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BREAKING: Verdict Is Reached In Chauvin Trial: Guilty. Guilty. Guilty!!!
No way they’re acquitting him this quickly. Chauvin is already in the courthouse. Verdict announcement likely within 30 minutes. Back with the verdict as soon as it happens…
Song of the Day 4/20: Peter Tosh, “Legalize It”
Peter Tosh once told an interviewer that ganja would someday be as legal as cigarettes. That’s still years off, but as this handy map shows, in only six U.S. states, all of them deep red, does weed remain entirely illegal. Weigh that against 16 states (17 if you count D.C.) containing 43% of the population […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
The prelims are out of the way. We’re in the ‘Put Up Or Shut Up’ phase of the legislative calendar. Starting with Wednesday’s committee consideration of the $15 minimum wage bill. Lest you’ve forgotten, SB 15 passed in the Senate with every single Democrat voting for it. Three putative House Democrats–Andria Bennett, Bill Bush, and […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday April 20th 2021
In today’s Open Thread….The nation holds its breath. Will one stupid fucking Trumper try to nullify the jury? I think “yes” is a safe bet.
OK. Everyone share your favorite Walter Mondale story. I kid, Walter Mondale’s wife doesn’t have a favorite Walter Mondale story.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has had it up to here with the American century.
The best way to fight poverty is direct payments to everybody. Are we brave enough to support this popular, effective, relatively inexpensive policy?
But first… cancel culture comes to Bethany Beach Delaware.
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 […]
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