Aug 1, 2013
Breaking news for the top of our show today: In a perfect storm of accidental injury statistics, a 7-year-old girl was accidentally shot while swimming! Greg Dworkin gave us his round-up, including the procedural drama surrounding the confirmation (finally!) of an ATF Director, The Hill's "50 Most Beautiful" list triggers a Sports Illustrated curse, the continuing intra-"party" (if you can still call it that) Republican feud, and the search for the origins of Green Lanternism. And in the first of what will become regular weekly appearances, Joan McCarter joined in to discuss yesterday's Senate follies, upcoming filibuster fights, the collapse of the appropriations process (and all Republican conference leadership) in the House, the crappy student loan "fix" bill, and the continuing tensions on NSA policy between Intelligence and Judiciary committee Senators. Also, Tim Murphy's Mother Jones piece, "Fox News' Neil Cavuto Doesn't Know How Inflation Works," and "How Vice Hacked Google Glass To Tell Crisis Stories."