I don’t know if Sam has anything special happening next week, or indeed that she will have new material at all, Stephen is running live special episodes and Seth will probably be new on tape meaning his jokes are going to be about a day behind. I’m also not sure how we’re going to cover …
Category: News
Jun 20 2019
Six In The Morning Thursday 20 June 2019
US confirms Iranian missile has shot down drone A US military drone has been shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile while in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, US officials say. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it shot down the drone over Iranian airspace, near Kuhmobarak in the southern province of Hormozgan. …
Jun 19 2019
Feel the BuhBye’den-Mentum
Biden epitomizes everything bad about Hillary Clinton without the charisma or brain. His nomination as the Candidate of the Democratic Party is about the only scenario where I can see Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio eeking out a victory of sorts. Biden represents nothing except the failure of Neo Liberalism and the smug self righteous satisfaction …
Jun 19 2019
Six In The Morning Wednesday 19 June 2019
Vaccines: Low trust in vaccination ‘a global crisis’ By Michelle RobertsBBC News Public mistrust of vaccines means the world is taking a step backwards in the fight against deadly yet preventable infectious diseases, warn experts. The biggest global study into attitudes on immunisation suggests confidence is low in some regions. The Wellcome Trust analysis includes …
Jun 18 2019
9/11: The Human-Hybrid Turtle v Jon Stewart
Senate Majority Leader Mitch “The Human-Hybrid Turtle” McConnell (R-KY) offhandedly dismissed former host of “The Daily Show” and 9/11 first responder healthcare bill activist, Jon Stewart’s anger, wondering why he was “all bent out of shape” over the bill’s slow progress through congress. As Karoli Kuns, at Crooks and Liars, points out, “This isn’t life …
Jun 18 2019
Social Sciences
A big problem with Social Sciences is that the phenomena they want to describe are in many ways unique and unduplicateable. This is less true in History which purports to be the story of what is and one can, with a reasonable degree of confidence pick up an incised lump of dirt off the desert …
Jun 18 2019
How Can You Live Downwind…
And pretend nothing’s happening? Do you think these statements are anti-Semitic and a denial of the reality of the Holocaust? Ocasio-Cortez presses case that U.S. is running ‘concentration camps’ at border amid Republican outcry By John Wagner, WashingtonPost June 18, 2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressed her case Tuesday that the Trump administration is running “concentration …
Jun 18 2019
Six In The Morning Tuesday 18 June 2019
Inside China’s ‘thought transformation’ camps (video) The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang. Authorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature …
Jun 17 2019
The Internet Sucks
Especially U.S. Internet which, even by comparison with countries we might consider less developed, is as slow as a 56K Modem.