By SueN
- Guests:
- UAW Vice President Bob King.
- Topics:
- How badly is the middle class screwed, is Joe Stack a symptom of it and is Obama going to fix it?
- What does privacy mean to you and is Orwell's 1984 here?
- When is organized labor going to get serious about demanding protectionism like China and Japan?
- Bumper Music:
- I'm Not Over, Carolina Liar.
- Big Me, Foo Fighters.
- Dizzy, Tommy Roe.
- Let's Get It started In Here, Black Eyed Peas.
- Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.
- Six Of One, Half A Dozen (Of The Other), Joe Nichols.
- I Don't Care, Fall Out Boy.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- We Care a Lot, Faith No More (video).
- Say Hello, Deep Dish. (video)
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." -- Aristotle, Politics.
- Member of the day was Zero G, who won a copy of "The Prophet's Way" for blogging:
Jim Hightower on pigeons:
“The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.”
