Merry Christmas – 2016 “A Hallelujah Christmas” (originally by Leonard Cohen) I’ve heard about this baby boy Who’s come to earth to bring us joy And I just want to sing this song to you It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift With every breath I’m singing Hallelujah …
December 2016 archive
Dec 24 2016
Tracking Santa
On this day in 1955, NORAD begins tracking Santa in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition. According to NORAD’s official web page on the NORAD Tracks Santa program, the service began on December 24, 1955. A Sears department store placed an advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper. The advertisement told children that they …
Dec 24 2016
Marley was dead.
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead …
Dec 24 2016
An Economics Documentary
Nothing to see here and who knows how long it will stay up. Download now if you care. I’ll not be updating because it’s a fool’s game.
Dec 24 2016
The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve
Republished from Dec 22, 2013 Trans Siberian Orchestra The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve
Dec 24 2016
The Breakfast Club (Happy Hanukkah)
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 …
Dec 23 2016
Cranberry Canes
Hey, I’m doing last minute scrambling, why aren’t you? Seriously, these are a little late but not impossibly so if you get a wiggle on. This year our guest list is small and we’ve gone another direction for “friendship” gifts so there’s no urgency. But they are holiday tradition at my house, I enjoy them …
Dec 23 2016
The Breakfast Club (Indomitable Will)
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 …
Dec 22 2016
Fake News: Part 4
While admittedly some Internet posts deserve the term “Fake News” and many fantasies of the Legacy Media likewise, the phenomena I am addressing in these pieces is the tendency to label anything that does not conform to Neo Liberal Establishment norms- “Fake News”. Ed Schultz, liberal talk radio icon, got fired by MSNBC for being …