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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Linda McMahon To Help Trump Transition. See what I did there? Tulsi Gabbard To Play The Role Of Kamala For Trump’s Debate Prep. Surely I’m not the only one who thinks he chose her b/c he thinks she’s hot. Wonder what his plan is for a diaper workaround. BTW, turns out she campaigned for the […]
Song of the Day 8/16: Phish, “Moma Dance”
WXPN in Philadelphia has been doing its Funky Friday for more than 30 years now, long enough that I automatically associate Fridays with soul and funk. One band I never hear on the show is Phish, despite their late-’90s foray into what Trey Anastasio labeled “cow funk.” Phish can, and has, covered just about every […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 16, 2024
Kamala’s Populist Agenda: Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday unveiled an aggressively populist economic agenda, providing the most detailed vision yet of her governing priorities since becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. Ahead of a speech in North Carolina, Harris’s campaign announced support for more than a dozen economic policies aimed at “lowering costs for […]
Who Do I Vote For When All the Candidates Suck?
That’s the situation confronting voters in the gubernatorial primary. They might suck to different extents and in different ways, but they all have significant drawbacks. Bethany Hall-Long’s are obvious. Even without the financial mismanagement and Delaware Way mutual backscratching, I consider her unqualified for the job. Head of the health department? Sure, she seems like […]
Song of the Day 8/15: Phish, “You Enjoy Myself”
The pandemic has killed off Dover’s Firefly music festival, but this year The Woodlands found a replacement: Phish’s four-day Mondegreen festival. There’s a big difference, though. Where Firefly hosted dozens of bands who drew a broader spectrum of fans, Phish is the only band playing Mondegreen – two shows each night – so much of […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 15, 2024
State Auditor Sets Up Opioid Slush Fund Tracker. Great work that would be absolutely unnecessary if BHL had not used it as her personal slush fund to benefit her political allies. It goes w/o saying that BHL and her ‘staff’ are the last people who should be auditing this. We can now add over $90K […]
BREAKING: BHL, Staff, Did Campaign Work On State’s Time
From Randall Chase of the Associated Press: Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long’s office staff was in regular communication last year with her husband and other people involved in her campaign for Delaware governor and worked during office hours to help facilitate the use of campaign funds, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press. The emails, […]
Song of the Day 8/14: R.E.M., “Orange Crush”
OK, so the election isn’t being held today and a lot can change in (checks watch) 82 days. But right now the Harris/Walz ticket looks poised to crush a certain orange someone, and I don’t mean Tony the Tiger. It will, however, be gr-r-reat! Michael Stipe wasn’t referring to soda on this tune, released on […]
Collin O’Mara Can Still Win IF…
Guest Post by the MoMo: “It’s not too late” – me, an undecided voter. This is a message to O’Mara, the candidate with the most to gain. Summer sucks the lifeblood from voter contact, paid and grassroots for all candidates. Speaking to officials and Party members and primary voters, the clear message is that it is […]
Delaware’s Most Intriguing Primaries: #6–Democratic Lieutenant Governor
I think this primary becomes less intriguing with each passing day. The three candidates are State Senator Kyle Evans Gay, State Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker, and Dr. Debbie Harrington. I’m not saying that the race is over, but Kyle Evans Gay appears to be the front-runner. I reported on her campaign finance windfall this morning, […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024
For months, the war in Ukraine has been pushed to the media back burner, where slow Russians gains provided grist for the “Surrender Dorothy Ukraine” crowd’s ever-grinding mill. Millions of pixels were devoted to experts explaining how things would play out. And I’m pretty sure exactly zero (0) of those experts predicted Ukraine would invade […]
Song of the Day 8/13: Veruca Salt, “So Weird”
If whoever programmed “My Heart Will Go On” for the Trump rally is looking for more troll bait, might I suggest this as a theme song? It dates from 2006, when Louise Post was fronting the band herself after she and Nina Gordon split up in 1998. They had reunited by the time of this […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024
The Harris campaign has shown a talent for reducing Donald Trump to a sputtering fountain of rage, and never more so than when mocking him over crowd sizes – hers are bigger. It’s not entirely his ego at stake. His whole rationale for the Big Lie, that his enormous crowds mean he must have won, […]
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