Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 17th Brown vs. Board of Education ends separate but equal; Watergate hearings begin; NYSE is born; First Kentucky Derby. Breakfast Tune Sixteen Tons Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below Updated Patriot Act Finally Legalizes 80% Of Current FBI Operations The …
May 2020 archive
May 17 2020
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview EditionPondering 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 …
May 16 2020
The Breakfast Club (The Longest Time)
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 15 2020
Consumer Society
Or maybe not so much. In March and April the bottom dropped out of Retail. Retail sales plunged 16.4 percent in April as coronavirus pandemic drives record decline By Rachel Siegel and Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post May 15, 2020 Retail sales plunged 16.4 percent in April, by far the biggest drop on record and another …
May 15 2020
Pondering the Pundits
Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media 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 …
May 15 2020
Regime Change
What makes it odd is The Lancet is a very old and well respected Medical Journal that doesn’t normally take partisan positions. Reviving the US CDC The Lancet May 16, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen in the USA with 1·3 million cases and an estimated death toll of 80,684 as of May 12. …
May 15 2020
The Breakfast Club (Essence)
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 14 2020
Prince Prospero’s Party
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of …
May 14 2020
Why would they?
So there are no plans if, as seems likely, our 2 top Constitutional Officers die or become incapacitated because of Coronavirus. Well, it doesn’t matter if there are plans or not. It’s what the Constitution says and Mark Meadows is no Al Haig (and I mean that in a negative way, Haig was an asshole, …
May 14 2020
Cartnoon
In the Summer I like to travel, starting around 3 weeks ago, and among my greatest frustrations is that the current situation may prevent even the briefest of journeys. North Lake and By The Sea might not be possible, even though they’re Gilmore. My Brother tested negative (he went to Griffin which is near where …