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Jan 05 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (Bernie, Bernie, Bernie!)
The New Guy Super Gay For Guns Ryan Coogler will be on to talk about his new film Creed of which Atrios says- As I wrote before, I appreciated the effort to get Philly mostly right in the movie Creed. Shooting on location – any location, really – is really expensive and it’s always a …
Jan 05 2016
The End Of Oil
Hyperbole, but there is a lot of truth in it. The economic utility of oil (outside of its lubricant properties) is that it’s extremely portable and has high energy density. Heavier than air flight was not possible prior to the Wrights (or Gustav Whitehead depending on who you believe) because the engines and fuel were …
Jan 04 2016
The Daily Late Nightly Show (I haven’t forgotten about you)
Happy New Year! Samantha Bee’s new show, Full Frontal, starts February 8th and though we may not be able to live blog (depends, it’s hard to do with so many shows in the same time slots) we will certainly be covering her and her guests. We ♥ Sam and wish her the best. The New …
Jan 04 2016
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: What Jeremy Corbyn’s Campaign Means for Britain
By: NY Brit Expat (Note: this piece came in just as we were doing our platform transfer and by the time that task was complete we were deep into Holiday season and I wasn’t sure it would get the prominence it deserved. I apologize for the delay. Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Labour is, if anything, …
Jan 04 2016
Still Hung Over?
Well, you probably had a more exciting New Year’s celebration than I did. Not that things didn’t happen, saw Star Wars and Sherlock, and had 4 great meals, just that I’ve been having enormous problems with insomnia and I barely made it to midnight and New Year’s Day I was all kinds of cranky. I …
Jan 03 2016
Rant of the Week
New York Wants Fantasy Customers Repaid By JOE DRAPE, The New York Times JAN. 1, 2016 The New York State attorney general wants the two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel and DraftKings, to give back the hundreds of millions they have made in the state and pay a stiff penalty for running what he …
Jan 03 2016
The Year That Was and The Year To Come
What do they want this horde of slaves Of traitors and conspiratorial kings? For whom these vile chains These long-prepared irons? Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage What methods must be taken? It is us they dare plan To return to the old slavery! 2015 In Review by Ian Welsh 2016 January 1 On the …
Jan 01 2016
Holiday Rave 4
This is the last of the Holiday Raves, though I may inflict others on you later in the year. The songs I’ve selected are not at all the ones I would use at a dance simply because they’re not familiar to most people and adults are just as picky as kids when it comes to …
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