Jan 26 2021

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On one of our trips to New haven, CT, ek hornbeck insisted we eat lunch at a burger joint, Louis’ Lunch. It was quite a fun experience.

Re-posted from 1.27.2020 by TMC For ek hornbeck.

I am given to understand there is some dispute about whether Ketchup is an allowable condiment for Hot Dogs.

No more or less than it is on Hamburgers.

At Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, home of the original Hamburger, a Burger “with the Works” is a slice of yellow American Cheese, a slice of Tomato which is nice when in season, and a slice of Onion which is more or less hot depending on season. Feel free to mix and match. There might be Salt and Pepper floating around, I misremember. It is very small and crowded.

Did I mention it’s served on dry toast?

Yes, smuggling in packets you stole from other Burger joints makes you weak and worthless.

Me personally? Depends on the Bun. Ketchup and Brown Mustard always. I’m not above adding Cheese, Kraut and Chopped Onion or even Chili (though I have to be careful because of my allergies) to my Dogs. Bacon, Cheese, and Sliced Onion to my Burgers and if the Tomatoes are nice they add but mostly they turn into slippery goo that slides your Slider (Hah!) all over the place.

Jan 26 2021

The Breakfast Club (Listen)

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 whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

This Day in History

President Bill Clinton denies affair;first European settlers in Australia ; General Douglas MacArthur is born ;Wayne Gretzky born;musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ opens

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Larry King (November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021)

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Larry King

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Jan 25 2021

Late Night Today

After the Bills – Chiefs disappointing throwball game on CBS, we were treated to a live special of the Late, Late Show with James Corden.

Tampa Tom Earns His 10th Super Bowl Trip

James Corden recaps an exciting day of conference championship football on a special episode of The Late Late Show. James recaps the highs and lows from the games, starting with Buffalo’s loss to Kansas City, which included quite the skirmish, and ending with the day’s first game, featuring Tampa Bay beating Green Bay, sending 43-year-old Tom Brady to his 10th Super Bowl.

Rob Gronkowski Is Celebrating with Cheesy Burrito

James Corden connects with Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski from the team bus fresh after their NFC Championship victory over the Green Bay Packers. Rob tells James about the journey of pausing his playing career, only to return and make it to a sixth Super Bowl, which he celebrated by demolishing a cheese and sour cream-filled burrito.

Jan 25 2021

Cartnoon

Cartoon by First Dog on the Moon

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Jan 25 2021

The Breakfast Club (A Writer’s Soul)

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 whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

This Day in History

Iran-held hostages released, Charles Manson and followers convicted, Jackson settles molestation claims, Alicia Keys is born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

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Jan 24 2021

Throwball Playoffs AFC Championship: Bills @ Chiefs

Hard to believe, but it’s true, there used to be a whole other Throwball League called the American Football League that got swallowed up by the NFL and that’s why we have two Conferences today. ek hornbeck 1.19.2020

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Once again the 14 – 2 Kansas City Chiefs are in the AFC Championship game. This time they’ll play against the 13 -3 Buffalo Bills, the only New York team that actually plays in New York. I don’t know who ek hornbeck would be cheering, I doubt it would be the Chiefs, he hated them.

Ten years after firing Sean McDermott as his defensive coordinator, Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid will stare across the field inside Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday and see his protege trying to spoil his hopes of a Super Bowl repeat.

Funny thing: Even after firing him, Reid suspected deep down that McDermott was destined for big things. [..]

McDermott has the long-suffering Buffalo Bills playing in their first AFC championship game since beating Kansas City on Jan. 23, 1994, when they advanced to their fourth straight Super Bowl. They have won 11 of their past 12 games since losing to the Chiefs in Week 6, beating the Colts in the wild-card round and the Ravens in last week’s divisional round. [..]

Not surprisingly, the job McDermott has done with the Bills neatly parallels the job Reid has done in Kansas City.

Both took over downtrodden organizations and quickly built them into juggernauts. Both have bright young quarterbacks in the Bills’ Josh Allen and the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes. Both have surrounded them with playmakers, such as the Bills’ Stefon Diggs and the Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce. And both have built defenses to not only complement two of the best offenses in the NFL, but capable of clinching wins under pressure, as each did last weekend.

Mahomes, who sustained a concussion last week against Cleveland, has been cleared to play after practicing all week. [..]

Buffalo reached the wild-card round in 2017 and again last year before reaching the brink of a Super Bowl this season.

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Jan 24 2021

Throwball Playoffs NFC Championship: Buccaneers @ Packers

Once again the Green Bay Packer’s, ek hornbeck’s favorite team, are in the NFC Championship game. This time they face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on their home turf, Lambeau Field where the weather won’t be a balmy 75. The current forecast calls for a temperature of 29 degrees at kickoff (3:05 p.m. ET), with 2-4 inches of snow overnight that’s expected to clear up prior to the start of the game. Just a little chilly.

The Packers are 13 – 3 for the season and handily beat the LA Rams 32 – 18 for the spot in the division championship. Packers’s QB Aaron Rogers will face off with the Buccaneers’ Tom Brady. The Buc’s are 11 – 5 for the season and beat the New Orleans Saints 30 – 20 for their spot. It will be just the fourth time they’ve squared off as starting quarterbacks, and first in the playoffs.

The Bucs trounced the Packers 38-10 in Tampa on Oct. 18. They met two other times during Brady’s tenure in New England, with the Packers winning 26-21 at Green Bay in 2014 and the Patriots winning 31-17 in Foxborough four years later. [..]

