Republished from Feb 21, 2012 Mardi Gras en français or Fat Tuesday in English, it is time to party. It’s the last day for some Christians to eat all the food they like and party before the season of fasting before Lent. In many traditions it isn’t just one day. Mardi Gras, or Carnival season, …
March 2019 archive
Mar 05 2019
There Is No End To The Win.
Well, if you consider keeping the margin under a Veto Proof Majority a win. White House works to limit GOP defections, criticism ahead of vote to nullify Trump’s emergency declaration By Erica Werner, Jacqueline Alemany, and John Wagner, Washington Post March 4, 2019 The White House told Senate Republicans on Monday to “keep their powder …
Mar 05 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 …
Mar 05 2019
Why You Should Never, Ever Vote For Andrew Cuomo. Ever.
Did I mention ever? Look, I vote Working Family Party every time I can, strategically. Connecticut can’t hardly get more Blue (Statewide, there are local pockets and we are heavily gerrymandered and white, white, white) and while Greens are not particularly strong or organized WFP is and my consistent advice to Democratic candidates is to …
Mar 05 2019
The Breakfast Club (Rebellion)
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 …
Mar 04 2019
Fox News All-In For Trump. And?
OMG!!! the media and the internet is all agog over The New Yorker‘s investigative reporter Jane Mayer’s article on how Fox News was all in for Donald Trump in 2016. Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel knew about Donald Trump’s illegal hush money payment to a pornographic film actor ahead of the 2016 election but killed …
Mar 04 2019
Wacky Crazy MMT!
To me what’s significant about this presentation is how mainstream and reasonable it is. Remember MMT is about what, not how. What is about Money and not only can we just print what we need, we already do. How? Well, we spend tons of it on useless things like F 35s and it’s certainly arguable …
Mar 04 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 …
Mar 04 2019
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I frequently remark, at least privately, on how different my life could be had I chosen this or that path instead of drifting along my current one (which suits me just fine) and I find I am now what I ever wanted to be, a writer who writes for people rather than machines (pretty equally …
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