Those who know me understand that I’m the worst person in the world to talk sports with, but this story on All Things Considered caught my ear and lead me to the above video. Anxiety is not about being shy in the same way that depression is not about being sad. Those of us who [...]

Via Black Agenda Radio: There is a popular myth which explains President Barack Obama’s reluctance to stand up to Pentagon militarists, Wall Street banksters and corporate greedheads. This myth excuses the president for ignoring massive black unemployment and not providing his promised path to citizenship for the undocumented, for not using presidential authority to halt [...]

From WCPN: The United Way of Cleveland says it will stop direct funding to the Boy Scouts of America’s Cleveland chapter. As ideastream’s Brian Bull reports, the decision stems from the BSA’s national policy on sexual orientation. Good on United Way, but it did take a bit of time… Previously…

So, how much would you pay for representation you can live with? Let’s do some math. The current house has 435 members, each representing 717,000 Americans, or a population of nearly 312 million. If we reduce the number Americans each House member represents to say, 100,000, that gives us a House of Representatives with 3,119 [...]

Driving home Wednesday evening I listened to an interview with Michael Lewis on Fresh Air and had this skidmark moment: My whole goal was to create a very natural environment so I could observe him without lots of people worrying about how it was going to be made to look in print. So the agreement [...]

Last month I noted with pleasant anticipation that Andrea Seabrook had left NPR out of frustration and was beginning a new project she was calling DecodeDC. I went so far as to add the effort to my bloglist and have checked it daily since. Today I deleted the listing. Not because I disagree with anything [...]

Mano Singham writes: Hence I was startled by this short interview that NPR’s Ari Shapiro had with a woman who attended an American Legion convention. Bobbie Lucier said of the Obamas, I just – I don’t like him. Can’t stand to look at him. I don’t like his wife. She’s far from the first lady. [...]

I first heard this story earlier today while in my car and I confess to a serious skidmark moment. Writing for The Atlantic, Max Fisher lays out the story and focues on the difference between our system of Retributive Jusice and Norway’s system of Restorative Justice. He writes: The American justice system, like most of [...]

1209 Anthony Sowell Found Guilty of Aggravated Murder 1159 Singer Amy Winehouse’s Death: Drug Addiction is Often a Symptom of Untreated Mental Illness

0914: Believing the Unbelievable

The Speech begins at timemark 54:30 The text runs from page S8735 to page S8781 of the Congressional Record. Diane Rehm interviewed Sen. Sanders on 31 March.

0707: The plight of evangelical ministers

MYANMAR/BURMA — Ros Atkins World Have Your Say BBC program is one of my favorite shows on public radio — 1 p.m. week days on WCPN — because he takes the man-in-the-street concept global. On yesterday’s show, Aung San Suu Kyi fielded questions from around the world. In light of protests in North Africa, Suu [...]

Yesterday I briefly meet the man who thinks he can contain former public radio host turned Civic Commons Curator of Conversation Dan Moulthrop in a 30-minute radio show. I wish producer Luke Frazier good luck with that. The show debuts this Saturday at 8:30 a.m. on WJCU (88.7 FM) Here’s what Dan had to say [...]

1609: The radio discussion on the Pew religion survey

Tune in to WCPN, 90.3 FM, at 9 a.m. to hear Mano Singham discuss the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey from the Pew Research Center with Rev. Marvin McMickle, senior pastor at the Antioch Baptist Church and Tim Beal, a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at CWRU. Mano is no newcomer to the topic.

That guy who does a mad imitation of Tim (no relation to Frank) Russo was back on the ether last night, informing Cuyahoga County Council District Seven voters why Clark Broida Broidatelli tried to tell them at Tuesday night’s Cuyahoga County Council District Seven forum in Holy Name Church, that local officials bear no responsibility [...]

Cord Jefferson: Schlessinger’s ultimate point — “Black people say ‘nigger’; why can’t I?” — is, of course, historically ignorant, culturally ignorant and, worst of all, hackneyed. But what she said wasn’t racist, and claiming that it is gives both her and the word more power than they deserve. My time in the Navy was my [...]