Today (Friday, 11/21), I'm on our local NPR affiliate's excellent, area arts show, The Signal with some Atomic Books holiday gift suggestions and reading from The Book of Whale Insults (mostly just reading insults).
You can listen live online.
The Signal airs at noon and again at 7PM.
[mp3] Truck
[mp3] Bees Bein’ Strugglin’
[mp3] An Evening With Rthrtha
[mp3] I Saw The Bright Shinies
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[mp3] This Is Old
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[mp3] Come Tomorrow
Come tomorrow, but listen today.
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I know some folks are opposed to universal health care on moral grounds (as in "how dare we think people have a right to health, that's just a moral outrage"), but let's take a look at how universal health care could financially affect business in the US.
You know how the automotive industry is now tanking too (yeah, it's just as hard to feel sympathy for the big car companies as it is to feel sympathy for Wall Street)? One thing that is standing in the way of them being profitable is health care costs.
GM's loss per car: $700
GM's cost per car for health care: $1,500
GM profits if we remove health care expenses: $800.
[mp3] The Is How The World Ends
Surprisingly, the song doesn't involve a lot of blood-curdling screaming.
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[mp3] A Little Place Behind My Eyes
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by Benn Ray
So here we are after an historic election that saw a wave of Democrats wash in to office. That's a lot of new people for the media to get to know - a lot of Democrats to talk to. You'd think the Sunday news talk shows would be lousy with Democrats, right?
Think gain.
The rationale I heard from defenders of the conservative mainstream media was that guest bookings should reflect the party in power. At this point, Democrats will have a comfortable majority in the House and Senate, and the American people turned out in historic numbers to overwhelming elect Barack Obama as president.
So does that mean we can expect to see the Sunday political talk show numbers reverse - and show more of a favoritism toward progressive guests?
Don't bet on it.
73% of today's guests being conservative (I counted T. Boone Pickens - who is a big Republican donor as conservative).
27% of today's guests ranked as progressive (I ranked Ted Turner in with the progressives).
Hm. So what's their excuse now?
Oh right, conservatives do have an awful lot of talking points to force down out throats:
1. America is a center-right nation (it's actually a center-left nation).
2. Obama did not win a mandate from the people (he did win a big mandate).
3. Obama was elected as a centrist (they called him a socialist during the election, so also not true).
4. The reason John McCain lost was because he wasn't a true conservative (while McCain may have had a history of being a "maverick" he actually ran as a true conservative, and so did his running mate Palin).
5. The reason we're in the mess we're in now is because Bush didn't govern as a true conservative (actually he did, he governed as a conservative ideologue).
That is an awful lot of reality that needs to be "corrected", so it only makes sense that the gatekeepers of the public airways give conservatives a disproportionate amount of access to it.
Hm. Maybe it is time we revisit the Fairness Doctrine.
Well, the good news is that in the current economic climate, even hate is no longer a growth industry.
