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DE’s Most Intriguing Legislative Races Of 2024: #5–RD 16
Following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops back in 2020, some states tried and, occasionally succeeded, in reforming police practices. In Delaware, we had a big show promising change that took place on the steps of Legislative Hall. Which was followed by Governor Carney appointing a task force comprised almost entirely of cops […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 7, 2023
Wisconsin Rethugs Seek To Destroy Democracy To Save Their Legislative Super-Majorities. Here’s the even sneakier part: The idea is for the House to impeach her, which would immediately place her in judicial limbo, but for the Senate not to proceed with a trial: If the Assembly impeaches her, Protasiewicz would be barred from any duties […]
Song of the Day 9/7: The Rolling Stones, “Angry”
The grandpas are alright. As if to prove that not all geriatrics are as decrepit as America’s politicians, the Rolling Stones are releasing an album of new material Oct. 20. They announced it yesterday along with the release of a single, “Angry.” The song is a rehash of familiar Stones tropes, and Mick doesn’t sound […]
Song of the Day 9/6: Gary Wright, “Love Is Alive”
Gary Wright, the rock keyboard player best known for his 1975 solo LP “The Dream Weaver,” died Monday at age 80 after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease and dementia. Along with Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, Wright helped pioneer the use of synthesizers in rock. Wright was from New Jersey, but he launched his […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday September 6 2023
tic, tic, tic, tic…CLICK, whirllsz…Kaboom! I’m not lawyer, but I feel like we must be near the end of the “tic, tic, tic” phase. Trump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him There’s a nascent courtroom strategy by some people close to Donald Trump: Heap blame on the former president. In court documents […]
Song of the Day 9/5: Smash Mouth, “All Star”
Steve Harwell, the longtime lead singer for Smash Mouth, died Monday of liver failure brought on by years of alcoholism. He was 56 years old and had been in bad shape for a decade, several times appearing inebriated and disoriented on stage. He quit the band after a particularly ugly incident in 2021. Smash Mouth […]
Dl Open Thread Tuesday September 5 2023
Without a doubt Ginni Thomas thinks she earned all of this money by being a pillar holding up western civilization. All wingnuts share the same delusion. New Filings Reveal More Luxury Trips and Payments to Ginni Thomas The amended disclosures reveal that Thomas was paid nearly $700,000 between 2003 and 2007 by the Heritage Foundation. Supreme Court Justice […]
Song of the Day 9/4: Aretha Franklin, “Muddy Water”
When the news broke about Burning Man 2023 turning into a soggy hellscape, did anyone feel anything but schadenfreude? Like most things that start out being the province of the cool kids, this annual gathering in the Nevada desert had long since become bogged down with rich people pretending to be cool kids, so it […]
Here is your Labor Day 2023 Open Thread
here's how @BernieSanders closed his remarks in n.h. this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/EpjUzjPSXh — mike casca (@cascamike) August 26, 2023 Fox News Guest: “Here are the poll results that show the public overwhelmingly supports Bidennomics” Fox News Chyron: “Polls Show Unpopularity of Bidennomics”
DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 3, 2023
RIP: Bill Richardson. He Made A Real Difference: “There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom,” Mickey Bergman, vice president of the Richardson Center and Richardson’s longtime collaborator on hostage cases, said in a statement Saturday. “The world has lost a […]
Many Republicans think this man should be President
https://youtu.be/0LQozNeHUdI?si=yPQDHGDwTwJK3s9w
This is real.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 2, 2023
Jimmy Buffett Dies–Price Of Cheeseburgers To Plummet? The Poet Laureate of lassitude who turned branding into an art form. The linked profile from 2018 captures the conundrum/contradictions therein: Because that, in a coconut shell, was the problem. Jimmy Buffett is not really Jimmy Buffett anymore. He hasn’t been for a while. Jimmy Buffett — the […]
Song of the Day 9/2: Jimmy Buffett, “A Pirate Looks at 40”
Summer’s over, all right. Jimmy Buffett, who founded a billion-dollar fortune with a humorous break-up song featuring a popular cocktail, died yesterday at age 76. Along the way he founded two restaurant chains, wrote two novels and a memoir, topping both the fiction and nonfiction New York Times best-seller lists, and lent the Margaritaville moniker […]
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