Another shoe may be about to drop in the probe of the Trump administration and Russian involvement in the 2016 elections. On Sunday, a report by NBC News revealed the Special Counsel Robert Mueller III has enough evidence to indict Trump’s former national security adviser, General Michael T. Flynn and his son Michael G. Flynn. …
November 2017 archive
Nov 10 2017
Not Just Meatballs and Lingonberry Jam
It goes on your meatballs. No, seriously. On the other hand Scandanavians like Lutefisk too, I’ve tried that and it’s not nearly as horrible as you’d think. Nuclear War is exactly as horrible as you’d think. How to Build a Fallout Shelter Using Nothing but IKEA Furniture By Nick Greene, Vice Nov 9 2017 In …
Nov 10 2017
What could possibly go wrong?
After you give out a $300,000,000 no bid contract to a 2 person firm that happens to be located in a Cabinet Secretary’s home town that his son just happened to used to work for? Puerto Rico is in blackout again after power line fixed by Whitefish fails by Umair Irfan, Vox Nov 10, 2017 …
Nov 10 2017
The Breakfast Club (November Storms)
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 …
Nov 09 2017
About That Big Medicaid Victory in Maine
Maybe no so much. You may have missed it but Seema Verma, head of the Health and Human Services Department’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to institute work requirements for benefits. States will be allowed to impose Medicaid work requirements, top federal official says By Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post November 7, 2017 …
Nov 09 2017
The Breakfast Club (Subversives)
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 …
Nov 08 2017
The Day After The Backlash (Up Dated)
A lot of people are waking up today with hangovers, some for good reasons, some for not such good reasons. The unexpected route of Republicans by substantial margins in Virginia’s election last night had even left leaning pundits amazed but definitely smiling. No one had predicted the margins by which Ralph Northam and his Democratic …
Nov 08 2017
Just Last Week!
Look, I doubt there are many who are more supportive of Sam Bee than I, after all I thought they ought to put her and Jason Jones in charge at The Daily Show and do a spoof of the Happy/Eyewitness News Format in the Colbert Pundit mold. It’s still a good idea dammit. Alas she …
Nov 08 2017
The Breakfast Club (Power Of Information)
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 …
Nov 07 2017
2017 Election Night Results
The polls have closed in Virginia and we are awaiting the first results in the race for governor, lieutenant governor, state attorney general and 100 state house seats. The polls in New Jersey close at 8 PM ET and in New York at 9 PM ET. There is one down ballot race that has some …
Nov 07 2017
Acrophobia
Simply put it’s fear of falling or heights and I have it in spades. Famously it’s the subject of Hitchcock’s Vertigo but I think that and other popular cultural depictions don’t capture the feeling as I experience it. For one thing it’s not paralyzing. If you were hanging off a precipice or should we want …