It’s Friday night. It’s late July and really hot n Washington DC and the Trump administration is getting really desperate to find a way to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But, he has to fire Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. After Trump’s interview with the New York Times where he trashed Sessions, it looks …
July 2017 archive
Jul 21 2017
Reshuffling the Deck Chairs: Three More Overboard
Well, folks it’s Friday and the news dump has started early. This morning Press Secretary Sean “Spicey” Spicer resigned his position in a pique over the appointment of former transition team official and Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci as the new communication director. The office has been empty since the resignation of Mike Dubke in …
Jul 21 2017
The Russian Connection: Desperation
In his interview with New York Times reporters Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman Donald Trump said that Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigating his family’s finances would be a “red line.” SCHMIDT: Last thing, if Mueller was looking at your finances and your family finances, unrelated to Russia — is that a red …
Jul 21 2017
The Breakfast Club (Sparks of Madness)
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 …
Jul 20 2017
Things continue to get weirder.
Mr. Harris, we have your fingerprints on the safe. A photo of you opening the safe. A post using the hashtag #JustRobbedTheSafe. So, what are we supposed to think? #HipperThanThou: Yeah, so you were going for that The Shining reference Stephen. Wake Up! It’s 2017 not 1991. We call it The Black Lodge.
Jul 20 2017
Transvaginal Ultrasound
In case I haven’t made it crystal I don’t have one and of the other I’ve had more than enough. The thing about Ultrasound is that they smear you up with K-Y Jelly and send you back home sticky and icky. I much prefer MRIs (where the receptionist and I chat about our SAD, she …
Jul 20 2017
The Breakfast Club (6 Months And Counting)
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 …
Jul 19 2017
Not Good News At All
Glioblastoma is the most common type of cancerous tumor originating in the brain. The prognosis is dire. It is nearly 100% fatal with survival from time of diagnosis ranging from weeks or months to just 3 years. I don’t report this because I take any joy in it, but it seems from initial reporting that …
Jul 19 2017
Fearless Zombie Hunter
So, you remember what I said in the dim, dark, unrecorded past of… well, yesterday actually? Because I am naturally cautious and have experienced too many Zombie Resurrections I’m not quite ready to declare Trumpcare staked, decapitated with a mouthful of garlic, pumped with a clip of silver bullets, dissolved in a vat of Holy …
Jul 19 2017
The Russian Connection: The Eighth Man
Now there are eight. The Washington Post identified the eighth person in the room with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner as Ike Kaveladze, a Russian born US citizen who was implicated in a money laundering scheme in 2000, and is now a senior vice president at Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov’s …
Jul 19 2017
The Breakfast Club (Ageless)
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 …
Jul 18 2017
Denial or Something Else?
As I do my afternoon surfing I notice some commentators are amazed that Mitch McConnell, without any hope of success, is still going to force a Repeal vote. Well, let me tell you how it is. Of course this is a capo di tutti story. By the time I ran for election I’d already been …