Our very own Laura House returns to tell us what she’s been up to over the summer, including the recent All Dick No Jane comedy festival in Portland, and gives some insights to the writing process. But first, Down with Tyrnanny’ s Howie Klein on the Steve Israel effect, the Colorado Senate race, and the mid term elections.
It’s a fascinating, hour-long session in which Snowden articulates the case for blowing the whistle, the structural problems that created mass surveillance, and why it’s not sufficient to stop the state from using our data — we should also limit their ability to collect it. The Slashdot post by The Real Hocus Locus provides good timecode-based links into different parts of the talk.
Read more here Edward Snowden interviewed by Lawrence Lessig
Avi Asher-Schapiro joins the show to talk about the unfair practices of Uber, and how the sharing economy is really nothing more than a myth.
Ralph interviews slip and fall expert, Russell Kendzior; we discuss more abuses of the First Amendment; we talk about the pharmaceutical industry’s responsibility in the Ebola outbreak; Ralph pays tribute to former Washington Post executive editor, the late Ben Bradlee; and more listener questions.
Following her logic it only makes sense that she put her gun against her head and pull the trigger. – JW
WASHINGTON — Joni Ernst, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, said during an NRA event in 2012 that she would use a gun to defend herself from the government.
“I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere,” Ernst said at the NRA and Iowa Firearms Coalition Second Amendment Rally in Searsboro, Iowa. “But I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family — whether it’s from an intruder, or whether it’s from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.”
Read more at Huffington Post
Max Brooks, the critically acclaimed writer of World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide, and The Harlem Hellfighters joins us to discuss his new comic book series The Extinction Parade. Then, comic madman Bob Rubin catches up with me to talk about his latest project Rube’s Bananaland Podcast. Jimmy Depetro gives us a run down of the New York Comic Con, and wrapping up the show is comedian/writer Hal Lublin from The Thrilling Adventure Hour & Welcome to Night Vale.