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Song of the Day 1/12: Hall & Oates, “Did It in a Minute”
Daryl Hall and John Oates reached the height of their Hall of Fame career in 1982, bookending the year with No. 1 singles — “I Can’t Go For That” in January, “Maneater” in December. Though it topped out at No. 9 in the weekly rankings, this song also made Billboard’s list of the year’s Top […]
Really Stupid DC Bubble Dem Idiocy is Thriving in the Biden White House
Insurers Will Have to Cover 8 At-Home Virus Tests Per Month
The Biden administration announced the new guidelines as it continued to work to get coronavirus tests to people regardless of their insurance status.
FFS, just send out the goddam tests. Jesus fucking Christ! The DC Bubble bullshit artists are in full control. New complicated tax credits and unworkable bullshit will surely save us.
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wed., Jan. 12, 2022
Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. All of the bills we discussed yesterday were released from committee, including HB 183. The skeptic in me (about 80% of what comprises ‘me’) wonders what’s behind this bill although, on the surface, I see nothing wrong with it. Anybody with inside info? Today is solely devoted to committee […]
DL Open Thread Wed December 12th 2021
OMG. It is so tiresome. Under-President Biden (who is wholly powerless) goes to Georgia and says we need to get rid of the filibuster. President-in-Fact Machin says no. Blah, bah, blah. We all know that no voting rights protections will be voted on, but it will take hundreds of thousands of hours of a […]
Coons “seriously weighing” filibuster options
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who helped organize a bipartisan letter backing up the legislative filibuster in 2017, said he’s “seriously weighing” what to do. “Part of the point of this week is for us to remain curled up in the floor to demonstrate our commitment to finding a bipartisan solution. It is my firm belief that my good […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 11, 2022
With a whimper, not a bang. The House has virtual committee meetings scheduled today and tomorrow, won’t reconvene until Thursday. They are scheduled to convene live in Leg Hall on Thursday. Betcha that doesn’t happen. The Senate is scheduled to convene virtually today. No agenda has been posted. They will conduct committee meetings tomorrow. I […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday January 11th 2021
Me: Let’s go out to dinner one last time.
Ms: One last time?
Me: Yeah. One last time before things, you know, go ka-plooey.
Ms: Ok. Mexican?
True story. Things had already gone ka-plooey of course. Mexican restaurants are a trailing indicator.
In today’s Open Thread please find; the tyranny of President Manchin, mask mandates, recalcitrant dummies, and solo hiking the ADT.
2022 General Assembly: Unfinished Business
I’m not referencing either SB 1 (McBride) or SB 149 (Lockman), as their legislative journeys have just begun. I’m writing about bills that could, and, in some instances, should have been enacted by now. HCR 3 (Lynn): The Kop Kabal killed this resolution creating a task force to ‘investigate and make findings and recommendations regarding […]
Song of the Day 1/10: Momma, “Medicine”
I’m trespassing on El Somnambulo’s territory here, but I heard this on WXPN last week and I’ve been listening to it frequently ever since. While it’s derivative — what rock music isn’t at this late date? — its ’90s indie-grrl vibe reminds me of Belly and Liz Phair. Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman, friends since […]
DL Open Thread Monday January 10th 2022
Well, the news blackout was in fine form this weekend, so just a couple of important items made it through the filter:
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Ending debtors prison in Delaware
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Holding unvaccinated dipshits accountable through health insurance, and
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Delaware’s most mediocre Dems
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DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 9, 2022
More Anti-Vaxx Sadness. At least this guy ultimately realized what an asshole he’d been. Too late, though. Amazon Responds To Covid By–Cutting Workers’ Sick Leave. Break ’em up. They’re evil: Amazon is reducing its Covid-19 paid leave policy to seven sick days instead of the 10 workers had previously received, regardless of vaccination status. The […]
Song of the Day 1/7: Jester Hairston, “Amen”
Sidney Poitier, who died Thursday at age 94, was born in Miami but grew up where his parents lived, Arthur’s Town, on Cat Island in the Bahamas, one of that scattered country’s farthest-flung Out Islands. Arthur’s Town is home to about 150 people, about the size of Viola, and Cat Island remains remote and sparsely […]
Who is Delaware’s Most Mediocre Democrat?
We know the good ones. We know the bad ones (The Dems that have sold their souls and votes for a few measly bucks, or for a spot a little closer to power [Coons, Longhurst, Poore, Pete, KMcG etc]). But there is a whole layer of Democratic elected officials that don’t get much mention because they do just enough to stay off the radar.
I know. That is “bad” from an objective perspective. I mean, they’ve been elected to get shit done for ordinary Delawareans not just mark time and collect a pension. But that style of failure isn’t aggressively bad like the terrible office-holding shitheads like Chris Coons. And while a few of these Dems were dis-invited by voters to continue using up Leg Hall oxygen in the last round of Democratic Party primaries, many continue to hide in plain sight.
My list of the top mediocre starts with the overly ambitious Bethany Hall Long. What does she stand for? That’s easy, she truly believes in the next rung of the ladder. I’d also put the terminally-uninterested John Carney on the “bad through sheer mediocrity” list. Who are your top picks?
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