The Bogosity Podcast

Bogosity Podcast for 11 April 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:00:42 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

1:19 – WhatsApp is now most widely used end-to-end crypto tool on the planet http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/whatsapp-is-now-most-widely-used-end-to-end-crypto-tool-on-the-planet/
- Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/
12:23 – Reddit’s Warrant Canary just died https://boingboing.net/2016/03/31/reddits-warrant-canary-just.html
- We are ACLU lawyers and Nick Merrill of Calyx Institute. We’re here to talk about National Security Letters and warrant canaries, because Reddit can’t. AUA. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4dcm55/we_are_aclu_lawyers_and_nick_merrill_of_calyx/
21:51 – 5th Circuit Denies Prosecutor’s Appeal of Misconduct Finding, and throws out Forfeiture Because of Prosecutorial Vindictiveness http://www.prosecutorialaccountability.com/2016/03/25/tx-5th-circuit-denies-prosecutors-appeal-of-misconduct-finding-and-throws-out-forfeiture-because-of-prosecutorial-vindictiveness/

28:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The FBI https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160401/06514734076/fbi-doesnt-want-to-share-details-exploit-it-deployed-while-running-child-porn-site.shtml

34:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html

This Week’s Quote: “All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.” —Henry Hazlitt

Bogosity Podcast for 4 April 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:00:06 +0000

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

0:36 – Paris terrorists used burner phones, not encryption, to evade detection http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/paris-terrorist-attacks-burner-phones-not-encryption/
- House bill wants to crack down on prepaid ‘burner’ phones http://www.zdnet.com/article/california-lawmaker-wants-to-crack-down-on-pre-paid-burner-phones/
- Bruce Schneier: Focus on terrorists, not tactics https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/08/bruce_schneier_focus.html
13:40 – Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-16/venezuela-to-shut-down-for-a-week-as-electricity-crisis-mounts
19:42 – Texas House Panel Approves Full Legalization Of Marijuana In ‘Unprecedented’ Move http://realhealthtreatments.info/texas-house-panel-approves-full-legalization-of-marijuana-in-unprecedented-move/

23:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: New York http://www.coindesk.com/months-bitlicense-bitcoin-still-startups-await-approval-new-york/

28:31 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Judge Amanda Sammons http://www.knoxnews.com/news/crime-courts/defendants-barred-from-entering-court-arrested-for-being-late-records-show-2d7ac08e-4a20-4080-e053-0-371336111.html

This Week’s Quote: “The similarity of arguments against the abolition of slavery and arguments against the abolition of government (as we know it) should shake the faith of all Americans who still labor under the misconception that ours is a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people.’ From where I stand, it looks distressingly like an institutional complex that rests on the same shaky intellectual foundations as slavery.” —Robert Higgs

Bogosity Podcast for 21 March 2015

MrBogosity — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:00:39 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

0:30 – After Apple, WhatsApp Under Fire from US Govt Over Encryption http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/whatsapp-encryption.html
7:15 – Appeals Court Says Backpage.com Is Not Liable For Sex Trafficking Done Via Its Site https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160315/08201233910/appeals-court-says-backpagecom-is-not-liable-sex-trafficking-done-via-site.shtml
17:53 – EU Court Of Justice Advocate General Says Open WiFi Operators Shouldn’t Be Liable For Infringement https://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20160316/13090133923/eu-court-justice-advocate-general-says-open-wifi-operators-shouldnt-be-liable-infringement.shtml

22:17 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama https://youtu.be/FhFibpHSJFE?t=1h21m17s

Obama tells tech community to solve encryption problem now or pay later http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/11/11207480/obama-sxsw-2016-fbi-apple-encryption
Obama Just Made His Dumbest Comments on Encryption Yet http://gizmodo.com/obama-just-made-his-dumbest-comments-on-encryption-yet-1764388286
No, you backoff on backdoors or else http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/03/no-you-backoff-on-backdoors-or-lese.html
Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism, Clarke Says http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says

35:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Dianne Feinstein https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160309/23380133854/senator-feinstein-revives-stupid-idea-that-internet-companies-are-materially-supporting-terrorism-if-isis-members-use-their.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” —Louis Brandeis

Bogosity Podcast for 14 March 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:00:22 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

0:38 – Woman free after stand between trooper, dog http://www.wvgazettemail.com/article/20160301/GZ01/160309942
7:13 – Libertarian Commentator Lauren Southern Assaulted by ‘Anti-Fascist’ Protesters http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/05/libertarian-lauren-southern-assaulted-by-anti-fascist-protesters/
14:26 – Nobody Knows the Identity of the 150 People Killed by U.S. in Somalia But Most Are Certain They Deserved it https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/nobody-knows-the-identity-of-the-150-people-killed-by-u-s-in-somalia-but-most-are-certain-they-deserved-it/

21:35 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/18/new-mexico-attorney-general-protests-bil

26:24 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Bernie Sanders and #BernVictims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IlGoeDIUQ

Bogosity https://www.facebook.com/MrBogosity/photos/a.508311029179330.124056.343696165640818/1157038930973200/?type=3&theater
Mothers of Slain Black Teenagers Assail Bernie Sanders for ‘Ghetto’ Comments http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/08/mothers-of-slain-black-teenagers-assail-bernie-sanders-for-ghetto-comments/

This Week’s Quote: “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout…suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own; for the children, and the children yet unborn.” —Rod Serling

Bogosity Podcast for 7 March 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:00:33 +0000

Co-Host: Travis Retriever

0:58 – News of the Bogus: iPhone Special #NoBackdoors

US trying to force Apple to unlock ‘about a dozen’ other iPhones, says WSJ http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11097044/us-forcing-apple-to-unlock-dozen-iphones-says-wsj
APPLE: The FBI screwed up its investigation and now we can’t unlock the shooter’s iPhone http://www.businessinsider.com.au/apple-says-government-lost-access-to-shooters-iphone-backup-by-changing-passcode-2016-2
CountyWire on Twitter: “The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI’s request.” https://twitter.com/CountyWire/status/700887823482630144
FBI Admits — It was a ‘Mistake’ to Reset Terrorist’s iCloud Password http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/reset-icloud-passcode.html
In Fighting FBI, Apple Says Free Speech Rights Mean No Forced Coding http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/27/468308775/in-fighting-fbi-apple-says-free-speech-rights-mean-no-forced-coding
FBI Director — “What If Apple Engineers are Kidnapped and Forced to Write (Exploit) Code?” http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/fbi-apple-unlock-iphone.html
Police chief: There’s a “reasonably good chance” not much is on seized iPhone http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/police-chief-theres-a-reasonably-good-chance-not-much-is-on-seized-iphone/
Carole Adams, mom who lost son in San Bernardino shooting, sides with Apple http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/20/carole-adams-mom-who-lost-son-in-san-bernardino-sh/

19:33 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Venezuela https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/inflation-poverty-food-shortages-venezuela-heads-toward-disaster/2016/02/11/10aad5b4-d035-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine by R.W. Grant https://mises.org/library/tom-smith-and-his-incredible-bread-machine
Bastiat’s famous Candlestick makers’ Petition http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
USDA ERS – Interactive Chart: Food Expenditures http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures/interactive-chart-food-expenditures.aspx
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth

27:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Greenpeace http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/27/food.foodanddrink

Greenpeace GM crop attack declared legal http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greenpeace-gm-crop-attack-declared-legal-698440.html

This Week’s Quote: “Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.” —Ramez Naam

Bogosity Podcast for 29 February 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 23:00:10 +0000

Co-Host Takeover 2: Electric Boogaloo

With Dave Turcotte, Jakob Morris, and Charles Thomas

1:23 – The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night – and the International Media Is Asleep At the Switch http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/
9:37 – Actors in Pornographic Films Fight Proposal to Enforce Safety Regulations http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/us/actors-in-pornographic-films-fight-proposal-to-enforce-safety-regulations.html
- Dear New York Times https://medium.com/@MissLoreleiLee/dear-new-york-times-9f64155b5e19
15:23 – Where’s The Fair Use? – Nostalgia Critic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqFAMOtwaI
- TEAMFOURSTAR AND YOUTUBE: Where’s the Fair Use? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eHbJ9U8YLY
- Where’s the Fair Use? – AlphaOmegaSin #WTFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoQM_Z-CUc
- Make YouTube Great Again – AlphaOmegaSin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti3HTQGzAzw
- Why the DMCA is Bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_84-p4kac
- Early Copyright History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_aOHpn_vqQ
- Pirates Spend Much More Money on Music, Study Shows https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-music-study-shows-160226/
- Creators frustrated with Copyright Office’s outdated technology, procedures http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-copyright-office-20150623-story.html

Bogosity Podcast for 15 February 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:00:46 +0000

Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

1:19 – Adherents of Junk Campus Rape Science Are Retaliating Against Critics https://reason.com/reasontv/2016/02/09/adherents-of-junk-campus-rape-science-ar
8:41 – India introduces net neutrality rules barring Facebook’s free Internet http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0VH162
13:16 – Homeless stripped of free Wi-Fi due to illegal downloaders https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/02/05/homeless-stripped-of-free-wi-fi-due-to-illegal-downloaders/

17:54 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: NaturalNews http://www.naturalnews.com/052863_Zika_virus_Tdap_vaccine_GMO_mosquitoes.html

How mosquitoes with ‘self-destruct’ genes could save us from Zika virus https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/01/29/heres-how-gm-mosquitos-with-self-destruct-genes-could-save-us-from-zika-virus/
Zika HOAX exposed by South American doctors: Brain deformations caused by larvicide chemical linked to Monsanto; GM mosquitoes a ‘total failure’ http://www.naturalnews.com/052943_Zika_virus_hoax_larvacide_chemical_GM_mosquitoes.html

24:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: PayPal https://torrentfreak.com/paypal-starts-banning-vpn-and-smartdns-services-160205/

This Week’s Quote: “Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you’ll be glad you did.” —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 8 February 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 23:00:51 +0000

Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQ7d9Fjhr0Lw0niz1_1nlQ

News of the Bogus:

0:48 – NC Forfeiture Victim Wins Final Vindication In Fight Against IRS http://ij.org/press-release/nc-forfeiture-victim-wins-final-vindication-in-fight-against-irs/
- Monkey See, Monkey Do, But Judge Says Monkey Gets No Copyright https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160129/14291233463/monkey-see-monkey-do-judge-says-monkey-gets-no-copyright.shtml
7:10 – On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905
16:22 – Judge rules FBI unlawfully refused to comply with information act requests http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/30/judge-rules-fbi-unlawfully-refused-answer-foia-requests

21:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Remso Martinez http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/why-president-cruz-would-be-good-for-liberty/

28:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: New South Wales, Australia (nominated by Nick Sirman) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/would-last-person-sydney-please-turn-lights-out-matt-barrie

This Week’s Quote: “Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” —H.L. Mencken

Bogosity Podcast for 1 February 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 23:00:46 +0000

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

0:30 – Cosplay Goes to the Supreme Court https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/cosplay-goes-to-the-supreme-court/
- Is it illegal for Firefly fans to make and sell Jayne hats? http://grenacia.livejournal.com/167895.html
9:11 – Prosecutors Say Cops Don’t Need Warrants For Stingrays Because ‘Everyone Knows’ Cell Phones Generate Location Data https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160116/09085933354/prosecutors-say-cops-dont-need-warrants-stingrays-because-everyone-knows-cell-phones-generate-location-data.shtml
16:12 – U.S. Air Force Veteran, Smeared as “an ISIS Fighter,” Just Returned to the U.S. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/25/u-s-air-force-veteran-saadiq-long-smeared-as-an-isis-fighter-just-returned-to-the-u-s/

22:48 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Flint, MI (nominated by Blake Pettys)

Flint’s water crisis reveals government failures at every level https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/flints-water-crisis-reveals-government-failures-at-every-level/2016/01/23/03705f0c-c11e-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
Flint residents told that their children could be taken away if they don’t pay for city’s poison water http://www.sott.net/article/310897-Flint-residents-told-that-their-children-could-be-taken-away-if-they-dont-pay-for-citys-poison-water
Flint water victims can’t sue the government. That’s another crime. http://theweek.com/articles/601521/flint-water-victims-cant-sue-government-thats-another-crime
Amid denials, state workers in Flint got clean water http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/01/28/amid-denials-state-workers-flint-got-clean-water/79470650/

37:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Lenovo http://thehackernews.com/2016/01/shareit-file-sharing.html

This Week’s Quote: “At some point, during every stage show I do, I take a sip of water and ask the audience, ‘How’s the water here?’ I haven’t gotten a positive response yet. Not one. Nobody trusts their water supply. Nobody. And that amuses me. Because it means the system is beginning to collapse…I’m glad the water sucks.” —George Carlin

Bogosity Podcast for 25 January 2016

MrBogosity — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:00:36 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas

0:40 – News of the Bogus: Bitcoin Special

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7
Community Disagrees with Mike Hearn, as He Sparks Bitcoin Classic Adoption http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/01/16/mike-hearn-wrong-bitcoin-classic-now/
Gavin Andresen on Twitter: “@binarybits @OctSkyward Yes, Mike is too pessimistic.” https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/687900588210663424
Austin Hill on Twitter: “Bitcoin is not dead,we are going through a similar process that early IETF & ICANN went through” https://twitter.com/austinhill/status/688446351105916929
Bitcoin Blocksize and The Future http://belshe.com/2016/01/18/bitcoin-blocksize-and-the-future/

29:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Joseph I. Cassilly https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160104/07032833235/state-prosecutor-says-forfeiture-reform-is-legislators-funding-drug-dealers.shtml

COLD SHOCK: Warming up your car illegal! http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/cold-shock-warming-up-your-car-illegal/
Kansas Police Ticketing People For ‘Illegally’ Warming Up Their Cars http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=49634

39:21 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Facebook https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160106/06042833250/facebook-nixes-picture-bronze-mermaid-statue-showing-too-much-skin.shtml

An Illustrated History of American Money Design http://gizmodo.com/an-illustrated-history-of-american-money-design-1743743361

This Week’s Quote: “The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” —Tommy Smothers

Bogosity Podcast for 18 January 2016

Sun, 17 Jan 2016 23:00:45 +0000

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 0:33 - In Silk Road Appeal, Ross Ulbricht's Defense Focuses on Corrupt Feds http://www.wired.com/2016/01/ross-ulbrichts-defense-focuses-on-corrupt-feds-in-silk-road-appeal/ 13:18 - Banning GM Salmon Is a Terrible Idea http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/banning-gm-salmon-is-a-terrible-idea/ 23:37 - Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion http://www.wsj.com/articles/price-tag-of-bernie-sanders-proposals-18-trillion-1442271511 28:30 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jeb Bush http://www.businessinsider.com/jeb-bush-cybersecurity-2016-1 37:12 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The Department of Justice http://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/former-drug-kingpin-serving-multiple-life-sentences-receives-additional-20-year This Week's Quote: "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." —Kenneth Boulding

Bogosity Podcast for 11 January 2016

Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:00:35 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche 0:31 - News of the Bogus: The Oregon Protests Militia occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge Eastern Oregon Ranchers Convicted of Arson Resentenced to Five Years in Prison http://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/eastern-oregon-ranchers-convicted-arson-resentenced-five-years-prison Bundy Ranch: NOTICE: Redress of Grievance http://bundyranch.blogspot.com/2015/12/notice-redress-of-grievance-action.html Report opposes firing workers for Los Alamos blaze http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/june01/2001-06-12-los-alamos.htm Oregon Farm Bureau Petition http://www.oregonfb.org/2015/10/05/sign-petition-savethehammonds/ Abbott to BLM: ‘End This Unconscionable Land Grab’ in Texas http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/17/abbott-blm-end-unconscionable-land-grab-texas/ 26:07 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Microsoft http://thehackernews.com/2016/01/microsoft-windows-7.html 33:24 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Hillary Clinton http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3383221/Hillary-Clinton-vows-reveal-truth-UFOs-Area-51-president-Bill-admits-aliens-visited-Earth.html This Week's Quote: "My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliché algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren’t many clichés, the truth is often quite distant from any cliché, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliché....It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think." —Eliezer Yudkowsky

Bogosity Podcast: 2015 Wrap-Up

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:00:38 +0000

2015 Wrap-up: Was 2015 a Bad Year for Campus Free Speech? Let’s Ask the Experts https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/28/was-2015-a-bad-year-for-campus-free-spee 191 million voters’ personal info exposed by misconfigured database http://www.databreaches.net/191-million-voters-personal-info-exposed-by-misconfigured-database/ ‘Chicken pox party’ anti-vaccination mom: ‘Illness is meant to eliminate the weak’ http://deadstate.org/chicken-pox-party-anti-vaccination-mom-illness-is-meant-to-eliminate-the-weak/ TSA to Stop Accepting Driver's Licenses from 9 U.S. States http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-12-30/tsa-to-stop-accepting-drivers-licenses-from-9-us-states Future or Ruin: The Argument for Eugenics | Augustus Sol Invictus https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-ruin-argument-eugenics-augustus-sol Invictus for United States Senate https://imgur.com/ssgSQn7 11 ways to test if libertarians are hypocrites http://www.salon.com/2015/11/30/11_ways_to_test_if_libertarians_are_hypocrites/ Rand Paul is just this desperate: Why his pathetic lies about the safety net are so destructive http://www.salon.com/2015/10/26/rand_paul_is_just_this_desperate_why_his_pathetic_lies_about_the_safety_net_are_so_destructive/ Charles Koch’s brazen lie: I’m not powerful, I’m just a humble “classical liberal”! http://www.salon.com/2015/08/05/charles_kochs_brazen_lie_im_not_powerful_im_just_a_humble_classical_liberal/ I gave up Ayn Rand for Bernie Sanders: How I grew up and traded libertarianism for a progressive “socialist” http://www.salon.com/2015/07/20/why_libertarians_should_love_bernie_sanders/ Rand Paul, dorm room philosopher: Why his “slavery” nonsense is so outrageous http://www.salon.com/2015/07/07/rand_paul_dorm_room_philosopher_why_his_slavery_nonsense_is_so_outrageous/ Libertarianism is for white men: The ugly truth about the right’s favorite movement http://www.salon.com/2015/06/10/why_libertarianism_is_so_popular_on_the_right_its_the_last_bastion_of_white_male_dominance/ Elon Musk will not save us: Why libertarians waiting for a superman are wasting everyone’s time http://www.salon.com/2015/05/28/elon_musk_will_not_save_us_why_libertarians_waiting_for_a_superman_are_wasting_everyones_time/ Rise of the techno-Libertarians: The 5 most socially destructive aspects of Silicon Valley http://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/rise_of_the_techno_libertarians_the_5_most_socially_destructive_aspects_of_silicon_valley_partner/ "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." —Clarence Darrow

Bogosity Podcast for 14 December 2015

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:00:51 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:34 - The No Fly List Isn't Just Broken, It's Insane. You Must Read This Before You Talk About Gun Control. http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2015/12/07/42000/ Dem governor moves to ban no-fly list gun sales http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/262797-dem-governor-moves-to-ban-no-fly-list-gun-sales 8:06 - France is considering a ban on Tor and public WiFi http://www.businessinsider.com/france-is-considering-a-ban-on-tor-and-public-wifi-2015-12 12:06 - Venezuela's opposition wins legislative majority http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/07/venezuela-opposition-victory/76909468/ 16:03 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Robert Reich http://robertreich.org/post/134670682190 26:47 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Vandana Shiva, Ronnie Cummins, et al http://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/2015/12/07/no-monsanto-is-not-going-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity/ This Week's Quote: "Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all." —Lois Lowry

Bogosity Podcast for 7 December 2015

Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:00:12 +0000

Co-Host: Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Italy's earthquake scientists have been cleared for good http://www.sciencealert.com/italy-s-earthquake-scientists-have-been-cleared-for-good 4:13 - "New York Is A City Of No": Why One Bakery Is Trading Brooklyn For Baltimore http://gothamist.com/2015/11/20/robicelli_bakery_nyc_struggle.php 12:44 - Drone Strikes Fuel the Hatred that Led to Paris Attacks, Ex-Drone Pilots Say http://motherboard.vice.com/read/drone-strikes-fuel-the-hatred-that-led-to-paris-attacks-ex-drone-pilots-say 21:39 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Manhattan District Attorney http://manhattanda.org/sites/default/files/11.18.15%20Report%20on%20Smartphone%20Encryption%20and%20Public%20Safety.pdf 33:25 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Clare Foges http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/12008689/Why-is-Silicon-Valley-helping-the-tech-savvy-jihadists.html This Week's Quote: "The people who are speaking best to this are the psychologists who look at what it is like to live under constant gaze, or under the threat of constant gaze...it makes you different. It makes you more conformist. It makes you less willing to think new thoughts, to try new ideas. It stagnates society...Any social change you look at, whether it's civil rights or marijuana legalization, whatever your issue is, it starts by people at this end where it is socially unacceptable doing it and having it be okay. And then it spreads slowly. Ubiquitous surveillance at this end stops that process cold." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 23 November 2015

Sun, 22 Nov 2015 23:00:46 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Here is ISIS's statement claiming responsibility for the Paris attacks http://www.vox.com/2015/11/14/9734794/isis-claim-paris-statement French oppose military intervention in Syria and don't trust Francois Hollande to carry it out http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10278076/French-oppose-military-intervention-in-Syria-and-dont-trust-Francois-Hollande-to-carry-it-out.html NOP Poll of British Muslims http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/291 As Predicted: Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (?!?) For The Paris Attacks https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151115/23360632822/as-predicted-encryption-haters-are-already-blaming-snowden-paris-attacks.shtml Paris Terrorists Use Double ROT-13 Encryption https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_terrorist.html Paris attacks: CIA's John Brennan says there had been 'strategic warning' of Paris attack http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/paris-attack-warning-cia-john-brennan-215922 In a crisis, people will believe the worst about Uber http://qz.com/550415/in-a-crisis-people-will-believe-the-worst-about-uber/ What's Going On With The Protests At The University Of Missouri? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/protests-university-of-missouri_56401af5e4b0307f2cade647 Black Activists Double Down on Hate with #F***Paris Hashtag - Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/15/black-activist-double-white-hate-fparis-hashtag/ Black Son of a MULTIMILLIONAIRE, STILL the SJW victim! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phA_mGxR4-A CNN New Day Saturday - Tom Fuentes https://iqmediacorp.com/ClipPlayer/?ClipID=0d0e5a03-1bd4-450f-9834-8b8099d98d78 31:29 - A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-decade-into-a-project-to-digitize-us-immigration-forms-just-1-is-online/2015/11/08/f63360fc-830e-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html 35:00 - Martel Police Body Camera Virus Found Embedded into Camera http://www.goipower.com/?pageId=40 38:39 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anne Frank Fonds https://torrentfreak.com/anne-frank-scandal-an-underreported-copyright-monopoly-abuse-151115/ Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was "co-author," extends copyright by decades http://boingboing.net/2015/11/14/copyfraud-anne-frank-foundati.html Anne Frank gets co-author to extend copyright http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Anne-Frank-gets-co-author-to-extend-copyright-434409 Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. http://hpmor.com/ BlameThe1st | FanFiction https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6244873/BlameThe1st 49:41 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Klein Collins High School http://www.houstonpress.com/news/drug-test-proves-high-school-girl-wasnt-high-school-suspends-her-anyway-7926436 This Week's Quote: "Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen—the Internet—has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology." —Lawrence Lessig

