01/29/2016 archive

Trevor Noah ‘Between The Scenes’

Ever wonder what happens during the commercial breaks? It’s not that interesting. Programming tomorrow starts at Cartnoon. No Breakfast Club, TMC is busy and so am I- napping. There will be no Health and Fitness. There will be extended coverage of Herr Doktor Professor’s recent brain melt down and other minutiae related to the Bern …

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Robert Reich

The Most Pragmatic Way to Fix American Democracy by Robert Reich Wednesday, January 27, 2016 (T)he Democratic contest has repeatedly been characterized as a choice between Hillary Clinton’s “pragmatism” and Bernie Sanders’s “idealism” – with the not-so-subtle message that realists choose pragmatism over idealism. But this way of framing the choice ignores the biggest reality …

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Good News?

Canada Temporarily Drops Out Of Five Eyes Spying Coalition, After Realizing It Wasn’t Properly Protecting Information by Mike Masnick, Tech Dirt Thu, Jan 28th 2016 3:33pm Some of the Snowden docs have made clear that this collaboration helps the various countries get around restrictions on “domestic” surveillance by effectively offshoring it to other “friendly” electronic …

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Cartnoon

The Breakfast Club (Waiting For A Hero)

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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I have foreseen it.

Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Not that it wasn’t predicted by anyone with half a brain cell (spoilers). In Trump vacuum, Cruz emerges as top target at Iowa Republican debate By Philip Rucker and Sean Sullivan, Washington Post January 28 at 11:26 PM Cruz began by mocking Trump’s reputation …

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