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 2018 archive
May 29 2018
The Breakfast Club (The Hand Of Charity)
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) (or …
May 28 2018
If by US you mean me…
Among the most ironic, in the classic sense of highlighting a fatal flaw of which the audience is well aware but that eludes the grasp of the tragic protagonist, statements to emerge from the French Revolution is Louis XIV’s- “L’état, c’est moi” (I am the Nation). It exudes the hubris, the foolish pride and extreme …
May 28 2018
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 28 2018
The Breakfast Club (And the big fool says to push on)
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 27 2018
Rant of the Week: Seth Meyers – “Spygate” and the “Taxi King”
Host of “Late Night” Seth Meyers takes a Closer Look at Donald Trump’s interference into a criminal investigation by peddling baseless conspiracy theories and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s relationship with Evgeny “Gene” Freidman, known as the “Taxi King.”
May 27 2018
William Tecumseh Sherman
This is what is meant by a “Shermanesque Statement”. You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what …
May 27 2018
The Breakfast Club (Faithful 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) (or …
May 27 2018
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition
“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. On Sunday mornings we present a …
May 26 2018
Why The World Doesn’t Want U.S. Produce
In 1906 Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a lightly fictionalized account of labor abuses in the United States. Sinclair, a Socialist, intended the book to highlight the inhuman working conditions that prevailed in Industry. Jack London reviewed it as “The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of wage slavery.” Not every reader was so perceptive and even today …
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