Robert Smigel has played Donald Trump, Willard Scott, Ronald Reagan and countless others on our radio show.
Jeff Ross and David Feldman after a show at Club Soda at the 2013 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal
Kurt Eichenwald is writing for Vanity Fair these days. You should all read him. For example, from his latest post:
1.Given the messages we’ve learned from the Zimmerman case, Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, and the N.R.A., all young black men should arm themselves and shoot anyone whom they believe threatens them. Because freedom.
Zimmerman, Abortion, and Obamacare: 25 Contemplations on Current Events | Vanity Fair.
My conversation with him below:
Greg Kaufmann covers poverty for The Nation and Bill Moyers And Company.
Greg Kaufmann’s brilliant column for The Nation on how the new farm bill punishes children by gutting our food stamps program. This is an absolutely essential article to read.
Food stamp spending is projected by the Congressional Budget Office to amount to just 1.7 percent of federal spending over the next ten years—and people with access to food stamps when they are young have better health outcomes and less dependence on welfare assistance over the long-term. In fact, what the Republicans were attempting to do was toss 2 million people off of SNAP and prevent 210,000 low-income children from receiving free school meals. The bill failed because many Republicans wanted even deeper cuts.Finally, on Thursday, House Republicans took these hunger games to a new level of violence: they passed a farm bill stripped of any food stamp provision.
Via:
This Week in Poverty: Confronting Congressional Hunger Games | The Nation.
My conversation with Greg Kaufmann below:
Click on the rainbow cookies to read the latest from Zack Ford…
Life is short, time is precious, that’s why you need to check in with Zack Ford for the latest in LGBT news. His daily roundup of LGBT issues scours all the news sources to find the big stories people who care about the LGBT community should care about. We had him on our show this week, and he was fascinating. I strongly urge you read him over at Think Progress.
The Morning Pride: July 11, 2013 | ThinkProgress.
My show with him down below…
Click on this photo to meet the people Jesus hates.
I came across this group who is urging congress to block passage of ENDA. I fear too many of us live in a bubble and don’t fully grasp how dangerous these tax-exempt Christian ministries are.
Please do not tarnish the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement by treating a person’s chosen sexual behaviors or their gender self-identification as a protected category in the nation’s civil rights laws. The choice to engage in homosexual conduct and the choice to adopt a “transgender” identity (sex change or cross-dressing) are not equivalent to the established (and immutable) protected categories of one’s race and biological sex, nor are they protected by the Constitution (as is the freedom of religion, also a protected category).