Bogosity Podcast for 16 November 2015

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:00:26 +0000

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 2:46 - Leaked Comcast Docs Confirm What Everybody Knew: Broadband Usage Caps Are About Profit, Not Congestion https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151108/11154432757/leaked-comcast-docs-confirm-what-everybody-knew-broadband-usage-caps-are-about-profit-not-congestion.shtml 9:03 - Classified Report on the C.I.A.’s Secret Prisons Is Caught in Limbo http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/classified-report-on-the-cias-secret-prisons-is-caught-in-limbo.html 14:00 - FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html 27:53 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/08/hillary-clinton-most-charter-schools-dont-take-the-hardest-to-teach-kids-or-if-they-do-they-dont-keep-them/ National Alliance Releases Statement in Response to Secretary Clinton’s Comments About Charter Schools http://www.publiccharters.org/press/national-alliance-releases-statement-response-secretary-clintons-comments-charter-schools/ 40:36 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article44080464.html This Week's Quote: "More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 9 November 2015

Sun, 08 Nov 2015 23:00:40 +0000

Co-Host: Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 0:33 - Kim Dotcom Finally Launches Extradition Defense https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-finally-launches-extradition-defense-151102/ 8:37 - Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html 'Govt will not pass laws to ban encryption' – Baroness Shields http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/28/government_will_not_pass_laws_to_ban_encryption_says_baroness_shields/ X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack http://www.wired.com/2015/10/x-ray-scans-expose-an-ingenious-chip-and-pin-card-hack/ 22:23 - DOD’S Compressed Natural Gas Filling Station In Afghanistan: An Ill-Conceived $43 Million Project https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/special%20projects/SIGAR-16-2-SP.pdf 29:02 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Environmentalists http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/canadian-researcher-targeted-by-hate-campaign-over-fukushima-findings/article27060613/ 34:12 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Simon Maloy http://www.salon.com/2015/11/03/charles_kochs_power_trip_billionaire_libertarian_sees_no_problem_in_buying_the_sort_of_government_he_prefers/ This Week's Quote: "The energy potentially available to us is for all practical purposes unlimited; but access to it is blocked. It is blocked, above all, by anti-technology sentiment, environmental paranoia, and interference in natural markets. Beyond these obstacles, there is little that science and technology cannot eventually overcome. We further believe that pollution and destruction of the environment is not an essential by product of technology; on the contrary, more science and better technology are needed to keep the environment clean." —Petr Beckmann

Bogosity Podcast for 2 November 2015

Sun, 01 Nov 2015 23:00:54 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - Bacon Causes Cancer? Sort of. Not Really. Ish. http://www.wired.com/2015/10/who-does-bacon-cause-cancer-sort-of-but-not-really/ 4:56 - Court: Your Fourth And Fifth Amendment Rights No Longer Exist If You Leave The Country https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151025/09565232619/court-your-fourth-fifth-amendment-rights-no-longer-exist-if-you-leave-country.shtml 9:28 - CIA chief 'outraged' by personal email hack https://news.yahoo.com/cia-chief-outraged-personal-email-hack-141140389.html 12:25 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The US Department of Justice https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151024/04573732612/doj-claims-apple-should-be-forced-to-decrypt-iphones-because-it-customers-only-license-operating-system.shtml 20:52 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The New York Times https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/27/new-york-times-nail-salon-unvarnished How The New York Times' Flawed Reporting on Nail Salons Closed Opportunities For Undocumented Immigrants (Part 2) https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/28/new-york-times-nir-nail-undocumented The New York Times Says Working in Nail Salons Causes Cancer and Miscarriages. The Evidence Says Otherwise. (Part 3) https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/29/nail-salon-health-cancer-miscarriage-nir This Week's Quote: "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." —Mark Twain

Bogosity Podcast for 26 October 2015

Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:00:52 +0000

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 0:31 - The Drone Papers https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ 14:15 - Students: Transgender Woman Can't Be Diversity Officer Because She's a White Man Now http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390425/students-transgender-woman-cant-be-diversity-officer-because-shes-white-man-now 17:48 - Musician Demands Google, Major Labels Pay Him $325 Million For Removing Videos He Paid $30 To Upload To Vevo https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151010/13402432497/musician-demands-google-major-labels-pay-him-325-million-removing-videos-he-paid-30-to-upload-to-vevo.shtml 25:41 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sheldon Whitehouse https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151021/15335432591/sheldon-whitehouse-freaks-out-blames-pro-botnet-lobby-rejecting-his-terrible-cfaa-amendment.shtml 31:54 - Idiot Extraordinaire: CNN (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-poll/ Online media vs online polls http://nativenews.tumblr.com/post/131163537671/edieismene-online-media-vs-online-polls Sanders Won All Major Polls, But Corp Media Declared http://www.drudge.com/news/192379/sanders-won-all-major-polls-but-corp-media Fuming Bernie supporters: Why is CNN deleting our comments? http://mediaequalizer.com/brian-maloney/2015/10/fuming-bernie-supporters-why-is-cnn-deleting-our-comments This Week's Quote: "You now have two distinct ways of gathering information beyond what you yourself can experience. One of them is less a medium than an environment—the Internet—with a huge multiplicity of points of view, lots of different ways to find out what's going on in the world...a cacophony of viewpoints that doesn't have any political coherence at all, a beautiful melee, but it doesn't have the capacity to create large blocs of belief. The other medium, TV, has a...very uniform belief block. TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob." —John Perry Barlow

Bogosity Podcast for 19 October 2015

Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:00:50 +0000

Co-Host: Jakob Morris 0:27 - Update: LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/10/lastpass-joins-logmein.html/ News of the Bogus: 3:51 - Online Piracy Drops in Australia, Thanks to Netflix https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-drops-in-australia-netflix-151014/ 9:38 - California nixes warrantless search of digital data https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/10/13/california-nixes-warrantless-search-of-digital-data/ 14:41 - CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-aclu 22:29 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: James Comey https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151011/21185732508/james-comey-says-dozens-terrorists-have-eluded-fbi-thanks-to-encryption.shtml 25:51 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ben Carson http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/ben-carson-brain-surgeon-or-brain-addled/ 37:38 - Tag: PredictIt | Who will win the 2016 U.S. presidential election? https://www.predictit.org/Market/1234/Who-will-win-the-2016-US-presidential-election This Week's Quote: "Some might say 'I don't care if they violate my privacy; I've got nothing to hide.' Help them understand that they are misunderstanding the fundamental nature of human rights. Nobody needs to justify why they 'need' a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right...Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." —Edward Snowden

Bogosity Podcast for 12 October 2015

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:00:38 +0000

Co-Host: Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentence http://motherboard.vice.com/read/unsealed-transcript-shows-how-a-judge-justified-ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence 15:02 - Doctors Without Borders wants airstrike inquiry http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/asia/doctors-without-borders-afghanistan-airstrike/ Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth time in four days http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again 21:48 - Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates At HLS, a conference on the free market mindset http://today.law.harvard.edu/at-hls-a-conference-on-the-free-market-mindset/ 27:44 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Doug Saffir http://ctboom.com/connecticut-cracking-down-on-e-cigarettes-but-not-quite-enough/ 34:50 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Francisco Rangel http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2015/10/02/venezuelan-governor-suggests-eating-fried-rocks-amid-shortages/ This Week's Quote: "Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be...Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself—educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society." —Doris Lessing

Bogosity Podcast for 5 October 2015

Sun, 04 Oct 2015 22:00:42 +0000

Co-Host: Dave Turcotte News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Libertarian and Green parties sue the Commission on Presidential Debates for a spot on the stage http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/29/libertarian-and-green-parties-sue-commission-presi/ 8:47 - New Jersey High Court Rolls Back State Standard for Warrantless Car Searches http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/09/25/new-jersey-high-court-rolls-back-state-standard-for-warrantless-car-searches/ 15:03 - Zuckerberg reassures Merkel on hate speech http://www.thelocal.de/20150928/zuckerberg-promises-merkel-hell-fight-hate-comments Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn and more take aim at cyber harassment against women in new report http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/25/9399169/united-nations-women-cyber-violence-anita-sarkeesian-zoe-quinn Woman Falsely Accuses Man of Rape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zQAnIpdvs Biurny Gonzalez Pleads Guilty to Perjury in Rape Charge http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/nyregion/08freed.html Black policeman protects KKK members https://kindnessblogdotcom1.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/1983-e28093-austin-texas-this-policeman-protects-kkk-members-during-a-rally-as-protestors-were-closing-in-on-them.jpg 25:25 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Toronto Sun https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150925/11322732361/toronto-sun-we-value-criticism-voice-reader-so-much-were-killing-both.shtml 34:43 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Laurent Fabius http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/apocalypse-watch-504-days-and-no-climate-chaos/ This Week's Quote: "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." —Mark Twain 43:10 - Tag: The Superplex Bros http://superplexbros.com/review-super-mario-bros-nintendo-entertainment-system/

Bogosity Podcast for 28 September 2015

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:00:13 +0000

Update: 0:24 - All the 'Happy Birthday' song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html News of the Bogus: 1:34 - Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim Dotcom https://torrentfreak.com/presidential-candidate-lawrence-lessig-steps-up-to-assist-kim-dotcom-150916/ Kim Dotcom case is ’simple fraud’, court told http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/24/kim-dotcom-case-is-simple-court-told U.S. Uncovers Kim Dotcom's Self-incriminating Skype Calls https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-uncovers-kim-dotcoms-self-incriminating-skype-calls-150924/ 7:26 - TSA Doesn’t Care That Its Luggage Locks Have Been Hacked https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/tsa-doesnt-really-care-luggage-locks-hacked/ Obama faces growing momentum to support widespread encryption https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-trade-agencies-push-to-disavow-law-requiring-decryption-of-phones/2015/09/16/1fca5f72-5adf-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html 13:11 - George W. Bush Tried To Retroactively Declare Illegal, Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance Legal, Because He Said So https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150921/11301932319/george-w-bush-tried-to-retroactively-declare-illegal-unconstitutional-nsa-surveillance-legal-because-he-said-so.shtml 17:18 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: NYPD Union President Patrick J. Lynch http://www.capitalnewyork.com/sites/default/files/PatLynchLetter1.pdf 22:05 - Idiot Extraordinaire: PETA https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150922/11063332329/monkey-business-peta-sues-behalf-monkey-selfie-claims-copyright-belongs-to-monkey.shtml This Week's Quote: "When we've got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we'll realize that we're no longer citizens—we're subjects." —Edward Snowden

Bogosity Podcast for 21 September 2015

Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:00:58 +0000

Co-host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 0:30 - First Library To Support Tor Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150910/13090332217/first-library-to-support-tor-anonymous-internet-browsing-effort-stops-after-dhs-email.shtml New Hampshire Library Rejects DHS Fearmongering, Turns Tor Back On https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150915/23161932266/new-hampshire-library-rejects-dhs-fearmongering-turns-tor-back.shtml 9:53 - The FCC Imposes Netflix’s Broadband Policy http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fcc-imposes-netflixs-broadband-policy-1441149876 18:47 - U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/us-drops-charges-that-professor-shared-technology-with-china.html 24:59 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: GCHQ http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/stop-using-difficulttoguess-passwords-uks-spying-agency-gchq-recommends-10497048.html 34:04 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (nominated by Travis Retriever) https://theintercept.com/2015/09/15/richard-glossip-set-to-die/ Richard Glossip Stay Of Execution Dismissed http://news.sky.com/story/1553236/richard-glossip-stay-of-execution-dismissed Richard Glossip Execution Is Halted by Oklahoma Court http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/richard-glossip-execution-oklahoma.html This Week's Quote: "The day is coming when we will be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that we've executed an innocent person. On that day, we're all murderers." —Penn Jillette

Bogosity Podcast for 14 September 2015

Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:00:33 +0000

Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte, Matt Page, and Jeremiah Harding IP Special: The Superplex Bros vs. Teespring http://superplexbros.com/superplex-bros-vs-teespring-the-complete-story/ T-Shirts, The Superplex Bros https://www.teepublic.com/show/281387-the-superplex-bros-german-suplex-shirt File:Nintendo.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo.svg Wikipedia:Public domain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain#Fonts_and_typefaces 12:19 - WordPress Adds Subaru to Takedown "Hall of Shame" https://torrentfreak.com/wordpress-adds-subaru-to-takedown-hall-of-shame-150908/ 22:14 - Getty Images Tries To Copyright Troll 2600 Magazine Over Content It Has No Copyright Over https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150908/18123432199/getty-images-tries-to-copyright-troll-2600-magazine-over-content-it-has-no-copyright-over.shtml This Week's Quote: "Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 7 September 2015

Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:00:59 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 1:07 - US Govt. Denies Responsibility for Megaupload's Servers https://torrentfreak.com/us-govt-denies-responsibility-for-megauploads-servers-150901/ 7:10 - What reporter Will Ockenden's metadata reveals about his life http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/metadata-what-you-found-will-ockenden/6703626 13:42 - Video Game Developers Face the Final Boss: The FDA http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/video-game-developers-face-final-boss-the-fda/ 21:53 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Konami (nominatd by Dave Turcotte) http://ps4daily.com/2015/09/kojima-retweets-fan-made-mgs-5-pic-konami-files-copyright-claim/ 危ない Wolf on Twitter: "la li lu le lo ! @Kojima_Hideo @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN made by the amazing ❤ @DesertmanDrake https://twitter.com/all_snake/status/638215295396655104 Everything The Same Is Infringing: How Hugh Hefner Used Mario Bros. To Show YouTube's Copyright System Sucks https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150831/05364632117/everything-same-is-infringing-how-hugh-hefner-used-mario-bros-to-show-youtubes-copyright-system-sucks.shtml 26:23 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Cumberland County, NC Sheriff's Office http://reason.com/blog/2015/09/02/teen-boy-will-be-charged-as-adult-for-ha This Week's Quote: "Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." —Mark Twain

Bogosity Podcast for 31 August 2015

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 22:00:16 +0000

Co-Host: Travis Retriever Special Appearance By Dave Turcotte News of the Bogus: 0:31 - At Virginia shooting, NRA, where were good guys? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-virginia-tv-crew-shooting-huppke-20150826-story.html Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/ 19:24 - Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/google-ordered-to-remove-links-to-stories-about-google-removing-links-to-stories/ Google Disappears Techdirt Article About Right To Be Forgotten Due To Right To Be Forgotten Request https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150824/13495432050/google-disappears-techdirt-article-about-right-to-be-forgotten-due-to-right-to-be-forgotten-request.shtml As Part Of Its War On Encryption, Russia Briefly Blocks All Of Wikipedia Over One Weed Reference https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150814/07293231941/as-part-war-encryption-russia-briefly-blocks-all-wikipedia-over-one-weed-reference.shtml 27:11 - Government Dismisses Its Case After Warrantless Airport Laptop Search http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/government-dismisses-its-case-after-88947/ 30:51 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Twitter https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150824/11143432048/twitters-excuse-shutting-down-services-that-highlight-deleted-politicians-tweets-is-painfully-ridiculous.shtml 35:02 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Eskow http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20150821 How To Argue For Immigration Restrictions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0mx-uGH_HA This Week's Quote: "Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate." —George Santayana

Bogosity Podcast for 24 August 2015

Sun, 23 Aug 2015 22:00:09 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:34 - Don’t gloat about the Ashley Madison leak. It’s about way more than infidelity. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/19/dont-gloat-about-the-ashley-madison-leak-its-about-way-more-than-infidelity/ The Day Someone Signed Me Up For An Ashley Madison Account (That Day Would Be Yesterday) https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150820/16523632021/day-someone-signed-me-up-ashley-madison-account-that-day-would-be-yesterday.shtml 7:56 - EU 'spends £500m a year promoting itself' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11795146/EU-spends-500m-a-year-promoting-itself.html 16:48 - Spanish woman fined for posting picture of police parked in disabled bay http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/16/spanish-woman-fined-gagging-law-photographing-police 23:24 - Why Is Chelsea Manning Prohibited From Having Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair Issue & The Senate Torture Report? https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/why-chelsea-manning-prohibited-having-caitlyn-jenners-vanity-fair-issue-senate 30:58 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2015/07/21/sweden-democrats-plan-gay-pride-parade-through-muslim-areas-leftists-and-gay-rights-groups-decry-the-parade-as-racist/ 37:13 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Blech http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/how-not-to-start-an-encryption-company/ This Week's Quote: "Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 17 August 2015

Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:00:34 +0000

Co-Host: Alex Fauble News of the Bogus: 0:36 - “...no one can hack my mind”: Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/soups2015/soups15-paper-ion.pdf 13:06 - Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn't Exist http://www.businessinsider.com/gluten-sensitivity-and-study-replication-2014-5 19:42 - Hillary Clinton Keeps Making Untrue Claims About Her Use of a Private Email Server http://reason.com/blog/2015/08/12/hillary-clinton-keeps-making-untrue-clai 27:45 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Oracle http://archive.bogosity.tv/no-you-really-cant-mary-ann-davidson-blog.html 38:08 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Scotland http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/09/scotland-to-issue-formal-ban-on-genetically-modified-crops This Week's Quote: "I now say that the world has the technology—either available or well advanced in the research pipeline—to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called 'organic' methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot." —Norman Borlaug

Bogosity Podcast for 10 August 2015

Sun, 09 Aug 2015 22:00:19 +0000

Co-Host: Jim Goebel News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Why A $70,000 Minimum Salary Isn't Enough For Gravity Payments http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidburkus/2015/08/02/why-a-70000-minimum-salaries-isnt-enough-for-gravity-payments/ 9:45 - Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionals join forces in SD, OK http://www.oppositionnews.org/articles/2015/q3/libertarians-greens-constitutionals-join-forces-sd-ok/ Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR) https://www.facebook.com/okvoterchoice 24:00 - He Beat the IRS in Court, But They Still Won't Make Him Whole http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/he-beat-the-irs-in-court-but-they-wont-make-him-whole 34:53 - Bad Arguments for Socialized Medicine: American Lifespan Statistics Edition https://mpalumbo.liberty.me/bad-socialized-medicine-arguments-american-lifespan-statistics/ 43:06 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/13/in-economic-address-hillary-clinton-calls-out-gig-economy.html 51:57 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/08/03/venezuelan-president-blames-us-for-supermarket-riot-that-left-one-dead/ Amid Shortages, Venezuela Forces All Food Distribution into State Hands http://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/07/23/amid-shortages-venezuela-forces-all-food-distribution-into-state-hands/ This Week's Quote: "Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." —T.S. Eliot

Bogosity Podcast for 3 August 2015

Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:00:27 +0000

Co-Host: Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Happy Birthday Copyright Bombshell: New Evidence Warner Music Previously Hid Shows Song Is Public Domain https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150727/16042931768/happy-birthday-copyright-bombshell-new-evidence-warner-music-previously-hid-shows-song-is-public-domain.shtml 10:50 - Judge on DRM: Non-Pirates May Hack Away http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70487.html 24:37 - Silk Road heroin dealer who helped convict Ulbricht will serve 2.5 years http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/07/silk-road-heroin-dealer-who-helped-convict-ulbricht-will-serve-2-5-years/ Kangaroo court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_court 29:31 - Government Ruins the Dishwasher (Again) http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/government-ruins-the-dishwasher-again 41:52 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Lisa Monaco (nominated by Dallas Wildman) https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/edward-snowden 49:38 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Marie Lodi http://jezebel.com/is-office-air-conditioning-a-sexist-conspiracy-1719883384 57:58 - Tag: Erin Pizzey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Pizzey This Week's Quote: “The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.” —Lori Ziganto

Bogosity Podcast for 17 July 2015

Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:00:35 +0000

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 0:40 - After Five Years, Dodd-Frank Is a Failure http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-five-years-dodd-frank-is-a-failure-1437342607 11:46 - Experian Hit With Class Action Over ID Theft Service — Krebs on Security http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/experian-hit-with-class-action-over-id-theft-service/ 19:45 - Researcher Receives Copyright Threat After Exposing Security Hole https://torrentfreak.com/researcher-receives-copyright-threat-after-exposing-security-hole-150715/ 27:50 - Errata Security: My BIS/Wassenaar comment http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/07/my-biswassenaar-comment.html Wassenaar Arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement 36:42 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: University Of Toronto http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/university-toronto-teaches-students-cancer-good 46:48 - Idiot Extraordinaire: U.S. National Institutes of Health http://freebeacon.com/issues/taxpayers-have-now-spent-3-5-million-to-find-out-why-lesbians-are-obese/ Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat http://dev.cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-15-million-study-why-lesbians-are-fat This Week's Quote: "Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money’s worth, except for these." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bogosity Podcast for 20 July 2015

Sun, 19 Jul 2015 22:00:04 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:57 - MPAA Wants to Kill Domain Name Privacy, For Some https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-wants-to-kill-domain-name-privacy-for-some-150709/ CloudFlare Forced to Censor Anti-Censorship Site https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-forced-to-censor-anti-censorship-site-150710/ 9:45 - Bogus "Copyright Trademark" Complaint Fails to Censor the BBC https://torrentfreak.com/bogus-copyright-trademark-complaint-fails-to-censor-the-bbc-150712/ 15:51 - Hacking Team Shows the World How Not to Stockpile Exploits http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hacking-team-shows-world-not-stockpile-exploits/ Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/08/hacking-team-emails-exposed-death-squad-uk-spying/ Hacking Team Email Jokes About Killing ACLU's Chris Soghoian https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/09/hacking-team-employee-jokes-assassinating-aclu-technologist-christopher-soghoian/ Hacking Team used shockingly bad passwords http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-wonder-hacking-team-got-hacked/ 26:26 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The US Energy Information Administration http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/07/study-wind-farms-even-more-expensive-and-pointless-than-you-thought/ 34:50 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/27/revealed-tsas-closely-held-behavior-checklist-spot-terrorists/ This Week's Quote: "We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 13 July 2015

Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:00:56 +0000

Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Dept. Of Defense Defends Strong Encryption While Its Impetuous Child -- The NSA -- Continues To Lament The Coming Darkness https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150703/14441931535/dept-defense-defends-strong-encryption-while-impetuous-child-nsa-continues-to-lament-coming-darkness.shtml Computer Security Experts Release Report Slamming Proposals To Backdoor Encryption, As FBI Makes Latest Push https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150707/16415031577/computer-security-experts-release-report-slamming-proposals-to-backdoor-encryption-as-fbi-makes-latest-push.shtml 14:05 - FBI & Homeland Security Now 0 For 41 In Predicting Imminent Terrorist Attacks On The US https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150706/23473631567/fbi-homeland-security-now-0-41-predicting-imminent-terrorist-attacks-us.shtml 21:08 - What the 2004 Athens Olympics venues look like today http://www.businessinsider.com/2004-athens-olympics-venues-today-2015-7 2022 Olympics Host Cities Dropping Out http://www.businessinsider.com/2022-olympics-host-cities-2014-5 28:00 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2015/07/02/sen-baldwin-1st-amendment-doesnt-apply-individuals 35:54 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Si Robertson http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/duck-dynasty-star-si-robertson-atheists-dont-exist-because-they-use-calendars/ This Week's Quote: "Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." —John Perry Barlow

Bogosity Podcast for 6 July 2015 – Aftershow

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 22:00:22 +0000

Miscellaneous things we talked about when recording the 6 July 2015 podcast, including more about how diseases are idiotically portrayed on TV, why going with alt-med is a bad idea, Apple vs. Microsoft (or, Why They Both Suck), why smartphones and tablets are more secure, and products that should not be named "Trojan."

