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Are any young adults in your life planning on having kids?

By jason330 April 6, 202223 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread Wednesday April 6th 2022

By jason330 April 6, 20225 Comments

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…

Unlivable World

By jason330 April 5, 2022

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”

By Alby April 5, 2022

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…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, April 5, 2022

By El Somnambulo April 5, 20223 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread Tuesday April 5th 2022

By jason330 April 5, 20229 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 4/4: Wet Leg, “Chaise Longue”

By Alby April 4, 20228 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread Monday April 4 2022

By jason330 April 4, 20221 Comment

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…

The Case for Biden

By jason330 April 3, 202220 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 4/3: Genesis, “The Carpet Crawlers”

By Alby April 3, 2022

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…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 3, 2022

By El Somnambulo April 3, 20226 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 2, 2022

By El Somnambulo April 2, 20222 Comments

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…

Settled Law

By jason330 April 1, 2022

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…