October 2017 archive

The Breakfast Club (Only Human)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) to …

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Oh Brave New World…

that has such people in it (The Tempest, V, i). If you type 1+2+3 into your iPhone’s calculator on iOS 11, you probably won’t get 6 By Mike Murphy, Quartz 10/27/17 If you’ve upgraded your iPhone’s operating system to iOS 11, try this: Go to the calculator app and quickly type 1+2+3. You likely won’t …

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November 22, 1963

It seems I am not done with you yet. I was quite happy yesterday. Rachel Maddow validated my current obsession (actually kind of a deadline throw-away dedicated to Richard in the same way as my Formula One coverage), however as it turns out it is so much less than it should have been. Rachel attributes …

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The Breakfast Club (Laughing Most)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) to …

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“Only The MOST Scurrilous Rumors”

The reason they call The New York Times “The Gray Lady” is not a mad romance of assonance or even Puritan rectitude of content. It’s because until recently (October 16, 1997- Tony Fernandez HR sends Cleveland Indians to World Series) the NYT refused to print color photographs. A Glossary of Key Figures and Conspiracy Theories …

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Relax. It’s Just A Game.

And as always it’s so much easier when you can “appeal to authority” and let a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (no, the other one) carry your water (4 Gallons a day for desert operations, amounting to 32 pounds which doesn’t seem like much until you try to lift it, though, like gas in Formula …

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The Breakfast Club (Craw Fish Pie)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) to …

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October

As I may have mentioned I’m a trained acolyte of Clio, an inclination I sometimes indulge much to the dismay of my readers. Eisenstein’s October is not history, it’s not even good fiction. It is propoganda. As Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian puts it- October has fierce, declamatory intertitles with exclamation points, unforgettably intense closeups …

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The Russian Connection: That Dossier

On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that the Russian Dossier on Donald Trump was paid for by an unknown GOP donor, then the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research. After that, Fusion GPS hired …

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The Breakfast Club (Language)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) to …

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The Grifting of the Puerto Rico Recovery

The grifting of the American economy by the Trump administration is reaching new levels in Puerto Rico with the awarding contracts to close friends of cabinet members and allies of Trump himself. The Washington Post reported that the largest contract to repair the severely damaged electrical grid has been given to a two year old …

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A Real Boy!

A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face. I’ll bet a lot of you folks don’t believe that, about a wish comin’ true, do ya? Well, I didn’t, either. I’d rather be smart than be an actor. What’s a conscience! I’ll tell ya! A conscience is that …

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