In an unfortunately pre-empted and shortened show Kristen and the gang interview Melanie Du Puis from the UC Santa Cruz Sociology department, who came on to talk about the politics of food and the history of food advice in the United States.
The News segment fires through bankrupt Republican ideology and the Pentagon budget in burrito dollars.
It was a fast and loose week, and we’ll follow it up with a fast and loose News segment. Between attempted assassinations, vetoed health care bills, wiretapping, presidential campaign shenanigans, and record oil prices, it was hard to keep up, and we barely did.
Overwhelmed, the staff retreated to our regular coverage of irregularly covered news topics for this, the Timothy Jordan Show News for the 19th of October, 2007.
he Halloween fright-fest isn’t until next week, but Conservative pundits, most notably Michael Horowitz, have been promoting a scare session of their own. Yes, whether you realized it or not, this evening marks the official end of Islamo-facism Awareness week. Coined by a handful of truly insane right-wing bloggers a few years back, the term has been picked up by the mainstream Republican party, even featuring in a few recent speeches by our most esteemed President.
It is, according to Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, “… the greatest threat our country has ever faced…”
Excuse me? The greatest threat that our country has ever faced? I have one name to offer Mr. Huckabee: Adolf Hitler. Or what about the thousands of nuclear warheads that are still minutes away from being launched?
