The Breakfast Club (& Accordion)

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.

AP’s Today in History for June 24th

Start of the Berlin blockade during the early Cold War; Boxing champ Jack Dempsey born; Comedian and actor Jackie Gleason of ‘The Honeymooners’ fame dies.

Breakfast Tune LIBERTANGO – The Banjo & Accordion

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

• Backed by Obama Alums, a Law-and-Order Candidate Aims to Topple Progressive Leaders in Baltimore
  Rachel M. Cohen

• DEMOCRATIC REP. JOE CROWLEY, FACING PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE, TURNS TO GOP LOBBYING FIRM FOR CASH
  Lee Fang

• The Conservative Case for Universal Healthcare
  CHASE MADAR

• When Both Men and Women Drop Out of the Labor Force, Why Do Economists Only Ask About Men?
  DEAN BAKER

• Fifty years on, the Mississippi town that sparked Dr King’s poverty fight
  Adam Gabbatt

• Extreme Inequality Creates Global Disorder
  James K. Galbraith

Something to think about over coffee prozac

Phillies fan injured by flying hot dog launched by Phanatic

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — It was a flying frankfurter and not a foul ball that left a baseball fan with a black eye in Philadelphia.

Kathy McVay says she was at Monday night’s Phillies game when the team’s mascot, the Phillie Phanatic, rolled out his hot dog launcher. McVay was sitting near home plate and, she says, all of a sudden a hot dog wrapped in duct tape struck her in the face.

McVay says she is suffering from a shoulder injury, so she was unable to swat the hot dog away.

She left the game to get checked out and was diagnosed with a small hematoma.

She told WPVI-TV she doesn’t plan legal action.

The Phillies apologized to McVay on Tuesday and the team has offered her tickets to any game.