By SueN
- Guests:
- Matt Duss, National Security Researcher/Blogger at American Progress.
- Veteran WCPT Chicago Newsman Dick Kay.
- Les Bernal, Executive Director of Stop Predatory Gambling.
- Kari Chisholm of Blue Oregon.
- Topics:
- Did Operation Iraqi Freedom end on Obama's watch? We've secured the oil fields and sold them off to the multinationals...mission accomplished?
- The Blagojevich trial...what does it all mean?
- If people are going to gamble online, let's legalize it and tax it?
- Geeky Science rocks!
- Is right wing talk radio responsible for bank robbing, anti-government extremists?
- Bumper Music:
- The Middle, Jimmy Eat World.
- Yogi Bear, Cartoon Theme Players.
- Because I Got High, Afroman.
- War, Bruce Springsteen.
- Science Rocks!, Rock Chick & Science Geek.
- Pokerface, Lady Gaga.
- Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, Bob Dylan.
- (Can't Get My) Head Around You, The Offspring.
- 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: "If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time." -- Chinese Proverb.
- Quote: Reflections on the French Revolution, Edmund Burke.
"The Chancellor of France at the opening of the states, said, in a tone of oratorical flourish, that all occupations were honourable. If he meant only, that no honest employment was disgraceful, he would not have gone beyond the truth. But in asserting that anything is honourable, we imply some distinction in its favour. The occupation of a hair-dresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person—to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature."
- Member of the day was EdBourgeois, who won a copy of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" for posting "Is business in the US a right or a privilege?" on the message board.
