Mr. Mainstream Soylent Green Stephen’s last guests this week are Rashida Jones and the Struts. Rashida Jones will probably be talking about Angie Tribeca. Next week TMC and I will be on the road. I’ve prevailed on her to accompany me, Richard, and Emily to a memorial service that we are attending in Michigan. We’ll …
May 27, 2016 archive
May 27 2016
Good for Teaching Swimming, Blood Donations, Not Much Else
The Red Cross is its own disaster: Relief agency stumbles again after Mississippi flood by Sarah Smith, ProPublica Saturday, May 21, 2016 11:00 AM EST Internal emails exchanged among state officials as the devastation unfolded document a profound lack of confidence in the charity’s ability to respond to disasters as well as problems that have …
May 27 2016
Oblivious to Irony
Pent-up fury beneath the Bernie and Trump phenomena by Jim Hightower, Salon Friday, May 27, 2016 05:58 AM EST The political cognoscenti have not understood the massive public rage from today’s “unAmerica” of glaring inequality and mass downward mobility that is the direct product of their wrenching the system with such power tools as: “free” …
May 27 2016
The Breakfast Club (Ask Alice)
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 …