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Current Events
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Interview with John Lysack age 101, about his participation in the Berlin 1936 Olympics. NBC Sports airs a documentary on Feb 14th including footage of John..
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Science topics: clever dogs, our bug roomates, convergent fossil insect evolution, plants putting up a stink, something odd is orbiting a distant star, Pluto vs Eris
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Current Events, Russia denies Litvinenko murder allegations, Chinese abductions, Wall Street jerks, criticism of Israel does not equal anti-semitism, OJ trial revisited for black history month?
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Jerk genius Lowell Wood, dubious ideas - delivery drones, smart bullets, good ideas - tricking bacteria, evaluating web data
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Assorted stats, anecdotes, quotes quips and jokes not stuck at top of show
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Looking at "The Big Short" and "Drunk Brilliant Stoned Dead" the story of the National Lampoon, and Doug Kenney
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Excerpets from the writings of Michael Lewis
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Excerpts from the early days of The National Lampoon Magazine
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Reprise of our talk with David Talbot about his book Devil Dog (On General Smedley Butler)
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More with David Talbot on Smedley Butler and the Wall Steet plot to overthrow FDR
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Re-airing of our talk with documenatarian Alexander Gibey regarding his 2004 film Enron, the Smartest Guys in the Room
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Current Events
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St. John Hunt part III the deep politics of his father E. Howard Hunt, the CIA and JFK
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Part IV St. John Hunt
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Current Events
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A conversation with St. John Hunt son of E. Howard Hunt, CIA agent, watergate burglar, and confessed JFK assassination conspirator
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St. John Hunt part II (of IV) Obit: P.F. Sloan
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Current Events
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Great stories (mostly science news) from 2015
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Replay of our obit (with Gary Chew) for The Late Show with David Letterman
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Current Events, great Mark Evanier Xmas anecdote
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Comedy favorites (replay of Thanksgiving 2014 show)
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Comedy favorites (replay of 2014 Thanksgiving show)
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Current Events
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Reprise of interview with General Chuck Yeager the inspiration of "the Right Stuff"
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Reprise of our chat with CBS news legend Walter Cronkite
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Current Events
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Our chat with Bob Edwards about his book on Edward R. Murrow
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Lying, CIA fakers, what's wrong with this picture?, and what could you have eaten in the cretaceous era and still keep kosher?
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Current Events
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Reprise of a chat with William Poundstone author of Big Secrets, Bigger Secrets and Biggest Secrets
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Graham Smith talks up texbook exchanges, obits: the English language, Michael Gross of The National Lampoon
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Current Events
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Graham's interview with Lester Lusher about the influence of shared ethicity in grading
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Doug's chat with John Lisack about his participation in the Berlin Olympics in 1936!
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Current Events
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A chat with James Randi conjurer-magician and exposer of charlatans part 1
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James Randi Part 2
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Re[rise of Michael Tractman pt 1
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Michael Tractman pt 2
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Reprise of George Pendle interview
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Current Events
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Reprise of 2006 chat with consumer expert David Cay Johnston
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Reprise of 2004 chat with Peter G. Peterson then head of the Council on Foreign Relations; a couple of his predictions of economic calamity came sadly true in subsequent years
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Surprisingly familiar opening
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Reprise: Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science. 2006 interview still relavant (sadly)
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Reprise: John Stauber Toxic Sludge is Good for You. Also sadly relevant ten years after our chat
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Graham makes some observations; part one of Larry Tye on Satchel Paige
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Baseball ledgend Satchel Paige part two
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Kevin Cook on Titanic Thompson, hustler extrordinaire
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Salon.com founder David Talbot reads from his new book The Devil's Chessboard
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More from The Devil's Chessboard
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Doug makes a special appearance to rant about bagels
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Current Events
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Our chat with Mary Roach on "Packing for Mars
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More Mary Roach: Bonk, the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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BEST OF Radio Parallax with Graham Smith
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Our talk with Michael Pollan (he's coming to town next week) on food
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Our talk with Sam Kean on the periodic table of the elements
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Current Events
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Russ Baker of whowhatwhy.org updates us on some of their recent articles
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Obit: Oliver Sachs, update from Australia with Pamela Sue Taylor
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Current Events
