Mrs. Betty Bowers
Category: News
Aug 07 2019
Not long, but important.
This is the John Oliver everyone’s been talking about. Normally they don’t let Part 1 stand, so it took some hunting today to find. One thing to remember is that this was filmed before Dayton. Another thing that you shouldn’t forget is that the Gilroy Garlic Festival Massacre is of a piece of this, and …
Aug 07 2019
In Memoriam: Toni Morrison ( February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019)
Nobel laureate in literature and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and essayist Toni Morrison died August 5 at Montefiore Medical Center in New York after a short illness. She was 88 years old. Ms. Morrison, who was born February 18, 1931 Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor …
Aug 06 2019
Tuesday Noon
I haven’t felt very funny this weekend. Trevor, Stephen, and Seth have cheered me up a bit, but I warn you I’ll be traveling again tomorrow so there might be some stuff or maybe not. I’m also very busy today with meatspace so I can’t promise prolific output at all. I probably won’t talk about …
Aug 04 2019
The Breakfast Club (DIY)
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 …
Aug 04 2019
Six In The Morning Sunday 4 August 2019
Texas Walmart shooting: Twenty killed in El Paso gun attack Twenty people have been killed and 26 injured in a mass shooting in the Texas city of El Paso. Governor Greg Abbott described it as “one of the most deadly days in the history of Texas”. The massacre happened at a Walmart store near the …
Aug 03 2019
Six In The Morning Saturday 3 August 2019
Boris Johnson could be the last prime minister of the United Kingdom Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN Updated 0737 GMT (1537 HKT) August 3, 2019 Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister, wants you to know that he loves his country. Specifically, he wants you to know that he loves the Union between the four nations that …
Aug 02 2019
Moving the Needle
Boris Johnswon’s seat as Prime Minister got immeasurably more tippy in a Wales by-election that reduces his Parliamentary Majority to a single vote. In a flash, Boris Johnson’s working majority in Britain’s Parliament is now just one seat By William Booth, Washington Post August 2, 2019 In February, three Conservative members of Parliament quit the …
Aug 02 2019
Six In The Morning Friday 2 August 2019
South Korea accuses Japan of waging ‘economic war’ By Sherisse Pham, CNN Business Updated 0758 GMT (1558 HKT) August 2, 2019 Japan dropped South Korea as a preferred trading partner on Friday, escalating a dispute that threatens the global supply chain for smartphones and electronic devices. The decision to remove South Korea from a so-called white list means that Japanese exports …
Aug 01 2019
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Entirely creepy in retrospect like John Cusack in Say Anything. Look, I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience, At 120+ years I understand how Faxing has taken the country by storm and I hear tell this nefangled email thing is going to make the Post Office obsolete. I …