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 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 …
May 26 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Shot Dead)
The New Guy Rio Trevor’s last guest this week is supposed to be Tip “T.I.” Harris. This will be somewhat interesting. During last night’s concert at Irving Plaza, a Manhattan club, one of the rappers in a supporting act, identified as Troy Ave, opened fire in the Green Room above the stage area and killed …
May 26 2016
Drones, Corporations and Assassinations
I recently attended a party for investigative journalist and founding editor of The Intercept Jeremy Scahill’s new book, The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program and party it was. The Intercept staff gave talks interspersed with music and food. Glenn Greenwald, the other founding editor, appeared via live feed from Brazil. In …
May 26 2016
The International Internet Cat Fight
Sunday night, the host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver sparked an international, internet cat fight when he criticized the leader of Chechnya, Kremlin-backed Ramzan Kadyrov who posted an internet appeal to find his lost cat, a so-called toyger, a domestic cat bred to resemble a tiger cub. Last week, Kadyrov posted a message …
May 26 2016
The Breakfast Club (There Are No Strangers Here)
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 …
May 25 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Apocalypse)
The New Guy Katie Couric Exclusive Extended My Dad, The NRA Conventioneer Trevor’s guests this week are- Wednesday 5/25: Corey Pegues Thursday 5/26: Tip “T.I.” Harris Mr. Continuity I haven’t forgotten about you Pardon the Integration Larry’s panelists this week are- Wednesday 5/25: Arianna Huffington Thursday 5/26: LeVar Burton Mr. Mainstream Lewis Black- Optimist Roommates …
May 25 2016
Solving Puerto Rico’s Financial Problems
Bernie says bail out Puerto Rico: Sanders details how the feds should rescue the territory as they did big banks by David Dayen, Salon Tuesday, May 24, 2016 05:59 AM EST Puerto Rico has been reeling from a decade of recession, and successive governments papered over those problems with excessive borrowing. Last year, Gov. Alejandro …