Archive for November, 2017
They Are, Quite Simply, Criminals
James O’Keefe appears to have gotten both his nuts in a wringer by trying to sting the Washington Post, which is schooling this little schmuck on how real journalism is done. Not only did they release audio and visual tape of the phony victim squirming like a minnow on a hook when confronted with her […]
Open Thread Nov. 30: Lies and Lunacy
No, it’s not just you. Trump has been especially loony the past several days. Evidence of bad news on the way, according to pal-turned-critic Joe Scarborough. Evidence of a deteriorating mental state, says ghostwriter Tony Schwartz. Evidence that Trump is not doing this strategically, that he really is this fucked up, says David Graham. It’s […]
Song Of The Day: Nov. 30, 2017
Underground Motown Week brings you the very sad story of Rodger Penzabene. The Motown songwriter found out that his wife had cheated on him, became inconsolable, wrote the lyric for this melancholy classic based on his own experience, and then committed suicide on New Year’s Eve, 1967, a week after the song was released: An […]
Hey, Feminist Democrats — What About Carper?
I awoke this morning to my wife’s triumphant claim of “I told you so.” She predicted about a couple of weeks ago that Matt Lauer would fall in the sexual-harassment purge. But my gosh, Garrison Keillor? Really? Despite my misogyny, I have no complaints about media companies and Hollywood people firing those accused of such […]
Open Thread Nov. 29: Matt Lauer, Closing Schools and Police Behaving Badly
Whoever had the Today Show’s Matt Lauer as the next media heavyweight to fall in the sexual harassment pandemic, contact management to claim your prize. The ax fell just this morning, so no details have emerged yet — that’s all people really care about, isn’t it, the dirty details? — which should keep reporters on […]
Song Of The Day: Nov. 29, 2017
Underground Motown Week continues. Written by Ivy (not Ivory) Joe Hunter and a very young Stevie Wonder, this 4 Tops song was adopted by The Band, who I saw do it as an encore back in 1971 at the Syracuse War Memorial. The concerts I saw back then were what I loved most about college. […]
Delawareans Among Protesters Removed From Capitol Ahead Of Vote On Tax Bill
Our Senators seem like solid No votes on the Tax Scam currently working its way through congress. Nevertheless, it is important to keep the heat on the entire Senate. Props to the Delawareans who got involved and ended up wearing the zip tie bracelets. More on this as it comes in.
No Illusions
A number of commenters have forecast a Roy Moore victory in the Alabama special election, and the first post-Thanksgiving poll, released today, shows Moore with a 5-point lead. It’s a turnaround from polls taken in the aftermath of his purity-search scandal, and ought to serve to convince people — if November’s results didn’t do the […]
The Chuck and Nancy Show
A lot of progressive Democrats want younger, more liberal leaders in Congress. I say let’s give the geezers a chance. I’d like more young, liberal members of Congress, but I want wily, experienced people in leadership. Case in point: Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi just yanked Trump’s chain by canceling a meeting with him in […]
Transgendered Student Policy: Threat or Menace?
I’ve been warning for weeks now that Delaware’s Republicans — the party so stupid it loses to Delaware Democrats — intend to make the Department of Education’s transgendered student policy, known as Regulation 225, the centerpiece of next year’s elections. That tub is being thumped especially hard in Sussex County, where, this Delmarva Now story […]
Rehoboth Beach Mayor And Park City Kathy: LLC’s Are People, Too
This is why we have the Tip Line. I can’t make this up. Rehoboth Beach’s shiny new mayor Paul Kuhns and Rehoboth Beach Commissioner/would-be State Auditor Kathy McGuiness want to give LLC’s, wait for it, the right to vote. From the Cape-Gazette: “Voting rights for limited liability companies are on the agenda at a town […]
Open Thread Nov. 28: Coastal Zone and Taxes
The Delaware Audubon Society has called bullshit on the Coastal Zone Gutting Act, refusing to participate in the “workshops” at which the state intends to collect comments before ignoring them. This is a perfect illustration of liberalism/progressivism vs. the Democratic Party. Scott Goss’ story points out that this is backed not only by the state […]
Occasional Words From the Resistance
“And that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
—-Mario Savio, Sproul Hall, Berkeley, December 2, 1964
Godspeed and good luck to today’s resistors.
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