Somnambulo October 23, 20234 Comments

It has been 35 days since John Carney hastily canceled his Bethany Hall-Long fundraiser, which happened mere days after he had hastily endorsed her. With any luck, we won't hear…

DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 23, 2023

By Alby October 23, 202320 Comments

Anyone who's raised children recognizes Donald Trump as an overgrown toddler. The lies he tells are the sort of incompetent falsehoods even small children outgrow. After his attorney Sidney Powell…

Song of the Day 10/22: Jimmy Cliff, “Trapped”

By Alby October 22, 2023

For Gaza. Jimmy Cliff released this song as a single in 1972, the same year he starred in "The Harder They Come," the movie and soundtrack that made Jamaican music…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 22,2023

By El Somnambulo October 22, 20233 Comments

Pharoah And DeSantis: Separated At Birth? What do they have in common?--plagues. Hurricanes, floods, seaweed encrusted beaches, pythons who like to feast on elderly Palm Beach matrons, collapsing buildings, epidemics.…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 21, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 21, 202324 Comments

FINALLY, Aid Trucks Make Their Way Into Gaza. Not nearly enough, though...: A convoy of 20 trucks carrying aid moved through the Rafah border crossing into Gaza from Egypt on…

Song of the Day 10/20: Tom Jones and the Cardigans, “Burning Down the House”

By Alby October 20, 2023

I thought Jan. 6, 2021, made clear what the MAGA Republicans wanted to do to Congress, so the current House fire is no great surprise. I blame voters for handing…

BREAKING: Chesebro Cops Plea!

By El Somnambulo October 20, 20238 Comments

5 years probation; $5K restitution; truthful testimony in all relevant trials, video proffer to state, which he has completed; no communication with any other defendants. Looks like those criticizing DA…

DL Open Thread: Friday, October 20, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 20, 202310 Comments

How Jim Jordan Broke The Mold And Broke The Rethuglican Caucus. Interesting analysis from Josh Marshall: The congressional party is controlled and run by the hard right minority variously called…

Delaware Political Weekly: The (Truncated) Week Of October 16-19, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 20, 20234 Comments

1. Delaware R's Get Their (First? Only?) Candidate For US Representative. Donyale Hall. They could have done much worse, which makes me think that they will do much worse: DOVER…

House Rethug Shit-Show Takes Another Dump In The Lumpen Form Of Patrick McHenry

By El Somnambulo October 19, 20233 Comments

The R's apparently excreted the McHenry boomlet while secreted in the House bowels. The inside poop: House Republicans are abandoning a push to empower a temporary speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry,…