Category: News

No Sports?

Yes, Bowling is a sport. My Mother, Emily, actually used it to fulfill her Athletics mandatory electives. I don’t think she was very good and whatever talent she had I don’t. I’m utterly hopeless and was even before my Arthritis. My Grandfather and my Great Grandfather both rolled a few 300s and the scoresheets were …

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The Breakfast Club (shock doctrine)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 10th A golden spike completes America’s first transcontinental railroad; Nazis burn books in Germany; Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland; Nelson Mandela takes office in S. Africa; U2’s frontman Bono born. Breakfast Tune Shock The Monkey – Peter Gabriel Banjo Cover Something to think about, …

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Happy Mother’s Day

A DocuDharma tradition now on The Stars Hollow Gazette. I tease my mother by calling her Emily after Emily Gilmore both because overall my family reminds me very much of the Gilmores and because she’s never met a brand name she didn’t like whereas I’m perfectly content to buy generic. I thank her among many …

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Pre-Historic Britain

Sometimes I like to feature Documentaries that have less than obvious connections to current History and Politics. In some ways we know a great deal, pretty Professional Amateur Archeology has become one of those “eccentric” hobbies the English have embraced (like Bird Watching) and on weekends people wandering around with metal detectors is a fairly …

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Health and Fitness News

Welcome to the Stars Hollow Gazette‘s Health and Fitness News weekly diary. It will publish on Saturday afternoon and be open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share …

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Not the beloved comic with the Anarchist Dog and the overt Christian messaging.

Oh, you mean Stephen Miller’s Wife

Not just Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s Valet anymore. A top aide to Vice President Pence tests positive for coronavirus By Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post May 8, 2020 A top aide to Vice President Pence has tested positive for the coronavirus, making her the second known person working at the White House to contract the illness …

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Not So Bad

At the peak of the Great Depression in August 1932 Unemployment was 25.5%. Not as bad as that. At the peak of the Great Recession in October of 2009 Unemployment was 10%. Worse than that. U.S. unemployment rate soars to 14.7 percent, the worst since the Depression era By Heather Long and Andrew Van Dam, …

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lindybeige thinks we’re exceptional.

Yeah… Nancy

Like Atrios I find it hard to believe she’s even a Democrat, let alone Left or Progressive. She’s a Pluto/Kleptocratic Neo Liberal Oligarch Corporatist Sell Out and she is doing an objectively bad job currently, whatever her past credentials. Our old friend dday– Unsanitized: Pelosi Dials Up a K Street Bailout by David Dayen, American …

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