This was no ordinary homecoming. This was a do-or-die attempt to lay the ghost of years of rejection from the horse-rearing elite and the literati who sat in those privileged boxes overlooking the track and those unprivileged craven hordes who grovelled around the centre-field where he had suffered as a boy. The clubhouse as I …
May 2016 archive
May 07 2016
Health and Fitness News
Welcome to the Stars Hollow Gazette‘s Health and Fitness News weekly diary. It will publish on Saturday afternoon and be open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share …
May 07 2016
The Breakfast Club (Creativity)
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 …
May 06 2016
Stop Validating
I’m not talking about parking here, there is a point at which participation in a farce simply encourages the directors to continue. Don’t get me wrong, I strongly feel that institutional resistance is critical for positive change, but non-compliance and peaceful direct action delegitimizes the institutions and reduces their influence which is also positive change. …
May 06 2016
Ermordung durch Dekret
One of the most frustrating policies of the Democratic Party in general and the Obama Administration in particular is the United States’ continued involvement in War Crimes. War Crimes?! Well, yes actually. The kind which we executed scores of Germans and Japanese for after the Second World War. You know, the good one where we …
May 06 2016
Pondering the Pundits
“Pondering 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 …
May 06 2016
The Breakfast Club (Stranger)
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 …
May 05 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Cinco de Mayo)
I’m sure you were expecting something profound but the part of my day that wasn’t spent napping I was shopping, performing chores, and testing some new hardware with mixed results. The New Guy Football Update- Leicester City wins the Premier League Cup! Stupid Pundits Trevor’s last guest this Week is The Heavy. Mr. Continuity Ricky …
May 05 2016
What’s Cooking: Cinco de Mayo Quesadillas & Margaritas
(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck) Adapted from diary originally published on May 5, 2012, the 150th anniversary of defeat the French forces by the Mexican Army at the Battle of Puebla. It’s May and it’s getting warmer here in the northeast. Tomorrow is Cinquo de Mayo, the only battle that the Mexican army …
May 05 2016
Cinco de Mayo
Reprinted from 5/5/2012 The name simply means “The Fifth of May” and it’s an oddly U.S. American holiday. Except in the State of Puebla they don’t much celebrate the victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in Mexico which makes it much more like Patriot’s Day that we here in New England get …
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