The Fake Border Crisis, Steve King, and Our Lying, Racist President Trevor Noah: Racism Detective
January 2019 archive
Jan 16 2019
The Breakfast Club (Preservation)
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 …
Jan 15 2019
Bigots And Racists All The Way Down
The story goes like this- someone (presumably Chinese but it’s not important) asks a Chinese Philosopher (see, that’s why I think the questioner is probably Chinese), “What holds up the world?” So the Philosopher thinks about it a bit and says, “The World rests on the back of a Giant Turtle”, which was a fairly …
Jan 15 2019
Pondering the Pundits
Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from> around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
Jan 15 2019
Redefining Radical
In defiance of Election Losing “Pragmatists” I’ve been saying for years that Democratic Policy Proposals are, in most respects and especially economic ones, cowardly craven sellouts to Monopoly MegaCorps and Thieving Billionaires. Instead the Democrats have escalated Identity Politics as a substitute for true Social Justice, dangling shiny objects while ignoring the root causes of …
Jan 15 2019
The Breakfast Club (Dangerous Combinations)
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 …
Jan 14 2019
Polling, Polling, Polling
Keep digin’, digin’, digin’ Though voters disapprovin’ The Wall! Don’t realize you’re losing Just lie, mope and confuse ’em Soon we’ll be jailed and livin’ inside. Oh, is it that bad? Yes, yes it is. No wonder Trump is in such a foul mood By James Downie, Washington Post January 13, 2019 As a new …
Jan 14 2019
Pondering the Pundits
Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from> around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
Jan 14 2019
Big Day For Brexit
Tomorrow the British Parliament will finally take a vote on Theresa May’s Brexit Plan. It is all but certain to fail, the biggest question is the magnitude of the failure. I would vote against it, not because it’s necessarily bad though it’s not a gift to the UK Economy (which it will likely trash almost …