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 …
April 2016 archive
Apr 05 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (UConn Huskys!)
U – Conn Husky, symbol of might to the foe. Fight, fight Connecticut, It’s vict’ry, Let’s go. Connecticut U – Conn Husky, vict’ry again for the White and Blue So go – go – go Connecticut, Connecticut U. C – O – N – N – E – C – T – I – C …
Apr 05 2016
NCAA Women’s Tournament 2016: National Championship
U – Conn Husky, symbol of might to the foe. Fight, fight Connecticut, It’s vict’ry, Let’s go. Connecticut U – Conn Husky, vict’ry again for the White and Blue So go – go – go Connecticut, Connecticut U. C – O – N – N – E – C – T – I – C …
Apr 05 2016
2016 Primaries: Wisconsin’s Turn
The polls in Wisconsin primary opened at 7 AM CT. The primary is also a general election for state and local judicial candidates. Wisconsin voters are very highly engaged and the turn out, even for local elections tends to be higher than other states. That may change. This is the first election since the new …
Apr 05 2016
Panama
The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis Rana Foroohar, Time April 4, 2016 Mossack Fonseca was working with big name financial groups like UBS, HSBC, Société Générale, and many others to help elites from the Communist Party leadership of China, to soccer star Lionel Messi, to global financiers hide cash in offshore havens …
Apr 05 2016
The Breakfast Club (Walls)
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 …
Apr 04 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (All Hands On Deck- And Men’s Finals)
Not much focus on the shows tonight. Everyone is back except for Samantha Bee who has been bumped for the Championships. I’ll be watching Villanova thrash North Carolina and enjoying every second of it, especially since they dumped my Orangemen. Also it gives me an excuse (not that I needed any) to avoid Debbie Wasserman …
Apr 04 2016
NCAA Men’s Tournament 2016: National Championship
Villanova. You heard it here first. Syracuse didn’t win which makes me kind of sad, but North Carolina didn’t exactly dominate and Villanova did- 44 points against a fellow #2 and all North Carolina could muster was 17 against a #10 Seed? It will be ugly and the Tarheels will be on the receiving end. …
Apr 04 2016
SCOTUS: One Person, One Vote Upheld
The US Supreme Court handed a conservative challenge to one person, one vote principle a unanimous defeat. In Evenwel v Abbott the court ruled (pdf) that states could count the total population, not just eligible voters, in drawing legislative districts. The plaintiffs claimed that redrawing electoral districts based on the population of citizens and non-citizens …
Apr 04 2016
The Panama Papers
If you paid attention to anything besides College Basketball and Major League Baseball this weekend, well, I pity you for one thing. In Sports at least you can usually tell what the score is. In other news is the biggest leak in history, measured by volume, not necessarily by impact. Like a majority of ‘breaking’ …