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 whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
Noblemen in Russia kill Gregory Rasputin; Wounded Knee massacre takes place; Texas joins as the 28th state; Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel elected president of Czechoslovakia; First YMCA opens in Boston.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When we live up to our Constitution, let’s form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.
Breakfast News
Will Virginia be next to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment?
Utah gears up to implement nation’s lowest DUI limit
Snyder signs bill to make Michigan ballot drives tougher
https://apnews.com/bf948bb77eef412c8317da3dc663506a
Wild weather: Water rescues in South, heavy snow in Midwest
Kurds seek help from Syrians as US prepares to withdraw
Protests as Congo leader warns of Ebola election ‘disaster’
Weather hampers efforts to inspect Indonesia tsunami volcano
Breakfast Blogs
The GOP’s chaos strategy digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The fringe is now the mainstream Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
How Your Generating Campus PC Panics With Bullshit Random Andecdotes Sausage Gets Made Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Employers and Their Lackeys Have Lied About the Minimum Wage Since 1938 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A correction to the correction Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Haiku Review of 2018 (Part 2): Make America Haiku Again The Rude Pundit, at his blog