July 2016 archive

Security Theater

If you were traveling this weekend I hope you made it to your destination safely. The overwheming likelihood is that you did. I prefer mass transit fot the most part. It’s really not that big a deal to hop on Metro North or the T and slump in your seat reading a book or newspaper …

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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 …

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The Breakfast Club (Best Friends)

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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Le Tour: Stage 4- Saumur to Limoges

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Better listen to him, Flounder. He’s pre-med. The Anacreontic Society was a gentlemen’s club of the kind that was popular in London in the late eighteenth century. In existence from approximately 1766 to 1792, the Society was dedicated to the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, who was renowned for his drinking songs and odes to love. …

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Happy 240th Birthday, USA

In a web exclusive, John Oliver, host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” wished us a Happy July 4th and explains, as only a Brit could, what America has missed since “unceremoniously kicking Britain out 240 years ago.” “But the thing Americans are really missing out on is pessimism. Americans are optimistic people who believe the …

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I find your lack of faith… disturbing.

Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon …

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The Breakfast Club (Born On The 4th Of July)

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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Le Tour de France: Stage 3- Granville to Angers

I’ll get to it.

Rant of the Week: Bill Maher – Laboratories of Democracy

Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” roasts the insane Republicans for their failed experiment in democracy by cutting taxes by pointing out that it has been liberal policies in states like California that made that state the seventh largest economy in the world. The results of the experiment are in: ” our mice are …

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