I was supposed to do two hours with Stu Shostak on his live podcast yesterday, but ended up talking with him for nearly three hours about a wide assortment of topics. In addition to some highlights (and lowlights) of my radio career, we discussed Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, the Bill Of Rights, the […]
Sophia McClennen says Stephen Colbert gets lower ratings among Republicans because they just don’t get his humor: It is the socially conservative, less educated, Tea Party version of the GOP that is least likely to want to watch smart comedy like Colbert’s. This is the portion of the population that thinks climate science is a […]
Nicholas Kristof offers some historical perspective on keeping refugees from coming to America: In January 1939, Americans polled said by a two-to-one majority that the United States should not accept 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children from Germany. That year, the United States turned away a ship, the St. Louis, with Jewish refugee children; the St. […]
Shepard Smith, the only sane broadcaster at Fox News Channel, had some harsh words today for politicians and blowhards (including most of his colleagues) who have leapt at the opportunity to over-react to the attacks in Paris. Without naming names (e.g. the 20 governors who announced today they will not allow Syrian refugees into their […]
Here’s a song parody about the presidential candidates from David Pogue of Yahoo Tech… More info here.
Robert Reich, a progressive who served as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, spent three weeks in “red” America while on a tour to promote his latest book, “Saving Capitalism: For The Many, Not The Few.” While there, he spoke to a lot of conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers and something odd happened — he […]