COP21: Climate deal due Saturday after more all-night talks Negotiators at the Paris climate summit aim to wrap up a global agreement to curb global warming on Saturday – a day later than expected, hosts France said. “Things are moving in the right direction,” said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who is chairing the summit. …
December 2015 archive
Dec 10 2015
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Concussion)
Heh. The New Guy I Need A Jew! Adam Lowitt Ronny Chieng Since tonight’s guest is Michael Strahan I think that it’s fair to point out at this juncture that being Thursday, the end of the week for 2 thirds of the shows I cover, pickings are pretty slim and Stephen will be delayed for …
Dec 10 2015
No Trump
This post is going to be way too long anyway so I’ll keep my commentary to a minimum (the title refers to a Bridge bid). The thing about The Donald, the reason he’s so popular and remains that way, is that he expresses the rage people feel at the current Neoliberal governing consensus. As Ian …
Dec 10 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 10 2015
The Breakfast Club (Watching The Tide)
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 10 2015
Six In The Morning Thursday December 10
Three years and 90,000 gun deaths since Sandy Hook, appetite for change builds Hundreds of vigils for gun violence victims are to be held across the US, and organisers sense a change, saying people are coming together like never before David Smith in Washington, Griselda Nevarez in Tucson and Tafline Laylin in Colorado Springs Thursday …
Dec 09 2015
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Unsex Me Here)
The New Guy I don’t know who wrote it, but this is brilliant. Trump wants to bang his daughter Yeah, this is the kind of insightful commentary you don’t get on the other political websites, you get the weak tea of “White ISIS”. For one thing that should be “Daesh” (pronounced “daes” or “dahes” which …
Dec 09 2015
Dispatches From Hellpeckersville- Sick And Tired
I’m sick and tired. Literally. I’ve felt pretty sick at heart at all the hate and bullshit I’ve been seeing the last little while, I guess it was only a matter of time before it manifested itself physically. I’ve noticed a slight uptick in the headaches too, and that worries me. A bad migraine took …
Dec 09 2015
A Bad Idea To Begin With
As you may know there is a subset of performing artists who are deeply offended that in the age of the Internet traditional business models don’t work anymore. Digital replication is fairly easy, pervasive, and basically free. I told you CDs were a bad idea, but did you listen? Noooo… That genie is out of …
Dec 09 2015
Cracking the Overton Window
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow discussed how Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims proposal is not so different from the other GOP candidates. What will be the new “normal” in the Republican party for minority bashing politics after this campaign is over? She is joined by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
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