I am just going to post a quickie Open Thread for today. It is not my regular day and we are still in need of someone to post the Open Thread for Tuesday Mornings. It can be as little or as much as you wish.
This evening's music features jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
Stock market is freaky and no Bob Swern.
This cannot stand.
Good morning good people
Monday morning poetry
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Linda Ronstadt
N. Korean 'subs out for operations, artillery doubled,' talks with South resume
Most people who know something about union history are familiar with the Ludlow Massacre in 1914, where the Baldwin Felts Detective Agency and the Colorado National Guard killed 18 people, mostly women and children.
What most people aren't familiar with is that the Ludlow Massacre was just one event in more than 30 years of bloody labor struggle in the mountains of Colorado.
So I'm reading a local newspaper, and I come upon a letter from an earnest young person, and said letter does begin its beguine in this way:
This food safety issue is perhaps the single most important challenge of our generation.
And I immediately think two things:
Today's Beastiable is Senator Marco Rubio. He has said several beastly things, yet is considered a front runner for the Republican nomination for President. Thus he has earned his turn as one of Les Beastiables.
NOTE FOR NEW READERS: This series features a new Les Beastiables cartoon here on caucus99percent every Friday afternoon/evening. We indulge in a little Franglish because the French are tres classy. But I digresse.
For serious source information, please join me below the break. Then you'll be able to "cleanse your palate" with a photo before you leave.
