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) (or …
March 2017 archive
Mar 14 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Play In- Day 1
Ok, we’re going to try and do this as we have in recent years, publishing results from the previous round and listing the upcoming games. Each team is linked to its home site and record from there so you can see how they’ve performed this season (which is not an indicator of how they’ll do …
Mar 14 2017
It’s Always Been About The Money
When Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions fired 46 US Attorneys, he was exercising a tradition that is the prerogative of an new administration, only it was rarely done like it was last Friday. In the past it was done gradually, so as not to disrupt important cases and wait until their replacement was approved by …
Mar 14 2017
The Breakfast Club (Die, Winter, Die)
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) (or …
Mar 13 2017
Driverless Cars
The concept is insane on it’s face. Not that driving takes that much skill in routine conditions like staying on a highway, but complicated situations abound. I challenge you to navigate to Boston’s Logan Airport at rush hour with emergency vehicles fighting for a clear path to whatever emergency they were resopnding. Not that I …
Mar 13 2017
John Oliver on Health Insurance Reform
Please. A Cure for Cancer is Healthcare reform. Both Obamacare and Trumpcare are about forcing people into a captive marketplace where Monopolistic and greedy plutocratic Mega Corporations are guaranteed 20% profits by denying and rationing care except that which is most lucrative for Big Pharma, Big Hospital, Big Diagnostic (tests cost more than you think …
Mar 13 2017
The Breakfast Club (Pay Attention)
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) (or …
Mar 12 2017
Odds or Onions Challenge XXX
Can you pick The Onion without hovering your mouse over the links? Not much of a challenge really, but if you just looked at the headlines you’d have an easy 50 / 50 shot at being wrong. Mom who live-streamed 10-year-old son driving due in court MONROE, Conn.— A Connecticut woman who is accused …
Mar 12 2017
Destroying Democracy Since 1982
A Neo-Liberal’s Manifesto By Charles Peters, Washington Post September 5, 1982 While we are united by a different spirit and a different style of thought, none of these people should be held responsible for all of what follows. Practicing politicians in particular should be presumed innocent of the more controversial positions. When I use the …
Mar 12 2017
The Breakfast Club (Girl Scouts)
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 …