Archive for March 28th, 2013

Anil Dash “Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success” work as succcess in life tips

Filed in National by jason330 on March 28, 2013 • 6 Comments

These helpful tips were written with entrepreneurs in mind, but they have a lot of utility as general life tips.

Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success

1) Be raised with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. (Every tech billionaire I’ve ever spoken to has a toilet!)
2) Try to be born in a region that is politically and militarily stable.
3) Grow up with a family that is as steady and secure as possible.
4) Have access to at least a basic free education in core subjects.
5) Avoid being abused by family members, loved ones, friends or acquaintances during the formative years of your life.

The next five are good as well.

Thursday Open Thread [3.28.13]

Filed in Delaware, Open Thread by Delaware Dem on March 28, 2013 • 19 Comments

The Week: “Most members of the Republican Party hope that the Supreme Court will not use the two gay-marriage cases it heard this week to issue a broad ruling affirming the constitutional right of gays and lesbians to marry. However, top officials in the GOP are reportedly praying for precisely that outcome, calculating that it would be the most effective way to remove gay marriage as a political liability.”

Well, if these top officials are hoping for that outcome (which I don’t think will happen), then they are foolish and not very smart politicos. For if that does happen, guess what the social conservative base of the Republican Party does? They flip out. More so than usual. They will demand from the GOP complete and total obedience to their outrage. They will want the Congressional Republicans to immediately introduce a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage and attach it as an amendment to everything that moves in the House and Senate. Opposition to gay marriage will become the most important issue on the GOP voter’s mind. Now, the GOP will then be faced with two choices: 1) tell these bigoted voters to go f*ck themselves because the Supreme Court has ruled and that is the end of that; or 2) say yes Master yes Master like they have done so many times before. Which do you think the oh-so-courageous GOP does?

QOTD — Why Is the NJ Still Paying Attention To This Woman?

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on March 28, 2013 • 3 Comments

This question is courtesy of commenter AQC. And the woman in question is Lenore Matusiewicz, the wife of the man who shot their grandchildren’s mother at the NCCo Courthouse. It looks from here that the NJ is basically a venue for pretty much every antic this woman is working on. Today’s antic are claims that the the State of Delaware is withholding her husband’s body from her and withholding the autopsy report. Insert eye rolls here.

The Polling Report [3.28.13]

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on March 28, 2013 • 1 Comment

A small sampling of polls showing a close race in Virginia for governor, a blowout in New Jersey, a tightening Senate primary in Massachusetts, and yet another poll showing that pretty much every single American alive today supports background checks.

In search of Delaware’s best fish taco

Filed in National by jason330 on March 28, 2013 • 31 Comments

I have a new thing. Whenever I see “Fish Taco” on a menu I order it. So far – after an infinitesimally small number of tests (3) – Dogfish on Rehoboth Ave is in the lead. The fish was great, and the cabbage salad had a nice tang to it. And yet, this fish taco is easily beatable by anyone who combines nice fresh fish, a decent tortilla and and some imaginative savory/sweet salad.

Fins on Rehoboth Ave was pretty weak – but at least the fish was good. That same can’t be said for Mango’s in Bethany which was a train-wreck wrapped around a few Mrs. Paul’s fish sticks. The fish taco appetizer at Iron Hill was equally weak but for more for lack of trying than crappy ingredients. Had I known that I was going to be doing this feature I’d have paid more attention to why I didn’t like it.

So hook me up. Bookmark this post and let me know if you find a good one.

Thanks!

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 28, 2013

Filed in National by El Somnambulo on March 28, 2013 • 61 Comments

Seven, count ’em, seven amendments have already been prefiled for HB 35(Longhurst), the criminal background checks bill. And these are only the so-called friendly amendments. In the immortal words of Casey Stengel while managing the inept New York Mets in their inaugural season:

“Can’t anybody here play this game?”

This bill should be the easy one. They’ve got the votes, no fuss, no muss. But, by paying undue deference to the NRA, they have become the Senate (United States version) Democrats, turning what should be defining statement victories into, at best, marginal progress and, at worst, defeat. The issue is larger than HB 35. The House dithering has emboldened the NRA b/c they’ve learned that they can run circles around the house managers of this legislation. That will make passage of other key elements of the gun control package far more difficult than it needed to be.

Need I remind these Profiles In Courage that a massacre of school children in Connecticut was the catalyzing event for this package? After several other massacres all over this country? This kind of appeasement will only help to ensure that such a massacre occurs here. Maybe then they’ll stop listening to these uncompromising zealots. Until then, we have HB 35, on today’s House Agenda. Do us all a favor, and at least pass this one?