Bogosity Podcast for 6 July 2015

Sun, 05 Jul 2015 22:00:20 +0000

Co-Hosts: Travis Retriever and Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 1:03 - An American Has Died From Measles for the First Time Since 2003 http://io9.com/an-american-has-died-of-measles-for-the-first-time-sinc-1715486613 15:47 - BBC sets up list of news article links ‘forgotten’ by Google https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/30/bbc-sets-up-list-of-news-article-links-forgotten-by-google/ 21:32 - Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/22/major-internet-providers-slowing-traffic-speeds 30:25 - French Taxis Go to War with Uber, Hold Courtney Love Hostage; French Government Surrenders Immediately http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/french-taxis-go-to-war-with-uber-hold-clients-hostage-french-government-surrenders-immediately https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/614018463099568129 https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/614022179978502146 https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/614023592871723009 https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/614033151984205824 https://instagram.com/p/4WhTRrtVGz/ https://instagram.com/p/4Wk7V4tVMv/ As Uber Crackdown In France Continues, Uber Downloads In France Reach Record Highs https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150630/10493231503/as-uber-crackdown-france-continues-uber-downloads-france-reach-record-highs.shtml Uber downloads in France hit all-time high after strike http://fortune.com/2015/06/30/uber-downloads-in-france-hit-all-time-high-after-strike/ 43:12 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Christopher Cantwell http://christophercantwell.com/2015/06/29/so-you-think-that-rainbow-makes-you-look-cool/ 51:10 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Samsung https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/25/8844819/samsung-disable-windows-update-exe Samsung to stop Windows Update shenanigans http://www.computerworld.com/article/2941341/security0/samsung-to-stop-windows-update-shenanigans.html This Week's Quote: "Competition is merely the absence of oppression." —Frédéric Bastiat

Bogosity Catch-Up Podcast – 30 June 2015

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:09:07 +0000

In the two-week hiatus for the Bogosity podcast, a lot has happened, so we had a Hangout to catch up on all the news and bogosity we've missed. Regular podcasts will resume next week. News of the Bogus: LastPass Security Notice | The LastPass Blog https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.html/ Bad news! LastPass breached. Good news! You should be OK… https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/16/bad-news-lastpass-breached-good-news-you-should-be-ok Officials: Second hack exposed military and intel data http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d842d757851b4a59aca2aecf2f31995a/union-says-all-federal-workers-fell-victim-hackers The US agency plundered by Chinese hackers made one of the dumbest security moves possible http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-agency-plundered-by-chinese-hackers-made-one-of-the-dumbest-security-moves-possible-2015-6 The Supreme Court: Obergefell v. Hodges: In historic decision, Court strikes down state bans on same-sex marriage http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/in-historic-decision-court-strikes-down-state-bans-on-same-sex-marriage-in-plain-english/ Rand Paul Would Rather End Marriage Than Share It With Gay People http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/06/29/rand_paul_s_plan_to_get_around_legal_gay_marriage_end_government_issued.html New Math Property: The Domino Theory http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=315.msg29824#msg29824 Supreme Court Gay-Marriage Ruling Comes as City Pride Weekend Begins http://www.wsj.com/articles/from-city-hall-to-stonewall-new-yorkers-cheer-supreme-court-gay-marriage-ruling-1435337077 That Guy T https://www.facebook.com/ThatLibertarianT/posts/1583216541942197 King v. Burwell: Court backs Obama administration on health-care subsidies http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/court-backs-obama-administration-on-health-care-subsidies-in-plain-english/ Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores Inc.: Victory for religious rights in the workplace http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/victory-for-religious-rights-in-the-workplace-in-plain-englis Horne v. Department of Agriculture: Supreme Court Rules 8-1: Government Has to Pay You If It Steals Your Stuff https://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/supreme-court-government-has-to-pay-if-it-takes-your-stuff Opinion analysis: Is the New Deal in new trouble? http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/opinion-analysis-is-the-new-deal-in-new-trouble/ No, Dylann Roof Didn't Arm Himself Through a 'Legal Loophole' https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/19/no-dylann-roof-didnt-arm-himself-through Bird Flu Sends Egg Prices Up, but Slowing Demand Prevents Shortages - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/business/bird-flu-sends-egg-prices-up-but-slowing-demand-prevents-shortages.html News sites can be held responsible for user comments https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/18/news-sites-can-be-held-responsible-for-user-comments/ Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Sunday Times https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/ Errata Security: How we really know the Sunday Times story is bogus http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/how-we-really-know-sunday-times-story.html Idiot Extraordinaire: Politic365 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/17/media-outlet-communities-color-lashes-solar-power/ This Week's Quote: "We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. The government has been paying farmers not to grow food...Labor unions, business and government conspire to hold back [technology]...The utilities advertise continually that "solar power is at least forty years in the future"...These propaganda advertisements are just a delaying action, because the utilities still haven't figured out how to put a meter between us and the sun." —Robert Anton Wilson

Bogosity Podcast for 15 June 2015

Sun, 14 Jun 2015 22:00:50 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 1:30 - Office of Personnel Management didn't encrypt feds' data hacked by Chinese http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/personal-data-of-4-million-federal-employees-hacked-118655.html Federal Data Breach: Can the Government Protect Itself From Hackers? http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/federal-data-breach-can-government-protect-itself-hackers-n370556 8:00 - Department Of Justice Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com https://popehat.com/2015/06/08/department-of-justice-uses-grand-jury-subpoena-to-identify-anonymous-commenters-on-a-silk-road-post-at-reason-com/ 15:49 - According To The Government, Clearing Your Browser History Is A Felony https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150606/16191831259/according-to-government-clearing-your-browser-history-is-felony.shtml 23:05 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Lily Goldberg http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/why-are-there-fewer-libertarian-women-because-anarchist-men-are-disgusting/ The Anarcho-Capitalists Are Right About Everything, But I Still Won’t Sleep With Them http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/the-anarcho-capitalists-are-right-about-everything-but-i-still-wont-sleep-with-them/ 32:28 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Bernie Sanders http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/26/sorry-bernie-sanders-deodorant-isnt-starving-americas-children/ This Week's Quote: “When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.” —Stefan Molyneux

Bogosity Podcast for 8 June 2015

Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:00:07 +0000

Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 0:33 - Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-life-prison/ Errata Security: Ulbricht's judge punished him for political dissent; you should find this outrageous http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/some-notes-about-ulbricht-verdict.html Why Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentence Is A Miscarriage Of Justice http://theantimedia.org/ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence/ 15:00 - Obama Administration Files Totally Clueless Argument Concerning Software Copyrights In Supreme Court Case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama-administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning-software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml 25:21 - I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How. http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800 xkcd: Significant https://xkcd.com/882/ Chocolate consumption and risk of diabetes mellitus in the Physicians’ Health Study http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/101/2/362.abstract Dietary Intake of Saturated Fat Is Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Events or Mortality in Patients with Established Coronary Artery Disease http://jn.nutrition.org/content/145/2/299.abstract 38:21 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Los Angeles Labor unions http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/05/27/los_angeles_15_minimum_wage_labor_unions_want_to_be_exempt_from_it.html 45:02 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/understanding-tsa-math.html How The TSA Let Through So Many Explosives - CONAN on TBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5JZyrcU0g This Week's Quote: "At $8 billion per year, the TSA is the most expensive theatrical production in history." —David Burge

Bogosity Podcast for 1 June 2015

Sun, 31 May 2015 22:00:40 +0000

Co-Host: Jim Goebel News of the Bogus: 0:32 - APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000 http://bigstory.ap.org/article/34539a748b3745ffb92451472f814ffa/apnewsbreak-irs-says-thieves-stole-tax-info-100000 13:17 - Surgery-bot can be hacked to HACK YOU TO PIECES http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/28/packet_of_death_how_to_crash_a_surgical_robot/ 19:32 - How Movie Studios Exploit Video on Demand Services http://torrentfreak.com/how-movie-studios-exploit-video-on-demand-services-150524/ 34:16 - Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t: #Gamergate's Well-Paid Talking Heads https://archive.is/QERdD 50:42 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tegiminis http://simplikation.com/why-sealioning-is-bad/ 1:02:57 - Silver Cluon Award: "This is how gerrymandering works" http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/2xgqss/this_is_how_gerrymandering_works/ This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/01/this-is-the-best-explanation-of-gerrymandering-you-will-ever-see/ America’s most gerrymandered congressional districts http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/americas-most-gerrymandered-congressional-districts/ 5 Ways U.S. Democracy Is More Rigged Than You Think http://www.cracked.com/article_20705_5-ways-u.s.-democracy-more-rigged-than-you-think.html Strike While the Ire is Hot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_eiUWKU3E 1:15:19 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Attorney: Spy chief had 'forgotten' about NSA program when he misled Congress http://thehill.com/policy/technology/241508-spy-head-had-absolutely-forgotten-about-nsa-program This Week's Quote: "Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it." —Edward Snowden

Bogosity Podcast for 25 May 2015

Sun, 24 May 2015 22:00:07 +0000

The Co-Hosts Take Over! With Chris Hangartner, Jonathan Loesche, Jakob Morris, Travis Retriever, Charles Thomas, and Dave Turcotte News of the Bogus: 2:25 - Rand Paul stages filibuster for Patriot Act: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/21/408417139/sen-rand-paul-stages-filibuster-to-protest-patriot-act Edward Snowden praises Rand Paul: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-21/edward-snowden-praises-rand-paul-s-anti-patriot-act-filibuster- 11:20 - GM claims it owns your car: http://consumerist.com/2015/05/20/gm-that-car-you-bought-were-really-the-ones-who-own-it/ 17:48 - Richland's $4.1 million dollar police station paid for through civil forfeiture: http://watchdog.org/218867/civil-forfeiture/ 27:11 - Washington Post lies about Amtrak: http://thefederalist.com/2015/05/13/why-is-the-washington-posts-philip-bump-lying-to-readers-about-amtrak/ 39:46 - Boondoggle HQ: The $25 Million Building in Afghanistan Nobody Needed: http://gizmodo.com/boondoggle-hq-the-25-million-building-in-afghanistan-1706077195 51:30 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Habersham County Sheriff's Office: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/infant-responsible-grenade-thrown-face/ 1:05:20 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Kerri Rivera: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/quack-defends-bleach-enemas-to-cure-autism-if-its-poison-where-is-the-sea-of-dead-children/ 1:15:29 - Tag: Let's Take A Look At Andrew McCutchen's Pay Stub: http://deadspin.com/lets-take-a-look-at-andrew-mccutchens-pay-stub-1706188663 This Week's Quote: "F— you people who think the government should intervene more!" —Penn Jillette

Bogosity Podcast for 18 May 2015

Sun, 17 May 2015 22:00:45 +0000

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 0:56 - 15 Supreme Court Decisions that Shredded the Constitution http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/15-supreme-court-decisions-that-shredded-the-constitution The Avalon Project : Federalist No 41 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed41.asp 29:38 - Police can access phone location data without a warrant, court rules https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/05/07/police-can-access-phone-location-data-without-a-warrant-us-court-rules/ 34:17 - Anti-Piracy Measures Putting Internet Users at Risk http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-measures-putting-internet-users-at-risk-150503/ 40:41 - Abolish the Family? Or Just Hobble Parents So They Don't Give Kids 'Unfair' Advantages? http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/06/abolish-the-family-or-just-hobble-parent 47:13 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/05/james-franco-mcdonalds 53:48 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The FBI http://vault.fbi.gov/louie-louie-the-song This Week's Quote: "Now there's no more oak oppression / For they passed a noble law / And the trees are all kept equal / By hatchet, axe, and saw." —Neil Peart (Rush)

Bogosity Podcast for 11 May 2015

Sun, 10 May 2015 22:00:35 +0000

Co-Host: Tim Dyson News of the Bogus: 0:30 - Kim Dotcom Avoids U.S. Clutches For Three More Months http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-avoids-u-s-clutches-for-three-more-months-150501/ Kim Dotcom Awarded Millions For Legal Bills and Living Expenses | TorrentFreak http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-awarded-millions-plus-128k-per-month-expenses-150502s/ 7:22 - Study: Painkiller Overdose Deaths Decrease Dramatically In 420-Friendly States http://reset.me/story/study-painkiller-overdose-deaths-decrease-dramatically-420-friendly-states/ Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Analgesic Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1999-2010 http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1898878 13:45 - #GamerGate Bar Meetup Disrupted By Bomb Threats http://www.reaxxion.com/8310/gamergate-bar-meetup-disrupted-by-bomb-threats Bomb Threat Targets GamerGate Meetup (Hear From Somebody Who Was There) http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/04/bomb-threat-targets-gamergate-meetup-hea How GamerGate critic Arthur Chu got me laid http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/05/04/how-gamergate-hater-and-social-justice-clown-arthur-chu-got-me-laid/ "sorry @arthur_affect you're on your own here http://t.co/drI0p8ePbf" https://twitter.com/gamerfortruth/status/594251953510690816/photo/1 34:05 - At Crypto Hearing, Best Arguments Against Backdoor Mandates Come from Members of Congress Themselves https://www.newamerica.org/oti/at-crypto-hearing-best-arguments-against-backdoor-mandates-come-from-members-of-congress-themselves/ 4-29-2015 Encryption Technology and Potential U.S. Policy Responses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG0bUmuj4tg 45:10 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Richard Fowler (nominated by Gabriel Lee DiMatteo) https://www.facebook.com/TheKellyFile/videos/1654857174729141/ 52:07 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Boeing http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nasty-boeing-dreamliner-bug-could-shut-down-your-plane-in-mid-air/ Boeing 787 Dreamliners contain a potentially catastrophic software bug http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/01/boeing-787-dreamliners-contain-a-potentially-catastrophic-software-bug/ 2^31/100 seconds - Wolfram|Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E31%2F100+seconds This Week's Quote: "It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 4 May 2015

Sun, 03 May 2015 22:00:14 +0000

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 0:32 - Crips, Bloods Call Truce, Not to Harm Cops But to Protect their Community from Violence & Looting http://thefreethoughtproject.com/crips-bloods-called-truce-protect-community-attack-cops/ 8:03 - We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/ 20:09 - 3D Printed Copyright Creep https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150427/10532430809/3d-printed-copyright-creep.shtml 29:43 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: ESPN https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150427/11334530812/espn-sues-verizon-trying-to-give-consumers-what-they-want.shtml 34:45 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Senators Dianne Feinstein and Susan Collins https://simpleunhookedliving.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/lawmakers-want-fda-to-crack-down-on-soap-makers/ Text - S.1014 - 114th Congress (2015-2016): A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of cosmetics. http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=445a9268-4964-4de0-89f9-4caf577099f2 This Week's Quote: "The Democratic and Republican parties [are] two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough." —Ralph Nader

Bogosity Podcast for 27 April 2015

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:00:03 +0000

Co-Host: Tim Dyson http://lordthawkeye.deviantart.com/ News of the Bogus: 0:50 - New WikiLeaks documents reveal the inner workings of the Dr. Oz Show http://www.vox.com/2015/4/20/8455401/sony-wikileaks-dr-oz Naturopathy Leaks http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/naturopathy-leaks/ What's the harm in naturopathy? http://whatstheharm.net/naturopathy.html 21:40 - Sarah Silverman Admits She Made Up a Wage-Gap Story, Then Calls Critics Maniacs http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416974/sarah-silverman-admits-she-made-wage-gap-story-then-calls-critics-maniacs-katherine 26:30 - Teen Sexting Investigators Have Their Heads in the Cloud http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/17/police-search-dropbox-for-teen-sexting 32:33 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Mark Hertsgaard et al. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416918/no-farmers-dont-use-80-percent-californias-water-devin-nunes 38:46 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Earth Day Environmentalists http://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocalyptic-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-2/ 53:23 - Tag: Environment - Wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Environment This Week's Quote: "We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." —Stephen Schneider

Bogosity Podcast for 20 April 2015 – Aftershow

Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:00:45 +0000

Our aftershow this week: just some bits that were cut from our already-lengthy discussion, including airline security, government's technological incompetence, LastPass issues, copyrights and communism, free markets in California, and Marxists in Seattle.

Bogosity Podcast for 20 April 2015

Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:00:22 +0000

Co-Hosts: Travis Retriever and Chris Hangartner Tim Dyson's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dollysplaytime News of the Bogus: 3:01 - This Prof Dared to Challenge Her Students' Views on Sex. Here's How They Retaliated. http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/15/this-prof-dared-to-challenge-her-student 12:55 - EFF Busts Podcasting Patent, Invalidating Key Claims at Patent Office https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-busts-podcasting-patent-invalidating-key-claims-patent-office 18:23 - Stop making the NSA the bogeyman of privacy http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/04/stop-making-nsa-bogeyman-of-privacy.html U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/ Turns Out Feds Actually Tracked Most International Calls For Nearly A Decade Before 9/11 -- Didn't Stop The Attack https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150407/17213830578/turns-out-feds-actually-tracked-most-international-calls-nearly-decade-before-911-didnt-stop-attack.shtml 26:03 - New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-south-wales-attacks-researchers-who-warned-internet-voting-vulnerabilities Response to Ian Brightwell https://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/brightwell/ Tampering with US voting machine as easy as ‘abcde’, audit finds https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/04/17/tampering-with-us-voting-machine-as-easy-as-abcde-says-virginia-report/ 44:09 - Big Media Companies Insist That VPN Services Violate Copyright Law https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150408/17453230597/big-media-companies-insist-that-vpn-services-violate-copyright-law.shtml TV Companies Will Sue VPN Providers "In Days" http://torrentfreak.com/tv-companies-will-sue-vpn-providers-in-days-150417/ 53:38 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Thomas Piketty http://fee.org/freeman/detail/picking-piketty-apart 1:01:48 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Lisa Wade http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/03/25/are-economics-majors-anti-social/ This Week's Quote: "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." —Joan Robinson

Bogosity Podcast for 6 April 2015

Sun, 05 Apr 2015 22:00:41 +0000

Co-Host: Dave Turcotte https://www.patreon.com/user?u=384100 News of the Bogus: 1:40 - How Indiana's RFRA differs from federal version http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/31/indianas-rfra-similar-federal-rfra/70729888/ Indiana General Assembly, 2015 Session https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/568#document-f6915f8f Connecticut to Boycott Indiana Over RFRA, Forgets It Has Its Own http://spectator.org/blog/62230/connecticut-boycott-indiana-over-rfra-forgets-it-has-its-own Religious Freedom Restoration Act (passed by Democratic congress and signed by Bill Clinton) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act 775 ILCS 35/ Religious Freedom Restoration Act. (voted for by Barack Obama) http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2272&ChapterID=64 Backlash is swift and furious after Indiana pizza restaurant owner brags about ‘no gays’ policy http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/backlash-is-swift-and-furious-after-indiana-pizza-restaurant-owner-brags-about-no-gays-policy/ WATCH: This Indiana Pizzeria Won't Cater Gay Weddings http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2015/04/01/watch-indiana-pizzeria-wont-cater-gay-weddings 19:26 - Federal agents charged over alleged Silk Road Bitcoin theft https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/31/federal-agents-charged-over-alleged-silk-road-bitcoin-theft/ 24:08 - “Innocent until proven guilty” is officially dead http://rare.us/story/innocent-until-proven-guilty-is-officially-dead/ 31:09 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Nick Bilton http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/style/could-wearable-computers-be-as-harmful-as-cigarettes.html 48:32 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Social Justice Warriors http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-hiding-from-scary-ideas.html Stephen Bendelow on Twitter: "@RichardDawkins @coolestdudeva By saying "we are all Africans" you are stealing the identity of a largely oppressed people. Not cool." https://twitter.com/StephenBendelow/status/583595761583161344 1:07:22 - Tag: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2nlmwx&s=8 Anita Sarkeesian's "positive female character" https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/86/10/static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/3/35153/1785254-the_scythian.png Patton Oswalt throws a Twitter tantrum in defense of Trevor Noah http://www.dailydot.com/lol/patton-oswalt-twitter-tantrum-defending-trevor-noah/ This Week's Quote: "The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." —Albert Einstein

Bogosity Podcast for 30 March 2015

Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:00:04 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:31 - The Best "Democracy" Money Can Buy: For Every Dollar Spent Influencing US Politics, Corporations Get $760 Back http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-16/words-greatest-investment-every-dollar-spent-influencing-us-politics-corporations-ge Atheism and Libertarianism 7: The Paradox of Interests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0waxvIaOp4 Bogosity Podcast for 18 March 2013 (with Jim Babka) http://podcast.bogosity.tv/bogosity-podcast-for-18-march-2013/ 6:42 - Cisco Shipping Hardware To Bogus Addresses To Throw Off NSA Intercept-And-Implant Efforts https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150320/08335930383/cisco-shipping-hardware-to-bogus-addresses-to-throw-off-nsa-intercept-and-implant-efforts.shtml 10:22 - Portland Police Bravely Defend Public From Homeless Woman Looking To Charge Her Cell Phone https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150312/03211330296/portland-police-bravely-defend-public-homeless-woman-looking-to-charge-her-cell-phone.shtml 16:10 - Conference Delegates Decry Clapping, Request "Feminist Jazz Hands" to Avoid Anxiety Triggers http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2015/03/24/conference-delegates-decry-clapping-request-feminist-jazz-hands-to-avoid-anxiety-triggers-n1975606 21:10 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jason Villalba http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Bill-restricting-rights-of-citizens-to-videotape-6130903.php 25:26 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Beth Van Duyne (nominated by Dallas Wildman) http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/muslims-are-angry-at-texas-mayor-after-she-stops-sharia-court-here-is-her-epic-response/ This Week's Quote: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." —Frédéric Bastiat

Bogosity Podcast for 23 March 2015

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 22:00:05 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:30 - The Pirate Bay's new network is making ISP blocks useless http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/pirate-bay-ISP-blocks-useless/ 7:02 - What ever it is, CISA isn't cybersecurity http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/what-ever-it-is-cisa-isnt-cybersecurity.html 15:25 - White House office to delete its FOIA regulations http://www.kens5.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/16/white-house-foia-regulations-deleted/24844253/ White House defends transparency after FOIA rule repeal http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/17/white-house-foia-rule-change/24900303/ 22:48 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Matt Boyle http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/16/honeymoon-over-scott-walker-under-fire-for-new-open-borders-amnesty-advocate-staffer-who-mocks-iowa/ The culture of outrage and the end of the Liz Mair affair http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/18/the-culture-of-outrage-and-the-end-of-the-liz-mair-affair/ 31:59 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Jim Humble http://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311 This Week's Quote: "If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave." —Temple Grandin

Bogosity Podcast for 16 March 2015

Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:00:05 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner, Users Complain http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-quietly-installs-riskware-bitcoin-miner-users-report-150306/ 5:06 - Senators Unveil Bill To Legalize Federal Medical Marijuana http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/10/senators-unveil-bill-to-legalize-federal-medical-marijuana/ North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Cannabis Approved by House of Representatives http://thejointblog.com/north-carolina-bill-to-legalize-medical-cannabis-approved-by-house-of-representatives/ 9:23 - Large Study Concludes Homeopathy Does Not Effectively Treat Any Health Condition http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/homeopathy-ineffective-study-concludes 13:16 - Wikipedia Is Suing the NSA http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/wikipedia-is-suing-the-nsa-20150310 18:00 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tamil Film Producer’s Council http://torrentfreak.com/movie-group-to-kill-piracy-by-not-releasing-movies-for-months-150309/ 21:30 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Andrew Hennells https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/10/armed-robber-caught-after-boasting-about-planned-stick-up-on-facebook/ This Week's Quote: "I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded." —Edward Snowden

