Clik here to view.
Tuesday Reads: McCain Plays “Pretend President,” Pressure Cookers, Upcoming...
Good Morning!! Last night Josh Rogin reported that warmongering Senator John McCain had sneaked across the Syrian border from Turkey and talked to Gen. Idris Salem, head of the “Free Syrian Army.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wednesday Reads: Tuktuks, “Closet Cases” and Coke Heads
Good Morning Eeek….more doctor appointments today. I can’t wait until all these things are over and done with, the family had to put off follow-up and re-check appointments because of the last few...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Reads: Bacon on Wheels, Alpaca Buzz Cuts and Penguins on Parade
Good Morning Guess you can tell from the title of this post, animals will play a feature role in today’s reads. Right now here in Banjoville the skies are opening up and raining down cats and dogs....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rep. William Keating: Russian FSB More Forthcoming than FBI on Boston Bombing
Congressman Bill Keating, holds a press conference at Logan airport upon his return from Russia, June 1, 2013. (Photo by Faith Ninivaggi) No, Keating didn’t come out and say it exactly like that, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tuesday Reads: The Snowden-Greenwald Show
Good Morning!! Edward Snowden is still the top news story this morning. It’s starting to look as if he made a mistake by going to Hong Kong, unless his goal was to gain asylum from the Chinese...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breaking . . . Edward Snowden Tells South China Morning Post US Hacks Into...
Edward Snowden I’m no expert on the laws about revealing classified information to foreign governments, but this doesn’t sound very smart to me. Edward Snowden, who has leaked information about methods...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Racism, Bigotry, Sexism…yeah we got that…open thread
Good Evening! So much going on in the spy game that I thought I would just bring you up to date on some of the shit going on in the “hate” side of life, well… at least the ones that are getting a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thursday Reads: Rainbows, Wildfires, Gangsters, Spies, and Superheroes
Double rainbow over Boston, evening of June 12, 2013 Good Morning!! Isn’t that a gorgeous photo? There was a double rainbow over Boston last night, and quite a few people took photos and videos of it....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Reads: Fair Pay in Texas? Hell No. Have a Merry Christmas, Texan...
Jenny on the Job plays it safe with low heels. New in WWII Posters collection. (via Jenny on the Job Steps Ahead with Low Heals | Vintagraph) Good Morning Well, I guess you can tell from the title of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tuesday Reads: Dreaming a Life; Obama and Putin; NSA and Snowden
Good Morning!! I’m going to begin with an article I came across yesterday while reading the Guardian. It’s about a story from 2006 that I remembered and sometimes think about–a woman whose...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wednesday Morning Reads: Michael Hastings, Immigration and Fetus Fanatics
Good Morning The news broke last night, Michael Hastings was killed in a car crash. Statement On Michael Hastings BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thursday Reads
Good Morning!! I haven’t really been paying much attention, but I guess President Obama’s trip to Europe didn’t go that well. I accidentally heard part of his Berlin speech, because I fell asleep with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Nite Lite: Burning Cross Bar-B-Que…Paula Deen Style
Good Evening We’re gonna jump into this week’s cartoons starting with the one above from Mike Luckovich: 6/23 Luckovich cartoon: Cooking up trouble I am sure that there will be plenty more Paula Deen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saturday Reads, Summer Solstice Edition: Dreaming of a Woman President, and...
Good Morning and Happy Summer Solstice!! Hillary is in the news this morning, so I thought I’d begin with her latest public remarks on the presidency. Claire McCaskill kicked off the Hillary talk on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Reads: Billion Pixels of Red Dust and a Cast Iron Petticoat
Good Morning And here we are, another Sunday morning…well, yesterday was the first time in weeks that I found myself suffering from a migraine. As I write this post, I still feel the after effects;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Reads: A line around the number…
Good Morning This will be a quick post, I will try and post a longer one later on this afternoon. My sleep patterns are way off and I am just too tired. Check this out, a real literacy test that was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Edward Snowden Issues Bizarre Statement Via Wikileaks
I’ve been following the endless Edward Snowden soap opera just about non-stop for the past few days. I wish I were capable of writing a reasoned, logically argued post right now, but I’m not. This...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tuesday Reads
Good Morning!! As the record-breaking heat wave continues in the West, firefighters in Arizona continue to fight the wildfires that killed 19 of their compatriots last night. NBC News reports:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wednesday Reads: Lucky Charms Anyone?
Good Morning You have to give it to General Mills, they are keeping with the times…and pissing of the right-wing along the way. Remember a few months ago when General Mills came out with an interracial...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Glenn Greenwald’s Dishonest Attack on Paul Krugman
A few days ago Paul Krugman wrote a not-very-exciting post at his blog “The Conscience of a Liberal.” The point of the post was that right wingers have not been as successful in their efforts to hype...
View Article