The next time you hear some deficit/debt hawk economist whine and complain about how Social Security and Medicare are too expensive and ruining the economy (for which there is absolutely no evidence at all) and the only solution is to push old and sick people out on an ice flow to die if they can’t …
August 2016 archive
Aug 19 2016
The Breakfast Club (Conscience)
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 …
Aug 18 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (The Last Nightly)
Frankly it’s likely to be a kind of quiet affair. Larry’s plan is to do a quick interview and then let the cast say their fairwells. We’ve already said goodbye to Mike Yard and Ricky Velez. Finally he’ll roll some clips and have the behind the scenes crew out for their curtain call. The only …
Aug 18 2016
Irony
The irony is, of course, that Global Warming, sea rise, ocean acidification, flooding, and other catastrophic climate events is the direct result of the commodity they are exploiting for money. Louisiana’s Sinking Coast Is a $100 Billion Nightmare for Big Oil by Catherine Traywick, Bloomberg News August 17, 2016 From 5,000 feet up, it’s difficult …
Aug 18 2016
UN Admits It Caused Haitian Cholera Epidemic
In the wake of the January 2010 earthquake that devastated poverty stricken Haiti, it was hit with a second disaster that October with an outbreak of a lethal strain of cholera that has never been seen in the Western Hemisphere. The source of the outbreak was easily and quickly traced to a UN peacekeepers from …
Aug 18 2016
The Breakfast Club (A First Lady’s Thoughts)
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 …
Aug 17 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (The Good and The Bad)
As we say goodbye to Larry, Larry, Larry I can’t help but say that certain parts of his show worked better for me than others. ‘Pardon The Integration’ was just kick ass funny every time it aired because Mike Yard and Rory Albanese are incredible writers and performers. Holly Walker and Ricky Velez had more …
Aug 17 2016
Scrooge McDuck’s Vault
As I hope I’ve made clear in past discussions, the primary economic utility of Ur Cow Tokens (or Yap Island stones) is as a medium of exchange. It’s much easier to give someone a few pressed lumps of dirt than it is to move an actual herd of cows from one place to another particularly …
Aug 17 2016
Prison Reform: The Aging Population Problem
One of the many problems faced by the federal and state prison system is a fast growing elderly population that is ill requiring special medical attention and facilities. Some of these people, men and women, are serving sentences for violent crimes, others for low level drug possessions and have been sentenced due to mandatory minimums, …