Bogosity Podcast for 9 March 2015

Sun, 08 Mar 2015 22:00:43 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:28 - Attack of the week: FREAK (or 'factoring the NSA for fun and profit') http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-week-freak-or-factoring-nsa.html Stop the presses: HTTPS-crippling “FREAK” bug affects Windows after all http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/stop-the-presses-https-crippling-freak-bug-affects-windows-after-all/ FREAK Attack: Client Check https://freakattack.com/clienttest.html 10:41 - Bill Nye says science changed his anti-GMO views http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/02/bill-nye-says-science-changed-his-anti-gmo-views/ 12:24 - ISP Categorically Refuses to Block Pirate Bay - Trial Set For October http://torrentfreak.com/isp-categorically-refuses-to-block-pirate-bay-trial-set-for-october-150304/ 17:01 - How the flawed ‘science’ of bite mark analysis has sent innocent people to prison http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/02/13/how-the-flawed-science-of-bite-mark-analysis-has-sent-innocent-people-to-jail/ 28:36 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Judge Liam O'Grady https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150227/18171630168/us-court-rules-that-kim-dotcom-is-fugitive-thus-doj-can-take-his-money.shtml 35:04 - Idiot Extraordinaire: PayPal http://torrentfreak.com/under-u-s-pressure-paypal-nukes-mega-for-encrypting-files-150227/ This Week's Quote: "It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 2 March 2015

Sun, 01 Mar 2015 23:00:49 +0000

Co-Host: Jakob Morris News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Lenovo slipped 'Superfish' malware into laptops http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/19/technology/security/lenovo-superfish/ Lenovo Is Breaking HTTPS Security on its Recent Laptops https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptops The Lenovo “Superfish” controversy – what you need to know https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/20/the-lenovo-superfish-controversy-what-you-need-to-know/ Thought Komodia/Superfish Bug Was Really, Really Bad? It's Much, Much Worse! https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150223/07363930113/thought-komodiasuperfish-bug-was-really-really-bad-its-much-much-worse.shtml Errata Security: Extracting the SuperFish certificate http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certificate.html LastPass Superfish Checker https://lastpass.com/superfish/ Superfish, Komodia, PrivDog vulnerability test https://filippo.io/Badfish/ 11:17 - Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/23/leaked-spy-cables-netanyahu-iran-bomb-mossad 15:05 - The FCC Just Voted to Regulate the Internet Like a Utility http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/26/the-fcc-just-voted-to-regulate-the-inter Say hello to net neutrality – FCC votes to “protect the open internet” https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/27/say-hello-to-net-neutrality-fcc-votes-to-protect-the-open-internet/ 25:17 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Total Wipes Music Group http://torrentfreak.com/the-worlds-most-idiotic-copyright-complaint-150222/ DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google :: Notices :: Chilling Effects https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10416081 Total Wipes Music Group – Copyright Removal Requests – Google Transparency Report http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/reporters/40594/Total-Wipes-Music-Group/ 31:22 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Montana House Rep. David Moore http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/montana-representative-seeks-ban-tight-clothing This Week's Quote: "Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society." —Lawrence Lessig

Bogosity Podcast for 23 February 2015

Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:00:23 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:29 - Did Williams Lie? http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/did-williams-lie/ 9:37 - Drone Rules Cheered, but Not by All http://www.wsj.com/articles/drone-rules-cheered-but-not-by-all-1424135687 15:49 - Stoned drivers are a lot safer than drunk ones, new federal data show http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/09/stoned-drivers-are-a-lot-safer-than-drunk-ones-new-federal-data-show/ Results of the 2013–2014 National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers file:///V:/Downloads/812118-Roadside_Survey_2014.pdf 21:00 - NSA Spy Program So Secret Judge Can't Explain Why It Can't Be Challenged http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/02/11/nsa-spy-program-so-secret-judge-cant-explain-why-it-cant-be-challenged 23:55 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Eric Posner http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/02/university_speech_codes_students_are_children_who_must_be_protected.single.html 30:23 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ford Motor Company https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2015/01/23/mustang-common-password.html "123456" Maintains the Top Spot on SplashData's Annual "Worst Passwords" List http://splashdata.com/press/worst-passwords-of-2014.htm Ford Proud that "Mustang" Is a Common Password https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/ford_proud_that.html This Week's Quote: "Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about." —Ben Carson

Bogosity Podcast for 9 February 2015

Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:00:14 +0000

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/shanedk Co-Host: Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 1:55 - Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty on All Charges http://cointelegraph.com/news/113433/ross-ulbricht-found-guilty-on-all-charges 8:50 - 2 Bridgewater Teens’ Snow Shoveling Biz Put On Ice Due To Ordinances http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/27/nj-teens-offering-shoveling-services-stopped-by-cops-due-to-town-ordinance/ 11:48 - The FCC has changed the definition of broadband http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7932653/fcc-changed-definition-broadband-25mbps The Cost of Connectivity 2014 http://newamerica.org/oti/the-cost-of-connectivity-2014/ 25:29 - Cop who stole nude photos from arrested women’s phones escapes jail https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/29/cop-who-stole-nude-photos-from-arrested-womens-seized-phones-escapes-jail/ 28:56 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/a-lesson-in-corrupt-press.html 33:36 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike LaSusa http://www.salon.com/2015/01/29/nightmare_libertarian_project_turns_country_into_the_murder_capital_of_the_world/ Honduras Economy: Population, GDP, Inflation, Business, Trade, FDI, Corruption http://www.heritage.org/index/country/honduras This Week's Quote: "If anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 2 February 2015

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 21:00:51 +0000

Co-host: Dave Turcotte News of the Bogus: 2:09 - What It Feels Like to Be a Gamergate Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyncf3DBUQ Brianna Wu's GTA rape tweets https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/555874686085496834 Brianna Wu on Twitter: "When I was 20, my parents handed me $200,000 to start an animation business. I learned more from that experience than anything in college." https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/422793818749288448 18:47 - Torrent Site Blockades Are Disproportional, Greek Court Rules http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-blockades-are-disproportional-greek-court-rules-150121/ 22:50 - Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/opinion/joe-nocera-is-vaping-worse-than-smoking.html New Study Reports High Levels of Formaldehyde in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-study-reports-high-levels-of.html 32:36 - 12-Year-Old Girl’s Hair Causes OUTRAGE, Wait Until You Hear Why http://madworldnews.com/12-year-old-girls-hair/ 38:49 - People can be convinced they committed a non-existant crime in just 3 hours http://www.sciencealert.com/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-non-existant-crime-in-just-three-hours 50:01 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1800bf6744eb4b3f91a75817d54a2a46/fact-check-obama-claims-credit-incomplete-recovery Bureau of Labor Statistics Data http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 State of the Union: Barack Obama Rebutted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGNwpFq4WY 58:45 - Idiot Extraordinaire: National Sheriffs Association and the Fraternal Order of Police https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/27/google-asked-to-muzzle-waze-police-stalking-app/ Waze Social GPS Maps & Traffic - Android Apps on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&hl=en This Week's Quote: "Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied." —L. Neil Smith

Podcast for 19 January 2015

Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:00:26 +0000

Co-host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:30 - Ross Ulbricht trial Day One http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/14/ross_ulbricht_trial_day_1/ The Most Important Trial in America http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/the-most-important-trial-in-america.html Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the 'Real' Dread Pirate Roberts http://www.wired.com/2015/01/isilk-road-trial-opening-statements/ Undercover Agent Reveals How He Helped the FBI Trap Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht http://www.wired.com/2015/01/silk-road-trial-undercover-dhs-fbi-trap-ross-ulbricht/ Ross Ulbricht’s Lawyers Attempt to Poke Holes in Government’s Case http://www.wsj.com/articles/ross-ulbrichts-lawyers-attempt-to-poke-holes-in-governments-case-1421366899 16:30 - Gluten Sensitivity And Study Replication http://www.businessinsider.com/gluten-sensitivity-and-study-replication-2014-5 21:36 - To Catch a Non-Predator, Try Entrapment http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/12/to-catch-a-non-predator-try-entrapment 29:39 - NCAA to restore wins to Penn State's Paterno after Sandusky sex scandal http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/16/us-usa-pennstate-idUSKBN0KP25O20150116 Penn State child sex abuse scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_child_sex_abuse_scandal 36:16 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Prime Minister David Cameron http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/whatsapp-and-snapchat-could-be-banned-under-new-surveillance-plans-9973035.html What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-propos.html 44:26 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The NYPD http://theantimedia.org/nypd-vacations/ What Dallas’s historically low murder rate can teach us about policing http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/01/12/what-dallass-historically-low-murder-rate-can-teach-us-about-policing/ This Week's Quote: "Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 12 January 2015

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:00:11 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:29 - Legal Pot Slips Through a Loophole http://reason.com/archives/2015/01/07/legal-pot-slips-through-a-loophole Florida's 5th congressional district http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_5th_congressional_district North Carolina's 12th congressional district http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_12th_congressional_district 4:37 - Black Market Private Schooling in the Third World http://jaypgreene.com/2008/10/23/black-market-private-schooling-in-the-third-world/ Public School Spending. There's a Chart for That! http://www.cato.org/blog/public-school-spending-theres-chart 10:27 - EPA's Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2014/01/29/epas-wood-burning-stove-ban-has-chilling-consequences-for-many-rural-people/ Ask your elected representatives to pass DownsizeDC.org's “Write the Laws Act” (WTLA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/ 18:24 - Skiplagged founder fights lawsuit from United and Orbitz http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/12/31/skiplagged_founder_fights_lawsuit_from_united_and_orbitz.html Skiplagged vs United & Orbitz by Aktarer Zaman - GoFundMe http://www.gofundme.com/skiplagged 25:28 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Harvard professors http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html House GOP chips away at Obamacare, voting to redefine full-time work http://www.latimes.com/nation/healthcare/la-na-obamacare-republicans-20150109-story.html 31:43 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The British Advertising Standards Authority http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/06/uk-censors-mind-the-thigh-gap This Week's Quote: "Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me." —Stephen Fry

Bogosity Podcast: 2014 Wrap-Up

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:00:06 +0000

2014 Year in Review 0:39 - Silver Cluon Recipients: 13 April Silver Cluon Award: James Wilson and Perry Willis https://secure.downsizedc.org/blog/the-untold-truth-about-the-mccutcheon-decision 26 May Silver Cluon Award: Tyler Vigen http://www.tylervigen.com/ 7 July Silver Cluon Award: The Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.dailydot.com/politics/blimp-nsa-utah-eff-mass-surveillance/ 6 October Silver Cluon Award: Mark Daly and nVidia http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/debunked/ 8 December Silver Cluon Award: David Mazières, Eddie Kohler, and Peter Vamplew http://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam Idiot of the Year Nominations: 12:25 - The WHO 14:28 - Matthew Yglesias 16:08 - The Obama Administration 19:58 - Food Babe http://foodbabe.com/2011/09/02/what-a-miracle-food-wheatgrass-bali/ Michael Shermer » Wheatgrass Juice & Folk Medicine http://www.michaelshermer.com/2008/08/wheatgrass/ 24:12 - Dr. Mehmet Oz Research confirms it: Dr. Oz dispenses a lot of medical advice with no scientific grounding http://qz.com/315813/research-confirms-it-dr-oz-dispenses-a-lot-of-medical-advice-with-no-scientific-grounding/ 26:06 - Jonathan's nomination: Lena Dunham http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/investigating-lena-dunham-sexual-abuse-claims/ 30:23 - Daniel's nomination: ShirtStorm 36:17 - Charles's nomination: Sony 44:58 - Dave & Travis's nomination: Michael Mark Cohen http://gawker.com/douchebag-the-white-racial-slur-we-ve-all-been-waiti-1647954231 Unedited version: http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/Dave%27s%202014%20Nomination.mp3 57:09 - Tim's nomination: Gaming Journalism 58:28 - Idiot of the Year “What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?” —Steven Novella

Bogosity Podcast for 15 December 2014

Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:00:56 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:30 - Senate Bill Prohibits Government-Mandated Backdoors http://www.informationweek.com/government/cybersecurity/senate-bill-prohibits-government-mandated-backdoors/d/d-id/1317926 4:20 - In the ‘global struggle for Internet freedom,’ the Internet is losing, report finds http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/04/in-the-global-struggle-for-internet-freedom-the-internet-is-losing-report-finds/ 9:02 - Did Rep. Moran Read 1,648-Page Defense Bill? ‘Are You Kidding?’ http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/did-rep-moran-read-1648-page-defense-bill-are-you-kidding The Read the Bills Act (RTBA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/rtba/ 17:02 - Another reason to avoid reading the comments http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-another-reason-to-avoid-reading-the-comments/2014/11/28/b37a9f30-7722-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html Vinegar valentines: An old tradition of sending mean cards anonymously http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/13/vinegar_valentines_an_old_tradition_of_sending_mean_cards_anonymously.html 24:34 - A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-acts-just-got-banned-in-uk-porn-9897174.html 31:06 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: US Government http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-is-not-a-fugitive-court-hears-141209/ 38:13 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Kevin Sabet http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/12/10/new-anti-pot-argument-dont-legalize-monsanto-gmos/ This Week's Quote: "I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses." —Stephen King

Bogosity Podcast for 8 December 2014

Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:00:24 +0000

Co-Host: Dave Turcotte Side Project Live #143 http://sideproject.radiofubar.com/?p=324 News of the Bogus: 0:42 - Secret Malware in European Union Attack Linked to U.S. and British Intelligence https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/24/secret-regin-malware-belgacom-nsa-gchq/ Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/regin-top-tier-espionage-tool-enables-stealthy-surveillance The Regin Platform: Nation-State Ownage of GSM Networks https://securelist.com/files/2014/11/Kaspersky_Lab_whitepaper_Regin_platform_eng.pdf 4:18 - Under Pressure From Uber, Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/upshot/under-pressure-from-uber-taxi-medallion-prices-are-plummeting.html 8:52 - U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/12/us-usa-drugs-un-idUSKCN0IW1GV20141112 Uruguayan Presidential Election Result Safeguards Marijuana Legalization http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/latest-national-news/57234-uruguayan-presidential-election-result-safeguards-marijuana-legalization.html 12:29 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/week-sen-kirsten-gillibrand-interview-20916422 24:32 - Silver Cluon Award: David Mazières, Eddie Kohler, and Peter Vamplew http://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam 30:55 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Matt Bruenig http://gawker.com/actually-riots-are-good-the-economic-case-for-riots-i-1663629918 This Week's Quote: "The people on the ground today, protesting in Ferguson, have legitimate grievances that long predated Michael Brown's death. But...Threatening lives and property of innocent third parties creates enemies out of would-be friends and supporters, while plays into the hands of those who value the protestors as political tools, dependable votes, and nothing more." —Christopher Westley

Bogosity Podcast for 17 November 2014

Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:00:39 +0000

Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox 0:28 - More Election Results: http://alibertarianfuture.com/2014-election/libertarian-issues-won-2014-including-marijuana-legalization/ News of the Bogus: 6:13 - Italian Appeals Court Overturns Guilty Verdicts in Earthquake Trial http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/world/europe/italian-appeals-court-overturns-guilty-verdicts-in-earthquake-trial.html 9:28 - The Netherlands built a bike path entirely out of solar panels http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7193737/solar-power-bike-path-netherlands-solaroad 15:03 - Beyond Silk Road 2.0, over 400 'dark web' Tor sites seized by FBI http://www.zdnet.com/beyond-silk-road-2-0-over-400-dark-web-tor-sites-seized-by-fbi-7000035604/ 21:19 - DeBoer v. Snyder http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/14a0275p-06.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeBoer_v._Snyder 32:49 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jonathan Gruber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adrdmmh7bMo 37:26 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Food Babe http://bogosity.tv/bogus_archive/the_article_food_babe_doesn't_want_you_to_see.html Sahara - Humidity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara#Humidity When You Drink Too Much Water Too Fast, What Can Happen? http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/water-intoxication Monosodium glutamate - Safety http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Safety This Week's Quote: "There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths." —Bertrand Russell

Bogosity Podcast for 10 November 2014

Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:00:08 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas 2014 Election Special: 0:27 - With a Big GOP Wave, Americans Voted for More Gridlock—And They Knew What They Wanted http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/americans-voted-to-end-gridlock-with-big 2:05 - North Carolina Senate Elections - 2014 Midterm Elections News & Results http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2014/NC/senate/exitpoll 7:13 - Virginia Senate Elections - 2014 Midterm Elections News & Results http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2014/VA/senate/exitpoll 8:40 - Voters Approve Marijuana Legalization in Two States and D.C. http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/voters-approve-marijuana-legalization-in 12:23 - Anti-GMO Initiatives in Oregon and Colorado: Science Wins in Centennial State - Science wins in Beaver State Too! http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/anti-gmo-initiatives-in-oregon-and-color 18:26 - Arizona Voters Approve Prop 122 to Reject Federal Acts http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2014/11/05/arizona-voters-approve-proposition-to-reject-federal-acts/ 24:45 - Arizona Terminal Patients' Right to Try Referendum, Proposition 303 (2014) http://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Terminal_Patients'_Right_to_Try_Referendum,_Proposition_303_(2014) News of the Bogus: 26:41 - Police can demand fingerprints but not passcodes to unlock phones, rules judge http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/11/03/police-can-demand-fingerprints-but-not-passcodes-to-unlock-phones-rules-judge/ 28:53 - A Selfie in the Voting Booth? We've Got a Felony For That http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/04/a-selfie-in-the-voting-booth-weve-got-a 32:26 - AP Exclusive: Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media http://bigstory.ap.org/article/674886091e344ffa95e92eb482e02be1/ap-exclusive-ferguson-no-fly-zone-aimed-media 36:33 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Newington, Connecticut Elementary Schools http://rare.us/story/this-town-just-canceled-halloween-to-appease-the-pc-police/ 40:08 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ezekiel J. Emanuel http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/ This Week's Quote: "I long to believe in immortality. I shall never be able to bid you an entire farewell. If I am destined to be happy with you here — how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality — I wish to live with you forever." —John Keats

Bogosity Podcast for 3 November 2014

Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:00:21 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:31 - FCC To Consider Rule Change That Could Help Restart Aereo http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/237167/fcc-to-consider-rule-change-that-could-help-restar.html Tech Transitions, Video, and the Future http://www.fcc.gov/blog/tech-transitions-video-and-future 13:57 - Police Chief Accuses Secret Service Of Misconduct http://www.jrn.com/newschannel5/news/newschannel-5-investigates/Police-Chief-Accuses-Secret-Service-Of-Misconduct-279207151.html 20:25 - Months after new regulations imposed, pedicabs struggle http://nocronies.com/months-after-new-regulations-imposed-pedicabs-struggle/ 29:36 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: E.R. Dickson Elementary School http://rare.us/story/you-wont-believe-what-happened-to-this-kindergarten-student-after-she-drew-something-that-vaguely-resembled-a-gun/ 36:03 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Political "Moderates" http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/10/political-science-study-shows-that-moderates-usually-have-a-mix-of-extreme-opinions-of-the-left-and-right/ How Ideological Moderation Conceals Support for Immoderate Policies: A New Perspective on the “Disconnect” in American Politics http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~broockma/ahler_broockman_ideological_innocence.pdf This Week's Quote: "Those words, 'temperate and moderate,' are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice." —Thomas Paine

Bogosity Podcast for 27 October 2014

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:00:04 +0000

Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and (briefly) Dave Turcotte Update: SunRail ridership lags, system to rehire ambassadors http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/traffic/os-sunrail-ridership-ambassadors-20141003-story.html News of the Bogus: 3:06 - Entrepreneur's private toll road welcomes 100,000th vehicle http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11149220/Entrepreneurs-private-toll-road-welcomes-100000th-vehicle.html Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3960066,-2.4196838,356m/data=!3m1!1e3 Kelston Toll Road (@KelstonTollRoad) | Twitter https://twitter.com/KelstonTollRoad What is the cost of constructing a mile of highway? http://www.railstotrails.org/resources/documents/whatwedo/policy/07-29-2008%20Generic%20Response%20to%20Cost%20per%20Lane%20Mile%20for%20widening%20and%20new%20construction.pdf Ask a Paving / Asphalt Superintendent anything http://jobstr.com/threads/show/4514-paving-asphalt-superintendent Asphalt Facts http://www.alasphalt.com/asphalt%20facts.htm 15:26 - Why Did the Supreme Court Sidestep Sentencing Dispute http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202673758615/Why-Did-the-Supreme-Court-Sidestep-Sentencing-Dispute Supreme Court Considers Two Drug Dog Cases | Radley Balko http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-considers-t_1_b_2063820.html 18:43 - Anime fan convicted over illegal pictures of imaginary children http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/anime-fan-convicted-over-illegal-7958896 24:51 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Wendy Gittleson http://samuel-warde.com/2014/01/10-reasons-free-market-just-big-fat-blob-stupid/ 51:32 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Tracie Harris and Matt Dillahunty (nominated by pretty much everybody) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXBre5woMw&start=1897 Does the Internet Prove the Need for Government Investment? http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/does-the-internet-prove-the-need-for-government-investment This Week's Quote: "All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from the defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." —John Quincy Adams

Bogosity Podcast for 13 October 2014

Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:00:58 +0000

Co-Host: Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 1:02 - What Happens When All The Police In A Town Are Removed https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/10/1/what-happens-when-all-the-police-in-a-town-are-removed.html Top 10 Reasons Why the Mafia is Better than the State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IErlI34-0so 5:33 - Santa Fe Springs Family Fights City To Keep Backyard Playground For Special Needs Daughter http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/10/07/santa-fe-springs-family-fights-city-to-keep-backyard-playground-for-special-needs-daughter/ 10:03 - Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman’s Name http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/government-says-federal-agents-can-impersonate-woman-online 15:09 - TSA desecrates woman's ashen remains during warrantless urn search http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/shannon-thomas-tsa-lawsuit/ 19th Airport Joins Screening Partnership Program http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/01/dropping-tsa-19th-airport-joins-efficient-private-screening-program/ Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' by William Bradford - Free Ebook http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24950 24:36 - Manure fertilizer increases antibiotic resistance http://www.nature.com/news/manure-fertilizer-increases-antibiotic-resistance-1.16081 30:52 - Economists explain why they love Uber so much http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/9/30/6873389/uber-economists-poll-consumer-welfare-efficiency 35:32 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Dr. Oz http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/dr-oz-autism-and-gmos/ Spurious Correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/ 45:05 - Idiot Extraordinaire: European adult industry http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/05/sex-sell-decline-british-porn-xbiz-regulations-children This Week's Quote: "[W]e published a whole series of studies of regulation and its effects. Almost all the studies--perhaps all the studies--suggested that the results of regulation had been bad, that the prices were higher, that the product was worse adapted to the needs of consumers, than it otherwise would have been...I can't remember one that's good...There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad." —Ronald Coase

Bogosity Podcast for 6 October 2014

Sun, 05 Oct 2014 22:00:28 +0000

Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 0:33 - Judge won't stop shut-offs, says no right to free water http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/09/29/bankruptcy-judge-expected-rule-water-shut-offs/16414323/ 10:34 - Pirate Bay Goes To College: Free Textbook Torrent Downloads Soar Amid Rising Costs http://www.ibtimes.com/pirate-bay-goes-college-free-textbook-torrent-downloads-soar-amid-rising-costs-1692247 19:31 - Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/dark-net-drug-markets-kept-alive-by-great-customer-service/ 30:50 - Brown Vetoes Bill Limiting Drone Surveillance http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/09/28/brown-vetoes-bill-limiting-drone-surveillance/ 37:00 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.theskepticsguide.org/not-black-holes-do-not-exist-part-2 47:46 - Silver Cluon Award: Mark Daly and nVidia http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/debunked/ 56:10 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Matt K. Lewis http://theweek.com/article/index/268686/why-the-libertarian-boom-is-bad-for-traditional-conservatives This Week's Quote: "Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love...If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power." —Carl Sagan

