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Saturday, October 17, 2009
This Week
Poppy's Sick Puppies
President Bush I, whose 1988 campaign launched the current era of the "politics of personal destruction," first pleads for civility, then lashes out in the opposite direction.
Please Be Seated
Daniel Sieberg takes a look at the new generation of office chairs that are threatening to upset the old indicator of office hierarchy...
"You are what you sit on."
"You are what you sit on."
Forward Into The Past
It's a second chance to party like it's 1999 now that the stock market is exactly where it was 10 years ago.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Friday, October 16, 2009
We Were Warned
While covering Congressional races in 1974, I asked my college intern to get a candidate set up for a studio interview. To test the would be House Member's microphone audio level in response to questions, Roy asked him: "So you're running, huh... What are you afraid of?"
In recent years I've come to appreciate the brilliance of the question.
Exploiting fear for power and profit? Imagine that.
In recent years I've come to appreciate the brilliance of the question.
Exploiting fear for power and profit? Imagine that.
Two Tickets To?
 As The Boston Globe pondered offers from two very different potential buyers, interested parties debated whether current economic conditions would lead the paper to the same future with either choice. |
Audio: WBUR FM, Boston Reporter: Monica Brady-Myerov.
In today's edition The Globe's principal rival, The Boston Herald reports negotiations have broken down over the question of unfunded pension liabilities.
Take It With A Grain Of Salt
When a New Orleans 4th grader voiced concern about having to face hatred and harsh criticism during a town hall event, President Obama explained, "it is just politics."
Republicans immediately began to criticize Mr. Obama for failing to explain the etymology and meaning of the expression grain of salt.
Republicans immediately began to criticize Mr. Obama for failing to explain the etymology and meaning of the expression grain of salt.
Stewart Copeland
Sting may have been the front man, but drummer Stewart Copeland was the heartbeat of The Police. In his new memoir Strange Things Happen Copeland talks about how the band’s creative friction helped sell over 50 million records. And he blows the cover on his father, who raised the young Copeland in Beirut while spying for the CIA.
Audio: PRI & WNYC's program Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Bailed Out Banks Big Bonus
The debate over big bonuses for executives at bailed-out A.I.G. heats up again on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are hearing from the special inspector general for the $700 billion financial rescue program. Steve Geimann, Washington Editor for Bloomberg News also discusses lawmakers considering whether to set up a consumer protection finance agency, which the banking industry is fighting.
Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now October 14. Host: Robin Young.
Baby Mommy
David Javerbaum discovered while researching his book is that pregnancy often affects the mother,
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| The Born Supremacy - David Javerbaum 10/13/09 | ||||
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Health Care As Human Right
Since the health care debate began, advocacy groups, including the NAACP and the National Council of La Raza, have been arguing for a public option and for health care that's affordable for all their members. But will they be successful in using a civil rights organizing platform to affect the health care debate? For a primer on whether or not affordable health care can be considered a fundamental human right, we turn to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. We also hear from Hilary Shelton, the NAACP's senior vice president for advocacy and policy and director of its Washington bureau. And we talk to Jennifer Ng’andu, deputy director of health policy at the National Council of La Raza.
Audio: PRI & WNYC's program The Takeaway, 10/8 - Hosts John Hockenberry & Celeste Headlee.
Turning On Their Own
Pro Ron Paul ultra-conservative activists hijack a town meeting "Tea Party" style, attacking South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham...
Mexican Metal Heads
The Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela is known for nimble-fingered classical guitar work and a diverse musical background that fuses traditional flamenco music with heavy metal and rock.The pair's new record, 11:11, features 11 songs dedicated to 11 different musical influences in Rodrigo y Gabriela's lives — from Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix to the jazz-fusion band Shakti. The duo recently spoke with All Things Considered host Guy Raz and performed songs from the album.
Audio: NPR's All Things Considered.
40 Years Later: Parrot Still Dead
3 Monty Python survivors encounter 1 really big fan.
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) page on IFC includes a link to watch an associated event live tonight, Oct. 15 at 9 p.m. EST
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) page on IFC includes a link to watch an associated event live tonight, Oct. 15 at 9 p.m. EST
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Hereditary
2nd Generation neo-conservatives band together in... I was going to say common cause, but the name is already taken and its owners are thoroughly despised by these guys... A tax exempt right wing cabal.
Le Miel de Paris
Honeybees, plagued in recent years by a phenomenon called "Colony Collapse Disorder"in single-crop agricultural areas filled with pesticides, have found refuge in an unlikely location...
