It’s once again time for that annual celebration of inbreeding and genetic disease that is the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Dogs have many admirable qualities including undeserved, unconditional love and should you have one in your temporary care I urge you to cherish it as I have mine (many over a century and a …
February 2017 archive
Feb 13 2017
Speaking Ill
Well poke me with a stick (it’s the only way to be sure). The atheist in me says that when you’re dead, you’re dead so it doesn’t much matter if they burn you, bury you, or eat you, you past parrot- you’re pushing up daisies in any event unless they nail you to your perch …
Feb 13 2017
Not The News They Want To Hear
As elections approach in Germany, France, and Italy (the 3 largest economies in the European Union if you take out Britain, which you should because of Brexit) parties of the Neo Liberal Center, Left and Right, seem destined to suffer electoral defeat at the hands of Populist Parties of the Right and Left. I’ll not …
Feb 13 2017
The Breakfast Club (Mornin’)
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 10:00am (ET) to …
Feb 12 2017
Voter Fraud!
Funny, isn’t it, how almost all the documented cases are Republicans. Republican green-card holder who voted illegally in Texas gets 8 years in prison By Amy B Wang, Washington Post February 11 at 5:54 PM A permanent U.S. resident living in Texas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting, a punishment …
Feb 12 2017
The Breakfast Club (If I Had A Hammer)
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 …
Feb 11 2017
Clueless
In the dim recesses of their feckless minds Institutional Corporatist Democrats sense that something has changed. This week in Baltimore they had a meeting to try and figure out what it is. Even some reliably mercenary office holders like Chuck Schumer understand that voters are no longer buying their line of Republican-lite Neo Liberal crap …
Feb 11 2017
Health and Fitness News
Welcome to the Stars Hollow Gazette‘s Health and Fitness News weekly diary. It will publish on Saturday afternoon and be open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share …
Feb 11 2017
The Breakfast Club (A Matter Of Trust)
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 10:00am (ET) to …
Feb 10 2017
Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse and a Comet
There a full moon tonight, the Snow Moon, appropriately, for those of us In The Northeast.. Nothing unusual about that except that there is also a lunar eclipse and a comet Turn this evening into a cosmic experience — a full moon, lunar eclipse and the chance to see a pale green comet as it …
Feb 10 2017
A Brief History Of Mass Surveillance
Former CIA Analyst Sues Defense Department to Vindicate NSA Whistleblowers by Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 2017-02-10 The controversy dates back to 1996, when Ed Loomis, then a computer systems designer for the NSA, along with his team worked to move the NSA’s collection capabilities from the analog to the digital world. The shift would allow …