After this last horrific massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland FL that took the lives of 17 students and teachers, the debate over gun control has taken on a new fervor. The students have taken the lead in calling BS on state and federal politicians and the NRA. They are impassioned, eloquent and …
February 2018 archive
Feb 22 2018
Cartnoon
Gilmore Girls Hate I really think people are too tough on Rory. You don’t have to make all your life choices before you’re 32 and some things that seem to be huge mistakes eventually lead you to a place that’s better than you could ever have imagined. Oh, and lots of spoilers if you haven’t …
Feb 22 2018
The Breakfast Club (Illegal To Deceive)
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) (or …
Feb 21 2018
666
Follow the money. Yeah, Javanka’s going down. In the fight that he will probably win, because John Kelly is not the daughter Trump wants to boink, Kelly is moving to tighten up on temporary security clearances and include Jared Kushner in the process. Objectively there’s no excuse for it have gone this far. You don’t …
Feb 21 2018
The Tomi Lahren Challenge
When a police officer shoots an unarmed man you blame the police officer. When a horrific school massacre occurs, you blame the gun. Please explain this logic. Tomi Lahren, 18 Feb 2018, 9:57 am, via twit I should be better than this, but you know what? I’m not. —– Dear Tomi, When a Police Officer …
Feb 21 2018
Cartnoon
If you are of a certain age (and it’s not my age, I’m 120+) you remember Cracked Magazine as kind of a down rent knockoff version of Mad (What? Me worry?). Well, it ain’t that anymore. It’s kind of this GenX/Millennial mix of Pop Culture, Humor, News, Philosophy, and Politics in both print and video. …
Feb 21 2018
The Breakfast Club (Say Something)
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) (or …
Feb 20 2018
Van der Zwaan
Sorry to revisit this so soon but when I started writing my last piece he hadn’t pled guilty yet and accepted a deal to testify. I see a lot of commentary on how this is just “deterrence”, you better not lie to Mueller and his FBI interrogators or we’ll send you to prison (though it …
Feb 20 2018
Agency
While you are considering Mueller’s Friday indictments of 13 Russian Nationals and 3 Russian Companies, and today’s charges against Alex van der Zwaan, attorney to Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, former employee of prominent U.S. law firm Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom, and son-in-law of one of Russia’s richest Oligarchs, German Khan, founder of …
Feb 20 2018
Ghouls. Have They No Shame?
For the weary White House, Florida shooting offered a ‘reprieve’ from scandals “For everyone, it was a distraction or a reprieve,” said the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal conversations. “A lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or eight days of just …
Feb 20 2018
The Breakfast Club (We Stand With You)
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) (or …