The city of Paris.
Audio: BBC, PRI & WGBH's The World, Host: Katy Clark.
Reporter: Genevieve Oger
Beck vs O'Reilly
Beck calls his audience "zombies," O'Reilly dismisses Beck's flu vaccine conspiracies: "That's nuts"
Video: Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor October 8 via Media Matters
Video: Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor October 8 via Media Matters
Self Hater
 Audio: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Host: Peter Sagal Panelist: Charlie Pierce |
The original report was published in Britain's Daily Telegraph.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Fighting Back
When Roger Ailes was the producer of the Mike Douglas show nobody cared about his politics. But then he emeged as the media architect of selling "The New Nixon" in 1968. And twenty years later he took a darker turn in promoting Republican nominee George H. W. Bush.
Ailes helped to create an infamous attack ad about a black convicted murderer on furlough from prison in Massachuesetts escaping and raping a white woman in Maryland. In the campaign run by (Karl Rove prototype) Lee Atwater there was never any question about whether to exploit the crime... Ailes remarked "the only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it."
Now the veteran Republican activist and media assassin Roger Ailes runs the Fox News Channel and the White House views his product as part of a continuing campaign...
Perhaps Rush Limbaugh isn't the head of the Republican Party...
But Roger Ailes is.
Ailes helped to create an infamous attack ad about a black convicted murderer on furlough from prison in Massachuesetts escaping and raping a white woman in Maryland. In the campaign run by (Karl Rove prototype) Lee Atwater there was never any question about whether to exploit the crime... Ailes remarked "the only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it."
Now the veteran Republican activist and media assassin Roger Ailes runs the Fox News Channel and the White House views his product as part of a continuing campaign...
Perhaps Rush Limbaugh isn't the head of the Republican Party...
But Roger Ailes is.
Bombast
Now Senator Al Franken wrote a book back in the 90's called "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot." So how's that working out?
"Magic Negro" on Wikipedia
- He's big... Still the most listened to talk radio program.
He's fat... Still obese despite recent weight loss.
He's idiotic... All the way to the bank.
"Magic Negro" on Wikipedia
Rushing Game
When ESPN picked up a NY Daily News article on NFL players refusing to play for Limbaugh if he were to purchase a stake in the struggling St Louis Rams, the director of the NFL Players Association, whose membership is between 65 to 70% non-white, raised the divisive nature of the radio talker's impact...
"NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons." -- Rush Limbaugh (2007)
Top 10 Racist Limbaugh Quotes according to NewsOne.com.
Are you ready for some political football?
Correction: Since existing ownership nust approve any applicant's attempt to join their ranks, Rush doesn't have a right buy in... It's more like needing acceptance by the snooty board of an NYC apartment co-op.
"NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons." -- Rush Limbaugh (2007)
Top 10 Racist Limbaugh Quotes according to NewsOne.com.
Are you ready for some political football?
Correction: Since existing ownership nust approve any applicant's attempt to join their ranks, Rush doesn't have a right buy in... It's more like needing acceptance by the snooty board of an NYC apartment co-op.
If You Liked It
Then you should have put a ring on it.NASA's moon bombing on Friday 10/9 proved disappointing visually. And so will the largest ring in the Solar System. But like the the debris from the moon impact, infrared imagery proved it's there.
Dr. Michael Skrutskie from the University of Virginia made the newest Saturn ring discovery.
Audio: CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks. Host: Bob McDonald.
Children of the "Rings"
"The Lord of the Rings" will be screened in NYC with music performed live by 300 musicians and singers. Composer Howard Shore and CBSNews.com's David Morgan listen in as the Brooklyn Youth Chorus practices their Elvish.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sometimes You Win
She said she was from Oklahoma... Stop you dead in your tracks pretty, with really bright blue eyes... And she loved the Red Sox.
She spotted my baseball cap on Friday afternoon to ask me how the team did the night before, and seemed geuinely distraught that the Angels had taken game one... Turns out they also took two & three.
Wait 'til next year, pretty girl.
She spotted my baseball cap on Friday afternoon to ask me how the team did the night before, and seemed geuinely distraught that the Angels had taken game one... Turns out they also took two & three.
Wait 'til next year, pretty girl.
Free Form Index
The day I walked into WBCN-FM Boston for the first time in August 1970 there was an argument already in progress.A part owner, the man who had the transformative idea to take a struggling classical music station and pursue a youthful audience via an air staff of their peers playing a wide variety of music from a really big library including multiple genres, had broken an unwritten rule... He had called a DJ while on air to complain about a lengthly drum solo.
