November 2016 archive

The Breakfast Club (Hobgoblins)

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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Odds or Onions Challenge XVIII

Can you pick The Onion without hovering your mouse over the links? Not much of a challenge really, but if you just looked at the headlines you’d have an easy 50 / 50 shot at being wrong.   Pair Of 26-Year-Olds Hit It Off After Learning They Have Student Loans From Same Bank DENVER—Smiling at …

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Y’all Might Be An Anti-Semite If…

You can’t possibly be an anti-Semite because you went to Harvard Business School, and the London School of Economics, and were a Managing Partner of Goldman Sachs. Those places are just lousy with Jews and we all know about Jews and money, amiright? Your biggest problem with your kid’s school is that it’s a converted …

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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 (Morons Shall Lead Us)

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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“The evil that men do lives after them”

Act 3, Scene 2 I’m sure there are those who say (though not to my face) that I’m being a tad hyperbolic when I chart the decline of Keynesian Economics and what we Post-Modernly think of as Liberalism (it’s more properly termed Social Democracy) to the dim dark mists of the 60s when, after all, …

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Should It Ever Have Been A Matter Of Trust?

A question for those who trusted Barack Obama with national security, mass surveillance, drones and targeted assassination: Do you trust Donald Trump and his minions with those tools? If you don’t, it’s a bit too late for panicking  There were those of us on the far left with a greater respect for the law and …

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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 (Capability)

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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Rant of the Week: Michelle Wolf – Women In Trump’s America

Michelle Wolf, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent, tries to make sense of how Donald Trump won the presidential election, despite his offensive remarks about women.

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