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Final Call For–Sierra Hull!! Queue Up For–The Claudettes!!
This coming Saturday night. Ordinarily this concert would have sold out long ago. But COVID has impacted ticket sales all across the country. However, this show will likely still sell out as we only have about 50 tickets remaining. Her music starts with bluegrass and then takes off from there. Here is what Sierra is […]
The guy who had the ability (but lacked the guts) to put the brakes on Bush’s idiotic and ultimately tragic invasion of Iraq has died
I’m sure the media will spend the next 48 hours laying laurels on his head.
DL Open Thread Monday October 18, 2021
I’m a little over stories about the GOP “waking up” to the fact that Trump is box office poison. I mean, we all know that the Republican base doesn’t give a flying fuck about what Asa Hutchison and Senator Bill Cassidy think, right? GOP Senator Bill Cassidy Doubts Trump Will Be 2024 Nominee: He Lost ‘House, Senate, Presidency’ […]
Flag of the Day – Transnistria
When I was a kid it seemed like half of the world’s flags were some version of this flag. Red field, soviet hammer and sickle, and a stripe. A blue stripe (Ukraine). A double blue strip (Turkmenia). A dark blue strip (Azerbaijan). Etc. Now there is only one hold out waving this classic. Little Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), has a flag frozen in time.
According the Wikipedia, Transnistria is an unrecognised country located in the narrow strip of land between the river Dniester
Song of the Day 10/17: Future Islands, “Seasons (Waiting on You)”
I was walking through a metro station the other day when I saw an advertising poster for Future Islands, and my mind instantly flashed back to this performance from 2014, when the band made its television debut on David Letterman’s show. Thanks to frontman Samuel T. Herring’s impassioned delivery the performance went viral, which was […]
Wanting Shameless People to Feel Shame
Jess Scarene said something in the “Kathy on Kathy Violence” episode to Highlands Bunker that really hit the nail on the head. I’ll make a mess of it, but essentially…
So much of our “accountability” for rich, well-connected people depends on them feeling shame – when they really have never felt shame and will never feel shame in the future.
Beyond KKMcG just think of Joe Biden waiting for Mitch McConnell to feel shame. Consider how long this blog has been waiting for Chris Coons to feel shame. It simply isn’t going to happen. They’ve killed off whatever vestigial shame mechanism they were born with.
BTW – Listen to, subscribe to, and support the Highlands Bunker Podcast. Here is a new episode. I’ll be listening to this afternoon.
With a potentially transformative bill moving through Congress right now, Professor Harvey J Kaye joins Rob in the virtual bunker to talk about how FDR was able to create and frame his New Deal, and what the role of presidential and grassroots leadership is in passing a bold agenda.
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Anybody Here Live In Delaware City?
If so, you might want to check out Monday evening’s Public Hearing to get public comment on the proposed House of Representatives redistricting maps. Here’s the notice: https://legis.delaware.gov/TaskForceMeetingDetail?taskForceMeetingId=10517 Oh, and you might want to comment on whether it’s appropriate for the incumbent representative to saddle Delaware City with a highly-dubious ‘development’ project, and then skedaddle […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 17, 2021
“Their (Black Christians) voices contradicted the proposition that America is the story of the gradual expansion of freedom and opportunity to a wider and wider group of people,. The moral claim laid upon us by their ancestors’ insistent voices is continual awareness that racial inequity was interwoven into the fabric of our society from the […]
Coons Has Doubled His Net Worth While in the Senate
Chris Coons assumed office on November 15, 2010. His net worth was: $5,281,178 Now Coons is worth a cool $10,100,000. That’s a 91.2452% increase. Probably not corrupt at all. Just, you now, savvy investing.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 16, 2021
Kathy McGuiness Has No Shame. Of course, that’s a ‘dog bites man’ headline. But this isn’t: Delaware Auditor Kathy McGuiness has asked a local judge to make taxpayers foot the bill for her legal defense as she fights criminal corruption charges. A seven-page motion filed by her private attorney, Steve Wood, on Thursday cites a Delaware […]
Song of the Day 10/15: Lemonheads, “Into Your Arms”
The Lemonheads might have been the most commercially viable jangle-pop band of the early ’90s, and this was their biggest hit. Like many of Evan Dando’s best songs, it’s melodic, a little melancholy and it clocks in at under 3 minutes. It spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, though […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 15, 2021
BREAKING: Rep. Paul Baumbach Running For Reelection. I wrote a speculative piece, turns out it was fiction. At least in part: I am running for re-election, to continue to serve the residents of the 23rd RD https://secure.actblue.com/donate/committee-to-elect-paul-baumbach-1 I do not know Rep Ramone’s plans. That National Ecumenical And Non-Partisan Prayer Breakfast? Not so non-partisan or […]
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