Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Episode 032 in which Gary's allergy medicine causes ADD


This Week:
Andre's book review of "Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse" by Annette Fuentes,
privitisation and economists,
oppression of women,
Mitt Romney makes a gaff,
fascism comes to America?,
US Congress passes a law that allows the President to order the military to arrest people on US soil, getting rid of habeas corpus (S.1867)

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/29/senate-set-to-pass-bill-that-r.html

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being

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Episode 031 where if it's not vegetarian, it's something that isn't


This Week:
Andre opens up and becomes a vegetarian on air,
More Herman Cain riff'ing,
bigotry and Skepticon's Gelatogate and the free market,
Democrats, Republicans and the super committee,
schools and money and working and Newt Gingrich and other stuff,
OWS and UC Davis,
Stephen Hawking and human-centrism,
Global warming denialists and their dishonesty
Bloodless revolutions?


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Friday, November 18, 2011

Episode 030 is truly rambling and injudicious

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This Week: hh:mm:ss
00:00:30 Penn State discussion
00:26:30 Politicians are mocked, primarily Cain and Perry...and Bachmann
00:47:15 Job creators?
01:04:00 And on to discussing the deification of every military person
01:14:00 And moving on to Herman Cain's stereotyping himself
01:20:00 And on to more Bible problems


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Friday, November 11, 2011

For pay fast travel lane - Andre

So I went on a plane for the first time in about five years, flying makes me quite ill, don’t you know, so not being in funds right now, I couldn’t rent a private plane, and had to use the San Antonio airport. I was astonied, to wax biblical, to see people having their shoes shined. My emotions were no less roiled, than, while piloting my exorbitantly priced rental vehicle on the thoroughfares of Miami I began ruminating on the the concept of for-pay fast travel lanes. Like any good conservationist, the concept of the carpool lane leaves me warm and fuzzy inside, just like a sip of a mulled wine. But like any good humanist, the for-pay fast travel lane leaves me cold, like clasping Joe Paterno’s no doubt clammy hand. My shame and consternation is occasioned by the fact that I just realized, that I should have been horrified the first time I ever encountered a pay-to-travel-faster-road. A speedy commute should not be a luxury reserved for the holders of ‘ez passes’ or whatever shibbolethic token they use to separate the indigent from the wealthy. For, in Miami, in some of the fast lanes, you cannot simply throw some coins into a repository. No, you have to have a travel card of some sort. So you have to sign up for that card, and have a banking account or possibly a credit card. Because of course, the banking mob’s palm must be greased. So the tourist that is rushing to the airport, or the mother late to pick up her worried child, the philanderer late for a tryst, the out -of-stater from Texas, none of them have access to the fast lanes, that are ostensibly upkept using taxpayer dollars. But where or not they are private enterprise roads or are supported with taxpayers dollars is not central to the argument at hand. The issue is that we have been so enculturated to the ubiquity of the privatized commons, that we bat no eyelid at the commercialized road. Or the privately owned jail, or the privately- owned public Zuccotti park (what does that even mean), or …need I go on? Apparently a long time ago, they took class warfare onto our roads. Thankfully, we have finally taken it to the streets.

Episode 029 moves all its money to a local bank but forgets to stop the auto-payments


This Week: hh:mm:ss

00:00:30 Extended family and community
00:06:30 For-profit universities having problems
00:21:00 Bank Xfer Day and OWS stuff
00:45:00 The 53 percenters
01:19:04 Andre rejects MSNBC

Plus talk of past lives, rampant misogyny, revelations that a book will be written about the things on which we speak, the value of things, and we mispronounce many words and names.


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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Episode 028 is all about values and planes and education and all that


This Week: hh:mm:ss
Please ignore the sniffling Gary who had a cold
00:00:20 Gary at the Air Show
00:02:00 Occupy stuff, GOP, O'Reilly, Paid ads as "news"
00:14:55 Education costs and training
00:31:15 Andre's new passport
00:39:00 Occupy Wall Street and the African American crowd
00:45:30 Value and finite value

Question: How do you have/ can you have a non-violent revolution?


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