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January 2019 archive
Jan 23 2019
The Breakfast Club (Ethics)
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 …
Jan 22 2019
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 …
Jan 22 2019
No Deal!
It is simply not helpful in any way for Democrats to accept the temporary extension of DACA and TPS (3 years with a 1 year delay already dictated by the Supreme Court because they refused to hear arguments this term and add another since next year is an election year) in exchange for Unidicted Co-conspirator …
Jan 22 2019
Cartnoon
Jenny Nicholson Look, you may hate her while I find her screamingly funny, but this is as devastating a critique of the Right Wing Zombie Apocalypse mindset as I’ve ever heard. Yes it’s an hour and a half. Yes she spends most of the time just reading the book, but that’s so you don’t have …
Jan 22 2019
The Breakfast Club (Bad, Sad Man)
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 …
Jan 21 2019
The Mountaintop, April 3, 1968
Given in support of striking Sanitation Workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It’s always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about …
Jan 21 2019
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 …
Jan 21 2019
August 28, 1963
I have a dream I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a …
Jan 21 2019
Letter From Birmingham Jail
I like to publish this on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (in fact more frequently than that) because it holds many valuable lessons for those of us who believe in Direct Action, some of which I have highlighted. I won’t bother blockquoting. ek hornbeck MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham city …
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