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Song of the Day 10/21: Frank Zappa and the Mothers, “Call Any Vegetable”
Queen-killer Liz Truss was doomed from the moment the Daily Star livestreamed her photo next to a head of lettuce, with a caption asking which would last longer. The smart money was always on the lettuce — one wag wanted to know how it voted on Brexit, leaf or romaine? — because vegetables have been […]
Song of the Day 10/20: Fine Young Cannibals, “Social Security”
Republicans think old people have too much money and rich people don’t have enough, so they’ve promised to cut Social Security if/when they get back into power. Bitter white people will vote for them anyway. Fine Young Cannibals released this song as the B-side to “Good Thing,” the second No. 1 single from their 1989 […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Britain’s Prime Minister Resigns! Trussed on her own petard. Or something like that: Embattled U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned following a tumultuous few weeks in office now distinguished as the shortest term in history. Truss announced her resignation Thursday in a short statement outside her office at 10 Downing Street. “I cannot deliver […]
Guilt by Association Political Ads
Living in New Castle County, I get a lot of PA political ads on TV. I also just saw my first Lisa Blunt Rochester TV ad. She would like you to know that she will “work with ANYONE” which I hope is hyperbole. I mean, when she wins I hope she steers away from working […]
If White People Are So Smart…
…then why do they make up almost the entire audience for obvious grifters like Donald Trump? Sorry, Whities, but based on the available evidence you’re the dumbest motherfuckers alive. And the funny part is that white conservatives want to claim superior status not based on their own accomplishments, but the accomplishments of other pale-skinned people. […]
BREAKING: Court Suspends Delaware Conversion Of Retiree Health Insurance To Medicare Advantage!
Well. This is a pleasant surprise: https://www.wdel.com/news/update-court-suspends-del-conversion-of-retiree-coverage-to-medicare-advantage/article_840b7aea-4fe5-11ed-a7a7-7b45060c8cd4.html Although–likely not to the Carney/Claire Concord Coalition Of Commerce Comrades. It gives Pete another chance to kick yet another important issue down the road during next week’s Special Session.
Delaware’s Jails are for Black & Poor People
The only “crimes” that really register as crimes among lawyers, juries and judges are street crimes. It is little wonder that black people constitute 23% of state residents, but 56% of the incarcerated population. This picture was always comical. Nobody ever thought Park City was going to see the inside of a jail cell.
KMG Resigns!!
Effective November 4. This, according to Steve Wood in his closing statement at sentencing today. She submitted her letter of resignation last night.
Song of the Day 10/19: The Philadelphia Orchestra, “1812 Overture”
H/t Ben, who requested this last month. It was 210 years ago today that Napoleon began his devastating retreat from Moscow, an anniversary not observed by the French. Seventy years later Pyotr Tchaikovsky debuted this commemorative piece, scored for orchestra and artillery, for the dedication of a church that celebrated Russia’s victory, which was achieved […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022
It’s sentencing day for unrepentant state auditor Kathy McGuiness. Prosecutors want her to serve 30 days and pay a $30,000 fine. Her attorney wants her slap on the wrist to be a $1,000 fine and nothing else, not even probation. Judge William C. Carpenter’s decision will either uphold or strike at Celia Cohen’s beloved Delaware […]
Song of the Day 10/18: Pixies, “Gigantic”
I admit it, I miss the ’90s. Yeah, I know this song came out in 1988 on the first Pixies album, “Surfer Rosa,” but the post-Replacements sound they helped pioneer, with its distorted guitars and quiet-loud-quiet dynamics, came to dominate the indie-rock music of the early ’90s, so I mentally file it there. This was […]
20 Days to Go
I really haven’t paid much attention to the mid-term races that have national implications. I think Fetterman is going to win. Based on…? I think Herschel Walker is going to lose. Maybe it would be more true to say, I hope Herschel Walker is going to lose. Beyond those two races, who knows. […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday October 18 2022
The climate activists from a group called “Just Stop Oil” gained some visibility for their cause by throwing Heinz tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at London’s National Gallery. That gave some people the vapors, but the world is burning, so fuck your vapors. Speaking of the earth burning, you’ve probably eaten your […]
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