• The Best of the the Rest of the News.


• Guest: Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Pssst, the Economy Is Collapsing -- Don't Tell Congress.


• Guest: Adam Michaelson, "The Foreclosure of America: The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall of Countrywide Home Loans, the Mortgage Crisis, and the Default of the American Dream".


• The Two Santa Claus Theory.


• Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong": Jim Rubens, author, "OverSuccess: Healing the American Obsession with Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection".


• Thom's book, "Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture", is available for pre-order. It is due to be published July 23, 2009.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

Wednesday 07 January '09 show

• Sanjay Gupta is the pick for Surgeon General. He's for privatized medicine, privatized, against Michael Moore.
  
• Article: Rejected Surgeon General Nominees.
  
• Diane Feinstein is saying why not seat Burris.
  
• Article: Bailout Update: $279 Billion to 284 Firms.
  
• Bumper Music: Better Than I Ought To Be, Randy Rogers Band.
  
• Article: Harry Reid: 'I Don't Work For Obama'.
  
• Article: Hey Obama, Don't Let Afghanistan Be Your Quagmire, Robert Dreyfuss.
  
• Thom pleas to Obama get out of Afghanistan militarily, stay and build schools etc.
  
• Article: After Protesting Congress