Bogosity Podcast for 29 September 2014

Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:00:14 +0000

Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 7:43 - Study of 100 Billion Animals Finds GMOs Safe http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/comprehensive-study-100-billion-animals-finds-gmos-safe-livestock Freakonomics » Outsiders by Design http://freakonomics.com/2014/09/18/outsiders-by-design-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-2/ 12:30 - Islamic State recruitment soaring in wake of U.S. bombing #SorrySyria http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.616730 War Is a Racket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket 17:15 - Kerry: No End to the War Even if We Destroy ISIS #SorrySyria http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2014/09/25/kerry-no-end-to-the-war-even-if-we-destroy-isis/ 35:35 - FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2014/09/25/68c4e08e-4344-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html 42:09 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Press and social media #BBGunControl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9FtNOV6Qhk 52:38 - Idiot Extraordinaire: City of Peoria http://www.vice.com/read/the-police-raided-my-friends-house-over-a-parody-twitter-account This Week's Quote: "The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world." —Václav Havel

Bogosity Podcast for 22 September 2014

Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:00:56 +0000

Co-Host: Jakob Morris News of the Bogus: 0:27 - BBC News - Scottish referendum: Scotland votes 'No' to independence http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29270441 3:31 - Sex education in Poland faces legal challenge http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11087423/Sex-education-in-Poland-faces-legal-challenge.html 7:20 - Copyright Holders Want Netflix to Ban VPN Users http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-holders-want-netflix-ban-vpn-users-140917/ 17:14 - Obama Urges War in Iraq Despite Known Lack of WMDs http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/president-obama-urges-war-without-even-pretending-there-are-wmds/380020/?single_page=true A White House Position That Stands on a Narrow Definition of War http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/us/politics/19post.html 25:33 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Yelp and Federal appeals judges #YelpGate http://nypost.com/2014/09/06/anger-over-courts-decision-on-yelps-reviews/ 30:47 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Joe Weisenthal http://www.businessinsider.com/this-might-be-the-final-humiliation-of-the-fed-haters-2014-9 This Week's Quote: "People who argue that ISIS poses a threat to our democracies are out to lunch. ISIS is an ugly phenomenon, but it's largely the consequence of one blunder after another by the US and its allies in the region, who shouldn't have been meddling there in the first place...If the US and its allies want to reduce 'terror' in the region...they need to stop participating in it." —Julian Assange

Bogosity Podcast for 15 September 2014

Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:00:08 +0000

#GamerGate Special Guests: Dave Turcotte, Jonathan Loesche, and Matthew Page http://superplexbros.com/ 10 things you need to know about #GamerGate http://whatculture.com/gaming/10-things-need-know-gamergate-scandal.php The Gamer is Dead, Long Live The Gamer http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/09/01/the-gamer-is-dead-long-live-the-gamer/ Borderlands 2 Writer confirms further corruption in Gaming Journalism http://superplexbros.com/borderlands-2-writer-confirms-further-corruption-in-gaming-journalism/ Gamergate - Know Your Meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate Fraud in the Indie World: Fez investors outed as judges for title's award http://gamesnosh.com/fez-investors-outed-judges-2011-igf-award/ “I want a straight white male gaming convention”: Inside the culture war raging in the video gaming world http://www.salon.com/2014/09/08/i_want_a_straight_white_male_gaming_convention_how_a_culture_war_exploded_in_the_video_gaming_world/ Lara Croft Evolution: http://tombraiders.net/stella/images/timeline/lara_croft_evolution_new.jpg Adult women are now the largest demographic in gaming http://www.dailydot.com/geek/adult-women-largest-gaming-demographic/ This Week's Quote: "Journalganda...it looks like news! But it isn't. It's propaganda...There's nothing like journalganda to make you feel absolutely certain you are correct, no matter what your position...Real journalism can always be identified by the way it makes normal people sometimes feel very uncomfortable about the world." —Charles M. Madigan

Bogosity Podcast for 8 September 2014

Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:00:56 +0000

Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Daniel Wilcox News of the Bogus: 1:16 - U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422% http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/08/28/u-s-hikes-fee-to-renounce-citizenship-by-422/ 7:07 - Dominica Will Be First Nation with Universal Bitcoin Possession http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2014/08/28/dominica-will-be-first-nation-with-universal-bitcoin-possession/ Dominica Economy: Population, GDP, Inflation, Business, Trade, FDI, Corruption http://www.heritage.org/index/country/dominica 14:13 - Illinois Libertarians Lodge Criminal Complaints Over Armed Intimidation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-ibendahl/illinois-libertarians-lod_b_5737462.html Rauner Camp Brings A Gun To A Petition Fight http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-ibendahl/rauner-camp-brings-a-gun-_b_5709799.html 22:02 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Truth-out.org http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25877-you-dont-know-what-libertarian-means How to Fix Health Care Without Spending a Dime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhJ73JuWJY How To Argue For Universal Health Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fuq8Zgwrwk How Social Security Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsbbIJD3ew Social Security Follow-Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaG-A6ezMQ 52:22 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Helmetta, NJ http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/08/30/nj-town-introduces-ordinance-ban-recording-public-officials-embarrassing-video-cop-goes-viral/ This Week's Quote: "The camera is the new gun. There's nothing that government dislikes more than the light of day, and cameras recording what the government is doing...we have the right to know everything that they do and why they do it and when they do it, and how they've taken our freedom." —Andrew Napolitano

Bogosity Podcast for 1 September 2014

Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:00:58 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 2:31 - Police: Finding Pirate Bay Documents is Too Expensive http://torrentfreak.com/police-finding-pirate-bay-documents-expensive-140824/ 8:47 - What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings http://gawker.com/what-ive-learned-from-two-years-collecting-data-on-poli-1625472836 Ferguson Turns Lens On Police-Involved Killings, But Some Facts Are Few http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342228794/ferguson-turns-lens-on-police-involved-killings-but-some-facts-are-few 23:27 - Overtaxed and over there http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21587815-loopy-tax-rules-spur-expats-renounce-their-american-citizenship-overtaxed-and-over-there 31:34 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The WHO http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/11056964/Ban-toxic-e-cigarettes-indoors-says-World-Health-Organisation.html 40:36 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13774/20140823/white-house-cybersecurity-leader-proudly-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-cybersecurity.htm This Week's Quote: "It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments." —Bruce Schneier

Bogosity Podcast for 25 August 2014

Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:00:46 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Cops Aren’t Stopping the Looting in Ferguson, So the Protesters Are http://thefreethoughtproject.com/protestors-stop-looters-ferguson-police/ 7:20 - Rules prevent solar panels in many states with abundant sunlight http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting. http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html 14:33 - Georgia county won’t pay medical bills for toddler burned by grenade in botched drug raid http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/19/georgia-county-wont-pay-medical-bills-for-toddler-burned-by-grenade-in-botched-drug-raid/ 19:20 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/san-francisco-bans-sale-plastic-water-bottles-climate-change Bottled Water Companies Could Be Contributing to California's Drought http://www.sfweekly.com/foodie/2014/08/14/bottled-water-companies-could-be-contributing-to-californias-drought Idiot Extraordinaire: Summerville (SC) High School & Summerville Police http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-student-arrested-after-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment This Week's Quote: "It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." —Ben Franklin

Bogosity Podcast for 18 August 2014

Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:00:11 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:32 - Ferguson police fire teargas and rubber bullets at Michael Brown protesters http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html ‘Overkill’: Images from Ferguson protest show cops treating city like a war zone http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/13/overkill-images-from-ferguson-protest-show-cops-treating-city-like-a-war-zone/ 10:51 - New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/politics/u-s-new-leaker/index.html 13:47 - South Carolina Mom Calls Cops On 15-Year-Old Son After Finding Porn http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/mom-finds-porn-on-tv_n_5659487.html 17:23 - Burger Robot Poised To Disrupt Fast Food Industry http://singularityhub.com/2014/08/10/burger-robot-poised-to-disrupt-fast-food-industry/ 22:08 - For Obama, Iraq Move Is a Policy Reversal http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-obama-iraq-move-is-a-policy-reversal-1407470613 Obama Vows ‘Long-Term’ War in Iraq http://news.antiwar.com/2014/08/09/obama-vows-long-term-war-in-iraq/ 27:15 - Tempe City Council Bans E-Cigarettes In Public Places http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/tempe-city-council-bans-e-cigarettes-in-public-places/ 33:56 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Michael Yaki http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5810 38:11 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Michael Mulgrew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU6fLz7Fgg The Next Generation Science Standards http://www.nextgenscience.org/implementation This Week's Quote: "Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." —Bertrand Russell

Bogosity Podcast for 4 August 2014

Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:00:50 +0000

Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Dave Turcotte News of the Bogus: 1:45 - Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12138/abstract 7:33 - World Health Organization Calls for Drug Decriminalization and Broad Drug Policy Reforms https://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2014/07/world-health-organization-calls-drug-decriminalization-and-broad-drug-policy-reforms 11:43 - TLC Wrongly Accused Hundreds of Being Illegal Cabbies in Past Year http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140721/long-island-city/tlc-wrongly-accused-hundreds-of-being-illegal-cabbies-past-year 20:32 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Verizon http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/verizons-accidental-mea-culpa/ Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/why-is-netflix-buffering-dispelling-the-congestion-myth Level 3’s Selective Amnesia on Peering http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/level-3s-selective-amnesia-on-peering Verizon made an enemy tonight http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Verizon-Fios-Netflix-Vyprvpn.html 37:55 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Steve Shives (nominated by Jason Fennec) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOtMo1Z9NM0 When Rhode Island accidentally legalized prostitution, rape decreased sharply http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/17/when-rhode-island-accidentally-legalized-prostitution-rape-and-stis-decreased-sharply/ This Week's Quote: “Feminism has betrayed its roots and deteriorated into spurious artificial engineering. Rather than campaigning to help women, feminists today are more likely to be picking fights on Twitter, or dressing up petty grievances as proof of rampant 'sexism'...If I ever was a feminist, I can't be now...so ashamed and depressed am I by a once-laudable movement...I think any sensible woman will join me in feeling saddened by how irrelevant and niche modern feminism has become.” —Angela Epstein

Bogosity Podcast for 28 July 2014

Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:00:50 +0000

Co-host: Dave Turcotte Dave's appeal: Join Our Boys http://joinourboys.org/ https://www.facebook.com/Joinourboys/ NHS Special: 2:44 - NHS to charge non-EU patients 150% of cost of treatment http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/14/nhs-charge-non-eu-patients-150-per-cent-cost-treatment IMTJ Medical Travel Awards 2014 http://awards.imtj.com/results Medical Tourism Statistics & Facts http://www.patientsbeyondborders.com/medical-tourism-statistics-facts Medical Tourism: A Cost or Benefit to the NHS? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070406 12:33 - NHS crisis as struggling A&E departments fail to meet waiting time targets for A YEAR http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-crisis-struggling-ae-departments-3882288 18:29 - Forty per cent of adults advised to take statins under new NHS guidance http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10973432/Forty-per-cent-of-adults-advised-to-take-statins-under-new-NHS-guidance.html Statins: Are these cholesterol-lowering drugs right for you? http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/in-depth/statins/art-20045772 25:41 - 'The NHS dishes out boob jobs and gastric bands but won't pay for my life-saving heart op': Stroke victim, 28, must now raise £10,000 for private treatment http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2695696/The-NHS-dishes-boob-jobs-gastric-bands-wont-pay-life-saving-heart-op-Stroke-victim-28-raise-10-000-private-treatment.html 31:52 - Patients denied vital operations by NHS bodies, surgeons report http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/15/patients-denied-operations-nhs-surgeons-report 41:22 - NHS shamed into U-turn as cerebral palsy kids WILL get life-changing operations like Ben Baddeley http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-shamed-u-turn-cerebral-palsy-3876212 About Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) http://www.stlouischildrens.org/our-services/center-cerebral-palsy-spasticity/about-selective-dorsal-rhizotomy-sdr This Week's Quote: "The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber...Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you...The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves “the government,” are directly the opposite of these of the single highwayman." —Lysander Spooner

Bogosity Podcast for 21 July 2014

Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:00:30 +0000

News of the Bogus: 1:46 - 'Six Californias' plan may make 2016 ballot http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/15/six-californias-tim-draper/12661161/ 7:06 - The curious grammar of police shootings http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings/ Right to a Gun vs. Right to Health Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ggkimWfFk 15:38 - Anarchist Protestors Blocked Uber Cars in the Streets of Seattle http://valleywag.gawker.com/anarchist-protestors-blocked-uber-cars-in-the-streets-o-1568739346 22:02 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Damon Linker http://theweek.com/article/index/264546/how-liberalism-became-an-intolerant-dogma 30:15 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike Dawson http://mikedawwwson.tumblr.com/post/91854168921/santrevl-hound-actual-armedplatypus https://twitter.com/mike_daws/status/489084575885570048 https://twitter.com/mike_daws/status/489084892979142656 This Week's Quote: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose this movement." —Abraham Lincoln

Bogosity Podcast for 14 July 2014

Sun, 13 Jul 2014 20:00:16 +0000

Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:33 - In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/ 9:29 - In ‘sexting’ case Manassas City police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner, lawyers say http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/07/09/in-sexting-case-manassas-city-police-want-to-photograph-teen-in-sexually-explicit-manner-lawyers-say/ 17:39 - Man who shot at cops acquitted http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Man-who-shot-at-cops-acquitted-5608077.php 22:30 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland http://www.avclub.com/article/insane-clown-posses-fbi-lawsuit-thrown-out-juggalo-206657 29:32 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The FDA http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/08/health/smallpox-virus-found/index.html This Week's Quote: "The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable." —1977 U.S. Privacy Study Commission

Bogosity Podcast for 7 July 2014

Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:00:47 +0000

Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:52 - Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf 18:17 - EPIC says Facebook 'messed with people's minds,' seeks FTC sanctions - Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249553/EPIC_says_Facebook_messed_with_people_s_minds_seeks_FTC_sanctions 22:17 - Pirate Bay Founders' File-Hosting Site Wiped From Google http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founders-file-hosting-site-wiped-from-google-140628/ 26:35 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Connecticut Regional School District 14 http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/30/ct-school-district-apologizes-for-blocki 36:16 - Silver Cluon Award: The Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.dailydot.com/politics/blimp-nsa-utah-eff-mass-surveillance/ 42:16 - Idiot Extraordinaire: PayPal http://www.zdnet.com/paypal-freezes-out-protonmail-asks-if-startup-has-government-permission-to-encrypt-email-7000031116/ This Week's Quote: "We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." —William O. Douglas

Bogosity Podcast for 30 June 2014

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:00:29 +0000

Co-Host: Jakob Morris News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/supreme-court-bans-warrantless-cell-phone-searches/ 4:41 - Supreme Court Rules 6–3 Against Aereo http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/25/supreme-court-rules-63-against-aereo 21:29 - Blocking sites like Pirate Bay a futile chase: iiNet http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2014/6/24/technology/blocking-sites-pirate-bay-futile-chase-iinet 27:37 - IRS Fired Email-Archiving Firm After Lerner Crash http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/22/irs-cancelled-contract-with-email-storage-firm-weeks-after-lerners-computer-crash/ 31:47 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Lindy Morrison http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-pirate-bay-must-be-fought-for-the-sake-of-exploited-musicians-20140623-zsiqo.html Just As Many Musicians Say File Sharing Helps Them As Those Who Say It Hurts https://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130116/09224321702/just-as-many-musicians-say-file-sharing-helps-them-as-those-who-say-it-hurts.shtml 36:49 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Obama Administration http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/24/pentagon-official-the-obama-kill-memo-is-out-and-libertarians-were-right-its-murder/ This Week's Quote: "Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all." —Edmund Burke

Bogosity Podcast for 23 June 2014

Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:00:12 +0000

Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 3:05 - Whooping cough epidemic declared in California http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/13/health/whooping-cough-california/index.html 9:58 - Supreme Court Rules 9-0 for Susan B. Anthony List in Case Arising from Ohio 'False' Speech Law http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/16/supreme-court-rules-9-0-for-susan-b-anth 16:55 - No more Radiohead: YouTube to ban indie labels, charge for music service http://rt.com/usa/166628-youtube-music-band-ban/ Everyone Calm Down. YouTube Is NOT Going To Remove Music Videos http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/06/17/youtube-not-going-remove-music-videos 26:26 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Dr. Mehmet Oz http://www.popsci.com/article/science/dr-oz-defends-his-pseudoscientific-claims-harmless-flowery-language 35:04 - Idiot Extraordinaire: scientific researchers http://skeptoid.com/blog/2014/06/12/i-want-to-drink-a-homeopathic-preparation-of-hiv-contaminated-blood/ But There's Still A Chance, Right? http://lesswrong.com/lw/ml/but_theres_still_a_chance_right/ 45:21 - Tag: Bowl game's new name is Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24591614/bitcoin-to-be-new-title-sponsor-for-st-petersburg-bowl This Week's Quote: "The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability." —Pierre Simon de Laplace

Bogosity Podcast for 16 June 2014

Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:00:48 +0000

Co-Host: Tim Dyson News of the Bogus: 0:27 - Atheism explodes in Saudi Arabia, despite state-enforced ban http://www.salon.com/2014/06/12/atheism_explodes_in_saudi_arabia_where_just_talking_about_atheism_is_illegal_partner/ 5:23 - Election laws that prevent elections http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/06/10/election-laws-that-prevent-elections/ 9:17 - Islington council refuses to allow shoebox 'studio flat' to be rented out http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jun/05/tiny-apartment-taken-off-the-market-by-islington-borough-council 16:04 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Ingrisano http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/06/artist-trademarks-pi-symbol-enrages-the-web.html 24:15 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Dr. Michael J. Roberts https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140606/08401527494/high-school-principal-cancels-entire-reading-program-to-stop-students-reading-cory-doctorows-little-brother.shtml This Week's Quote: "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." —Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bogosity Podcast for 9 June 2014

Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:00:25 +0000

Co-Host: Dave Turcotte News of the Bogus: 0:54 - Key Senator Leahy drops patent reform bill for now http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/21/us-usa-patents-congress-idUSBREA4K0T920140521 Infamous scanner “patent troll” seeks sanctions—against the government http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/infamous-scanner-patent-troll-seeks-sanctions-against-the-government/ 7:37 - Madagascar Against Monsanto: Madagascar Pranks March Against Monsanto - What is the difference? http://madagainstmonsanto.blogspot.com/2014/05/madagascar-pranks-march-against.html 15:50 - U.S. Food Inflation Running at 22% http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/24/U-S-Food-Inflation-Running-at-22 Deflating Food Package Sizes is Evidence of Inflation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7BOdS3unpg 20:56 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Richard Martinez http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/father-of-victim-in-santa-barbara-shootings-to-politicians-i-dont-care-about-your-sympathy/2014/05/27/8a030d10-e5ad-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html Brady Campaign 2013 Scorecard http://www.bradycampaign.org/sites/default/files/SCGLM-Final10-spreads-points.pdf 31:12 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Big Earl's Restaurant http://happyplace.someecards.com/lgbt/a-tx-restaurant-slurred-and-banned-a-gay-couple-and-theyre-sticking-to-it-their-yelp-page-is-now-fabulous/ This Week's Quote: "Segregation was enforced in the South precisely because so many people were opposed to segregation. You don't pass a law to force people to do what they would do anyway...Without a law mandating segregation, the first white company to hire black workers and serve all customers would have set in motion a train of events that would have made segregation impossible." —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 26 May 2014

Sun, 25 May 2014 20:00:40 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/ 'Country X': WikiLeaks reveals NSA recording 'nearly all' phone calls in Afghanistan http://rt.com/news/160988-wikileaks-nsa-phone-afghanistan/ 7:18 - Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email 12:37 - White House vows CIA will not stage fake vaccine programs https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-vows-cia-not-stage-fake-vaccine-220506787.html 15:21 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anton Purisima http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/05/2-undecillion-dollar-demand.html $2 Undecillion Lawsuit https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/ 17:58 - Silver Cluon Award: Tyler Vigen http://www.tylervigen.com/ 21:47 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Being Liberal https://www.facebook.com/592589870775439/photos/a.592592887441804.1073741828.592589870775439/795910880443336/?type=1 Original graphic: http://www.dailymayo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rights.jpg This Week's Quote: "The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge." —Carl Sagan

Bogosity Podcast for 19 May 2014

Sun, 18 May 2014 20:00:12 +0000

Co-host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Male rape in America: A new study reveals that men are sexually assaulted almost as often as women. http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html 14:25 - Federal Court: The Police Can Stop and Search You for Behaving Innocently http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-bodine/federal-court-the-police-_b_5223918.html 26:42 - Teen Dead After Alabama Police ‘Shoved Sharp Object Into Throat’ to Retrieve Drugs http://appalachianareanews.com/teen-dead-after-alabama-police-cut-throat-open-to-retrieve-drugs/ 32:44 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Milwaukee County Deputy Joseph Quiles (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://fox40.com/2014/05/02/sober-driver-arrested-for-dui-after-deputy-crashes-into-her/ 38:54 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Matthew Yglesias (again), Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl (nominated by BreadGod) http://www.vox.com/2014/4/20/5629904/study-tax-hikes-could-grow-the-economy This Week's Quote: "I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights, human rights are all that I recognize." —Sarah Grimké

Bogosity Podcast for 12 May 2014

Sun, 11 May 2014 21:00:33 +0000

Live Spreecast video: http://www.spreecast.com/events/bogosity-podcast-for-12-may-2014 Co-Hosts: Jakob Morris and Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 3:01 - 17 Facts To Show To Anyone That Still Believes That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-30/17-facts-show-anyone-still-believes-us-economy-just-fine 21:32 - How Net Neutrality Hurts the Poor http://theumlaut.com/2014/04/30/how-net-neutrality-hurts-the-poor/ 29:10 - Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Emails Reveal White House Hid Truths About Benghazi Attack http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/05/03/former-cbs-reporter-sharyl-attkisson-ben 34:13 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Undercover Police Officers in Madison, Pittsburgh, et al http://www.fastcompany.com/3029754/most-innovative-companies/undercover-police-are-targeting-uber-and-lyft-drivers-to-send-a-me 39:03 - Idiot Extraordinaire: NYPD https://www.vocativ.com/culture/media/nypd-twitter-campaign-backfires-catastrophically-within-minutes/ This Week's Quote: "The end move in politics is to pick up a gun." —Buckminster Fuller

Bogosity Podcast for 28 April 2014

Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:30:17 +0000

Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas, Dave Turcotte, and Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 3:18 - Obama Is Still Hiding the Legal Cover He Used to Kill an American http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/obama-still-wants-us-ignorant-about-why-he-thinks-he-can-kill-americans/361018/ The Al-Awlaki Decision: No Triumph for Transparency? http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/04/the-al-awlaki-decision-no-triumph-for-transparency/ 14:21 - The attempted rehabilitation of Mike Nifong http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/04/21/the-attempted-rehabilitation-of-mike-nifong/ 29:40 - Student records being bullied on iPad threatened with felony http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/14/special-ed-student-who-recorded-being-bullied-on-his-ipad-threatened-with-felony-wiretapping-charges/ 41:28 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rand Paul http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/07/Rand-Paul-Does-American-Crossroads-Robocall-To-Thwart-Libertarian-Candidate Did Libertarian Lucas Overby Throw Florida Special Election to Republican Jolly? http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/12/did-libertarian-lucas-overby-throw-flori 50:08 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Unnamed Riverside County, CA Sheriff's Deputy http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/17/calif-tv-station-films-dog-calmly-playing-with-kids-after-cop-shoots-himself-trying-to-kill-it/ This Week's Quote: "The history of human knowledge is nothing more than the realization that yesterday's pieties are actually shameful errors." —Glenn Greenwald

