Welcome to The Breakfast Club!
AP’s Today in History for March 14th
Albert Einstein born; Eli Whitney receives patent for cotton gin; First US Astronaut in space on Russian rocket; Michael Caine and Quincy Jones born.
Breakfast Tune East Bound and Down – Jerry Reed – Banjo Cover
Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below
- How to Be Sure Your Face Mask Isn’t a Counterfeit
A.C. Shilton
- First the coup — and then the cover-up: An updated Trump insurrection timeline
Steven Harper, Moyers & Company
- Kyrsten Sinema Went to Washington and Became a Monster
David Sirota & Andrew Perez
Something to think about over coffee prozac
World Leaders Pledge To Cut Emissions By As Much As They Can Realistically Back Out Of
The Onion
BONN, GERMANY—Agreeing that public perception of how they were handling the climate crisis had never been more important, world leaders signed a major new accord Tuesday in which they pledged to cut carbon emissions to the extent that they could realistically back out of a few years from now. “This agreement sets ambitious goals for reducing our carbon footprint, but not so ambitious that we can’t come up with a plausible-seeming excuse when we inevitably fail to meet its benchmarks,” read a joint statement issued through the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, in which top officials from the United States, China, Germany, Canada, Russia, and France signaled their support for easily reversible measures to combat global warming. “The time for dramatic pronouncements that can be quickly walked back is now. We have vowed to transition away from fossil fuels and set a deadline far enough in the future that hopefully everyone will forget about it. But if necessary, we are fully committed to rationalizing our inaction in terms the United Nations finds palatable.” At press time, a new report issued by the U.N. had found that half of the parties had already succeeded in reneging on the agreement signed earlier that morning.