A more senior DJ, and self-styled arbiter of taste, had complained about the hot-lining incident as an infringement of freedom to select and sequence music of their choice, saying they needed to be able to create an atmosphere for the audience to "get high & mellow out."
The General Manager, not the offending caller by the way, responded that the station needed to be "more than just a soundtrack for your friends' drug abuse."
As the new guy, and a neutral party, I was asked to weigh in. Although I could understand the objection, I agreed with the GM.
The DJ immediately wrote me off as a major asshole.
But as someone whose family was involved with the film industry over multiple generations, I knew both the show and business parts had to work well to succeed... A druggy image would be limiting for both.
Although I freely admit I didn't know enough music to be on the air then and there, I was fascinated by the idea of a real live person with access to that really big library selecting and sequencing the music to present a more personal, less random program... Open to the possibility you might like to discover something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.
The mixes linked at right and described below offer a contemporary experience in the spirit of what Free Form FM radio was in the past.
| 001 Bob Seger Mainstreet Night Moves (1976) Roxy Music More Than This Avalon (1982) Be Bop Deluxe Life In The Air Age Sunburst Finish (1976) David Bowie Modern Love Modern Love (1983) | 002 The Byrds Eight Miles High Fifth Dimension (1966) The Plimsouls A Million Miles Away One Night In America (1982) R.E.M. The One I Love Document (1987) Tom Petty American Girl Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1976) |
| 003 Chalk FarM Lie On Lie Notwithstanding (1996) The Police When The World Is Running Down Zenyatta Modatta (1980) Bonnie Rait Love Letter Nick of Time (1989) Rush Time Stand Still Hold Your Fire (1987) | 004 Peter Gabriel Red Rain So (1986) Radiohead Pyramid Song Amnesiac (2001) Crosby & Nash Naked In The Rain Wind On The Water (1975) Jimi Hendrix Little Wing Axis: Bold As Love (1967) |
| 005 Little Feat Spanish Moon (live) Waiting For Columbus (1978) Allen Toussaint Yes We Can Can Our New Orleans (2005) John Hiatt Blue Telescope Perfectly Good Guitar (1993) Eric Clapton Bad Love Journeyman (1989) | 006 Toad The Wet Sprocket Fly From Heaven Dulcinea (1994) Jackopierce Summer's Gone Summer's Gone (2008) Ataris The Boys of Summer So Long Astoria (2003) East Village Opera Co. La Habanera (Carmen) East Village Opera Co. (2005) |
| 007 Keb' Mo' Every Morning Keb' Mo' (1994) Pearl Jam Yellow Ledbetter Jeremy [Maxi Single] (1992) Stevie Ray Vaughan Honey Bee Couldn't Stand The Weather (1984) B.B. King Bad Case Of Love Blues on the Bayou (1998) | 008 Dishwalla Counting Blue Cars Counting Blue Cars [EP](1996) Seal Fast Changes Seal (1994) Steely Dan Black Cow Aja (1977) |
| 009 Shawn Colvin Sunny Came Home A Few Small Repairs (1996) Neil Young Old Man Harvest (1972) I Mother Earth So Gently We Go Earth Sky & Everything In Between (1993) Simon & Garfunkle America Bookends (1968) | 010 The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever Magical Mystery Tour [US] (1967) Alanis Morrissette All I Really Want Jagged Little Pill (1995) Beck Loser Mellow Gold (1994) Michael Franti & Spearhead What I Got Tribute To Sublime (2005) |
| 011 Mick Jagger Memo From Turner Performance [OST](1970) Gregg Allmam Midnight Rider Laid Back (1973) Molly Hatchet Dreams I'll Never See Molly Hatchet (1978) | 012 Marvin Gaye What's Going On What's Going On (1971) The Commodores Night Shift Night Shift (1985) Jackie Wilson Higher & Higher (1967) Brunswick R&B Singles 1966-1975 Van Morrison Jackie Wilson Said Saint Dominic's Preview (1972) |
| 013 Led Zeppelin Hey Hey, What Can I Do Box Set #1 (1990) Steve Miller Band Living In the U.S.A. Sailor (1968) U2 Desire [Hollywood Mix] 12" UK Single (1988) | 014 Earth, Wind & Fire Mega Mix 2000 Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Volume 1 (1989) Blood, Sweat & Tears Smiling Phases Blood, Sweat & Tears (1969) |
| 015 Rolling Stones Bitch Sticky Fingers (1971) Santana Everybody's Everything Santana (1971) Jack Johnson Upside Down Curious George [OST](2006) Melodians Rivers Of Babylon The Harder They Come [OST](1972) | 016 3 Doors Down Away From The Sun Away From The Sun (2002) Alice In Chains No Excuses Nothing Safe (1999) The Who Eminence Front It's Hard (1982) |
