September 2020 archive

No Sports?

Why aren’t you watching the finish at Le Mans or the final stage of Le Tour? Oh, Throwball. 2019 Lacrosse Championships, Yale v. Virginia Think of it like Hockey only you can use your stick to attack people.

The Breakfast Club (sausage links)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for September 20th Magellan begins globe-trotting voyage; Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies; Actress Sophia Loren born; Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in ‘Battle of the Sexes’; Singer Jim Croce dies in plane crash. Breakfast Tune Bad Bad Leroy Brown (Jim Croce) Banjo Cover Lesson with …

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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 …

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In Memoriam: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020)

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in her home last night. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old. Barely five feet tall and weighing 100 pounds, Justice Ginsburg drew comments for years on her fragile appearance. But she was tough, working out regularly with a trainer, who published a book …

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House

Le Nozze di Figaro, for Ruth. Glyndebourne, 1999.

The Breakfast Club (For RBG)

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 …

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Interacting With Crazy People

It’s kind of a weird thing but people talk to me whether I want them to or not, especially crazy people. Perhaps they think I’m sympathetic and paying attention. They are after all, by definition, mentally ill and in many cases delusional. When I talk with my Therapist about this phenomena she tells me I …

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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 …

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A surprisingly good ruling, maybe.

The significance of this is not that it stops future deliberate degradation of the United States Postal Service to aid in Republican Election Fraud, DeJoy already agreed to that at the Hearings (not that I trust him farther than I can kick his sorry, lying ass). No, the really good thing is it directs the …

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Cartnoon

Actually, Le Mans is this weekend. You can see the whole thing on Motor Trend TV.

The Breakfast Club (Creative Endeavor)

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 …

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Herd Immunity V. Herd Mentality

During his ABC Nwes Town Hall with undecided voters, Donald Trump discussed his Cov-19 policy mistakenly (or maybe not) saying he wanted to create “herd mentality.” Perhaps he did mean to say “herd immunity” or perhaps he just doesn’t know the difference. There is, however, a distinct difference: Herd Mentality describes how people can be …

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