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When ever anyone gives me the chance to say that “George Bush is a maniac” or “Michael Castle is a lying fraud” on the radio or TV – I jump at it.

Most talk radio plays to people like Ryan S and Hap who have are openly hostile to reality and reason. If it falls to me to be the guy who says, “Sorry guys, the world is round”. So be it. All the better when I get to be on with Dana and Mike M who are never at a loss when it comes to pricking the pompous self satisfied gas bags that pass for our political “leaders” here in Delaware.

Susan at DWA has blogged a bit about the segment so I will not go into the details but I did want to give a couple of personal observations.

1) I met Allan Loudell. Based on Dana and Mike’s reaction to his popping to say “hello”, Loudell is a very well liked and admired journalist. On local issues, I think he is only a tad bit better than the usual Delaware dreck that passes for journalism. He tends to reiterate the conventional wisdom ad nauseum like everyone else. Even on election night when it was clear that a Democratic wave was breaking, he always managed to scrounge up some Republican to interview to make sure the spin was “balanced”. [Allan, you’re a journalist. Let the story be the story and forget about the spin.]

That being said, the marginal difference on local issues is more than overshadowed by his real journalism when making national and international stories local by being constantly in touch with people who are one degree separated from the news of the day. He is amazing when talking to a fellow journalist in Kuala Lumpur.

2) Gerry Fulcher was very genial and made me feel very much at home and welcomed. I was a bit surprised by this – with all the “suck on it Fulcher” crap I had been writing. Fulcher sees himself as a blogger of sorts. An audio blogger. So there was a bit of a feeling of kinship. “Brothers can fight.” Was the feeling I got. [Of course, Cathy Cloutier never came up so that feeling of hospitality might have vanished in a flash if it had.]

3) Radio Stations are dumps. Why is it that when you walk into a radio station you are in danger of having a three ring binder fall on your head from a teetering pile of binders and papers. And why is that three-ring binder marked “1977 – July” or “S.P.I.D.S” or some other equally mysterious words or acronyms?

4) The best line was from Dave at FSP who, when asked about his goals for the blog said. “I’m just a party hack.”

It is a shame that the highest- paid college president, David P. Roselle, didn’t take his hat off during the playing of the national anthem at the football game between the University of Delaware and Villanova on Nov. 18. Too much effort, Dr. Roselle?

Thomas Koval, Bear – via the News Journal Letters page
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For a million bucks a year, can’t we find a University President who is smart enough to take his hat off?

Listen up Roselle; a normal apology will not suffice on this one. You want to deflect attention away from this gaffe ASAP. Otherwise people may start to wonder why the University of Delaware pays such a high percentage of its operating budget (many would say a disproportionate percentage of its operating budget) to you.

You are going to need to do some super patriotic shit to deflate this PR fiasco. I recommend rolling over some Dixie chicks cd’s in a steamroller, serve the troops a plastic prop turkey, or mount a hostile takeover of the Widner law school. Something like that – make it big.

By Kate House-Layton, Delaware State News

DNREC’s argument was that only shipping companies operating on or before June 1971 and their successors were allowed to conduct lightering.
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While we spent a solid six months talking about “child predator task forces” and Biden’s bar exam scores, I would have rather heard about how the AG’s office under Biden or Wharton would deal with companies that seem determined to turn the Delaware bay into a toilet.

I’d like to see some company try to pull this shit in the Chesapeak bay. Heads would roll.

Fan brings ‘Christmas Story’ house to life

He’s unsure whether he’ll make enough money to cover his $500,000 investment, but as sure as a kid’s tongue will stick to a frozen flag pole, he’s committed to the project. Via CNN