Song of the Day 2/18: Cat Stevens, “Wild World”

By Alby February 18, 20226 Comments

Cat Stevens' first Top 40 single as a performer wasn't his biggest hit -- it only reached No. 11, but it's his most-covered by a wide margin. So far the…

Delaware Political Weekly: Feb. 11-17, 2022

By El Somnambulo February 18, 202217 Comments

1. It's Progress Vs. Delaware Way In RD 32. I should have known that the Chamber Of Commerce wasn't gonna give up this seat w/o a fight. Andria Bennett has…

Delaware Transit Official Donated To Trucker Protest–From A Delaware Government E-Mail

By El Somnambulo February 17, 20222 Comments

His name? Richard Paprcka. His position? COO of the Delaware Transit Corporation. From the Washington Post: One donation of $50 to the Freedom Convoy campaign used an email address associated…

Rehoboth, Take Note

By jason330 February 17, 2022

The annual contentious hub-bub over municipal Saturnalia decorations would be MOSTLY solved if people just used a little goddam panache.

DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022

By El Somnambulo February 17, 202212 Comments

Lawyer With Too Much Time On Her Hands Files Stoopid Lawsuit. No, not Ted Kittila this time: Attorney Janice Lorrah of Hockessin, the mother of a 6-year-old daughter, has filed…

Losing = Winning (For Dem Consultants)

By jason330 February 17, 20223 Comments

The Coonsian Center & DC-bubble Dems seriously need to be defunded.

The Losing Democrats Who Gobbled Up Money

Amy McGrath and other Senate candidates deceived donors to rake in far more cash than their Republican opponents. They got crushed anyway.

Is “Bad News for Trump” ever really “bad” news for Trump?

By jason330 February 16, 20224 Comments

He has avoided so many consequences for so long that if avoiding consequences was an Olympic sport, Trump would be the Michael Phelps, Larisa Latynina, Paavo Nurmi, and Mark Spitz of it, all rolled into one. But when Mazars, (global audit, accounting and consulting group employing more than 42,000 professionals in more than 90 countries) decides that Trump is toxic - you have to wonder if it is really bad news.

Charles Pierce,who I respect, think is is bad news.

(Trump) may finally have run out of enablers, blind groupies, pliable bureaucrats, and general scapegoats. Companies want to survive. People want to keep their jobs. Nobody wants to pay whopping fines or risk jail time. Not for him. Not anymore. A collective decision is being made that in many ways, including on the balance sheets, the former president* is simply not worth it.

Song of the Day 2/16: C.W. McCall, “Convoy”

By Alby February 16, 20228 Comments

For conservatives, bad ideas never die, they just get recycled ad nauseam. So when a few dumbfuck truckers decide they've had enough of this mask-wearing, vaccine-taking reality, they retreat to…

DL Open Thread Wednesday Feb 16 2022

By jason330 February 16, 202224 Comments

~~Truth~~, ~~Justice~~ Settlements and the American Way Remington settles with Sandy Hook families for $73 million - Prince Andrew settles with Virginia Giuffre for $? million(s)

The civil court case in Connecticut centered on Remington's marketing of the gun used in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The lawsuit tested the scope of the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which grants gun manufacturers immunity from lawsuits related to crimes committed with their products.