The Breakfast Club (Over Your Head)

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 whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

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This Day in History

JFK and Nixon participate in TV’s first presidential debate; Cuba ends Mariel boatlift; Composer George Gershwin, poet T.S. Eliot and tennis star Serena Williams born; ‘West Side Story’ hits Broadway.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T. S, Eliot

Breakfast News

No jail time in assault case spurs push to oust Alaska judge

US judge repeats Trump vulgarity during immigration hearing

Bankruptcy court OKs settlement for clergy sex abuse victims

2-year window for clergy abuse lawsuits sent to state Senate

Virginia suspends tampon ban for prison visitors

Wyoming, Idaho weigh options after grizzly hunt ruling

Veterinarian removes eel from loggerhead sea turtle’s body

Just Dunkin’: Dunkin’ Donuts to change its name

UK Labour opposition party vows to reject May’s Brexit deal

French ex-premier launches bid to become Barcelona mayor

5 EU countries reach deal to end limbo of rescued migrants

Merkel’s party ousts close ally of chancellor from top post

Beluga whale spotted in River Thames outside London

Breakfast Blogs

Trump’s U.N. Speech Was a Laughingstock Until It Was a Terror Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Brett Kavanaugh: “It Depends on What the Meaning of the Phrase ‘Sexual Assault’ Is” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Meanwhile, in Alaska, A Travesty of Justice Echidne. at her blog

Will they dump him? Don’t know. But it would make sense if they did. digby, Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Mauvais Appétit, Ted tristero, Hullabaloo

Remembering the Whiskey Rebellion Matthew Waxman, Lawfare

Judiciary Committee Unwilling to Ask Questions At Their Own Potemkin Hearing Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Virginity Claim Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Delusions of squalor Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Wanker of the Week: Frank Bruni Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names

BRETT KAVANAUGH DOES A BAD IMITATION OF DONALD TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Mother Seeking Protective Order Tossed In Jail For ‘Crying While Black’ Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Lisa Murkowski Showing Susan Collins How Not To Be Such A Susan Collins Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

Should Ted Cruz Be Able To Eat Dinner In Peace? Nope. NFW! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette

Even Wall Street Is Nervous About Comcast’s Latest Bid To Grow Bigger For Bigger’s Sake Karl Bode, Techdirt