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 …
June 2020 archive
Jun 07 2020
Dead Rats On The Sinking Ship: Bennet Out
Good. Next Baquet, Dao, Rubenstein and Sulzberger. New York Times editorial page editor resigns after uproar over Cotton op-ed By Travis M. Andrews and Elahe Izadi, Washington Post June 7, 2020 The New York Times on Sunday announced the resignation of its editorial page editor James Bennet, who had held the position since May 2016, …
Jun 07 2020
Late Night Is Not Funny
I stopped doing Late Night because it’s not funny anymore. I did in fact encourage BobbyK to have at, so it’s not like he stole the franchise, but I just can’t take it. I spend at least an hour every day thinking about my escape plan and what will trigger it. He’s not kidding. This …
Jun 07 2020
Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart – We Can’t Breath
Although the New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo was finally fired last year, he was never arrested or indicted for Eric Garner’s death. In the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, all four police officers were fired within 48 hours and indicted for second degree murder. Six years ago, in an eight minute …
Jun 07 2020
Goebbels Gets A Bad Rap
I mean, sure he was a rabid Anti-Semite, an avowed Propogandist, and instrumental to the Nazi takeover in Germany (and his wife a Family Destroyer Psychopathic Murderer), but he was a man of culture, refinement, and learning. Paul Joseph Goebbels … was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from …
Jun 07 2020
No Sports?
Well, it’s not Association Croquet where you get an extra stroke for striking another Player’s Ball and is a race to the Wicket, Golf Croquet is the fastest growing version of the sport in terms of popularity and is basically a first through the Hoop with a point for each. To me that sounds a …
Jun 07 2020
The Breakfast Club (buffet-style)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for June 7th James Byrd, Jr. dragged to death in Texas; Communists complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Israel destroys an Iraqi nuclear power plant; ‘Grease’ opens on Broadway; Singer-songwriter Prince born. Breakfast Tune Rhiannon Giddens: “At the Purchaser’s Option” | Come Hear North Carolina In The Water …
Jun 07 2020
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition” 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. On Sunday mornings …
Jun 06 2020
D.C. Cops
You may have deduced from some of my past writing that I have sources who are pretty aware of the activities of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. I have not talked to any of them in months and never about this, all my information comes from the Funny Papers. I’m careful to use Washington …
Jun 06 2020
Cartnoon
Ok, first of all you better watch this (or download it) quick because the National Theatre is going to pull it on Thursday. What is it? It’s Coriolenus by Bill Shakespeare staring Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Mark Gatniss (Mycroft Holmes), Hadley Fraser (Young Frankenstein), and Alfred Enoch (like everything Harry Potter). It was recorded live at …
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