Archive for May, 2011
Tuesday Open Thread
Welcome to our Tuesday Open Thread. First day back at the grind after a long weekend and apparently we are in for a real heat wave all week. It is too early to have to crank up the AC. Just make sure all of your new plants have plenty of water this week.
American Whites: From God Complex to Aggrieved
What happens when you control most of the wealth in a country? Naturally, you cry “Racism!”
NJ Truthiness Watch — Amtrak Edition
Sunday’s editorial has the NJ wagging their wizened finger at Democrats for not embracing Rep. Mica’s idea of carving out the Northeast Corridor for a rail privatization scheme.
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., May 31, 2011
I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, I hope that Tony DeLuca enjoyed a terrorist-free Memorial Day weekend, and I hope that Monsignor Greg Lavelle stopped crying about ‘gerrymandering’ long enough to spout inanities about what it means to be patriotic. Well, crying has never stopped Lavelle from spouting inanities. He can and […]
Germany And Switzerland to Shut Down Their Nuclear Power Plants
Some months ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a decision to try to extend the working life of Germany’s oldest nuclear power plants. Yesterday, Chancellor Merkel flip-flopped on that unpopular decision and — announced that Germany’s ruling coalition has decided to shut down its nuclear power plants by 2022
Job Fair in Dover Tomorrow
Delaware’s Congressional Delegation — Senator Coons, Senator Carper and Representative Carney — are hosting a job fair tomorrow at the Delaware Technical and Community College in Dover from 9AM to 2PM.
Memorial Day Open Thread
Welcome to your Memorial Day Open Thread. Hope that you all have been contributing to Delaware’s economy by going to the beach with your family or getting your friends together to help you build an outdoor kitchen to your house.
Late Night Video — Artfully Visualizing Our Humanity
This video podcast from the TED Talks people features Aaron Koblin, who specializes in taking massive amounts of data — or massive groups of people — to create visualizations. I’m in awe of people who can do this kind of thing and I’m especially impressed with this young man’s effort to crowd source a video […]
Chris Coons Votes Against the Patriot Act Extension
Senator Coons asked the Senate to limit the extension of the Patriot Act to one month so that the Senate could seriously review and revise the law to reflect current lessons learned to scale back some of the broad authorities granted to government under the original Patriot Act.
R. I. P. Gil Scott Heron
One of our true visionaries. Never was able to successfully defeat his demons, although he tried. And tried and tried. Some samples of his genius: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHOq8i5Pyk[/youtube] ‘Winter In America’ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKsTCKYm4E&feature=related[/youtube] ‘The Bottle’ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRPRwG1_ayk[/youtube] ‘Johannesburg’ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_9Ph8KiVM&feature=related[/youtube] ‘Ain’t No Such Thing As A Superman’ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV_astp3BjM&feature=relmfu[/youtube] ‘I’m New Here’
Priorities
Sorry I haven’t been around, but priorities people. It looks like you’ve had real fun while I’m on vacation so I doubt you’ve even noticed my absence. Now it’s time to go chillax and enjoy the view.
‘Bulo’s Music For the Masses: Only One Way to Kick Off Summer Edition
Bulo’s Memorial Day Playlist to kick off summer with.
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