| 017 Jeff Beck w/ Rod Stewart People Get Ready Flash (1985) Rickie Lee Jones Rodeo Girl Flying Cowboys (1989) Elton John Levon Madman Across the Water (1971) | 018 Allman Brothers Stormy Monday At the Fillmore East (1971) Matchbox Twenty Push Yourself or Someone Like You (1996) |
| 019 Colbie Caillat I Won't Breakthrough (2009) Don Henley The End of the Innocence The End of the Innocence (1989) 311 Love Song 50 First Dates [OST](2004) | 020 The Smithereens Time Won't Let Me Blown To Smithereens (1995) Foo Fighters Learn To Fly There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999) George Harrison Beware Of Darkness All Things Must Pass (1970) Soweto Gospel Choir Asimbonanga/Biko The Sounds Of Soweto Gospel Choir (2009) |
| 021 Boston We're Ready Third Stage (1986) The Byrds Dolphin's Smile The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968) The Strawbs Round And Round Hero And Heroine (1974) Steve Miller Band Space Cowboy Brave New World (1969) | 022 Dean Seltzer Lady Luck Lady Luck (2009) Van Halen Dancing In The Street Diver Down (1982) Rolling Stones Can't You Hear Me Knocking Sticky Fingers (1971) |
| 023 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody A Night At The Opera (1975) Meat Loaf I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993) The Tubes Don't Touch Me There Young and Rich (1976) | 024 INXS I Need You Tonight Kick (1987) Billy Idol White Wedding (Part 1) Billy Idol (1982) Goo Goo Dolls Long Way Down A Boy Named Goo (1995) Mitch Ryder Devil With A Blue Dress (1966) Rhino Hi Five (2006) |
No Brainer
New studies show that athletes who play high-impact contact sports, especially professional football players who suffered many blows to the head, become disproportionately brain damaged.
Audio: Commentary from Bill Littlefield.: WBUR FM, Boston.
Introduction: Bob Oakes.
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Introduction: Bob Oakes.
More Than Meat
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consistently report that meats are the number one cause of foodborne illness, they are not the only foods to be wary of.
A new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest found that a number of food poisoning cases are caused by some other, unexpected foods, including leafy greens, potatoes and ice cream.
Read more at ABC News.
Deconstructing "Come Together"
The Record Producers, a series on BBC Radio 2, broadcast a show about Beatles producer Sir George Martin on August 31.
Unfortunately it's not available for rebroadcast or podcast download due to rights restrictions, but in this portion you hear how the pieces available to Martin's son Giles fit together for the new Beatles remastered box set and Beatles edition of the "Rock Band" game.
In this portion the program presenters go through "Come Together."
BBC posted interview clips with George Martin as a consolation prize.
Unfortunately it's not available for rebroadcast or podcast download due to rights restrictions, but in this portion you hear how the pieces available to Martin's son Giles fit together for the new Beatles remastered box set and Beatles edition of the "Rock Band" game.
In this portion the program presenters go through "Come Together."
BBC posted interview clips with George Martin as a consolation prize.
Hammer Done Hurt Himself
And so as Dancing with the Stars proceeds without Delay...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
If It's Sunday
It's the host of Meet The Press...
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Tip Of The Hat, Wag Of The Finger
Stephen wants to be a biblical figure on Conservapedia, the Louvre announces its plans to install a McDonald's, and Honda introduces a unicycle of the future.
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| Tip/Wag - Conservapedia, Louvre & Honda Unicycle 10/7/09 | ||||
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Sport Report
Rush Limbaugh makes a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams, and cryogenics employees play baseball with Ted Williams' frozen head.
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Sport Report - Rush Limbaugh & Ted Williams 10/8/09 | ||||
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Critical Time For Prime Time
At one time it seemed NBC's prime time lineup was all in the hands of Dick Wolf, who created 3 variations of the "Law & Order" franchise... Now it's falling on Jay Leno to fill 5 hours & carry 10pm all week long.
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