Gangnam: The scandal rocking the playground of K-pop By Laura BickerBBC News, Seoul Earlier this year, the meticulously managed world of K-pop was rocked by scandal. Seungri, a singer in one of the world’s most famous boy bands, Big Bang, was questioned by police over allegations he was procuring prostitutes for his business and …
June 2019 archive
Jun 24 2019
Outrageous Scandals We Will Ignore
Somewhere swimming out there is a quote from a D.C. Insider that goes something like “I wish the whole Russia thing never happened. We’d be impeaching him today.” Probably apocryphal and I mostly disagree. I do think there are plenty of buckets full of Impeachable Behavior that don’t necessarily intersect except in the Criminal Activity …
Jun 24 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 …
Jun 24 2019
The Breakfast Club (Tusk)
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 …
Jun 24 2019
Six In The Morning Monday 24 June 2019
Erdogan’s party suffers blow after Istanbul re-run poll defeat Turkey’s ruling AK Party has lost control of Istanbul after a re-run of the city’s mayoral election, delivering a stinging blow to President Erdogan. With nearly all ballots counted, main opposition party candidate Ekrem Imamoglu had a lead of 775,000 votes, a huge increase on …
Jun 23 2019
Rant of the Week: Stephen Colbert – A Few Of Their Favorite Things
Stephen Colbert, the host of CBS’ “The Late Show,” took some of the Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination to task over their answers to 18 questions that were posed to them during a recent New York Times interview. Stephen took special exception to their answers about comfort food and their choice of heroes.
Jun 23 2019
When Democrats Were Racists
Writing Clio always has the same problem, where do you start? Asking for a date Democrats started supporting Race Slavery is useless because they always supported Race Slavery, from their inception. Indeed the prospective loss of Slave Property was one of the precipitating causes of the Revolution we elide by talking about Yankee Smugglers who …
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