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 talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
AP’s Today in History for April 10th
ASPCA Founded; Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement signed; The Titanic sets sail on its doomed voyage; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ first published; Comedian Sam Kinison killed in a highway crash. (April 10)
Breakfast Tune “Black Banjo Gathering”, Symposium on Affrilachia, Lexington,Kentucky
During The Symposium on Affrilachia, CeCe Conway (Appalachian State University, author “African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia”) & Dom Flemons (Carolina Chocolate Drops) gave a presentation on the Banjo, Black Banjo Gathering & the progression of the banjo through the creation of various genres of American music. Hosted by University of Kentucky’s Africana Studies Program. Organized by Frank X Walker.
Something to Think about, Breakfast News & Blogs Below
- Panama Papers: Act now. Don’t wait for another crisis
Thomas Piketty
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Jeffrey Dahmer’s Boyhood Home For Rent During GOP Convention
Kim Palmer
The Ohio childhood home of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, available for rent in time for the Republican National Convention this summer, could have been had for $8,000 a month until Friday afternoon, when the price went up and references to the infamous criminal came down.
The home where Dahmer grew up and in 1978 committed his first murder is in Bath, Ohio, 26 miles south of Cleveland, where the convention is scheduled to be held in July. The listing on a real-estate company website initially included a reference to Dahmer but on Friday that was removed and the price had been increased to $10,000 a month.
Dahmer was convicted in 1992 in the murder and dismemberment of 17 boys and men, some of whom he ate, over a period of 14 years. He was beaten to death in 1994 by another prison inmate while serving 15 life terms in Wisconsin, where most of the murders took place after he moved there. …
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