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Steve Alexander the guy who gave us the idea to start a radio show talks up numerous topics with us
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TV Obits: Martin Milner of Route 66, "Batgirl" Yvonne Craig; Donald Trump returns to scold us, plug for SN&R event on 09/16
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Current Events, margarine is worse than butter
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Jeff vonKaenel of the Sacramento News and Review talks about the papers legal assault from the mayor and the fundraiser being held to support press freedom
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Saudi misbehavior; Jeb lies about ISIS, Chafee nails Hilary, Tanzania's water woes imitate CAs, kudos to Margaret Hutchinson, also oral contraceptive pioneers
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Current Events
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Jimmy Carter's efforts to explain Israel's Apartheid to America, baby boomer Doug is joined by millenial Graham Smith to chat up The Atlantic's piece on college politcal correctness
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Graham Smith stays on to talk about word & phrase origins
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Current Events, Obit: Robert Conquest, the man who told the unhappy truth about the USSR
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Stopping bobcat trapping, more BS from trophy hunters, Sy Hersh on Bin Laden's death; Saudis deny links to 9/11 attacks (and legal liability), US Muslim politics
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Lawsuit fun from Uncle John's, our hotter future, capital jargon
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Current Events
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A chat with SN&R reporter Cosmo Garvin who is stepping away from his great reporting (temporarily we hope)
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Briefing section radical Islam, tech stuff: adaptive optics, hacking cars & cities
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Hiroshima at 70, a look back, some comments on nukes and the remarkable work of Leo Szilard, the man who first envisioned the nuclear chain reaction; pro-nuke then anti-nuke
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Normal top of show; you know quote, quip, joke, stat, anecdote & good news; the good, the bad, and the ugly
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Beach Boys "God Only Knows", Alameda County reaps Area woes (somebody tell Scott Walker), Trump conspiracy theories, Stooge museum, politicians want bad writing, Discover magazine debunks homeopathy
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Current Events, with an on-the-attack appearance by Donald Trump
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Interview with Marin activist Bob Silvestri
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A chat with camera artist Colleen Gino
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Current Events, goodbye to Prarie Home Companion, Will Durst on The Donald
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"Book report": Phllip Knightley's classic The First Casualty, Jeb Bush thinks you should work more, lazy ants
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Obit: Omar Sharif, "life" on comet, Pluto mission update, Greek wenging, Mexico's own Houdini, Kevin Johnson's pals play the race card (we back the SN&R)
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Current Events
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Science topics: hope for coral reefs, Dutch court fights carbon emissions, chronic fatigue - antibody related?, physics needs experiments, hybrid vigor in people, "junk" DNA is in the RNA business, sunshine is good for you
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Quoted from "Unusually Stupid Americans", stand-up comedy in China
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Current Events
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Chat with UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Geology Eldridge Moores
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Lighter fair
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Current Events, anecdote about The Banana man
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Will Durst on the confederate flag, Kevin Johnson's e-mail follies, mining aquifers, greenery = healthy, new vaccine bill, "apps" for STDs?, computer heroin
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Some tales of Costa Rica
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Current Events
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The modern/crazy attitudes on childen being "supervised"; "identifying" with a race or sex; Obits - singing impersonator Jim Bailey, actress Anita Ekberg, Jean Nidetch of Weight Watchers, inventor S. Donald Stookey, spy David Greenglass, Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk
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More chat with Bob Dunham on things financial, Alan Abel Hoaxter extraordinaire, dumb quotes
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Current Events, not exactly epic news on the misnamed "female viagra"
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Techonology gone stupid?, "click farms", good news items, Dick Cavett on "political correctness"
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Film reviews with Capital Public Radio's Gary Chew
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Current Events, Will Durst on gutting the 4th amendment
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Our tribute to the fearless, fiesty (and recently departed) Vincent Buglosi with whom we spoke on two occasions. We admired him even if we sometimes did not agree with him (when we did, we really did)
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Financial chat with Bob Dunham "from the neighborhood"
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Current Events, Will Durst raises a ruckus
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A chat with Henry Vinson author of "Confessions of D.C. Madam", telling tales of running the largest gay escort service in the nation's capital and getting caught in a political crossfire
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Artist Laura Hohlwein talks about her exhibit currently at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis
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Current Events
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A talk with science writer Charles Mann about his fascinating book 1493
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Political/media revisionism about the Iraq war. Rachel Maddow covered this SO WELL we air clips from her show. Rachel nails the lie about "faulty intelligence" being responsible for the still unfolding debacle in the Middle East
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Today's show pre-empted on KDVS, so we celebrate KZFR. Current Events
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Rick Anderson the GM of KZFR talks about the station which is celebrating 25 years of broadcasting next month
