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February 2016 archive
Feb 19 2016
Odds or Onions Challenge X
Can you pick The Onion without hovering your mouse over the links? Not much of a challenge really, but if you just looked at the headlines you’d have an easy 50 / 50 shot at being wrong. Pope Francis sends unhinged Trump supporters into a white-hot rage: ‘He’s prob a Muslim in disguise!’ Donald …
Feb 19 2016
The Breakfast Club (The Sun, The Moon & The Stars)
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 …
Feb 18 2016
Cornel West
A year or 2 ago TMC and I had the privilege to attend a talk by Jeremy Scahill (who recommended a really good restaurant to us) about Dirty Wars (the book). What? I know people. Anyway we sat next to Spencer Ackerman’s mom (since passed) who was a late arrival there to see her son …
Feb 18 2016
No Street Cred
“I never saw him, I never met him.” says John Lewis about Bernie Sanders after the Congressional Black Caucus political action committee endorsed Hillary Clinton. Lewis has since walked back his statement and admittedly the Civil Rights movement was a big one, to imply that all Chinese people must know each other because of their …
Feb 18 2016
The Breakfast Club (HypheNation)
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 …
Feb 17 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Look away! Look away! No, you can’t, can you?)
I dunno. I did a lot today and for a break I watched Welcome to Tomorrowland. I was kind of expecting the Randian parable some critics told me about and to some extent it was. But the Randian future was dystopian and the real struggle belonged to us. You can’t stop believing in a better …
Feb 17 2016
So, Television.
Look, you couldn’t pay me to watch most of this crap but perhaps your stomach is stronger than mine so I offer it in case you need to get your fix. Tonight CNN South Carolina Town Hall with Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson MSNBC All Trump all the time with Joe Scarborough and …
Feb 17 2016
You Say You Want A Revolution?
Unfortunately, we’ve already had one. The issue is not Hillary Clinton’s Wall St links but Democrats’ core dogmas Thomas Frank, The Guardian Tuesday 16 February 2016 17.01 EST (W)hat voters are rejecting is not Hillary the Capable; it is the party whose leadership faction she represents as well as the direction in which our modern …
Feb 17 2016
More on Piketty
Not that I’m responsible, just that I’m prescient. Yesterday I pointed out a very important piece by Thomas Piketty over at The Guardian and overnight interest among a certain class of economic observers (the left ones) has spiked. Ed Walker (masaccio) has a particularly fascinating take on it at emptywheel that I want to draw …