Brady is trying to join Warner, Peyton Manning and Craig Morton as the only quarterbacks to lead two separate franchises to a Super Bowl. He already won six Super Bowls and played in nine total with the Patriots.

Green Bay is making its fourth NFC championship game appearance in the past seven seasons, but Rodgers hasn’t reached a Super Bowl since leading the Packers to a title in the 2010 season. Warner said the postseason weighs heavily on where players stack up in history. [..]

Simply put, Rodgers needs this victory more than Brady.

The Super Bowl is being played in Tampa Bay and the Buc’s are seeking to become the first team in league history to advance to a Super Bowl that will be played in its home stadium.

I’m ek. Go, Packers.

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Jan 24 2021

Cartnoon

Orange Man Indeed Bad: 100 Years of Trump – SOME MORE NEWS

Hi. Here is our 100th episode… and yeah, it’s about Donald Trump and all of his lies, crimes, impeachments, and insurrections.
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Jan 24 2021

The Breakfast Club (Eat more cake)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club!

AP’s Today in History for January 24th

James Marshall finds a gold nugget. Winston Churchill dies. Ted Bundy is executed. Thurgood Marshall dies. John Belushi born.

Breakfast Tune Smokey Mokes by Roger Sprung on 1963-64 Folkways LP

Lrh1966 “From the rare “Progressive Bluegrass” #1, instrumental album(Folkways – FA 2370). Not sure of exact record date, since it has 1964 printed on record jacket, and 1963 printed on linear note sheet that is stored with the record.

This mono pressing is in very good shape for the most part.

Personal on the record: Banjo – “Roger Sprung”, Lead Guitar – “Doc Watson”, Rhythm Guitar – “Joe Locker”, Mandolin – “Willie Locker”, Bass – “Ollie Phillips”, Drums – “Bob Thomas”.

Transferred to digital using stereo gear in background photo.”

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‘Packed us together like sardines’: Guard deployed to Capitol struggles to contain Covid
LARA SELIGMAN, ANDREW DESIDERIO and NATASHA BERTRAND

The National Guard has struggled to implement a plan to test troops flowing into and out of Washington, D.C., for Covid-19, with some Guard members being forced to find their own tests and others pressured to leave their quarantine early to report to duty.

Already, hundreds of Guard members who poured into Washington, D.C., after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol have tested positive for Covid-19 or are quarantining in nearby hotels, three Guard sources said. Guard leadership has declined to release an official number of positive cases, but troops and lawmakers alike worry that the deployment is becoming a superspreader event.
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The problem was compounded on Thursday night, when thousands of troops who had been standing duty in the U.S. Capitol were told to vacate congressional buildings and take their rest breaks outside and in nearby parking garages. POLITICO obtained photos of Guard members packed together and sleeping on the ground in the garages. One unit was forced to rest in a garage with only one bathroom available for 5,000 troops.
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Jan 24 2021

Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition” 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.

On Sunday mornings we present a preview of the guests on the morning talk shows so you can choose which ones to watch or some do something more worth your time on a Sunday morning.

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); and Dr. Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General Nominee.

The roundtable guests are: Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ); former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (?); Matthew Dowd, ABC News Political Analyst; and Margaret Hoover, Host of PBS’ Firing Line.

Face the Nation: Host Margaret Brennan’s guests are: Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House CoVid-19 response Coordinator; and Chief Medical Adviser to President Biden Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: The guests on this week’s “MTP” are: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain; Sen. Dick Durban (D-IL); and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD).

The panel guests are: Tim Alberta, POLITICO chief political correspondent; Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour; David Brooks, New York Times columnist; and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs & Chief Washington Correspondent.

State of the Union: the guests are: Xavier Beccera, nominee for HHS Secretary; Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT); Se. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); and Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA).

Jan 23 2021

Cartnoon

A Fly on the Wall for Trump’s Last Week in the White House | The Amber Ruffin Show

As we’ve mentioned already, the Trump administration closed up shop this week, but of course, there was craziness until the very end. Now, all the craziest things that happened at the White House over the last few weeks took place behind closed doors, but some details have come out. Here’s our interview with a fly on the wall of the White House last week who heard *everything.*

Who Is President Biden’s Cabinet, Exactly? | The Amber Ruffin Show

Obviously, the biggest news of the week was the Inauguration. But American didn’t just get a new President and Vice President—we also got an entirely new slate of cabinet officials. So, we wanted to take a moment to show you who’s taking over for whom in a segment we call, “Out with the Old, In with the New.”
Plus, a song begging President Biden to bore us!

Your Mom’s Take on Today’s Headlines | The Amber Ruffin Show

These days, the world is full of different takes on the news. We get reporters’ takes, and pundits’ takes, and politicians’ takes, and random people on social media’s takes. But there’s one important take that’s missing—your mom’s take. So, we’d like to bring that to you now in a segment called… “Your Mom’s Take.”

Why Are 1/3 of Black Americans Suddenly Anti-Vaxxers? | The Amber Ruffin Show

According to a recent study, nearly one third of Black Americans are hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. We know COVID can be deadly. And we know that the disease has disproportionately affected Black communities. So, you might be wondering, “Why are one third of Black Americans suddenly anti-vaxxers? How did we get here?” We’d like to answer that question for you in a segment called, “How Did We Get Here?”

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Jan 23 2021

The Breakfast Club (Percentage)

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 whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

This Day in History

:Accord reached in Vietnam; North Korea seizes the U.S.S. Pueblo; Roots airs; Bob Keeshan dies; Johnny Carson dies.

Breakfast Tunes

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Hank Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)

The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Hank Aaron

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