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
Ariel Sharon visits Jerusalem’s Temple Mount; The American Revolution’s last battle begins; William the Conqueror invades England; First round-the-world flight ends; Jazz great Miles Davis dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Breakfast News
Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project
Wells Fargo executives forfeit millions, CEO to forgo salary amid investigation
RBS pays £846m fine to US regulator for role in 2008 banking crisis
ICC ruling for Timbuktu destruction ‘should be deterrent for others’
Call to topple Christopher Columbus statue from its Barcelona perch
Breakfast Blogs
What Jack Kerouac Realized About American Life 70 Years Ago Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
QOTD: Richard Engel digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Clinton trumps Trump Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
David Brooks: The Great Project Continues driftglass, at his blog
Fortunately, The Real Toxic-Male Trump Showed Up Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump Offers More Insight On His Cybersecurity Plans: 10-Year-Old Relatives Vs. 400-lb Bedroom Dwellers Tim Cushing, Techdirt