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NEA Cuts Delaware Arts Funding: A Masterclass in Trump/DOGE Stupidity
Guest post by Jason330 Well, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is on the chopping block. That means 100% of its funding to Delaware for FY25 is probably gone. That’s right – poof! Zeroed out. Vanished. In 2024, the NEA granted the Delaware Division of the Arts a modest $950,000. Not exactly a king’s […]
Song of the Day 5/13: Tom Waits, “Looks Like I’m Up Shit Creek Again”
Of all the people in Trump’s As-Seen-On-TV cabinet, the downright weirdest might be RFK Jr. While just as deluded and fear-aggressive as any MAGAt, he’s at war with an entirely different set of threats and menaces. Human biology appears to be at the top of the list. Washington, like Wilmington, has a combined sewer system, […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Could be a productive week in Dover, based on the promise of today’s Agendas. Particularly the Senate Agenda. Let’s start there. I see at least three notable bills: SB 122 (Huxtable): supports critical health care workforce research and planning efforts by giving the Division of Public Health and the Delaware Health Care Commission the ability […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
We Are All Episcopalians Now: In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as […]
Song of the Day 5/12: Angus and Julia Stone, “Big Jet Plane”
As far as Donald Trump is concerned, the best part of being president is that people give you stuff for free – catnip to the kind of grasping poseur Trump has always been. So naturally he’s not just ready to take a jumbo-jet sized bribe from the Qataris, he’s bragging about it. I’m only surprised […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 12, 2025
‘Da Plane, Da Plane’. The perfect embodiment of the corruption permeating this administration: The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, which would make it one of the biggest foreign gifts ever received by […]
Song of the Day 5/11: Frank Zappa and the Mothers, “Camarillo Brillo”
Frank Zappa’s record label wouldn’t let him call his band the Mothers, so he added “of Invention” to pacify them. But nobody called them that. They were the Mothers, though not the sort Hallmark meant to honor. Zappa churned through sidemen, so there were many Mothers. He eventually grew frustrated with trying to herd the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 11, 2025
We start today with a Rorschach Test: Thoughts? Comments? Because Nothing In The Belichick/Hudson Saga Is Too Cringe-y For Me: A few minutes before 7 p.m. Saturday, just before the show began, the most successful coach in NFL history slipped in through a side door of the State of Maine Grand Ballroom. A pink tie […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Wasn’t Using That Habeas Corpus Anyway: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who orchestrated President Trump’s crackdown on immigration, said on Friday that the administration was considering suspending immigrants’ right to challenge their detention in court before being deported. “The Constitution is clear,” he told reporters outside the White House, arguing that […]
Song of the Day 5/9: The Who, “The Song Is Over”
The Who has announced another farewell tour. Yeah, sure, you might scoff – wasn’t their first farewell tour back in 1982? Yes it was, and it took seven whole years for them to decide that maybe they had been hasty. They regrouped for their 25th anniversary and have toured fairly regularly since. This time they […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 9, 2025
They’re Just Trolling Us Now. Jeanine Pirro For DC AG. Some Influencer Who Isn’t A Practicing Doctor For Surgeon General. Laura Loomer took time off from firing the Librarian Of Congress and Acting Head Of FEMA to release the following statement: Ms. Loomer ridiculed Dr. Means on social media Thursday, calling her a “total crack […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Wednesday was basically a committee day with a handful of non-controversial bills being worked in the Senate. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Today’s Senate Agenda features two House bills that seek to address the issue of ‘double-dipping’ elected public officials. Both HB 9 (K. Williams) and HB 38 (K. Williams) passed the House unanimously […]
Song of the Day 5/8: Luke Bryan, “Little Boys Grow Up and Dogs Get Old”
It doesn’t get any easier no matter how old you get. Mine was a corgi named Mackie – formally, Honeyfox Four on the Floor – and after 14 1/2 years I have to say goodbye to him today. He was a very good boy.
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