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.
This Day in History
Elvis Presley holds his first major recording session; Birth of the bikini; Enron’s Kenneth Lay dies; Arthur Ashe wins at Wimbledon; Larry Doby follows Jackie Robinson; Baseball’s Ted Williams dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Bill Watterson
Breakfast News
Father accidentally kills teenage son at Florida gun range, authorities say
Homemade cannon kills Iowa woman at backyard gathering
Central Park firework that injured man was an ‘explosive experiment’
Flesh-eating bacteria scare along Gulf Coast has locals on alert
Browser the library cat escapes eviction amid international outcry
US army veteran shoots through rope to free bald eagle hanging from tree
Breakfast Blogs
Hillary’s Mode of Governance: Boozy X Chromosomes Making Peace emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
It’s Time We Called the Declaration of Independence’s Bluff Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Hugh Hewitt Is A Cyborg Sent From The Future To Destroy America driftglass, at his blog
Hillary Clinton Thinks Republican Lucy Might Let Her Kick The Football Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
American Charity Erik Loomis, Lawyers Guns and Money