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Obit: The Late Show with David Letterman; we chat with another TV weatherman who came west to California Gary Chew plus a few other observations about Dave, a comedy genius if there ever was one
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Current Events; invade Texas? (if only); Bolivia wants a coast back; some sexual stats
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The newly discovered relationship to us of earth's 3rd type of life, chat with "Governor Brown"
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Travel agent Stan Godwyn talks up some exotic Asian locations
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Current Events
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California's specialty in political corruption - yet more water follies; a generation of youth that is computer (but not otherwise) savvy; nature is good for you (duh)
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Obit: Pakistani activist Sabin Mahmud; medical skepticism; immune boosters - for real?; raising kids, Ivy Leage twit factories
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Current Events
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Investigative journalist Joe Rubin returns to talk about issues he has gotten involved with
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Obit: Jack Ely of Louie Louie fame, is fire the source of "entertainment"?, mammogram confusions, follies in CSI and "Citizens United", 1965 in music
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Annual pledge drive show - make a contribution! This Date in History: Good, Bad & Ugly
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Some talk on water; words we don't have in English (but maybe should)
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Snippets from some old shows
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Current Events, Wall St imitates "Minority Report"; Attack Iran? - don't be a moron, 47 Republican dopes in US Senate
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The Greeks: hopeless financial cheaters, excerpt from book "1493: leads to Doug's amecdote from Potosi, Bolivia; "chemosynthesis - its not just at deep sea vents, its everywhere; still more onbacterial ingenuity
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Jeb Bush - "liberal"; almond/water math; The Economist weighs in on CA's water pricing stupidity, more on color vision; Sex - not a "drive" says nutty PhD
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Current Events; Chowchilla kidnapper parole, appropriately negative reviews of Psychiatry: the Untold Story, Saudi misbehavior, Moliere in Berkeley book
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Investigative reporter Joe Rubin talks about Sacramento's water meter scandal (which he uncovered) and efforts to make city governent e-mails vanish
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Mini Obit: the great Stan Freberg, a discussion of some trenchant articles about Jerry Brown's fiddling while Rome burns (telling the citiizens WE are the water problem, not the users who squander 80% of the state's H20)
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Current Events; college sports & gambling, a sad connection, Will Durst tees off on Ted Cruz
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James Israel talks about the 24th anniversary issue of the Humor Times, Science: English does poorly with smells, new wrinkle in evolution (mutations might come AFTER a change in environment; transgenetics is a nautural process! (including human biology); go ahead and use q-tips in your ears
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Touting coke as a "snack", eclipses mess up solar power generation, DJ "Presto Pancakes" chats up KDVS's musical programming
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Current Events, 6 activities you can do; intelligence gathering - lousy vs terrorists, great vs you & me
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Davis's Poet Laureate and our favorite professor of English Dr Andy Jones, of KDVS's Poetry & Technology Hour, returns and again tries to lead Doug to erudition by example
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Partial Obit: Danny Schechter, political knuckleheads with specifics on knuckleheadedness
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Radio Parallax looks at the history of Satan - it is show 666, after all
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More on Lucifer..... quips, the "Devil's Advocate", Beelzebub's history in literature, "satanism", the seven deadly sins, and a hell of a lot more
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This day in history, our usual boilerplate; the good, the bad & the ugly
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Current Events, Lake Nicaragua under Chinese threatm McDonalds moves away from rBSH induced milk (yay)
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Yet MORE CA water nonsense (why "conservation" is a scam), N. Miller - STILL a jerk but Cosmo Garvin is still on the ball, tales of prescription drug chicanery: colchicne and the bendectine story - both headed for happy endings
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Leonard Nimoy & Star Trek, UC auctions off spots to non-residents for money, Mohammed vs Larry documentary, Selma plus 50 years
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Current Events, gut bacteria - obseity link, giving politicians more ability to thwart democracy
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Interview with historian Joan Mellen about the back story of George DeMohrinschildt (who Bill O'Reilley did NOT hear the fatal gunshot of...)
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$ transfer to cities to millionaires (how arenas work), zebra stripes, the weird clouds seen on Mars, sad fruit flies are bar flies (kinda like people)
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Current Events, Will Durst sounds off
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Investigative journalist Jim DiEugenio talkes about the supposed North Korean "hack" of Sony and Citizen Four's Oscar (Edward Snowden)
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Legendary KDVS PA host France Kassing talks more on Ed Martin, Bill O'Reilley caught lying about key JFK assassination figure
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Current Events, prize anecdote on Gary Owens
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Interview with Astronomy magazine editor Richard Talcott abouth their 500th issue (with 500 cool facts)
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Obit: Lesley Gore, CA (still) running out of water - thanks real estate developers; updates: MSG, Straus-Kahn and government spying (this time to "stop cyber attacks")
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Chris Rock hates PC people, Oz hates science (GOP too), biking in snow, Farenheit is OK, tit culture - the BIRD we mean!
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potpourri of dubious ideas: implantable stimulators of vagus nerve, waste well injecton into protected acquifers, helping porn stars into radio, geo-engineering, cheaper oil
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Obama's "outrageous remarks on christian terrorism", Obit: David Landau, a look at spending $1 trillion on more American nukes
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