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DL Open Thread Thursday, July 15, 2021
Nobody wants to hear it, but the pandemic is not over. Global cases rose last week for the first time in 10 weeks. We’re shaping up to have a truly nasty outbreak in the fall in Dumbfuckistan. Democrats — why can’t they do the right thing? Latest example: SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, who’s under […]
GOP: We Will Literally Kill Our Base to Win in 2022
This Seth Meyers clip does a good job rounding up the GOP anti-vax lunacy which (along with the big lie) IS NOW A KEY PLANK in their platform. They are now literally running on “Don’t Get Vaccinated”. This goes beyond, “those crazy Republicans” into “WHAT the HOLY FUCK is going on?” territory. Heather Cox Richardson […]
Song of the Day 7/14: Huey Lewis and the News, “I Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do”
Did you ever hear a song you liked by a band you never heard before, only to find that most of their music sounds nothing like the first song you heard? That was my experience with this tune, a minor hit for Huey Lewis and the News from their second LP (and first successful one) […]
DuPont, Chemours & Corteva Agree To Pay Delaware $50 Mill For Damage Caused By Their ‘Forever’ Chemicals
This is a BFD. According to this News-Journal article: (AG Kathy) Jennings’ justice department had intended to file a massive lawsuit against DuPont, Chemours and Corteva earlier this year. The department spent more than two years on its investigation, which consisted of environmental sampling, forensic analysis and a review of corporate records. The department sought monetary damages and […]
DL Open Thread: Wed, July 14, 2021
Kathy McGuiness would like you to know that she audited something. #Auditorizing
I haven’t followed this Wesley/Del State thing, but I did learn that this is the first time a HBCU acquired another higher education institution. That’s something. I also learned that the new acquisition is going to be trimmed back to health oriented programs and called “Wesley College of Health & Behavioral Sciences”. #coolnames
A total of 286 restaurants in Delaware are going to receive nearly $68 million in grants. Restaurants were hit hard last year so this that I say “GREAT!” but also say, “Now pay your people a living wage”. #tippedminisbullshit
In BLASIUS INDUSTRIES, INC., v. ATLAS CORPORATION, (1988) Delaware Chancery created the legal doctrine shortened to Blasius. It states that directors who act with the primary purpose of interfering with a stockholder vote must have a compelling justification for their conduct. I had to look that up because this (Blasius Is Alive and Well in Delaware) is the best headline related to the Elon Musk testimony happening in Wilmington. #youvebeenmusked
Rather, that was the best headline until the guy vomitted. #updates
Paul Baumbach finds that humanity and decency is a tough sell in Leg Bargain Basement. Maybe if the terminally ill scraped together enough money to engage some scumbag lobbyist? #Brydisdisgusting.
But first…
You don’t have to wear a mask, wash you hands, cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough, or basically be a decent human anymore. #butwhynottryitforonce
Song of the Day 7/13: Archie Bell and the Drells, “Tighten Up”
Actor Charlie Robinson, best known for his role on “Night Court,” died Sunday, and many of his obituaries say he began his show-biz career as a singer with Archie Bell and the Drells, best known for their No. 1 hit from 1968. The song started as an instrumental vamp by the Drells’ backing group, the […]
Read a bit of Phillip Bannowsky’s new novella ‘Jacobo the Turko; a novel in verses’ at the Delaware Call then buy it and become a supporter of the Delaware Call
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Hello Friend, This week the Delaware Call presents two poems excerpted from Phillip Bannowsky’s new novella, Jacobo the Turko; a novel in verses. The narrative is told in a series of poetry and tells the story of a South American immigrant who comes to work in Rehoboth Beach. He is subsequently deported mistakenly to the Middle […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 13, 2021
A bunch of rats are now pretending that they were the secretly opposing Trump from within the West Wing. How are they doing it? By testifying? By bringing charges? No, by feeding gossipy shit to Michael Wolff and Bob Woodward. #heros
Representative Adam Kinzinger may be the most decent Republican elected official in America. His politics are probably garbage, but it doesn’t take a lot of integrity to stand out in the integrity wasteland that is the modern day GOP.
Some federal money to redress the 1957 rape of Wilmington? #coldcasefiles
Texas House Democrats have more guts than most of our gutless Beltway Bubble Dems. The DC elite Dems have the Presidency, Senate and House but are powerless. The Texas Dems got fuck all except for a willingness to fight.
Song of the Day 7/12: Elvis Costello, “Sneaky Feelings”
When Catbite covered this song from Elvis Costello’s debut album at the Arden Shady Grove Music Fest, El Somnambulo cited it as evidence of the Philly ska band’s good taste, and I certainly won’t disagree. “My Aim Is True” has lost some luster in recent years, but when it was released in 1977 it didn’t […]
Did Stephanie Bolden Sell Out Her Constituents For $1200?
What’s not at issue is that Rep. Bolden (more on who she represents in a minute) sold out every one of her constituents who rents. She also sold out every tenant who rents in the state of Delaware. To understand how, first read SS 1/SB 101 (Townsend). The bill creates a right to counsel for […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, July 12, 2021
If it seems like the political fundraising never ends, it is because the political fundraising never ends. And yet, I love this appeal from Sarah McBride. “Big wins start early”
I have heard a number of TV weather types speaking openly of climate change. Better late?
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 will begin on Friday July 23, 2021 and ends on Sunday August 8. As a kid I LOVED the Olympics. Now Jim McKay is dead and they only seem to cover sports that the USA is sure to medal in. #boring #oldguycomplaints
Part of me likes the real life proof of Darwinism being carried out in lower Wingnutia, but the idea that these dumb meat sacks are breading a super variant that wants to overwhelm my vaccinated body bothers the fuck out of me.
Speaking of dumb meat sacks, Brazil’s President has out Trumped Trump.
And speaking of Semi-Dictators, Nicaraguan President and one time Ronald Reagan Boogeyman, Daniel Ortega, is fucking up.
Song of the Day 7/11: Deep Purple, “Space Truckin’ “
I have to say, I’m totally in favor of launching billionaires into space. I’m less on board with letting them come back. Ritchie Blackmore claims the riff was inspired by the “Batman” theme song. It closed the band’s 1972 “Machine Head” LP and, at an extended 20 minutes or so, the main portion of their […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, July 11, 2021
Before 2020, you’d have to look hard to find a bigger critic of Joe Biden than me. Listing all his flaws would take more time than you have, so I won’t, and you know them all anyway. But the one thing I never doubted he possessed was a keener-than-average sense of empathy — when my […]
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