Politics: There is no way to escape this interminable process, so we continue commenting on the ever-evolving race to the nominations. Actually Sam believes there is no point in discussing the Democratic side of things, if one believes in the track record of Washington and Lee University's 100 years of mock conventions as reported by Susan Kinzie in Saturday's Washington Post. And with only one miss in the last 60 years, perhaps he's correct. Tune in to find out the W & L 2008 pick, as well to hear our discussion of Ralph Nader's "Eight More Years?" and Matthew Rothschild's "Kucinich Bows Out with Dignity, Bangs Anti-War Drum", both published on Saturday in
www.commondreams.org, and Caroline Kennedy's "A President Like My Father", published in the op-ed section of Sunday's N.Y. Times.
Disgraceful People Continue to Reap White House Rewards: It's simply not fair but it is predictable. This time we address Paul Wolfowitz's new job as Chair of U.S. Panel on Arms Control, as reported by Cliff Schecter's Blog Gotta Laff, and Steven G. Bradbury's de facto leading of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, as reported by Liliana Segura in "Bush Loves Promoting Torture Promoters", both published Friday by
www.alternet.org. Join us to learn more about these plum jobs and the irony behind them.
Outrageous Events: Yes, boys and girls, four topics deserve their own category. Elliot Cohen's "The End of Privacy" posted Friday on
www.truthdig.com addresses not only FISA reform, but the Bush administration's bold new plan endorsing wholesale monitoring of every citizen's internet activities, not to mention a threatened veto if the Senate refuses to immunize telecon companies from prosecution for past dastardly deeds. Then there's "Sub-Prime Probe Gets Cooperation, according to today's AP, citing a Connecticut firm's, Clayton Holdings, grant of full immunity by U.S. Attorney Cuomo for full cooperation in its role in advising investment counselors. Robert Fisk's "How to Create Iraqi Orphans And then how to make life worse for them", published Friday in
www.informationclearinghouse.info is enough to make one cry. Finally, Katrina's vanden Heuvel's "Dental Decay: The Hidden Health Crisis" published in The Nation and in alternet, is worse than bad. It's criminal. Listen up to find out why.
Lagniappe: How about Michale Vick's pitbulls, weed and Sam's lawn-clippings-colored health drink? There's a teaser for you.
We hope to be back on Thursday, January 31. Write with your comments, suggestions and praises, of course. Thanks for being there!
