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 …
May 2020 archive
May 24 2020
Not a Rant
They’re running the Turn Left Bumper Car Flaming Chunks of Twisted Metal 600 today and good luck with that. No Infield, no spectators, social distancing in the Pit (they already wear masks and gloves for safety). Up until last week or so they’d been running Video Game Races and they suspended one guy for real …
May 24 2020
An Update from Sores and Boils Alley
How are things in the Land of Steady Habits (that’s right, we’ve been swindling you since Colonial times)? Thank you for asking. Seriously. My Oximeter came in and my base line is between 94 and 98% which is good enough for the most part given my underlying Anemia. I feel much more confident about my …
May 24 2020
No Sports?
Borussia Dortmund vs. PSG in UEFA Champion’s League Round Robin competition, Paris, March 11, 2020. Fortunately, thanks to John Oliver and HBO, we’ll be getting a full season of Jelly’s Marble Run coming in June.
May 24 2020
The Breakfast Club (Grapes)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 24th Samuel Morse opens America’s first telegraph line; Four men sentenced for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Britain’s Queen Victoria born; The Brooklyn Bridge opens; Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan born. Breakfast Tune “Hard Times” and “Camptown Hornpipe” performed by Rhiannon Giddens, Banjo l Met …
May 24 2020
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition” 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 Sunday mornings …
May 23 2020
Going Viral
Thank goodness I seek neither fame nor reward and write for myself. If this is how things “go viral” I want no part of it. How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online By Sheera Frenkel, Ben Decker and Davey Alba, The New York Times 5/20/20 Here’s how “Plandemic” went from a niche …
May 23 2020
Problem Plays
It’s a term commonly used to describe a class of Shakespearian Plays that don’t fall into Aristotelian definitions of Comedy or Tragedy. The term itself is the coinage of F. S. Boas and his direct anology was to the Plays of Henrick Ibsen. In these problem plays, the situation faced by the protagonist is put …
May 23 2020
The Breakfast Club (Rainbows)
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 …
May 22 2020
How bad is it?
Thanks for asking, seriously. Nearly every U.S. state had historic levels of unemployment last month, new data shows By Tony Romm, Washington Post May 22, 2020 Roughly one-quarter of the labor force in Nevada, Michigan and Hawaii is unemployed, and nearly every other state registered a record-high jobless rate last month, illustrating the historic, widespread …
May 22 2020
Corporate Corona Immunity
Well, first of all Corporations are not people and the Supremes never ruled that they were. The concept comes from the pen of a Clerk after the ruling who, in the most charitable interpretations of motive, was a dumb ass who made a huge mistake. What they are is immortal greed machines granted the privilege …