July 26 Open Thread: Media Falls for Yet Another GOP Stunt
Media fecklessness has been on full display since yesterday as outlets fell over each other to breathlessly report that the Freedom Caucus moved to impeach Rod Rosenstein. Very few of…
Song Of The Day: July 26, 2018
More noir from Chris Isaak:
Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ Killer a Native of Delaware
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This account by Florida TV station WFLA affirms that Michael Drejka, the armed dickhead who gunned down a black man for pushing him in a convenience store parking lot, is…
Why Isn’t John Atkins In Jail?
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After allegedly strangling a woman earlier this month, Atkins was arrested again this week for harassing the same victim and for breaching the conditions of his release: www.wdel.com/news/ex-state-lawmaker-atkins-charged-with-harassing-victim His punishment?:…
July 25 Open Thread: The Same Letters That Spell ‘Coward’ Also Spell ‘A Crowd.’
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Do Republican senators like tariffs? No! What will they do about them? Nothing! A number of Republicans who support America's idea of "free trade" have questioned Trump's call for $12…
Most Intriguing Primaries: New Castle County Council Districts 1, 4 & 6
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We have two insurgent candidacies challenging back-benchers, and we have an outlier. Let's start with the outlier. Perpetual candidate and realtor Vincent White is challenging Penrose Hollins in Council District…
Song Of The Day: July 25, 2018
A wonderfully-noirish song from Chris Isaak. Combines the Secret Agent Man theme w/Isaak's Orbisonesque vocals:
Green Delaware: Carper’s Environmental Record Has Always Sucked
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Alan Muller of environmental watchdog Green Delaware read Tom Carper's claim last week that Delaware's environmental problems come from upwind coal-burning power plants and smelled revisionist history. So he penned…
Fox Scares Viewers With ‘Radical Agenda’ of Health Care, Education and Living Wages
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Every timid Democrat needs to see this segment of "Fox & Friends." For the second time in two days, the propaganda operation tried to scare its viewers with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's…
Charles Pierce Turns Jack Markell Into Smoking Pile of Rubble
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Esquire's Charlie Pierce has had it up to here with Democrats promulgating bullshit from the '90s, and to show it he turned his big gun on ex-Delaware Gov. Jack Markell:…
Just for Laughs
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This is the kind of thing Chris Coons doesn't want you to laugh at because it might upset Republicans: Comedian Steve Hofstetter talking about the absurdity of conservative boycotts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxahMIVGyXg
July 24 Open Thread: Stand Your Ground = License to Kill
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The latest Florida outrage -- I know, it's a new one almost every day -- involves the cold-blooded slaying of another black man by another white man who apparently will…
Maybe Coons is right?
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If Dems would only stop talking about minimum wage, we might win over these Trump voters. In a continuation of the new genre in journalism that we'll call "Dumb Fucks…