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Trump is a scourge that keeps on scourge-ing
I blame Hillary Clinton, and Democrats for nominating her. The worst candidate ever, defeated by the second worst presidential candidate ever.
#Neverforget
The Brazen Criminality of Delaware’s “Auditor”
This is fucking nuts.
As reported by WDEL’s DJ McAneny here is the exchange between Trey Paradee and Kathy McGuiness AFTER Paradee pointed out that Park City was trying to shift half-a-million dollars from general funds towards “contractual services” (Sen Lawson interjecting some dumb bullshit has been removed by me.)
Song of the Day 2/9: Fountains of Wayne, “Amity Gardens”
There are lots of songs about real places, but I don’t know of any song that celebrates a real place more obscure than Amity Gardens, Pa. That’s what you’d expect from the wry sense of humor that typified Fountains of Wayne, this century’s most accomplished power pop band. Composer Chris Collingwood, who founded the band […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday February 9th 2022
Ho hum. The NYT doesn’t think Trump breaking the law is much of a story. On Tuesday, Times reporters Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman co-authored their newspaper’s first attempt to define the contours of bombshell news by The Washington Postabout the National Archives and Records Administration recovering documents illegally removed from the White House […]
Shama Lama Ding Dong
Read RAE KRANTZ’ coverage of the sham RD4 session in the Delaware Call. Then become a patron. ….a group of people who had previously decided that racism was not a big deal was in charge of deciding between a woman of color and a white man to represent their district in the upcoming election. In […]
Song of the Day 2/8: Glen Campbell, “Just Another Piece of Paper”
The National Archives had to send — who? A-men? — to Mar a Lago to fetch Trump’s love letters from Kim Jong-un which, as the linked story dryly notes, “did not reduce tensions with North Korea.” The manbaby president’s habit of tearing up official papers has also been back in the headlines. Other presidents wrote […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday Feb 8th
Here is a bunch of stuff that happened. Biden Says Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Won’t Go Forward if Russia Invades Ukraine Biden sounded a little Trumpy in the coverage of this development: WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday said the U.S. would “bring an end” to the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline if […]
Song of the Day 2/7: The Beach Boys, “Sloop John B”
Seems like a good time for a vacation in the Bahamas, doesn’t it? Drunken first mate, cook with the fits, even, in the original version, a captain with a greedy pig — at least it’ll be warm. The origins of this sea shanty are unknown, though apparently there is or was a wreck in Nassau […]
Tonight: It’s ‘Delaware Way’ Vs. Progressive Change
Does this sound like a candidate you could support?: WILMINGTON, DE – Adriana Leela Bohm endorsed by Mary Ann’s List, Delaware Stonewall PAC, and several legislators for the Democratic nomination in the special election to fill the State House seat vacated by Gerald Brady “We are excited Adriana is our first endorsement of 2022 and […]
DL Open Thread Monday February 7 2022
Bad news for people who think Darwin will be decisive. You may be wondering – Have the disproportionate COVID deaths in “red” areas been big enough to make a difference in future elections? Even if the pandemic gets 100 times worse in terms of death numbers between now and November 2024, the excess Republican deaths […]
Song of the Day 2/6: Urge Overkill, “Positive Bleeding”
I keep rediscovering bands from the ’90s, the last decade when there were so many you might miss a few. Until I heard this tune on a throwback radio show recently I had forgotten all about this Chicago power trio. Urge Overkill was two guys who met at Northwestern University in 1985, along with a […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022
The (Allegedly) Human Paper-Shredder: President Donald Trump tore up briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane. He ripped paper into quarters with two big, clean strokes — or occasionally more vigorously, into smaller scraps. He left the detritus on his desk in the Oval Office, in the trash can of his […]
What are the real actual goals of Glorious Centrism anyway?
Aside from lower taxes for companies and people who already pay practically nothing, or some complicated tax rebate scheme carefully crafted to give the Chamber of Commerce a hard on, it is impossible to imagine what the Coosian dream of glorious centrism actually delivers. I mean, what is the goal of Coons style bipartisanship? Does […]
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