Bogosity Podcast for 21 April 2014

Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:00:30 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:33 - 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers http://m.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/86m-full-time-private-sector-workers-sustain-148m-benefit-takers 4:17 - Citing decades-old claims, feds seize tax refunds http://overlawyered.com/2014/04/federal-government-seizes-tax-refunds-citing-decades-old-claims/ 11:40 - Ron Paul's Group Fined by IRS for Not Handing Over Donor List http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/16/ron-pauls-group-fined-irs-not-handing-over-donor-list 501(c)(4) organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.284.29 13:45 - Organic Marketing Report: Why Consumers Pay more For Organic Foods? Fear Sells and Marketers Know it http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AR_Organic-Marketing-Report_Print.pdf 22:51 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Kirby http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/post2468343_b_2468343.html Genetics and the myth of vaccine encephalopathy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603512/ Idiot Extraordinaire: J. Pepper Bryars http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/libertarianism_isnt_an_alterna.html This Week's Quote: "What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse...People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it." —Eugene Gendlin

Bogosity Podcast for 14 April 2014

Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:00:36 +0000

Co-Host: Jakob Morris News of the Bogus: 0:30 - Support is Ending for Windows XP http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help Windows XP support will be available after April 8—just not for you http://www.pcworld.com/article/2139929/windows-xp-support-will-be-available-after-april-8-just-not-for-you.html Setup Limited Users in Windows XP http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1838566,00.asp 7:40 - The IRS has called bitcoin property, but the Financial Crimes Enforcment Network calls it money http://upstart.bizjournals.com/news/technology/2014/03/28/irs-calls-bitcoin-property.html?page=all IRS Virtual Currency FAQ http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf FIN-2013-G001 http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html 11:21 - Lawsuit: Man Arrested, Searched For Marijuana Solely For Having Colorado License Plate http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/03/28/lawsuit-man-arrested-searched-for-marijuana-solely-for-having-colorado-license-plate/ 16:54 - McCutcheon v. FEC http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-536_e1pf.pdf Here's a Plain-English Explanation of the Huge Supreme Court Decision That Was Made Today http://www.policymic.com/articles/86763/here-s-a-plain-english-explanation-of-the-huge-supreme-court-decision-that-was-made-today 21:00 - Silver Cluon Award: James Wilson and Perry Willis https://secure.downsizedc.org/blog/the-untold-truth-about-the-mccutcheon-decision 25:04 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Adam Weinstein http://gawker.com/arrest-climate-change-deniers-1553719888 32:18 - Idiot Extraordinaire: San Francisco Google Protesters http://mashable.com/2014/04/06/google-ventures-kevin-rose-san-francisco-protesters/ This Week's Quote: "I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls." —John Adams

Bogosity Podcast for 31 March 2014

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:00:22 +0000

Co-Host: Tim Dyson News of the Bogus: 0:32 - Man Arrested For Drinking Iced Tea Could Get Probation, Community Service http://libertycrier.com/man-arrested-drinking-iced-tea-get-probation-community-service/ 3:40 - Teaching grownups: Cancer charity says school can learn from girl banned for going bald http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/25/girl-barred-from-school-for-shaving-her-head-to-support-friend-with-cancer/ 9:35 - Homeopathy product recalled over fears it may contain actual medicine http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/homeopathy-product-recalled-over-fears-it-may-contain-actual-medicine-9217206.html Terra-Medica Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Specified Lots of Pleo Homeopathic Drug Products Due to the Potential for Undeclared Penicillin http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm389832.htm 15:32 - Creationists Complain Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos' Isn't Giving Them Airtime http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/creationists-neil-degrasse-tyson-cosmos-unbalanced 20:44 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Debby Vadja https://www.change.org/petitions/jimmy-wales-founder-of-wikipedia-create-and-enforce-new-policies-that-allow-for-true-scientific-discourse-about-holistic-approaches-to-healing/responses/11054 28:01 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Don Lemon and Mary Schaivo http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-don-lemon-is-it-preposterous-to-think-a-black-hole-caused-flight-370-to-go-missing/ This Week's Quote: "[It's] not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers." —Neil deGrasse Tyson

Bogosity Podcast for 24 March 2014

Sun, 23 Mar 2014 22:00:41 +0000

Co-Host: Jakob Morris News of the Bogus: 0:51 - The Face Behind Bitcoin http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html Who Is The Real Satoshi Nakamoto? One Researcher May Have Found The Answer http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/who-is-the-real-satoshi-nakamoto-one-researcher-may-have-found-the-answer/ 8:05 - German freemail sites trick Firefox & Chrome users into removing AdBlock http://gebloggendings.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/german-freemail-sites-trick-firefox-chrome-users-into-removing-adblock/ German freemail firms defend AdBlock-nobbling campaign http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/03/adblock_nobbling_campaign/ 10:33 - Sex workers rounded up in Arizona and pushed into church-based programs without charges http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/03/sex-workers-rounded-up-in-arizona-and-pushed-into-church-based-programs-without-charges/ 13:12 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Buncombe County, NC Schools (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.wlos.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wlos_-school-bully-concerns-15463.shtml 17:47 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Liberal protesters http://freebeacon.com/blog/koch-brother-donates-money-to-hospital-liberals-protest-not-a-parody/ This Week's Quote: "[T]he human mind in its day-by-day operations cannot bear to look the truth of politics straight in the face. It must disguise, distort, belittle, and embellish the truth—the more so, the more the individual is actively involved in the processes of politics...Thus it is inevitable that a theory which tries to understand international politics as it actually is and as it ought to be in view of its intrinsic nature, rather than as people would like to see it, must overcome a psychological resistance that most other branches of learning need not face." —Hans J. Morgenthau

Bogosity Podcast for 10 March 2014

Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:00:36 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas 0:27 - Update: Twitch Plays Pokémon beats Pokémon http://www.anandtech.com/show/7822/twitch-plays-pokmon-beats-pokmon News of the Bogus: 9:00 - Subway: Stop Using Dangerous Chemicals In Your Bread http://foodbabe.com/subway/ Azodicarbonamide - WHO http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?codlan=1&codcol=38&codcch=16 18:47 - Obama aiming for ‘unilateral disarmament’ http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/obama-aiming-for-unilateral-disarmament/?cat_orig=politics 25:27 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Mark Gongloff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/bitcoin-user-demographics-libertarian-men_n_4874727.html 35:15 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA http://dailyanarchist.com/2014/02/24/the-tsa-is-looking-for-bitcoin/ Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/ This Week's Quote: "Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will." —Nelson Mandela

Bogosity Podcast for 3 March 2014

Sun, 02 Mar 2014 21:00:23 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 2:31 - On the UK’s Equating of Journalism With Terrorism https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/19/uks-equating-journalism-terrorism-designed-conceal-gchq/ 4:10 - Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/12/james-clapper-says-transparency-helps-terrorists-like/ 10:55 - Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s latest bombshell http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_censoring_glenn_greenwalds_latest_bombshell_partner/ 15:10 - Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/ WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Has Cost The Met Police £5.3m During Ecuador Embassy Stay http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/25/julian-assange-policing-cost_n_4853130.html 20:46 - Whistleblower Edward Snowden elected as new rector of Glasgow University http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/whistleblower-edward-snowden-elected-new-3161134 22:17 - Government Monitors in Newsrooms? http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/why-is-obama-administration-putting-government-monitors-in-newsrooms 24:23 - New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena -- and they're fighting back http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/12/new-jersey-slaps-mit-bitcoin-hackers-with-subpoena-and-theyre-fighting-back/ 28:10 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) http://www.businessinsider.com/senator-calls-for-bitcoin-ban-2014-2 34:51 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Jesse Jackson http://www.examiner.com/article/jesse-jackson-claims-semi-automatic-rifles-can-blow-up-railroads 40:17 - Twitch Plays Pokemon conquers Elite Four, beating game after 390 hours http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619740-93/twitch-plays-pokemon-conquers-elite-four-beating-game-after-390-hours/ This Week's Quote: “At the end fiat money returns to its inner value—zero.” —Voltaire

Bogosity Podcast for 17 February 2014

Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:00:18 +0000

Co-Host: Jakob Morris Ed and Ethan 97: http://edandethan.com/podcast/ed-ethan-97-the-michael-w-dean-variety-hour-volume-ii/ News of the Bogus: 0:39 - Texas grand jury refuses to indict homeowner who shot deputy during marijuana raid http://txcann.com/2014/02/06/texas-grand-jury-refuses-to-indict-homeowner-who-shot-deputy-during-marijuana-raid/ 2:55 - Canadians Won’t Be Able To Afford Medical Marijuana Anymore http://www.leafscience.com/2014/02/07/canadians-wont-able-afford-medical-marijuana-anymore/ 4:57 - Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA Surveillance http://reason.com/24-7/2014/02/12/rand-paul-files-suit-against-obama-over 8:58 - Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism) http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/why_youre_wrong_about_communism_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_and_capitalism/ Christianity Debate - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSLkQnCurgs 31:37 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Isocracy Network http://isocracy.org/node/107 36:26 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Iraqi Suicide Bomb Instructor http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/world/middleeast/suicide-bomb-instructor-accidentally-kills-iraqi-pupils.html This Week's Quote: "Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny." —Robert Heinlein

Bogosity Podcast for 10 February 2014

Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:00:51 +0000

Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox News of the Bogus: 1:03 - Gibson Commemorates Fed Raid with Government Series II Les Paul http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/01/gibson-commemorate-fed-raid-with-governm 3:44 - School ditches rules and loses bullies http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/school-ditches-rules-and-loses-bullies-5807957 9:37 - Elementary school takes lunches away from students owing account balances http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/elementary-school-takes-away-students--lunches-due-outstanding-balances-on-accounts-174726995.html 11:22 - Kentucky Senate passes bill to let computer programming satisfy foreign-language requirement http://www.courier-journal.com/viewart/20140128/NEWS0101/301280100/Kentucky-Senate-passes-bill-let-computer-programming-satisfy-foreign-language-requirement 16:11 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: California http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/29/california-regulator-seeks-to-shut-down-learn-to-code-bootcamps/ 19:41 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Suze Orman https://www.change.org/petitions/mandate-the-credit-bureaus-to-include-debit-card-holders-information-on-credit-reports This Week's Quote: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." —John F. Kennedy

Bogosity Podcast for 3 February 2014

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 21:00:29 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:30 - Dutch Court Rules That IP Blocks Are Ineffective Against Piracy http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/28/dutch-court-rules-ip-blocks-ineffective-piracy-unblocks-pirate-bay/ 5:13 - US oversight panel: Gov't should stop collecting phone records; program illegal, ineffective http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/23/us-oversight-panel-govt-should-stop-collecting-phone-records-program-illegal/ 10:00 - Fired red light camera exec says bribery widespread at Redflex http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-01-23/news/ct-redflex-red-light-bribery-20140123_1_redflex-holdings-ltd-company-policy-camera-company Jacksonville's red-light cameras http://jacksonville.com/slideshow/2014-01-29/jacksonvilles-red-light-cameras 14:19 - Man in jail for marijuana is allowed to leave once a month to smoke marijuana http://txcann.com/2014/01/26/man-in-jail-for-marijuana-is-allowed-to-leave-once-a-month-to-smoke-marijuana/ 16:04 - Amanda Knox Verdict: Italian Court Finds American Student Guilty Of Murder http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/amanda-knox-verdict_n_4689258.html 21:03 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Daily Show http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/the-daily-show-minimum-wage_n_4688134.html Workers with Disabilities http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/sec14.asp TV tricks of the trade -- Quotes and cutaways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07NMglQX6gE Richard Dawkins stumped by creationists' question (RAW FTGE) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaKryi3605g 29:45 - Idiot Extraordinaire: China http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-01-23/news/46514138_1_internet-qihoo-sina-com This Week's Quote: "Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear." —Judy Blum

Bogosity Podcast for 27 January 2014

Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:00:16 +0000

Co-Host: Tim Dyson News of the Bogus: 0:33 - Security mishandled pipe bomb, dumped its contents http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/24/security-mishandled-pipe-bomb-dumped-its-contents 2:53 - NSA reforms are little more than window dressing http://offnow.org/2014/01/17/nsa-reforms-window-dressing/ Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/rating-obamas-nsa-reform-plan-eff-scorecard-explained 9:20 - Marijuana Legalization Scares Us, Panicked DEA Official Tells Senators http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/17/marijuana-legalization-scares-us-panicke 13:06 - Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in the Country: Police Officer is NOT on the List http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-top-10-dangerous-jobs-country-tanks/ 18:14 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Air Force http://gizmodo.com/5978125/air-force-uses-martin-luther-king-junior-to-promote-nuclear-warfare Archive of the Air Force's post http://web.archive.org/web/20130216164341/http://www.afgsc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123333051 20:59 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The Economic Policy Institute http://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-statement/ Minimum Wages and Employment http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~dneumark/min_wage_review.pdf This Week's Quote: “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” —Murray Rothbard

Bogosity Podcast for 20 January 2013

Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:00:25 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - The U.S. Government And The Sinaloa Cartel http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1 2:16 - In 2009, Half the World’s Polio Cases Were in India: Today, There Are None http://world.time.com/2014/01/12/india-polio-free-for-three-years/ 7:02 - Ex-Fullerton Officers Found Not Guilty In Beating Death Of Kelly Thomas http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/01/13/jury-reaches-verdict-in-trial-of-ex-fullerton-officers-charged-in-death-of-kelly-thomas/ Jurors' verdict on O.C. officers may hinge on grainy video http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kelly-thomas-20140111,0,1008152.story 14:10 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Weather Channel http://www.thewrap.com/weather-channel-directv-carriage-sam-champion-tca Weather Channel Tries 'Public Safety' Blackmail to Hike Its Fee from DirecTV http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/01/12/weather-channel-tries-public-safety-blackmail-hike-its-fee-directv 17:25 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Rachel Maddow (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9JD2UByv9s This Week's Quote: "Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric." —Thomas Sowell

Bogosity Podcast for 13 January 2014

Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:00:01 +0000

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:28 - Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220 RSA Response To Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship https://blogs.rsa.com/news-media-2/rsa-response/ At least eight security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/07/at-least-six-security-experts-boycott-prominent-security-conference-over-nsa-ties/ 6:28 - E-Cigarettes Packed With Marijuana Oil Set To Boom In Colorado http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pot-boom-e-cigs-sales-set-soar-colo-article-1.1567304 13:40 - The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-uk-porn-filter-blocks-kids-access.html BBC News - Porn filters block sex education websites http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25430582 Porn filter blocks website of MP who campaigned for it http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/porn-filter-blocks-website-of-mp-who-campaigned-for-it-50013120/ 21:10 - Little Support For Snowden Amnesty http://today.yougov.com/news/2014/01/02/little-support-snowden-amnesty/ 29:00 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sherri Tenpenny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraJJp6A7Eo 34:47 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The Young Turks (nominated by Nicholas Henson) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaxCMsdYwcg This Week's Quote: "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern; every class is unfit to govern." —Lord Acton

2013 Wrap-Up

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 23:00:59 +0000

2013 Wrap-up: 0:32 - GOP fighting cellphone freedom http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/12/17/cellphone-airplane-fcc-plane-phonecalls-column/4080271/ 2:30 - Nominated by T dog: Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/ 5:58 - St. Louis Church Ordered To Stop Handing Out Hot Meals To The Homeless http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/12/05/3026611/louis-homeless/ 7:24 - Slate: How Libertarians Failed Gay Rights http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2013/12/30/libertarians_and_gay_rights_the_party_failed_to_take_a_stand.html Libertarian Party 2012 Platform http://www.lp.org/platform 11:39 - Nominated by Charles Thomas: Ethan Couch Sentenced To Probation In Crash That Killed 4 After Defense Argued He Had 'Affluenza' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html 15:08 - Why There Is No Such Thing as a Good Atheist http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pastor-rick-henderson/why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-good-atheist_b_4442287.html Secular morality http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Secular_morality 23:08 - Nominated by Tim Dyson: Barack Obama 24:28 - Silver Cluon Award: Pastor Tyler Smither http://intheparlor.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/what-you-believe-about-homosexuality-doesnt-matter/ 29:18 - Nominated by BlameThe1st: PIV is always rape, ok? http://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/piv-is-always-rape-ok/ 34:46 - Nominated by R.E.H.W.R.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0DsifS9D58 37:25 - Nominated by Jonathan Loesche and Dave Turcotte: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/07/how-video-games-can-help-us-overthrow-capitalism/ 51:49 - Winner: [SPOILERS!] This Week's Quote: "Once you learn that you must earn the love and respect of others, you’ll never expect the impossible and you won’t be disappointed." —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 16 December 2013

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:00:08 +0000

News of the Bogus: 4:06 - Why You Might Want to Rethink Going Gluten-Free http://gizmodo.com/why-you-might-want-to-rethink-going-gluten-free-1475646469 7:07 - Protesters block Google bus in S.F. Mission http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/09/protesters-block-google-bus-in-s-f-mission/ UPDATE: Union organizer shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown 17:39 - Michigan 'Rape Insurance' Bill Passes Into Law http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/michigan-rape-insurance_n_4428432.html 20:37 - ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html 26:40 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jim Edwards http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-libertarian-paradise-would-be-hell-on-earth-2013-12 List of businesses that accept Bitcoin https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade 41:53 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Judge Jean Boyd http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html This Week's Quote: "Responsibility is the price of freedom." —Elbert Hubbard

Bogosity Podcast for 9 December 2013

Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:00:09 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:44 - Sylvia Browne: Dead Psychic's Legacy Riddled With Failed Predictions, Fraud http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/sylvia-browne_n_4317470.html 7:52 - Bitcoin campaign donations have regulators scratching heads http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bitcoin-20131130,0,6288919.story 12:56 - Beyond GDP: Get Ready For A New Way To Measure The Economy http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/11/29/beyond-gdp-get-ready-for-a-new-way-to-measure-the-economy/ The Problem with GDP - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFv_tJs6Jq8 The Economics of a Pure Gold Standard by Mark Skousen http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=bq4dyGzuN7w&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Feconomics-of-a-pure-gold-standard-mark-skousen%252F1102718420 18:13 - Man says police officer threatened to kill his dogs http://fox4kc.com/2013/11/27/man-says-police-officer-threatened-to-kill-his-dogs/ 26:25 - Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted http://www.nature.com/news/study-linking-gm-maize-to-rat-tumours-is-retracted-1.14268 Rat study sparks GM furore http://www.nature.com/news/rat-study-sparks-gm-furore-1.11471 Elsevier Announces Article Retraction from Journal Food and Chemical Toxicology http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-announces-article-retraction-from-journal-food-and-chemical-toxicology 33:21 - Federal Regulation Could Redefine The Word 'Organ,' Jeopardize Bone Marrow Donations http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2013/11/25/federal-regulation-could-re-define-the-word-organ-jeopardize-bone-marrow-donations/ DownsizeDC's Write the Laws Act https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/ 41:28 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Pope Francis http://world.time.com/2013/11/26/pope-francis-denounces-idolatry-of-money-and-tyranny-of-capitalism/ http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html#No_to_the_new_idolatry_of_money 47:06 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Audreanna Phelps http://gawker.com/5812477/woman-sees-god-in-her-leg-veins This Week's Quote: "And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit." —Jean-Baptiste Say

Bogosity Podcast for 18 November 2013

Sun, 17 Nov 2013 21:00:40 +0000

Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Jakob Morris (AnCapBrony) https://twitter.com/AnCapBrony Follow-up: Password Security Facebook Warns Users After Adobe Breach http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/11/facebook-warns-users-after-adobe-breach/ Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/ News of the Bogus: 12:55 - Cops Called for Underboob Cosplay Controversy http://kotaku.com/cops-called-for-underboob-cosplay-controversy-1464257715 15:01 - DOJ Refuses To Let Tech Companies See Legal Arguments It's Making Against Them http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131112/22472025222/doj-refuses-to-let-tech-companies-see-legal-arguments-its-making-against-them.shtml 17:49 - Raising the minimum wage is all the rage, but the winners aren’t who you think http://rare.us/story/raising-the-minimum-wage-is-all-the-rage-but-the-winners-arent-who-you-think/ 24:43 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/obama-denies-you-can-keep-it-videotaped-promises/?sc=1850820228461930801 House approves bill to allow people to keep insurance http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/15/house-cancelled-plans-bill/3576071/ 29:36 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Faith Salie http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57563689/ This Week's Quote: "Politics is an extension of war by other means...Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side...People who would be level-headed about evenhandedly weighing all sides of an issue in their professional life as scientists, can suddenly turn into slogan-chanting zombies when there's a Blue or Green position on an issue." —Eliezer Yudkowsky Note: The Bogosity Podcast will be taking two weeks off for the Thanksgiving holidays. (All right, all right, and the Doctor Who 50th anniversary as well!) See you in December!

