“Punting 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 …
December 2015 archive
Dec 12 2015
The Breakfast Club (Ol’ Blue Eyes)
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 …
Dec 12 2015
Six In The Morning Saturday December 12
Paris climate talks: delegates reach agreement on final draft text After talks again stretched through the night, François Hollande and Ban Ki-moon are to unveil document on limiting climate change for formal adoption Suzanne Goldenberg, Lenore Taylor, Adam Vaughan and John Vidal in Paris Saturday 12 December 2015 08.03 GMT Negotiators in Paris are to present …
Dec 11 2015
The Daily Late Nightly Show (The Lighthouse)
So it’s Friday and we have the guest lineups for next week. Unfortunately, at least for Comedy Central, it’s the last week before the ek’smas break too. I’ll try and find you some amusements, I take my role as lighthouse keeper very seriously. Yeah, ok, so the video is reversed but it’s been up for …
Dec 11 2015
Rave
It’s not that I only like a few songs or I’m trying to steal anyone’s thunder, it’s that I used to be a DJ. Video below. I’m testing.
Dec 11 2015
The Dying American Middle Class
The American middle class is dying, literally and figuratively, from income inequality. There are now more people living in poverty and getting richer than there are those in with middle incomes. The Middle Class Is No Longer America’s Economic Majority Lydia O’Connor, Huffington Post There are now more low-income and high-income Americans combined than there …
Dec 11 2015
It’s all a bunch of hooey.
Regular readers know I am avowed atheist. While I have a specific disdain for Christianity because of the prevailing culture and my upbringing, my rejection of religion is ecumenical. Islam is no better or worse than Mormonism. Now I’m not militant about it, I don’t feel I have a life purpose debunking your belief in …
Dec 11 2015
Odds or Onions Challenge IV
Can you pick The Onion without hovering your mouse over the links? Not much of a challenge really, but if you just looked at the headlines you’d have an easy 50 / 50 shot at being wrong. Connecticut teen tests fire-breathing, turkey-roasting drone Richard Weizel, Reuters MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – A young Connecticut man …
Dec 11 2015
Punting the Pundits
“Punting 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 …
Dec 11 2015
The Breakfast Club (Big Bad John)
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 …
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