“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 …
February 2017 archive
Feb 16 2017
The Breakfast Club (Freedom Of Speech)
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 10:00am (ET) to …
Feb 15 2017
Sausage Grinder of Snark (Reality)
It’s overrated. John Oliver 2/12/17 SNL 2/11/17 Sam Bee: Full Frontal 2/8/17 Colbert- 2/14/17 It’s Funny ‘Cause It’s Treason Christine Baranski Seth Meyers: A Closer Look 2/14/17
Feb 15 2017
Trump’s Labor Pick Withdraws From Consideration
Fast food CEO Andrew “women are meat” Puzder has withdrawn his nomination to head the Trump Labor Department Puzder was under pressure over questions stemming from his byzantine business interests, details about his acrimonious divorce and revelations that he employed an undocumented immigrant as a housekeeper. After a series of delays, Puzder, the CEO of …
Feb 15 2017
Pondernig 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 …
Feb 15 2017
The Breakfast Club (We, All The People)
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 10:00am (ET) to …
Feb 15 2017
Three Finger Salute
The sign is made by grasping your sinister pinky with your thumb, kissing the three erect fingers and raising them. I prefer the clenched right fist salute of The Internationale which represents the authentic voice of the working class and not some Hollywood construct but I’ll take what I can get, I’m a pragmatist. Besides, …
Feb 14 2017
141st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Well, this is quite a step down. The Faux coverage is awful, continually interrupted for commercials and focusing only on favored breeds. It fully justifies my attention to the UConn Huskies 100th consecutive victory last night in a game at Gampel which was closer than the score would indicate. There are 5 teams that could …
Feb 14 2017
My Las Vegas Convention- A Happy Story
(originally in orange Sat Jun 17, 2006 at 07:01 PM PDT) I repeat it annually because there are lessons I don’t want to forget. Can you handle the truth? How about a good story? If you are a regular reader you may know that I was State Co-ordinator of my meatspace club. You may not …
Feb 14 2017
Nixon 2.0: What Did Trump Know; When Did He Know It
Some of you may be too young the remember Watergate the scandal that ended Richard M. Nixon term as president. It was 1972, during the campaign to re-elect the president (CREEP), when five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee office in the Washington DC hotel complex known as Watergate. What followed …
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