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Aug. 14 Open Thread: Death By Florida

By Alby August 14, 20185 Comments

Beyond its usual plagues of alligators, invasive snakes, sinkholes and crazy residents, Florida is in even worse shape than usual these days. Popular tourist beaches in places like Sanibel are…

New Castle County Council Member Bill Powers is a joke

By jason330 August 14, 20182 Comments

I need to do a longer post on this, but Bill Powers financial report is fucking ridiculous. Completely, 100% bought by developers. Give some money to his primary opponent Dave…

Song Of The Day: Aug. 14, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 14, 20181 Comment

Wow. I had never heard this early demo version of Tom Waits' Train Song. It just blows me away:

Delaware GOP No Longer Has An AG Candidate

By El Somnambulo August 13, 20186 Comments

Not surprising since I doubt that anyone can remember they had an AG candidate. For the record, her name is/was Peggy Marshall Thomas. In announcing that she was dropping out, …

Re: Looking at Carper’s shitty record, it’s like the flood gates have opened

By jason330 August 13, 2018

Carper was one of only three Democrats who voted against the amendment to prohibit any cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid resulting from Trump’s tax bill.

Aug. 13 Open Thread: Supremacists So White They’re Invisible

By Alby August 13, 201824 Comments

Did the Unite the Right organizers really need to bother with a permit for their Sunday march in Washington? It attracted about 40 people, perhaps the biggest conservative crowd since…

Song Of The Day: Aug.13, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 13, 20188 Comments

A week of train songs? How about a month? Let's start with a week and see where this train takes us. Leadbelly as channeled through Little Richard and Fishbone kicks…

Carper’s record laid bare

By jason330 August 12, 20182 Comments

When you lay the whole Carper record out, like Ryan Grim does in this Intercept piece, it really is a fucking train wreck.

Aug. 12 Open Thread: Russia Helped Unite the Right

By Alby August 12, 201817 Comments

There's little to learn from the weekend's flood of Charlottesville anniversary stories, except for this one, which has gotten almost no coverage: Rep. Tom Garrett, the Republican who represents Charlottesville…

Song Of The Day: Aug. 12, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 12, 2018

Boz always had a gift for the hook. Especially a blue-eyed soul hook. We close out Boz Week with one of my faves:

Grassley Announces Kavanaugh Hearings To Begin Sept. 4

By jason330 August 11, 20183 Comments

Chris Coons will get a national stage for his maniacal bipartisanship showboating.

Aug. 11 Open Thread: DNC Caves to Fossil Fuel Industry

By Alby August 11, 20182 Comments

Two months ago, the Democratic National Committee announced it would reject donations from the fossil-fuel industry. This uncharacteristically populist move lasted all of two months before the mainstream organization reversed…

Song Of The Day: Aug. 11, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 11, 2018

Boz wrote some great ones, and he knew great ones when he heard them. Like this Allen Toussaint-penned classic: