As Stephen says, sometimes the Comedy Train has left the Station and these tired Hobo legs didn’t catch the caboose. Tonight I have reached back for 2 recent clips (though not from the most recent show, yesterday). ‘On Notice’ is highlighted because I always liked that bit even when Top Gear stole it; and also …

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Do you want to know why you could never make me laugh. Why? Because you’re not funny. I think I’m screamingly funny and my proof is when I make a joke my friends and relations scream at me, “When’s your next appointment with your Therapist!” She thinks I’m a riot and besides I don’t talk …

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In reaction to this. John Yoo Thinks Presidents Can Legally Torture Children. Even He Has “Grave Concerns” About Donald Trump. by Jon Schwarz, The Intercept 2017-02-06 Yoo, a fancy law professor at Berkeley, is best known for authoring much of the legal advice claiming the U.S. could legally engage in torture when he served in …

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Personally I think Institutional Democrats are too vacuous, venal, and vain to take anything like the positive steps outlined in this piece. I would suggest instead scorched earth Teabagger style primaries to make them fear us since they have refused on numerous occasions to act in our interests and indeed continue to do so. The …

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It’s that time of year again when it all comes down to who you hate the most and there’s no team easier to hate than the Patsies. Well, except maybe the ‘Boys. Sure their vaunted Quarterback is a cheater, a liar, and a non-performer. So is their Head Coach. And their principal owner. They are …

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If you’ve been watching the Sunday morning gasbag Versailles Village shows (and I really can’t imagine why you would, my Packer loving therapist has forbidden me saying that Traumatic Brain Injury is preferable) you may perhaps be interested in a little drooling cuteness not dependent on blunt force lobotomy to lighten your day. Well, then …

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Fukushima nuclear reactor radiation at highest level since 2011 meltdown by Justin McCurry, The Guardian Friday 3 February 2017 The facility’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said atmospheric readings as high as 530 sieverts an hour had been recorded inside the containment vessel of reactor No 2, one of three reactors that experienced a meltdown …

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Who cares?

You’re not fast enough for me! Today, I am. Lessons for “The Resistance” from the Bush Resistance by Ian Welsh 2017 January 30 Trump’s ban of travelers from 7 Muslim countries spawned a large backlash, showing that “the resistance” is still a thing. I suspect it will continue to be a thing, because Trump is …

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Dry Powder- and besides, we’re the lesser evil! Protesters Grill Democratic Senator About His Vote for Trump’s CIA Chief by Lee Fang, The Intercept 2017-01-30 At a testy meeting with a crowd of constituents Sunday evening, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., became the latest Democratic senator to face a grassroots backlash for voting to confirm President …

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Look, I’m not just a Mason, I was Master of my Lodge which means I know all the silly walks. Now some people are quick to accuse us of being Illuminati and I frequently claim that myself, but as a joke. To the extent we have any “hidden” knowledge it’s the radical revolutionary doctrines of …

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Or, if you will l’art pour l’art, saying it in Latin just makes it seem older and more profound than its relatively modern (Théophile Gautier, 1835) coinage would suggest. Not that it was entirely original, the nature of art was a pretty hot topic among Romantics- “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all …

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