The Breakfast Club (Sucky Summertime Blogging)

I’ve spent a lot of time on the road this summer which has been good from the standpoint of refining my ability to get portable with all my equipment which right now consists of my laptop (not exactly a speed demon, but 16Gb RAM and a terabyte or so of space), my cell phone (Moto E with 32Gb flash and 2 Borg sets), and my Nikon Coolpix 9700 (many batteries and flash cards and a so-so tripod).

Plus toys like my drive ripper, usb hubs, wireless mouse and silicon keyboard.

This is a bigger pack than previously because I’ll be staying longer, up to a month- certainly more than 2 weeks, so there’s all kinds of other comforts like my good monitor, speakers, and cables that have to go.

I have a lot of work to do today.  Hopefully after I unpack I’ll be able to resume my normal level of obnoxiousness.

TMC will be traveling also, so if the sites are a little more relaxed than is customary at various points, it’s because both of us are busy with other things.  We’ll try to keep up.

Obligatories, News and Blogs below.

Obligatories

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 10:30am (ET) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

I would never make fun of LaEscapee or blame PhilJD.  And I am highly organized.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

–Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)

This Day in History

News

• U.S. banks moved billions of dollars in trades beyond Washington’s reach, By Charles Levinson, Reuters
• Greek elections: Alexis Tsipras makes a calculated gamble, by Helena Smith, The Guardian
• Bernie Sanders Draws Big Crowds to His ‘Political Revolution’, By JASON HOROWITZ, The New York Times
• Millennials ‘heart’ Bernie Sanders: why the young and hip are #FeelingtheBern, by Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian
• Stocks Plunge Sharply for a Second Day on Wall Street, By PETER EAVIS, The New York Times
• Something to sing about: ‘worst art restoration ever’ inspires an opera, by Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian
• Republicans’ deep hatred for teachers can’t be denied and they’re not trying, by Steven W Thrasher, The Guardian
• New Orleans economic renaissance is not all it may seem 10 years after Katrina, by Suzanne McGee, The Guardian
• Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?, by Natalie Kitroeff, Bloomberberg News
• Barrel of US crude drops below $40, Associated Press

Blogs

• The Questions the NCSC Doesn’t Want to Answer, By emptywheel
• “How Complex Systems Fail”, by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism
• John Kasich and education reformers’ dirty secret: How his “joke” betrayed their contempt for teachers, by Elias Isquith, Salon
• Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers, by Morgan Marquis-Boire, The Intercept
• The secret history of jaywalking: The disturbing reason it was outlawed – and why we should lift the ban, by Ravi Mangla, Salon
• Picking Apart One of the Biggest Lies in American Politics: “Free Trade”, By Thom Hartmann, Naked Capitalism
• No, Inglewood Cannot Claim Copyright On City Council Meetings And Sue A Critic For Commenting On Them, by Mike Masnick, Tech Dirt
• TSA At The Movies: Theater Chain Looks To Bring Security Theater To The Movie Theater, by Tim Cushing, Tech Dirt
• What’s the Difference Between Saudi Arabia and ISIS?, By emptywheel
• Clara Lemlich and the Uprising of the 20,000, by gjohnsit, Caucus 99 Percent