Which is why we need a disheveled shouty guy to explain it. For what it’s worth he’s also White.
May 2019 archive
May 07 2019
The Breakfast Club (Popularity)
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 …
May 07 2019
Six In The Morning Tuesday 7 May 2019
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo: Reuters journalists freed in Myanmar Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis have been freed. Wa Lone, 33 and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29 were released after a presidential amnesty. They spent more than 500 days in prison on the outskirts of Yangon. They …
May 06 2019
Bless Your Heart
I suppose the shocking Oedipal revelation does kind of make the gouging of eyeballs superfluous but it’s an important bit of staging that wows the audience every time. Still pretending it’s not Justice Theater? Consider whom we share the practice with. This is why the maximum penalty I can endorse is a cell and a …
May 06 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 …
May 06 2019
40 Year Old Comedy Show In Decline!
Film at 11. Seriously, it sucked this week for about the 3rd week in a row. Certainly having Adam Sandler constantly there as a reminder of the ’90s gave it that Episode 2, pounding our way out of a coffin feel, well, that and Zombie Chris Farley. Yes, it is too soon. Why do you …
May 06 2019
The Breakfast Club (Public Trust)
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 …
May 06 2019
Six In The Morning Monday 6 May 2019
Aeroflot plane crash: 41 killed on Russian jet Forty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames just after takeoff from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Dramatic video shows passengers using emergency exit slides to escape the burning Aeroflot aircraft. Survivors suggest the plane was struck by lightning, but Russia’s national carrier …
May 05 2019
Cinco de Mayo
Reprinted from 5/5/2012 The name simply means “The Fifth of May” and it’s an oddly U.S. American holiday. Except in the State of Puebla they don’t much celebrate the victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in Mexico which makes it much more like Patriot’s Day that we here in New England get …
May 05 2019
Cinco de Mayo: They Won The Battle But Lost The War
This article was adapted from the original that was published on May 5, 2011. It is a brief history of the origins of the Cinco de Mayo holiday which is not Mexico’s Independence Day. On this day in 1862, the Mexican Army defeated the French forces at the Battle of Puebla Certain that French victory …