By Steve Rhodes
There’s a difference between being against terrorism and for free speech – and everything that entails. Plus: I’ve Been Sick But Zeke Emanuel Has Not; Bloodshot’s Big Weekend; Inside Seinfeld; and Is Anita Alvarez Charlie?
SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
:47: I’ve Been Sick.
* Actually, I used to get strep throat every year.
* Why Scientists Guessed Wrong On The Flu Vaccine, And Why It Could Happen Again.
9:24: I’ll Trade You Money For Wine by Robbie Fulks as performed by Andrew Bird & Nora O’Connor.
* The Bloodshot brand: Larger than a genre.
* Anti-rock, anti-news.
* Too news for news.
* My dream: Insurgent journalism.
16:25: My Old Drunk Friend/Freakwater.
* Where all the alleys are haunted.
17:33: Ezekiel Emanuel: Skip Your Annual Physical.
* The U.S. spends more money – by far – for worse outcomes.
* Health Costs: The New York Times Does It Again!
* If your annual exam is a waste of time and money, you’re not doing it right.
28:23: Rahm’s Refrigerator.
Rahm: “My parents used to post our report cards on the refrigerator, so everyone who came to our house could see how we were doing”
— Rahm Emanuel (@RahmEmanuel) January 8, 2015
Gawd. What a horrible household to grow up in.
31:31: Cigarette State/Robbie Fulks.
* Alabama’s grand – the state, not the band.
32:43: Being Charlie.
. @DanielWickham93 is breaking down the hypocrisy of world leaders in Paris on freedom of the press
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) January 11, 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns presence of “predators of press freedom” at Paris march: http://t.co/BgHpClayPN
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) January 11, 2015
Yemen should have sent Abdulelah Shaye, the journalist Obama kept in prison for exposing secret US strikes, to Paris as its representative
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) January 11, 2015
* Keith Alexander’s Unethical Get-Rich-Quick Plan.
* Reporters Without Borders Free Press Index.
Today Western leaders march for “free speech”. Tomorrow, they cut deals with those who flog Saudi blogger Raif Badawi for “insulting Islam.”
— Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) January 11, 2015
* Harold Washington in women’s undergarments.
44:39: Bloodshot’s Turning Five/Robbie Fulks.
46:30: Is Anita Alvarez Charlie?
50:46: Seinfeld Extras & Inside Looks.
55:59: The Death of Country Music/Waco Brothers.
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Posted on January 11, 2015