Archive for October, 2017
Won’t Someone Think of the Children?
Wilmington City Council has been a backwater of favoritism and incompetence for so long that most of us ignore it, so it was easy to think it would molder out of sight forever. Apparently it won’t. Wilmington’s budget has been shrinking, making less money available for the minor, street-level, hire-my-relative corruption council specializes in. That […]
The Lost Cause Is a Lost Cause
The Civil War is back in the news, and it reminds us of what TrumpMerica’s counter-reformation is all about: Rewriting history. Yes, I know that’s a loaded phrase, because it’s so often used as an accusation when people try to massage the facts to achieve a favorable outcome for their views. But rewriting history is […]
Open Thread for Tuesday, October 31, 2017
How bad are things for Donald Trump? So bad that this morning he tried to use the GOP tax plan as a distraction from his bigger problems. As is common for Republicans, they don’t yet know what’s in it, but they’re sure it will help them to pass it. As haggling continues within the GOP, […]
RIP: Roger A. Martin
Noted author/historian and perhaps less-noted State Senator Roger A. Martin passed away last Thursday. He has been hailed as an historian who traced the history of Delaware through the succession of its governors. As a State Senator, Roger struck me as a man out of time. It was as if he viewed the Senate through […]
Song Of The Day: Oct. 31, 2017
So, I’m listening to the vaguely ominous jamming, perhaps while under the influence of Jamaican herb, barely paying attention, when…well, you either know, or don’t know, what comes next. A GREAT Halloween song. Meant to be enjoyed in the spirit that it was created:
Open Thread for Monday, October 30, 2017
For the first time in 51 weeks, today seems a little better than yesterday. Anybody who claims to know how all this will end is just guessing. We can’t know how Trump will try to fight back, how Congress will react or how the pro-Trump public will react. Already, after the news broke about Manafort […]
Manafort Ordered to Surrender
I know the wording is boilerplate, but I hope the “surrender” verbiage hurst Trump’s feelings. He is such a status conscious twit.
WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities Monday morning, the first charges in a special counsel investigation, according to a person involved in the case.
Network Delaware Flexes Its Political Muscles In SD3
Elizabeth ‘Tizzy’ Lockman. Remember the name. She is running for Bob Marshall’s seat in SD 3. She is the first candidate to emerge from Network Delaware’s grassroots efforts. She is a candidate who does not appear to be someone who was obsessed with being involved in politics, in stark contrast to Jordan Hines, who has […]
Song Of The Day: Oct. 30, 2017
When Walter Becker died, I sampled a lot of his and Donald Fagen’s solo stuff and, of course, listened to a lot of Steely Dan. While this song was on a Greatest Hits collection, (a) it wasn’t a hit; (b) never made it onto an album (written when the Dan were preparing The Royal Scam […]
Open Thread for Sunday, October 29, 2017
Everybody waiting for Mueller’s Monday reveal, but writing about it is difficult because nobody knows anything more than the bare bones. I’m skipping all the prediction stories — Mueller will be fired! — because they were written to fill a void, not because journalists make great predictions. The best thing I found was this clear-eyed […]
Song Of The Day: Oct. 29, 2017
A great lost (IMHO) Paul Simon classic. From a not-well-received album, Hearts And Bones, released in 1983. Talia Schlanger played it on the World Cafe a couple days ago, first time I’ve heard it. It blew me away:
Open Thread for Saturday, October 28, 2017
The big news of the day is, of course, the first indictment from Robert Mueller’s election probe. Today’s chatter revolves around who will get the knock on the door just before dawn on Monday. Paul Manafort seems to be the early favorite. No links because nobody knows anything more than that so far. Worried that […]
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