Monthly Archives: May 2016

A historic moment revealing a Pyhrric defeat for Trump

Posted on May 31, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Even as Trump tried to make canceling a Sanders-Trump debate this week in Caifornia into a positive meme (“I don’t debate second-place candidates”), he lost because his ditching a debate in the Iowa GOP primary using the … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – Bullsh*t!

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From Think Nice: Harry Frankfurt is an American philosopher and author of the New York Times Best Seller “On Bullshit”. Although first conceived as … Continue reading →

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From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social-media battle/alliance

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social media battle/alliance to come or will Bernie’s youth followers vote their real interests. It’s more than Hillary’s gaffe about the need to redirect coal producing communities but to make sure that the … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – ‘We Make Promises’ – In Memoriam

Posted on May 30, 2016 by wordcloud9

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. —oooOooo– This is an open thread. There are several hosts, each host being responsible for picking a “theme of the day” and starting the discussion. … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk & Aeon Flux: will Mars be only for the 1%

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

A million folks on Mars could be the Earth’s Plan B Continue reading →

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The GOP has been Trumpunk’d

Posted on May 29, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers This 2016 national election is a scaled -up version of the celebrity prank program Punk’d. It is a spectacle on the scale of big Dada rather than big data. We’re now stuck with a prairie fire of well-combed Astrorturftm. … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – Wilfred Owen: “Dulce et Decorum Est”

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Wilfred Owen, one of the great poets of World War 1, was born in England in 1893. He enlisted in 1915, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment. By early 1917, he had undergone several traumatic … Continue reading →

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Rebranding The Donald as The Saint Ronald

Posted on May 28, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers With revisionists spinning tehDonald as the rebirth of Lincoln or Reagan, so much will be made of the early, recent closeness of polling for Hillary versus tRump. And certainly Hillary is no Jimmy Carter, centrism notwithstanding. And even … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – “An Unseen World” – camera trap footage of Amazon forest life

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From United Nations: ‘An Unseen World’ is one of 5 films that won an Award at the International Forests Short Film Festival. The film … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – Kindness

Posted on May 27, 2016 by wordcloud9

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day.   —oooOooo–   This is an open thread. There are several hosts, each host being responsible for picking a “theme of the day” and starting … Continue reading →

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