OMG!!! the media and the internet is all agog over The New Yorker‘s investigative reporter Jane Mayer’s article on how Fox News was all in for Donald Trump in 2016. Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel knew about Donald Trump’s illegal hush money payment to a pornographic film actor ahead of the 2016 election but killed …
March 2019 archive
Mar 04 2019
Wacky Crazy MMT!
To me what’s significant about this presentation is how mainstream and reasonable it is. Remember MMT is about what, not how. What is about Money and not only can we just print what we need, we already do. How? Well, we spend tons of it on useless things like F 35s and it’s certainly arguable …
Mar 04 2019
Pondering the Pundits
Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from> around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
Mar 04 2019
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I frequently remark, at least privately, on how different my life could be had I chosen this or that path instead of drifting along my current one (which suits me just fine) and I find I am now what I ever wanted to be, a writer who writes for people rather than machines (pretty equally …
Mar 04 2019
The Breakfast Club (Lawyers)
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 04 2019
Felis silvestris catus
Your cats don’t want you dead. Necessarily. They’re perfectly content to have you serve them instead, though they often wonder why they bother.
Mar 03 2019
To Have And Have Not
Look, I only say Casablanca is better to be polite. Pretty close and I like the underdog. Hmm… SNL- Slim is not anywhere near that desperate. She came out of no place and can vanish right back. She doesn’t need nothin’ from Harry, he’s just another Mark who happens to be in denial that he’s …
Mar 03 2019
House
Under The Milky Way – The Church Sweet but Psycho – Ava Max 360 Degrees of Madness – Tomorrowland 2014 More House (told you I didn’t run out of material). High Hopes – Panic! At The Disco Are You Bored Yet? – Wallows featuring Clairo I Like America & America Likes Me – The 1975
Mar 03 2019
The Breakfast Club (Dead Armadillos)
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 …
Mar 03 2019
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. On …
Mar 02 2019
Aaron Burr
In the notorious election of 1800 Aaron Burr rose to the highest position of trust he would ever hold in the United States Government, Vice President, thwarted only by Thomas Jefferson in his aspirations. Publicly, Burr remained quiet, and refused to surrender the presidency to Jefferson, the great enemy of the Federalists. Rumors circulated that …