Also, two #Podcast episode recs from recent listening:
Remember Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't? These dudes are WICKED confident in some extremely technical know-how, but there's a lot of interesting science beyond the wave of names. A recent episode on fungi had some choice facts.
https://www.spreaker.com/user/16676611/a-conversation-about-new-zealand-fungi_1
And Maddow's Déjà News posted a bonus crossover on Spiro Agnew, & what a deal in 1973 did to protect democracy that might be relevant for today's US politics. Cheers!
😂 Bitter Monday night indeed!
Do consider diving into the rebroadcast of the Bag Man episode, then! It's a really good, chewy piece reflecting on the many different legal moves sometimes necessary to sustain a country's democracy while pursuing criminal cases against sitting or actively running politicians.
(Or get back to writing that book! ;) Lots of options!)
@MLClark Oh, re "Bag Man" ... I'm old enough to have lived through the Agnew and Nixon resignations, my senior year in high school.
Fun fact ... Jerry Voorhees, the man Nixon defeated to go to Congress in 1946, lived in my home town, Claremont CA. He was on my delivery route. I talked to him from time to time, had no idea who he was until his name came up in a college Poli Sci class. An opportunity missed.
Very kind of you, but I tend not to follow people so much as topics of interest. Maddow's latest projects tie into my love of historiography: thinking about how we've constructed our histories a certain way to tell a certain kind of story about the present, and what connecting our current crises with human behavioural consistencies over time can empower us to do to build a better world.
Sounds like you need a good break after all of today's work, though! Hope you find it! 🤞
@MLClark Okay. Stephie is an acquired taste.
I agree about Rachel's history lessons. Whenever she starts a show with a history lesson, I wonder, "Okay, where is this going ..."
@MLClark I spent much of the day on the book. #Florida politics are amateur-hour corruption. Jeez.
Do you know of Stephanie Miller? She is basically the radio version of Rachel; more comedy, less intellect, but equally progressive. I listen to Stephie while driving around here in Trumper Central.
I can point you to archives of her shows if interested.