May 2020 archive

The Breakfast Club (Cessation of Stupidity)

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 …

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Daily (Last) Nightly

  Ending the Ban on Gay Blood Donors | The Daily Social Distancing Show   Tucker Carlson vs. Tucker Carlson: Protest Edition | The Daily Show   Quarantine Questions: Is Whipped Cream Essential? | Full Frontal on TBS   The Things We Should Have Been Doing All Along! Brought to You By Coronavirus | Full …

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Wrong Brother

What did you think Kimosabe meant? Body Bags Instead of Requested Covid-19 Testing Kits for Native American Clinic Seen as Cruel Metaphor by Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams Wednesday, May 06, 2020 A Seattle-area Native American health center in April received body bags instead of requested equipment to handle the coronavirus in what tribal officials described …

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Pondering the Pundits

Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media 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 …

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A Real Boy?

I’m a lonely orphan robot. Just a scrap metal tower A misfired piston Run on squirrel power His galvanized insides Can feel no joy He wants to be a real boy I wanna be a real boy! Yeah! Not a titanium toy Don’t give my battery flattery What I want is more grey matter-y A …

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Cartnoon

So this is Boreal Forest, Les Stroud’s first video. It really kind of establishes him and what he’s all about. He’s from Canada so this is the kind of natural environment where he learned his Bushcraft.

The Breakfast Club (Against The Wind)

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 …

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Cinco de Mayo: They Won The Battle But Lost The War

This article was adapted from the original that was published on May 5, 2011. It is a brief history of the origins of the Cinco de Mayo holiday which is not Mexico’s Independence Day. On this day in 1862, the Mexican Army defeated the French forces at the Battle of Puebla Certain that French victory …

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Pondering the Pundits

Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news media 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 …

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Cinco de Mayo

Reprinted from 5/5/2012 The name simply means “The Fifth of May” and it’s an oddly U.S. American holiday. Except in the State of Puebla they don’t much celebrate the victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in Mexico which makes it much more like Patriot’s Day that we here in New England get …

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