This morning we had a lovely discussion about blogging with the local queen and king, Brittney Gilbert (in absentia) and ACK. Everything I learned about commenting on blogs, I learned on The Muppet Show…
(hat tip: SvN)
We’ll be over at WashingtonPost.com watching our favorite alt-weekly editor “examine the qualities that make senator-turned-actor Fred Thompson an appealing — and potentially winning — Republican candidate.”
Nashville Scene Editor Liz Garrigan will be online live at WashingtonPost.com today, Monday, May 21 at noon ET, to discuss her article which ran in Sunday’s WaPo, He Sure […]
On tomorrow morning’s show during our Media Matters for America Smackdown with Elbert Ventura (8:30am CDT, WRVU 91.1 FM) we’ll be talking about presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani. In anticipation, I revisited this excellent footage of Keith Olbermann delivering his own smackdown on New York’s most conservative mayor. Yeah, what he said.
This week I learned that the average weekly food stamp allotment is $21.00. I learned this because of the story of 4 United States congressman who are trying to live for one week on the amount of food that $21.00 can buy.
Isaiah J. Poole, executive editor of TomPaine.com, writes that one of “the members, Rep. […]
Summary: In this episode you can hear the delight in our voices as we discover that a bipartisan group of Senators along with President Bush reached an agreement on immigration-reform legislation. Let the full Senate and House debates begin! I’ll get the popcorn…
Listen to: Dogs and Cats Living Together! (10:21 9.5MB)
Summary: We continue our candidate interview series with mayoral candidate and current Councilmember At-large, Buck Dozier. We ask him about turning Nashville into “The Athens Of Education In America,” his promise of transparency if elected, immigration, his vote on the civil rights ordinance that came before the council in 2003, and what kind of mayor […]
It is a big deal and the call for change is loudly resonating from the court of public opinion, Senate Democrats and Republicans, and now even his peers.
Two weeks after they held their 25th reunion, “fifty-six members of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ graduating class at Harvard Law School signed a quarter-page open letter” in the […]
Summary: Did you hear the blistering testimony about Alberto Gonzales from James Comey, the former No. 2 official at the Justice Department under John Ashcroft? We did and we recap it during this portion of the show. Senate Democrats and Republicans heard it too and are calling for his resignation even more loudly than before. […]
16 May 2007
“An F In Health Care,” by Alec Dubro (TomPaine.com)
“What everyone who cares to look knows is that there are two health care systems in America—one for those with money and for those without.” We’ll continue the discussion on healthcare in America with Jonathan Cohn, author of Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health […]
Tomorrow night, Thursday, May 17, the Tennessee Alliance for Progress will present A Forum on Faith and Immigration, the latest in their “Doing Justly: Integrating Our Deepest Spiritual Beliefs Into Our Professional and Public Lives” series.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
7:00 -9:00 p.m.
Vine Street Christian Church
4101 Harding Pike, Nashville
The program includes the documentary film, Dying to Get […]
