The New Guy Back In Black Trevor’s guests this week are- Wednesday 3/9: Sacha Baron Cohen Thursday 3/10: Padma Lakshmi Sacha Baron Cohen is a terrible comedian not in the Peter Sellers mode (The Telegraph) but in the Andy Dick, Andrew Dice Clay kind of way- in addition to playing assholes on screen, he’s an …
March 9, 2016 archive
Mar 09 2016
Democratic Debate #8 Open Thread
The debate is in Miami Fl. and co-sponsored by the Washington Post and Univision. It is available in English on CNN. It will start at 9 pm ET with hype at 8:45. Because Florida will suffer more than most from rising sea levels there’s expected to be a fair number of questions about Climate Change …
Mar 09 2016
dday beats poblano
Nate Silver (aka poblano) had a very bad day yesterday, predicting there was a 99% chance Hillary would win Michigan. He might have done better if he had read this piece by dday. The Democratic Party’s working-class calamity: How a generation of workers were abandoned to corporate interests by David Dayen, Salon Tuesday, Mar 8, …
Mar 09 2016
Trump Steaks Are A Real Thing
And those were probably the genuine article on the table last night. Now a lot of people have been treating this as bizarre and inexplicable but it’s not at all really. The Trump name is a brand like Louis Vuitton or Tiffany and for years and years The Donald has been entering into lucrative licensing …
Mar 09 2016
The Breakfast Club (The Heat Is On)
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 …