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Song of the Day 4/19: Pixies, “Here Comes Your Man”
Why did rock music sputter out after the 1990s? I don’t know the answer, but the anti-commercial pose that became de rigueur with punk and extended into the era of college radio and alternative bands couldn’t have helped. Consider this song by the Pixies, the closest thing they ever had to a hit in the […]
Police Accountability In Delaware Has Been Killed Just As Dead As Lymond Moses
The killers? The Cop Cabal that runs the Delaware House Of Representatives. And, yes, that guy again, Governor John Carney. I’m sure you all remember the photo op outside of Leg Hall in the wake of the George Floyd death at the hands of the Minneapolis cops. All solemnity, and vows to ensure that Black […]
Chris Coons Is Worse Than Useless
I’m starting to think Chris Coons is taking revenge on Joe Biden for failing to name him Secretary of State. Delaware’s bipartisanship show pony is at it again, going on Fox News yesterday to announce he and Sen. John Cornyn are working on an alternative to Biden’s infrastructure bill — one that would chop the […]
DL Open Thread Monday April 18th 2021 – GUNS, GUNS, GUNS Edition
Tribalism, stupidity, paranoia, micro-dick syndrome, grifters gifting, our gun safety debate lays bare all of the DEGOP’s virtues. But first, Delaware State Sportsman Association President, Jeff Hauge, says gun safety legislation is motivated by a strong desire to make women easy targets for rapists. If that makes sense to you, congratulations – you are the everything that is wrong with America. (No link for that one because it is running as an ad on WSTW).
DL Open Thread Sunday, April 18, 2021
Why do so many Central Americans seek asylum in the United States? Because so many U.S. guns have migrated to Mexico and Central America. Officials estimate about 2 million guns have moved south over the past decade. The General Assembly is returning to Legislative Hall, but the public isn’t invited. House Speaker Pete Schwartkopf said […]
Where are you on Dems making a real gun safety push?
I have to admit, I’ve been in both the “go big” and “be realistic” camps.
Obviously, the anti-gun safety/radicalized right is a real threat to our life, liberty and well being. Every mass-murder urges us to treat easy access to military weapons like the public health crisis it is.
But I also get the more cynical electoral “x’s & o’s” argument that this issue is a proven loser for Dems.
“Nobody is more responsible for the historic success of our Party…”
Jesse Chadderdon is right to heap laurels on the head of outgoing NCC Dem Chair, Whatshisname. But I think “he welcomed new people into the Party, kept long-serving members meaningfully engaged” does not do justice to how the outgoing chair dragged the party into the modern era by allowing Democratic Party voters to decide primaries – not the party. As Joe Biden might have said, that’s a big fucking deal.
Song of the Day 4/16: Toronto, “Your Daddy Don’t Know”
Protectionism has a bad name among economists, but as with most things, in some circumstances it’s absolutely the right thing for a country to do if it wants to grow a particular industry. For Canada in the early days of rock music, the danger was the domination of its music industry and airwaves by the […]
DL Open Thread Friday, April 16, 2021
County Councilman Jea Street very publicly resigned as co-chair of council’s safety committee after condemning the fatal shooting of Lymond Moses. “I go all the way back to when I was in high school and riots broke out in the 60s, and we looked up, here come the county police with long guns in riot […]
Coons’ Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Preparing to Spring into Action
Coons has negotiated the infrastructure package in half by himself. Huzzah for compromise!!
Just wait until his SUPER SECRET BIPARTISAN caucus gets going!
Coons said that “several fairly seasoned senior Republicans” told him they were willing to support a $1 trillion infrastructure package and pay for some of it but objected to Biden’s plan to raise the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent. Thehill.com
Anybody who has been paying the least bit of attention to Coons’ nonsense knows how this is going to end. Collins is, regrettably, voting no. All Republicans are voting no, but most have enough dignity not to look like idiots on their way to their no vote.
Song of the Day 4/15: Ludovico Einaudi, “Due Tramonti (Two Sunsets)”
Oscar season is upon us — the ceremony takes place April 25 — and it will be a major shock if “Nomadland” isn’t named best picture. Everything about the film stands out amid Hollywood’s mass-produced dreck, including its soundtrack, mostly taken from Italian pianist-composer Ludovico Einaudi’s seven-album collection “Seven Days Walking.” Director Chloé Zhao, who […]
DL Open Thread Thursday April 15th – The ALL DELAWARE EDITION
In today’s Delaware-centric open thread Delaware AG says criminal/ex-police chief not fit to serve as Newport’s town commissioner. Also, WTF Newport? He was elected with 32 votes. Jesusfuckingchrist, get your shit together.
People waiting to claim vouchers for Delaware surf tags go away mad. Did you just say. “Fuck these people”? Or “Surf fishing, my ass”. Don’t lie. I know you did.
More than 50,000 women In Delaware live in contraceptive deserts. That is fucking pitiful. Every Delawarean should be ashamed. Get these women some goddam contraceptives.
It is now illegal in Delaware to discriminate on the basis of hair. Also, if you feel like you are about to comment on someone’s hair, just don’t. Okay?
God (or whatever) bless the ACLU and Community Legal Aid Society for successfully suing Delaware into property reassessments.
A 2nd Amendment enthusiast in Harrington shoots into a car driving down his street. Cuz, you know… freedom! tyranny? rap music? Who the fuck knows?
But first, keeping a pet deer that you’ve house-trained seems like a terrible idea.
Republicans Got Nothin’ and They Know It
It seems Jim Clyburn knew what he was doing after all. When the South Carolina Congressman endorsed Joe Biden just before the South Carolina primary and Biden carried the state, most progressives took it as a sign that the Democratic Party wasn’t ready for a progressive administration. It turns out that wasn’t the point at […]
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