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Are any young adults in your life planning on having kids?
Yup. We’re fucked. The Earth is basically done, so is anyone still having kids? I’m seriously asking. Do any readers with adult “kids” plan on being grandparents? I don’t. Are any grandparents reading this expecting their grandchildren to reproduce? It seems to me that (in addition to the climate going ka-plooey), a drastically shrinking young […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday April 6th 2022
Here is something that happened in April 1978: A concrete cooling tower under construction at a power station at Willow Island, West Virginia, collapses. All of the 51 construction workers on the scaffolding fell to their deaths. OSHA and the contractor agreed to settle the case for $85,500 (or about $1,700 per dead worker); no […]
Unlivable World
We’ve had a good 30 years to do something and now it is too late. Oh well. Being moderate and sensible, making friends with intractable loons on the right and carrying water for the energy sector was much too important.
Presenting the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he said: “The jury has reached a verdict and it is damning.”
The report shows “a litany of broken climate promises” and stands as “a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that are putting us on track towards an unlivable world”, he said.
Sounds bad, but just look at my stock portfolio! Smashing!
Song of the Day 4/5: Stevie Wonder, “Evil”
Stevie Wonder, whose albums made critics’ Top 10 lists in the ’70s, seems to have fallen into relative neglect in recent years — Marvin Gaye, not Wonder, is now considered Motown’s greatest 1970s artist. This makes sense — Gaye’s soul influenced a lot more modern music than Wonder’s funk and pop. But at the time […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Hoo-boy, we’ve got some real interesting bills to talk about right off the bat. Take, for example, HB 372 (Osienski). The bill ‘regulates and taxes marijuana in the same manner as alcohol’. I honestly haven’t had time to look at the differences between this bill and the failed bill, but they’re similar. It’s still a […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday April 5th 2022
Sometime soon Chris Coons will be all over TV to crow over triumph of bipartisanship that was Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Coons is the go-to quote-miester about how bipartisanship is America at its best and two Republican votes have warmed his heart and made his little Coonsie rock hard. And […]
Song of the Day 4/4: Wet Leg, “Chaise Longue”
This song went viral on social media last summer, and mainstream media picked up on it by autumn, but I didn’t hear it until last week, and it cracked me up. Wet Leg is Rhian Teasdale, who sings this tune, and Hester Chambers, two friends who live on the Isle of Wight, just off England’s […]
DL Open Thread Monday April 4 2022
Why does Delaware want to protect only the bad cops? That’s a great questions posed in the Delaware Call by RAE KRANTZ. By wrapping the bad cops in LEOBOR cotton, it’s as if certain Delaware State Senators couldn’t give a fuck about the good cops. I mean, imagine if 95% of anesthesiologists were good […]
The Case for Biden
I just want to remind everyone that the case for Biden (over Sanders) was that Biden had friendships and great working relationships with Republicans that he served with in the Senate. They would respect him and Biden would “break the fever” that the radicalized GOP was suffering from. So how’s that project going? Sens. […]
Song of the Day 4/3: Genesis, “The Carpet Crawlers”
Genesis, the venerable British band that pioneered prog rock in the ’70s and churned out synth-pop hits like clockwork in the ’80s, called it quits last week, 55 years after forming at a posh public school in Surrey. Their decision was prompted by the declining health of drummer-cum-frontman Phil Collins, who since 2017 had to […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 3, 2022
Merrick Garland: Justice’s Rain Delay. He would have been terrible on the Supreme Court–worse than Stephen Breyer. He’s enabling criminals and insurrectionists: The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 2, 2022
Re: Clarence Thomas: D’s Are Total Wusses. The usual suspects doing the usual thing. Nothing: Given his wife’s role in encouraging the effort to overturn the election that culminated in the awful events of that day, Clarence Thomas should obviously recuse himself from any case having to do with Jan. 6. But what can Democrats […]
Settled Law
Let’s see…? We have a rabidly anti-labor Supreme Court and corporation (Amazon) saying that the NLRB interfered with the Staten Island Union vote. So, how long do you figure it will take for the Republican Court to overturn NLRB vs Jones Steele, and vacate that vote? When it happens I’m sure the sage legal minds […]
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