Bogosity Podcast for 11 November 2013

Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:00:06 +0000

Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Daniel Wilcox http://www.youtube.com/Tnu1138 News of the Bogus: 0:37 - Greenpeace Golden Rice stance baffling http://www.producer.com/2013/10/greenpeace-golden-rice-stance-baffling/ Feeding Edge | The Big Picture Video Gallery | The Escapist http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2541-Feeding-Edge 6:10 - US court rules proxies, IP switching illegal http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/08/21/proxies-illegal/1 12:04 - 4 On Your Side investigates traffic stop nightmare http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml 17:24 - NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html Brandon Downey - Google+ - This is the big story in tech today: https://plus.google.com/108799184931623330498/posts/SfYy8xbDWGG Mike Hearn - Google+ - The packet capture shown in these new NSA slides shows… https://plus.google.com/+MikeHearn/posts/LW1DXJ2BK8k 25:15 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Canada http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ottawa-commissioning-study-on-prospect-of-3d-printed-guns-1.1506739 British police seize gun parts manufactured from plastic on a 3D printer http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/the-canadian-press/131025/british-police-seize-gun-parts-manufactured-plastic-3d-print World’s First 3D Printed Metal Gun http://blog.solidconcepts.com/industry-highlights/worlds-first-3d-printed-metal-gun/ 30:58 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Adobe http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/04/anatomy-of-a-password-disaster-adobes-giant-sized-cryptographic-blunder/ The top 50 woeful passwords exposed by the Adobe security breach http://grahamcluley.com/2013/11/top-50-passwords-adobe-security-breach/ xkcd: Password Strength http://xkcd.com/936/ xkcd: Encryptic http://xkcd.com/1286/ Take Action Now: Check If You’re Affected by the Adobe Breach http://blog.lastpass.com/2013/11/take-action-now-check-if-youre-affected.html This Week's Quote: "Everytime our leaders say, 'We must make sure this will never happen again,' they do something to assure that it will happen again." —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 4 November 2013

Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:40:10 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:28 - FAA allowing most electronic device use throughout flights http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/travel/faa-portable-electronic-devices/ 5:13 - FBI makes record $28 million Bitcoin bust http://rt.com/usa/bitcoin-fbi-seize-money-770/ 15:26 - Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance "The Incredible Bread Machine" by R.W. Grant http://www.enterpriseintegrators.com/flint/4thr/TomSmithsIncredibleBreadMachinePoem.txt 22:18 - As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/europe-erupts-nsa-spying-chief-government 30:05 - Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/us/federal-prosecutors-in-a-policy-shift-cite-warrantless-wiretaps-as-evidence.html 35:38 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Buchheit (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.nationofchange.org/public-beats-private-six-reasons-why-1382448019 59:12 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Diane Feinstein http://thestateweekly.com/sen-feinsteins-proposed-bill-would-incriminate-anyone-speaking-against-nsas-spying-and-courts/ Feinstein Claims NSA Spying Program Could Have Prevented 9/11 Attacks http://thestateweekly.com/feinstein-claims-nsa-spying-program-could-have-prevented-911-attacks/ Feinstein defends NSA data collection and insists program is 'not surveillance' http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/dianne-feinstein-defends-nsa-data-collection This Week's Quote: "No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." —Thomas Jefferson

Bogosity Podcast for 28 October 2013

Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:00:49 +0000

Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Charles Thomas http://www.youtube.com/user/Dukect News of the Bogus: 1:18 - From the Start, Signs of Trouble at Health Portal http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/politics/from-the-start-signs-of-trouble-at-health-portal.html Obamacare's Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/ ‘So gloriously inept it circles back to amazing’: Obamacare website so bad the ‘error page has an error’ http://twitchy.com/2013/10/12/so-gloriously-inept-it-circles-back-to-amazing-obamacare-website-so-bad-the-error-page-has-an-error/ How to successfully register for health insurance on HealthCare.gov http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/10/tips-for-creating-heathcare-gov-acount/index.htm Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website http://washingtonexaminer.com/canadian-officials-fired-it-firm-behind-troubled-obamacare-website/article/2537101 13:30 - The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/11/the-core-internet-institutions-abandon-the-us-government/ 16:00 - NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html 24:50 - In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High http://www.gallup.com/poll/165392/perceived-need-third-party-reaches-new-high.aspx 30:20 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tom Watson http://www.salon.com/2013/10/21/dont_ally_with_libertarians_ideologues_co_opt_an_anti_nsa_rally/singleton/ Stop Watching Us - A Coalition Against Mass Surveillance https://optin.stopwatching.us/ 41:40 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Rep. George Miller http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4468346 This Week's Quote: "Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept." —Frank Herbert

Bogosity Podcast for 14 October 2013

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:00:16 +0000

Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Jonathan Loesche Great Libertarian Novels That Aren't Atlas Shrugged http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=2197.0 News of the Bogus: 18:15 - The rise and fall of Silk Road http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/the-rise-and-fall-of-silk-road/31845 Why the FBI Can’t Get Its Hands on Silk Road Kingpin’s $80 Million Hoard http://business.time.com/2013/10/11/why-the-fbi-cant-get-its-hands-on-silk-road-kingpins-80-million-hoard/ Bitcoin bounces back after shutdown of Silk Road site http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Bitcoin+bounces+back+after+shutdown+Silk+Road+site/9000011/story.html Arrested Silk Road Vendor Speaks Up But What Were The Police Really After? http://atlantisblog.org/arrested-silk-road-vendor-speaks-up-but-what-were-the-police-really-after/ 23:46 - UNITED STATES v. ONE SOLID GOLD OBJECT IN FORM OF A ROOSTER http://www.leagle.com/decision/1962307208FSupp99_1287 27:58 - Syria rebels executed civilians, says Human Rights Watch http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24486627 30:25 - Two dads fight to be legal parents http://www.theprovince.com/dads+fight+legal+parents/8966671/story.html 35:55 - DOJ To Sue North Carolina Over Voter ID Law, Voting Restrictions http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/north-carolina-voter-id-doj-lawsuit_n_4013976.html 40:30 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: "Deputy Dan" http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/10/09/riverside-cop-tricks-autistic-teen-into 48:14 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Entz Elementary School officials http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/23596179/2013/10/02/officer-dropping-off-daughter-at-school-asked This Week's Quote: "Let all people come in, and vote fairly; it is to support one or the other party, to deny any man's vote." —John Holt

Podcast for 7 October 2013

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 20:00:54 +0000

Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:28 - Shutdown Theater: NPS Orders Closure Of Park That Receives No Federal Funding http://libertycrier.com/shutdown-theater-nps-orders-closure-park-receives-federal-funding/ White House Ordering Hundreds of Privately Run, Privately Funded Parks to Close http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/shutdown-white-house-ordering-privately-run-privately-funded-parks-to-close/ Rushmore blockage stirs anger in S.D. http://siouxfallsbusinessjournal.argusleader.com/article/20131004/UPDATES/310040047/S-D-officials-object-feds-barring-visitors-from-highway-viewing-areas-near-Mount-Rushmore Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html 11:10 - Obamacare On Hold http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanedk/10100703256/ Trader Joe's To Drop Health Coverage For Part-Time Workers Under Obamacare: Memo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/trader-joes-obamacare_n_3902341.html UPDATED: Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Didn't Really Buy Insurance http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/04/obamacare-chad-henderson-father/ Most Obamacare enrollment applications flawed http://www.cnbc.com/id/101087965 28:35 - How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/03/228878659/how-snowdens-email-provider-tried-to-foil-the-fbi-using-tiny-font 34:05 - All signs point to the obvious with the War on Drugs as supply is up and prices are down http://txcann.com/2013/10/02/all-signs-point-to-the-obvious-with-the-war-on-drugs-as-supply-is-up-and-prices-are-down/ The temporal relationship between drug supply indicators: an audit of international government surveillance systems http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/9/e003077.abstract?sid=779f6f3f-d4e6-4643-a14c-01de5a8a3ef3 P&T Doughnuts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u59-PoxbwE 40:15 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Ed Schultz http://www.mediaite.com/tv/serious-racism-here-ed-schultz-insists-gops-shutdown-showdown-motivated-by-hate/ 47:57 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/09/28/Driving-affects-ovary-and-pelvis-Saudi-sheikh-warns-women.html Saudis fear there will be "no more virgins" and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068810/Saudis-fear-virgins-people-turn-gay-female-drive-ban-lifted.html Catch-22: http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=bq4dyGzuN7w&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Fcatch-22-joseph-heller%252F1100216099 This Week's Quote: “The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.” —Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Bogosity Podcast for 30 September 2013

Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:00:15 +0000

Co-Host: Tim Dyson News of the Bogus: 3:54 - Climate change report: "extremely likely" sure humans are responsible http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/world/climate-change-report/index.html 11:27 - Close the N.S.A.’s Back Doors http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/close-the-nsas-back-doors.html RSA Tells Its Developer Customers: Stop Using NSA-Linked Algorithm http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/rsa-advisory-nsa-algorithm/ 15:50 - Has zero tolerance gone too far http://www.wavy.com/news/local/va-beach/has-zero-tolerance-gone-too-far 21:55 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jason Linkins and Sean O'Neal http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/altas-shrugged-kickstarter_n_3982081.html 27:34 - Silver Cluon Award: Don Lemon (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-host-don-lemon-ive-read-the-cdc-study-on-guns-and-it-made-me-rethink-my-views-2013-9/ 33:25 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Nancy Pelosi (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/22/sotu.01.html DownsizeDC.org's "One Subject at a Time Act" (OSTA) https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/ This Week's Quote: “We need to understand that the more government spends, the more freedom is lost. Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.” —Ron Paul

Bogosity Podcast for 23 September 2013

Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:00:06 +0000

Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:27 - Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Navy Yard shooting shows need for video game registry, not gun control http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/17/fox-news-hasselbeck-navy-yard-shooting-shows-need-for-video-game-registry-not-gun-control/ Grand Theft Auto 5 hits $1 billion in three days, sets new record http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/20/4752380/grand-theft-auto-5-hits-1-billion-in-three-days-sets-new-record 6:50 - Charter schools need to be true to mission http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/12/3189376/charters-future.html 11:55 - 'Breaking Bad' creator: 'Streaming video-on-demand saved the show' http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s166/breaking-bad/interviews/a510120/breaking-bad-creator-streaming-video-on-demand-saved-the-show.html Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc 19:56 - CBS 2 Investigation: Underground — And Illegal — NYC Dinner Parties http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/11/cbs-2-investigation-underground-and-illegal-nyc-dinner-parties/ 27:45 - Senate panel brings federal law one step closer to kneecapping bloggers http://www.examiner.com/article/senate-panel-brings-federal-law-one-step-closer-to-kneecapping-bloggers Bill to protect journalists clears Senate panel http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-shield-law-20130913,0,4553946.story 33:31 - U.S. measles cases in 2013 may be most in 17 years - CNN.com http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/health/worst-measles-year/index.html 36:45 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Matt Walsh http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/09/13/christianity-has-done-more-for-science-than-atheism-ever-could/ Frazz Comic Strip, July 28, 2013 on GoComics.com http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2013/07/28#.UjyDIBC2Ygs 45:37 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Brynne Larson and Tess and Savannah Scherkenback http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23986595 Sexually Transmitted Demons a Menace Say Teen Exorcists http://guardianlv.com/2013/08/sexually-transmitted-demons-a-menace-say-teen-exorcists/ This Week's Quote: “The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.” —J.K. Rowling

Bogosity Podcast for 16 September 2013

Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:00:37 +0000

Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche, Tim Dyson, and Dave Turcotte News of the Bogus: 1:43 - Obama tells nation he's pursuing diplomacy with Syria http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/10/obama-syria-prime-time-speech-russia-france-congress/2791373/ 4:48 - Google rejects music industry request to remove Pirate Bay homepage http://rt.com/news/google-pirate-bay-removal-704/ Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-uses-pirate-sites-to-determine-what-shows-to-buy-130914/ 12:15 - State judge rules Indiana's right-to-work law unconstitutional http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/state-judge-rules-indiana-s-right-to-work-law-unconstitutional/article_100077d0-6ee9-5d33-88bf-0bc261c9ae3e.html Lake Superior Court Ruling on Right To Work http://www.scribd.com/doc/166888508/Lake-Superior-Court-Ruling-on-Right-To-Work 14:46 - Iowa grants gun permits to the blind http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/iowa-grants-gun-permits-to-the-blind/2780303/ 25:50 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Rose http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html 35:34 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Nick Hanauer & Eric Liu (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-05/libertarians-are-the-new-communists.html This Week's Quote: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” —Ernest Hemingway

Bogosity Podcast for 9 September 2013

Sun, 08 Sep 2013 20:00:24 +0000

Co-Host: Dave Turcotte https://www.facebook.com/TheSuperplexBros News of the Bogus: 1:02 - King of Copyright: On the 50th anniversary of 'I have a dream', Martin Luther King's estate limits use of landmark speech http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/08/26/king-copyright-50th-anniversary-i-have-dream-martin-luther-kings-estate-limits-use Estate of Martin Luther King v. CBS, Inc. http://www.leagle.com/decision/19991405194F3d1211_11278 4:05 - In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-historic-vote-new-zealand-bans-software-patents/ U.S. GAO - Intellectual Property: Assessing Factors That Affect Patent Infringement Litigation Could Help Improve Patent Quality http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-465 8:42 - Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/aug/31/microsoft-google-sue-us-fisa 10:45 - Nonprofit says it was threatened with arrest for feeding Raleigh homeless http://www.wral.com/nonprofit-says-it-was-threatened-with-arrest-for-feeding-raleigh-homeless/12815894/ 15:05 - Does law allow city’s huddle on Panthers? http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/27/4268208/does-law-allow-citys-huddle-on.html 16:55 - Documents Still Show No Evidence of Excrement at Abortion Debate http://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/26/dps-documents-show-no-proof-excrements/ 19:35 - Russia Raids Gay People's Homes http://www.advocate.com/news/world-news/2013/08/28/russia-raids-gay-peoples-homes 21:55 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Allison Benedikt (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/private_school_vs_public_school_only_bad_people_send_their_kids_to_private.html 27:20 - Idiot Extraordinaire: David Miranda http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/partner-of-nsa-leaks-reporter-carried-paper-with-password-says-uk/ This Week's Quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” —John F. Kennedy

Bogosity Podcast for 26 August 2013

Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:00:13 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-to-sentence-bradley-manning-today/2013/08/20/85bee184-09d0-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/PSATSFV.PDF Lengthy prison term for Bradley Manning http://en.rsf.org/united-states-lengthy-prison-term-for-bradley-21-08-2013,45087.html 4:05 - Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa 8:20 - Britain forced Guardian to destroy copy of Snowden material http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/19/us-usa-security-snowden-guardian-idUSBRE97I10E20130819 9:10 - Lavabit.com owner: 'I could be arrested' for resisting surveillance order http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-lavabitcom-owner-i-could-be-arrested-for-resisting-surveillance-order 12:20 - Laws That Target Homeless Imperil Programs That Feed Them Outdoors http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/30/156328035/philadelphia-bans-serving-food-to-the-homeless-in-public 14:35 - Raped and Impregnated at 14, Girl Must Now Share Parental Rights with Her Attacker http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/raped-and-impregnated-14-girl-must-now-share-parental-rights-her-attacker?paging=off 18:30 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Republican and Democratic State Lawmakers (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/nightline-fix-abc-news/why-texas-bans-sale-tesla-cars-140842349.html 22:05 - Idiot Extraordinaire:Lu Ann Ballew (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.wbir.com/news/article/283997/2/Judge-orders-babys-name-be-changed-from-Messiah This Week's Quote: “I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.” —Calvin Coolidge

Bogosity Podcast for 19 August 2013

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:00:20 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Private citizens pick up the slack as Detroit cuts public services http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/18/private-citizens-pick-up-the-slack-as-public-services-cut/ 1:55 - Bradley Manning's maximum sentence reduced to a possible 90 years http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/06/bradley-manning-sentence-reduced-90-years 4:32 - Father of foster child who died speaks to KVUE http://www.kvue.com/news/Father-of-murdered-foster-child-speaks-to-KVUE-218037541.html 6:25 - Exclusive - U.S. directs agents to cover up programme used to investigate Americans http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/uk-dea-sod-idUKBRE9740HP20130805 10:10 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-we-don-t-have-domestic-spying-program_745680.html 12:00 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Jillian Berman (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/rich-americans-hoarding-cash_n_3720941.html FRB: Interest on Required Balances and Excess Balances http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reqresbalances.htm This Week's Quote: "Investors are not necessarily competing with one another, as though the investment markets were a 'zero sum game.' If they were, they'd have died out years ago—replaced by casinos that offered free drinks as you gamble." —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 5 August 2013

Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:00:06 +0000

Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 0:29 - Internet cafe reopens, pays out cash http://www.news4jax.com/news/internet-cafe-reopens-pays-out-cash/-/475880/21230090/-/knm4yr/-/index.html 3:10 - Bradley Manning verdict http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-bradley-manning-verdict-20130730,0,5272878.story Bradley Manning leak did not result in deaths by enemy forces, court hears http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-sentencing-hearing-pentagon 7:50 - Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys/ Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/ 15:00 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/uk-usa-security-congress-idUKBRE96O17W20130725 DownsizeDC.org's "One Subject at a Time Act" (OSTA) https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/ 18:25 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Bernie of Planck's Constant http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2013/07/electronic_cigarettes_should_be_banned_as_well.html This Week's Quote: "So if you smoke or dip or chew / You'd better get your fill / 'Cause if tobacco don't get you / An anti-smoker will" —Mike Cross

Bogosity Podcast for 29 July 2013

Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:00:51 +0000

Co-Host: Tim Dyson News of the Bogus: 0:34 - Innovative move on e-voting from Estonia http://www.markpack.org.uk/44337/innovative-move-on-e-voting-from-estonia/ 4:10 - Royal Mail privatization pushes the envelope http://www.timesdispatch.com/business/local/biz-to-go-royal-mail-privatization-pushes-the-envelope/article_296de09d-d608-546b-928f-7d2087509280.html 8:35 - Argentina orders wheat industry to supply local market http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/05/argentina-wheat-idUSL2N0FB0IU20130705 Argentina CPI rise more-than-expected By Investing.com http://www.investing.com/news/economic-indicators/argentina-cpi-rise-more-than-expected-250204 President Announces Price Control Programme http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/president-announces-price-control-programme/ 13:40 - Is flashing your car’s headlights protected by the First Amendment? http://news.yahoo.com/flashing-car-headlights-protected-first-amendment-103216345.html 17:00 - Justice Department To Review George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin Case http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/14/justice-department-george-zimmerman_n_3595835.html?1373832613&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 19:45 - DHS warns employees not to read leaked NSA information http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/07/15/dhs-warns-employees-not-to-read-leaked-nsa-information/ The NSA slide you haven't seen http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-nsa-slide-you-havent-seen/2013/07/10/32801426-e8e6-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html 24:40 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Melissa Harris Perry (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://youngcons.com/msnbc-political-analyst-detroit-is-what-happens-when-government-is-too-small/ 29:25 - Idiot Extraordinaire: KTVU http://gawker.com/ktvu-reports-asiana-air-pilots-were-sum-ting-wong-and-759185714 This Week's Quote: "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." —Robert Heinlein

Bogosity Podcast for 15 July 2013

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:00:27 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - Oops: IRS publishes tens of thousands of SSNs to online database http://www.dailydot.com/news/irs-public-resource-social-security-numbers-publish-database/ Why We Asked the I.R.S. to Temporarily Turn the Lights Off on Section 527 Data https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/doc/irs.gov.20130707.html 3:25 - US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/us-agency-baffled-by-modern-technology-destroys-mice-to-get-rid-of-viruses/ 6:25 - Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/07/5549696/female-inmates-sterilized-in-california.html 9:05 - US Drones Bomb Civilian Rescuers - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/us-drones-bomb-civilian-rescuers-2013-7 12:26 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: T. Steelman http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/06/have-we-all-been-fooled-by-edward-snowden/ 16:10 - Idiot Extraordinaire: State of Florida http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/07/florida_may_have_accidentally.php Law 3037/2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_3037/2002 This Week's Quote: "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." —William Butler Yeats

Bogosity Podcast for 8 July 2013

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:50:41 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Stardust owner cited for selling product with ties to... http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/stardust-owner-cited-selling-product-ties-brookhav/nYQ87/ 2:25 - "It must have been your fault. C'mon. You are a biker." http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19284/it-must-have-been-your-fault-cmon-you-are-a-biker/ 7:30 - Measles sufferer Gareth Colfer-Williams died from pneumonia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23135464 10:20 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sherwin Smith (nominated by Daniel Wilcox) http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130621/NEWS02/306210110/Official-Water-complaints-could-act-terrorism- 14:20 - Silver Cluon Award: Edward Snowden (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://wikileaks.org/Statement-from-Edward-Snowden-in.html 17:00 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike Adams (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.infowars.com/illiterate-rambling-defense-witness-rachel-jeantel-is-a-victim-of-brain-damaging-mass-fluoridation-vaccines-and-nutrient-depleted-foods/ This Week's Quote: "Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me." —Edward Snowden

Bogosity Podcast for 1 July 2013

Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:00:49 +0000

Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Jonathan Loesche Supreme Court Special: 1:58 - Vance v. Ball State University http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-556_11o2.pdf 6:10 - Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-399_8mj8.pdf 12:30 - Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-1447_4e46.pdf 17:20 - Shelby County v. Holder http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf 25:00 - Hollingsworth v. Perry http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf 29:30 - United States v. Windsor http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_6j37.pdf 34:05 - Conclusion This Week's Quote: "It is not a Justice System. It is just a system." —Bob Enyart

Bogosity Podcast for 24 June 2013

Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:00:32 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Supreme Court Ruling On Gene Patenting May Be A Boon For Biotech Startups http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/supreme-court-ruling-on-gene-patenting-may-be-a-boon-for-biotech-startups/ 2:20 - The Supreme Court Decided Your Silence Can Be Used Against You http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/supreme-court-salinas-v-texas-ruling-explained/66309/ Help keep this podcast going! Donate via PayPal: http://j.mp/ShaneDK-Donate Or Bitcoin: 12aTQ8JHGGmamRew2bVMtLXy556myTLyM4 7:55 - 'The worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Galileo': Scientists call for drugs to be legalised to allow proper study of their properties http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-worst-case-of-scientific-censorship-since-the-catholic-church-banned-the-works-of-galileo-scientists-call-for-drugs-to-be-legalised-to-allow-proper-study-of-their-properties-8654514.html A clear danger from cannabis http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/29/cannabis-schizophrenia-classification 12:15 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco International Airport http://news.yahoo.com/rental-car-co-run-teenagers-undercuts-hertz-avis-142119464.html 15:25 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Rep. John Larson (D-CT) http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/06/13/democrat-not-fair-to-subject-congress-to-obamacare-just-like-everyone-else/ This Week's Quote: "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." —P.J. O'Rourke

Bogosity Podcast for 17 June 2013

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:00:32 +0000

Co-host: Tim Dyson http://www.youtube.com/lordthawkeye News of the Bogus: 0:36 - Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance PRISM (surveillance program) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) 7:25 - Chuck E. Cheese Busted For Gambling? New Florida Law Prohibits Gaming Machines For Prizes http://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/27805/20130515/chuck-e-cheese-gambling-games-florida.htm Purchase web services at GoDaddy by 6/30/2013 and get 35% off by typing in the code: WOWNOBOGON http://www.godaddy.com 11:35 - Analysis: Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-usa-obama-liberties-analysis-idUSBRE94E06I20130515 16:35 - Cop Shot Litter of Kittens in Front of Screaming Children http://www.alternet.org/cop-shot-litter-kittens-front-screaming-children Visit LibertyClassroom.com and get $11 off your first year with the promo code BOGOSITY http://www.libertyclassroom.com Biggest Bogon Emitter: Surprise, AZ Police Department http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_west_valley/surprise/surprise-man-charged-with-dui--documents-show-a-drug-recognition-experts-said-no-impairment-present Idiot Extraordinaire: City of Hartford, CT (nominated by Daniel Wilcox) http://news.yahoo.com/barber-paid-hugs-kicked-conn-park-170423520.html Anthony Cymerys, Barber Evicted From Park After Giving Haircuts To Homeless For Hugs, Allowed Back http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/anthony-cymerys-free-haircuts_n_3441536.html This Week's Quote: "A scandal is when you find out how a State agency or bureau really works. Firings and reform are the minimalist tools to salve your anger. Then, it's time to get back to scandalous behavior, this time more shrewdly disguised from you." —Jim Babka

Bogosity Podcast for 3 June 2013

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:00:39 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Like your health care policy? You may be losing it http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52036496/ns/local_news-charleston_sc/t/your-health-care-policy-you-may-be-losing-it/ 3:00 - EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10064787/EU-to-ban-olive-oil-jugs-from-restaurants.html Purchase web services at GoDaddy by 6/30/2013 and get 35% off by typing in the code: WOWNOBOGON http://www.godaddy.com 6:00 - Topless Women in Public Not Breaking the Law, Says NYPD http://www.policymic.com/articles/42359/topless-women-in-public-not-breaking-the-law-says-nypd 9:45 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rand Paul http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-rand-paul-aggressively-courting-evangelicals-to-win-over-gop-establishment/2013/05/12/d917ccb4-b8af-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html Visit LibertyClassroom.com and get $11 off your first year with the promo code BOGOSITY http://www.libertyclassroom.com 13:35 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Hungary http://www.realfarmacy.com/hungary-destroys-all-monsanto-gmo-corn-fields/ This Week's Quote: "It is a terrible tragedy of life that the innocent so often have to suffer for the sins of the guilty." —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 20 May 2013

