April 5, 2019 archive

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Semifinals 2019

Good Upsets! UConn (hard to be an underdog when you’re seeded #1)! Oregon (a genuine surprise)! Showdowns tonight. I’ll be watching Baylor/Oregon. Oregon is an unknown quantity and Baylor beat us by 11 on January 3rd. The story of that game is UConn couldn’t shoot worth a damn. They led by a basket at the …

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Self Regulation

Oh yeah. This sooo works. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair “Bubbly Creek” is an arm of the Chicago River, and forms the southern boundary of the yards: all the drainage of the square mile of packing houses empties into it, so that it is really a great open sewer a hundred or two feet wide. …

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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 …

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The United States Tortures Prisoners

Not new “News” and certainly front and center since Gina Haspel, who has been proven to have run a CIA Torture Site in Thailand, still managed to get approved as DCI. Wait ek, isn’t she a “good guy” for standing up to Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio? Well, that’s a little like saying a Serial Killer …

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Cartnoon

So you think it’s a good idea to rent your house to a stranger? The AirB&B Blues. John Evelyn’s Garden Rockstar baby. You should be happy I crashed at your crib. I am given to understand Ariana Grande licks doughnuts and puts them back on the shelf for people to buy. But she’s not all …

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The Breakfast Club (A Bottle Of Red)

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 …

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