Feb 20, 2014
Greg Dworkin gets us up to speed on the CBO & minimum wage, and the latest ACA news, then helps us get a grip on the story of the multi-billion dollar buyout of WhatsApp. In Crazy News: a DC taxi driver "kidnaps" a passenger, and Lay's potato chips aims for world domination. Then, back to reality, with continued...
Feb 19, 2014
Greg Dworkin manages to get in a brief roundup of news in the wake of the recent controversial study of mammography and medical outcomes before falling prey to technical difficulties that knocked us off the air for a few minutes. But the show comes back, and we move on to discussion of Kevin Roose's "What I Saw When I...
Feb 17, 2014
Greg Dworkin rounds up some wacky news, including the death of a snake handling preacher (by snake bite, of course), and how Donald Trump, unable to fire a reporter he doesn't like, has fired his press aide who set up the interview. Bill Nye "debates" climate change with Marsha Blackburn on MTP. Nick Kristof complains...
Feb 13, 2014
Snow didn't take us out, but server downtime did. Still, the podcast must go on! And it did. Greg Dworkin joined us to note that Christie is still toast, perhaps more so than ever, as reporters fill the investigative lulls with stories mining his bullying past. A new Q Poll runs head-to-heads in NY, Christie vs....