Sunday night, the host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver sparked an international, internet cat fight when he criticized the leader of Chechnya, Kremlin-backed Ramzan Kadyrov who posted an internet appeal to find his lost cat, a so-called toyger, a domestic cat bred to resemble a tiger cub. Last week, Kadyrov posted a message …
May 2016 archive
May 26 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 26 2016
The Breakfast Club (There Are No Strangers Here)
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 25 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Apocalypse)
The New Guy Katie Couric Exclusive Extended My Dad, The NRA Conventioneer Trevor’s guests this week are- Wednesday 5/25: Corey Pegues Thursday 5/26: Tip “T.I.” Harris Mr. Continuity I haven’t forgotten about you Pardon the Integration Larry’s panelists this week are- Wednesday 5/25: Arianna Huffington Thursday 5/26: LeVar Burton Mr. Mainstream Lewis Black- Optimist Roommates …
May 25 2016
Solving Puerto Rico’s Financial Problems
Bernie says bail out Puerto Rico: Sanders details how the feds should rescue the territory as they did big banks by David Dayen, Salon Tuesday, May 24, 2016 05:59 AM EST Puerto Rico has been reeling from a decade of recession, and successive governments papered over those problems with excessive borrowing. Last year, Gov. Alejandro …
May 25 2016
How Influential Will Sanders’ Picks For The Platform Committee Be?
We’ll see, but the answer is likely to be, “Not very.” There are a couple of problems, the primary one (not a pun) is that nobody pays a damn bit of attention to platforms anyway, except of course your opponent, who will thoroughly analyze every piece of punctuation to see if any out of context …
May 25 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 25 2016
The Breakfast Club (A Long, Long Time Ago)
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 24 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Back In Black Deux)
The New Guy Arianna Huffington Exclusive Extended Keystone Kops Trevor’s guests this week are- Monday 5/23: Rose Byrne Tuesday 5/24: Katie Couric Wednesday 5/25: Corey Pegues Thursday 5/26: Tip “T.I.” Harris Mr. Continuity What She Said Larry’s panelists this week are- Monday 5/23: Jennifer Bartels Tuesday 5/24: Esperanza Spalding Wednesday 5/25: Arianna Huffington Thursday 5/26: …
May 24 2016
Good News For Ohio Voters, For Now
This morning, a court in Ohio restored early voting days The U.S. District Court of Southern Ohio ruled Tuesday that the deep cuts to Ohio’s early voting days signed into law by Gov. John Kasich (R) are “unconstitutional and…accordingly unenforceable.” Judge Michael Watson sided with the Ohio Democratic Party, which had sued the state for …
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