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:00:25 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Flu in pregnancy may quadruple child's risk for bipolar disorder http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130514101459.htm Taliban renounces war on anti-polio workers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/10053981/Taliban-renounces-war-on-anti-polio-workers.html 2:45 - North Carolina Tesla ban? Bill would prevent "unfair competition" with car dealerships. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/13/north_carolina_tesla_ban_bill_would_prevent_unfair_competition_with_car.html Purchase web services at GoDaddy by 5/31/2013 and get 35% off by typing in the code: WOWNOBOGON http://www.godaddy.com 6:10 - Most Transparent Administration in History Releases Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/most-transparent-administration-in-histo FBI Documents Suggest Feds Read Emails Without a Warrant http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/fbi-documents-suggest-feds-read-emails-without-warrant Totally Redacted FOIA response http://www.scribd.com/doc/141222327/Totally-Redacted-FOIA-response CRM-7.pdf http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/email-content-foia/DOJ%20Crim%20Div%20docs/CRM-7.pdf 8:30 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: NaturalNews http://www.naturalnews.com/040334_Angelina_Jolie_double_mastectomy_breast_cancer_prevention.html Visit LibertyClassroom.com and get $11 off your first year with the promo code BOGOSITY http://www.libertyclassroom.com 16:35 - Idiot Extraordinaire: City of Keene, NH http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/city-sues-robin-hood-group-over-parking-meter-223952852.htmlHow One ‘Robin Hood’ Saved 2,000 Parking Tickets http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/05/16/How-One-Robin-Hood-Saved-2000-Parking-Tickets.aspx This Week's Quote: "That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed." —Algernon Sydney

Bogosity Podcast for 13 May 2013

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:00:21 +0000

0:23 - Update: US government orders removal of Defcad 3D-gun designs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22478310 News of the Bogus: 1:55 - Too much caffeine has FDA worried, considering regulations http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/22189611/fda-considering-regulating-caffeine FDA accused of silencing Vioxx warnings http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6205699/ Purchase web services at GoDaddy by 5/31/2013 and get 35% off by typing in the code: WOWNOBOGON http://www.godaddy.com 5:55 - Rasmussen Poll: Nullification Goes Mainstream http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/05/06/rasmussen-poll-nullification-goes-mainstream/ 8:00 - Minnesota likely 12th state for gay marriage http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/05/09/minnesota-likely-12th-state-for-gay-marriage/ Visit LibertyClassroom.com and get $11 off your first year with the promo code BOGOSITY http://www.libertyclassroom.com 11:15 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Peter Sprigg http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/05/when-christians-become-a-hated-minority/ 14:05 - Silver Cluon Award: Peter Hadfield (Potholer54) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ6Z04VJDco 17:30 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Sylvia Browne http://www.livescience.com/29394-psychic-claimed-amanda-berry-dead.html This Week's Quote: "The psychic business is built on lies. There is no supernatural power. You can't see the future. We're in the golden age of the con. There are people coming out of the woodwork that would love to separate you from your money. But people just want someone to talk to. That's the bottom line." —Mark Edward

Bogosity Podcast for 6 May 2013

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:00:54 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - Evidence al-Qaida “received” WikiLeaks information permitted in Manning trial http://www.salon.com/2013/04/10/evidence_al_qaida_received_wikileaks_information_permitted_in_manning_trial/ 2:15 - John Paulk Apologizes for Ex-Gay Gospel, Wife Says She'll Pray for Him http://www.pqmonthly.com/update-john-paulk-apologizes-for-ex-gay-gospel-wife-ann-says-shell-pray-for-him/14177 Order new services at GoDaddy.com before 5/31/2013 and get 35% off by typing in the code: WOWNOBOGON http://www.godaddy.com 5:28 - The first entirely 3D-printed handgun is here | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/the-first-entirely-3d-printed-handgun-is-here/ 7:45 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/health/us-will-appeal-order-on-morning-after-pill.html Visit LibertyClassroom.com and get $11 off your first year with the promo code BOGOSITY http://www.libertyclassroom.com 12:10 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Polk County (Florida) School District http://www.wtsp.com/news/reporter/article/312878/79/Teen-girl-arrested-for-science-project-gone-bad Florida Teen Girl Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/04/florida_teen_girl_charged_with.php On stifling scientific curiosity, in the most egregious way possible. http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=14864 State Attorney Jerry Hill: Drop charges against Kiera Wilmot http://www.change.org/petitions/state-attorney-jerry-hill-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot This Week's Quote: "Is it the mask or majesty of Power / To make offences that it may forgive?" —Fulke Greville

Bogosity Podcast for 22 April 2013

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:00:36 +0000

Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Tim Dyson News of the Bogus: 0:50 - How the Boston Marathon tragedy revealed the best side of social media http://io9.com/why-the-boston-marathon-bomb-gives-us-hope-for-the-futu-473037383 The 5 Worst Media Reactions to the Boston Marathon Bombing http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/04/15/the-5-worst-media-reactions-to-the-boston-marathon-bombing/ Harvard atheists shocked at exclusion from Boston bombing memorial service http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/18/harvard-atheists-shocked-at-exclusion-from-boston-bombing-memorial-service/ 13:10 - Internet cafe employees protest loss of jobs http://www.news4jax.com/news/Internet-cafe-employees-protest-loss-of-jobs/-/475880/19781336/-/13dnh7mz/-/index.html Veteran at risk of homelessness after house provided by Allied Veterans could be seized http://jaxairnews.jacksonville.com/news/premium-news/2013-03-28/story/veteran-risk-homelessness-after-house-provided-allied-veterans Save 35% at GoDaddy by using the code WOWNOBOGON before 4/30/2013! http://www.godaddy.com 20:00 - Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Guards Fire Four Non-Lethal Shots, Force Detainees Into Single Cells http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/13/guantanamo-hunger-strike_n_3076689.html Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html 24:25 - Suicide Note Shows Parolee ‘Ruined’ by Solitary, Bent on Revenge http://coloradoindependent.com/127520/ebel-friend-suicide-note-shows-parolee-%E2%80%98ruined%E2%80%99-by-solitary-bent-on-revenge Sign up at LibertyClassroom.com with the promo code BOGOSITY and your first year is just $88! http://www.libertyclassroom.com 30:55 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Andrew Wakefield and The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/full-statement-by-mmr-scare-doctor-andrew-wakefield-the-government-has-tried-to-cover-up-putting-price-before-childrens-health-8570596.html?origin=internalSearch ‘Balderdash’ – expert’s damning verdict on the latest claims of discredited MMR scaremonger Andrew Wakefield http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/balderdash--experts-damning-verdict-on-the-latest-claims-of-discredited-mmr-scaremonger-andrew-wakefield-8570594.html Vaccine and autism: UK measles outbreaks and Andrew Wakefield http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/04/14/vaccine_and_autism_uk_measles_outbreaks_and_andrew_wakefield.html Letter from the Editor: Wakefield’s MMR rant was read out of context http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/letter-from-the-editor-wakefields-mmr-rant-was-read-out-of-context-8580906.html?origin=internalSearch 36:55 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Saudi Arabia http://gawker.com/5994825/men-deemed-too-handsome-deported-from-saudi-arabia-for-fear-they-would-be-irresistible-to-women This Week's Quote: "The terrorists don't hate America because of its freedoms. The Republicans and Democrats hate America because of its freedom. The terrorists hate America because of the Republicans and Democrats." —John Shuey

Bogosity Podcast for 15 April 2013

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:00:48 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - 7 Year Old Nabbed On Felony BB Gun Charges http://janmorganmedia.com/2013/04/7-year-old-nabbed-on-felony-bb-gun-charges/ 2:10 - Fox Sending Cease & Desist To Firefly Fans For Jayne Hat http://www.themarysue.com/jayne-hats-fox/ Dear Big Damn Heroes http://www.wearwithstyle.com/Jayneletter.html 5:30 - Maryland Governor Taxes Rain http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/10/Maryland-governor-taxes-rain Order new services at GoDaddy.com before 4/30/2013 and get 35% off by typing in the code: WOWNOBOGON http://www.godaddy.com 8:25 - Guantanamo pretrial hearing delayed as legal files vanish http://news.yahoo.com/guantanamo-pretrial-hearing-delayed-legal-files-vanish-153644319.html 10:25 - Obama’s drone war kills ‘others,’ not just al Qaida leaders http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/09/188062/obamas-drone-war-kills-others.html 12:55 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Bill Maher (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.mediaite.com/tv/no-the-actual-libertarian-movement-didnt-go-nuts-its-just-the-one-inside-bill-mahers-head/ Is Bill Maher a libertarian? http://www.salon.com/2001/08/01/maher_4/ Visit LibertyClassroom.com and get $11 off your first year with the promo code BOGOSITY http://www.libertyclassroom.com 18:45 - Idiot Extrarodinaire: Paul Krugman http://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/www.redherring.com/mag/issue55/economics.html This Week's Quote: "The invention of firearms equalized the vassal and the noble on the field of battle; the art of printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; the post brought knowledge alike to the door of the cottage and to the gate of the palace." —Alexis de Tocqueville

Bogosity Podcast for 8 April 2013

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:00:26 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Ex-Atlanta Schools Chief Charged in Cheating Scandal - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/us/former-school-chief-in-atlanta-indicted-in-cheating-scandal.html 4:10 - Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/10/12/florida-passes-plan-for-racially-based-academic-goals/ Purchase web services at GoDaddy by 4/30/2013 and get 35% off by typing in the code: WOWNOBOGON http://www.godaddy.com 6:30 - N.Y. Dad’s Pistol License Suspended Over Something His 10-Year-Old Son Said — and It Could Be 8 Years Before He Gets It Back http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/04/n-y-dads-pistol-license-suspended-over-something-his-10-year-old-son-said-and-it-could-be-8-years-before-he-gets-it-back/ 10:05 - Special Report: How the Fed Fueled an Explosion in Subprime Auto Loans http://finance.yahoo.com/news/special-report-fed-fueled-explosion-subprime-auto-loans-110501752.html Learn the economics you need to know! http://libertyclassroom.bogosity.tv 13:30 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Gian Paolo Vanoli http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/vaccines-produce-homosexuality-gay-gian-paolo-vanoli_n_2992953.html 18:10 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html This Week's Quote: "Don't need to change the system. Change your minds, System will change by itself." —Malala Yousafzai

Bogosity Podcast for 1 April 2013

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:00:48 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Disruptions: F.A.A. May Loosen Curbs on Fliers’ Use of Electronics http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/disruptions-f-a-a-may-loosen-curbs-on-fliers-use-of-electronics/ Cell Phones on Airplanes http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4014 3:10 - The Obamacare Revolt: Physicians Fight Back Against the Bureaucratization of Health Care http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/13/the-obamacare-revolt-physician-fight-bac 6:30 - Tennessee Asset Forfeiture Bill Seeks To Abolish Abusive Police Practice http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/tennessee-asset-forfeiture_n_2933246.html 8:45 - A Drug Dog at Your Door is a Search, Supreme Court Says http://reason.com/blog/2013/03/26/a-drug-dog-at-your-door-is-a-search-supr Purchase GoDaddy.com services with the code WOWNOBOGON and get 20% off! http://www.godaddy.com 12:50 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Marc5Solas http://marc5solas.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/top-10-reasons-our-kids-leave-church/ Iron Chariots Wiki: http://wiki.ironchariots.org The Atheist Experience: http://atheist-experience.com/ 21:45 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Senator Elizabeth Warren http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/elizabeth-warren-minimum-wage_n_2900984.html The wedges between productivity and median compensation growth http://www.epi.org/publication/ib330-productivity-vs-compensation/ This Week's Quote: "The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel." —H.L. Mencken

Bogosity Podcast for 18 March 2013

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:00:19 +0000

0:20 - Guest: Jim Babka http://www.downsizedc.org/ Coal Beds, Creationism, and Mount St. Helens http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mtsthelens.html Young-Earth Creationist ‘Dating’ of a Mt. St. Helens Dacite: The Failure of Austin and Swenson to Recognize Obviously Ancient Minerals http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/mt_st_helens_dacite_kh.htm How Old Is the Mount St. Helens Lava Dome? http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4146 News of the Bogus: 9:15 - Judge Halts New York City Soda Ban http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826704578354543929974394.html Soda ban ruling a devastating defeat for Mayor Bloomberg http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/11/soda-ban-ruling-a-devastating-defeat-for-mayor-bloomberg/ 13:15 - Man left in solitary confinement for 2 years gets $15.5 million settlement http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17212442-man-left-in-solitary-confinement-for-2-years-gets-155-million-settlement 16:05 - Over 100 Guantanamo inmates “on hunger strike,” possibly in grave condition http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-massive-hunger-strike-142/ 17:50 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Bernie Sanders http://www.politicususa.com/bernie-sanders-files-constitutional-amendment-undo-citizens-united.html The Democracy is for People Amendment http://www.sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/031213-CUAmendmentFactSheet1.pdf 33:10 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ed Orcutt (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.examiner.com/article/wash-state-politician-says-bicycles-bad-for-environment-need-to-be-taxed The Seattle Department of Transportation Annual Report 2009 http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/docs/2009AnnualReport.pdf This Week’s Quote: “But can you PRINT ‘Fire’ in a crowded theatre?” —Michael Cloud

Bogosity Podcast for 4 March 2013

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Louisiana Forces Homeless Shelter To Destroy $8,000 Worth Of Deer Meat http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/02/25/louisiana-forces-homeless-shelter-to-destroy-8000-worth-of-deer-meat/ 5:00 - Bill would require NC schools to teach cursive handwriting http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/24/3872044/bill-would-require-nc-schools.html 8:35 - H.R.748 - To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 25 to perform national service http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/748/titles Selective Draft Law Cases - 245 U.S. 366 (1918) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/245/366/case.html 15:05 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tabatha Coffey https://www.facebook.com/officialtabatha Why Is It So Hard to Become a Cosmetologist in America? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-16/why-is-it-so-hard-to-become-a-cosmetologist-in-america-.html Hairbraider to Utah Legislature: Don’t Put Me Out of Work Again http://www.ij.org/utah-hairbraiding-release-10-22-2012 20:35 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama Bernanke warns $85B spending cuts to slow economic recovery http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/284873-bernanke-warns-sequester-will-slow-economy Is President Obama telling the truth about sequestration? http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obamas-sequester-talk-a-readers-guide-88066.html President Obama Speaks on the Sequester http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2qKuMjQvR0 Remember when President Obama supported the sequester cuts? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1y3q92sog This Week’s Quote: “I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.” —Milton Friedman

Bogosity Podcast for 25 February 2013

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:00:23 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Amazon patents the milkman http://www.geekwire.com/2013/amazon-patents-milkman-recurring-deliveries/ Amazon’s patent http://www.google.com/patents/US8370271 Patent on PB&J with the crust cut off http://www.google.com/patents/US6004596 Patent on swinging on a swing sideways http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227 Patent on fixing a hole with plaster 6994809 Patent on carrying a towel around your neck 6718554 Patent on “exercising” cats using a laser pointer http://www.google.com/patents/US5443036 3:45 - CMPD review panel rules against citizens — every time http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/16/3860400/cmpd-review-panel-rules-against.html 6:15 - The Deadly Opposition to Genetically Modified Food http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/project_syndicate0/2013/02/gm_food_golden_rice_will_save_millions_of_people_from_vitamin_a_deficiency.html 9:30 - Crime soared with Mass. gun law http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/02/17/the-nation-toughest-gun-control-law-made-massachusetts-less-safe/3845k7xHzkwTrBWy4KpkEM/story.html The Black Market for Firearms http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1718.0 13:35 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Steven Mufson http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gas-prices-are-on-a-mysterious-climb/2013/02/19/26298f84-7ade-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html 15:45 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ken Ham http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2013/02/02/a-tiny-feathered-dino/ This Week’s Quote: “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” —Bill Gates

Bogosity Podcast for 18 February 2013

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:00:38 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:20 - Cops Nab 5-Year-Old for Wearing Wrong Color Shoes to School http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/01/18/cops-nab-five-year-old-wearing-wrong-color-shoes-school 3:10 - Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/feb/5/obama-health-law-will-cost-7-million/ 4:45 - Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16843014-exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal-case-for-drone-strikes-on-americans http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/justice-departments-white-paper-targeted-killing 9:45 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/opinion/krugman-rubio-and-the-zombies.html Austrian predictions/Housing bubble http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Austrian_predictions/Housing_bubble 17:15 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Melba Ketchum http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/02/a_texas_geneticist_apparently.php WHOIS search results for: DENOVOJOURNAL.COM http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?domain=DENOVOJOURNAL.COM This Week’s Quote: “The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” —Carl Sagan

Bogosity Podcast for 4 February 2013

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:00:50 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/8436110735/ White House Makes Illegal Threat on Photoshoppers http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1743 4:05 - Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. http://mashable.com/2013/01/23/unlocking-cellphones-illegal/ Ask your elected representatives to pass DownsizeDC.org’s “Write the Laws Act” (WTLA) https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/ 7:10 - Meet The Porn Star Teacher Fired For Having Sex On Video http://www.ibtimes.com/who-stacie-halas-aka-tiffany-six-meet-porn-star-teacher-fired-having-sex-video-photo-1019682 The Worst Union in America http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_california-teachers-association.html 9:55 - Feinstein plans to conduct own hearing on guns http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/jan/29/feinstein-plans-conduct-own-hearing-guns/ 12:10 - New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As ‘Tampering With Evidence’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/new-mexico-abortion-bill_n_2541894.html 15:05 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Dave Gilson http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fact-check Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/ Do Civilians Armed With Guns Ever Capture, Kill, or Otherwise Stop Mass Shooters? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969017/posts 22:15 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Carolyn McCarthy http://politicker.com/2013/01/carolyn-mccarthy-makes-impassioned-plea-for-gun-control-it-has-to-stop/ This Week’s Quote: “Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces.” —Joseph T. Chew

Bogosity Podcast for 28 January 2013

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:00:06 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - Naked-Image Scanners to Be Removed From U.S. Airports http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/naked-image-scanners-to-be-removed-from-u-s-airports.html 1:55 - Attorney: Girl, 5, in trouble for chatting about shooting bubble gun http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/girl_5_in_trouble_over_bubble.html Philadelphia girl scolded, searched for pulling out paper gun at school, mom says http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/23/philadelphia-girl-scolded-searched-after-pulling-out-paper-gun-at-school/ Fifth-grader searched, berated for paper gun in South Philly http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/24/fifth-grader-searched-berated-paper-gun/ 5:50 - Manning denied a whistleblower defense http://www.salon.com/2013/01/18/manning_denied_a_whistleblower_defense/ 9:35 - Marijuana Legalization Struggles: The Ridiculous Rule That’s Preventing It From Happening http://www.policymic.com/articles/24146/marijuana-legalization-struggles-the-ridiculous-rule-that-s-preventing-it-from-happening The Ruling http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/12CBD2B55C34FBF585257AFB00554299/$file/11-1265-1416392.pdf Quality and value: The true purpose of peer review http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/nature05032.html Meta-analysis of cannabis based treatments for neuropathic and multiple sclerosis-related pain http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1185/030079906×158066 Therapeutic use of Cannabis sativa on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2354.2008.00917.x/abstract 14:45 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Alex Seitz-Wald et al http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/stop_talking_about_hitler/ 21:40 - Silver Cluon Award: Laci Green http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6xuW_xhPn4 24:45 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Stefan Molyneux https://www.facebook.com/stefan.molyneux/posts/10151611301626679 Screenshot of quoted posts http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanedk/8417342985/ This Week’s Quote: “I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.” —Joycelyn Elders

Bogosity Podcast for 14 January 2013

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:00:42 +0000

News of the Bogus: Gun rights activists turn up heat on New York newspaper http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-rights-activists-turn-up-heat-on-new-york-newspaper FHP trooper: Illegal police searches led to her fear for her safety http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-deputy-watts-lawsuit-20121224,0,5669599.story Kansas demands that sperm donor pay child support http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/30/16254404-kansas-demands-that-sperm-donor-pay-child-support ACLU condemns court for keeping details of Obama’s assassination program secret http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/02/aclu-condemns-court-for-keeping-details-of-obamas-assassination-program-secret/ Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/barbarous-relics/ Idiot Extraordinaire: Piers Morgan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ror9v2LwHoY Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-v1UXFMzl0 This Week’s Quote: “People should never be prosecuted for what they own, for what they think, for what they eat, drink, or smoke, or for what they believe. They should be prosecuted only for the physical harm they do to others. And people who do harm others should be prosecuted—whether or not a gun is involved, and whether or not there is hate in one’s heart or liquor on one’s breath.” —Harry Browne

2012 Wrap-Up

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:00:35 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:31 - Piers Morgan debating GOA Larry Pratt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FVQgLkbLjQ Piers Morgan gun control debate, re Connecticut massacre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SlfRCkZt1A Deporting Piers Morgan: The Battle Of the Petitions http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/12/27/deporting-piers-morgan-the-battle-of-the-petitions/ Piers Morgan threatens to deport himself if gun laws don’t change http://now.msn.com/piers-morgan-threatens-to-deport-himself-if-gun-laws-dont-change Nicole Lapin on The Wendy Williams Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Lw7xa6lHU 13:05 - Bikers show up to protect mourners from Westboro Baptist protest http://www.cochranetimes.com/2012/12/19/bikers-show-up-to-protect-mourners-from-westboro-baptist-protest 14:10 - North Carolina: Driving While Nervous is Not a Crime http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/39/3983.asp 16:35 - 2012 Year In Review 24:05 - Idiot of the Year: Mike Huckabee (et al) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/mike-huckabee-school-shooting_n_2303792.html The T-shirt: http://www.supernaturaltruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/god-is-not-allowed-in-school-247×300.jpg

Bogosity Podcast for 10 December 2012

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:00:38 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - BPI court order sees legal Pirate Bay site blocked by some ISPs http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/bpi-court-order-sees-legal-pirate-bay-site-blocked-by-some-isps-1116867 Pirate Bay Launches Dedicated “Promo Bay” Website to Plug Artists http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-launches-dedicated-promo-bay-to-help-artists-121129/ 4:05 - Food Trucks Still Not Free of Restaurant Ties http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9715 7:05 - Bigfoot DNA Tests Prove Hairy Creature Exists, Genetic Researcher Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/bigfoot-dna-proves-creature-exists-genetic_n_2199984.html ‘Bigfoot’ is Part Human, DNA Study Claims http://news.discovery.com/human/bigfoot-genetic-test-121127.html DNA Diagnostics Better Business Bureau Review http://www.bbb.org/east-texas/business-reviews/laboratories-medical/dna-diagnostics-in-timpson-tx-24003140 11:45 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2012/11/30/democratic-rep-amend-constitution-to-allow-control-of-speech/ 19:05 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Melody Hensley (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://flic.kr/p/dzzKqo TruthAndOblivion’s video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Ob0AKW8Bs This Week’s Quote: “I think the only real difference between a riot and a revolution is the latter is better organized.” —Will Dayble

Bogosity Podcast for 3 December 2012

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:00:47 +0000

Guest Host: Tim Dyson http://www.youtube.com/LordTHawkeye News of the Bogus: CFTC Charges Ireland-based “Prediction Market” Proprietors Intrade and TEN with Violating the CFTC’s Off-Exchange Options Trading Ban and Filing False Forms with the CFTC http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr6423-12 2008 Presidential Election: Actual results and forecast http://electoralmap.net/2012/2008_election.php Walmart Workers Revolt! (Workers Decline to Participate) http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/23/walmart-workers-revolt-workers-decline-t Wal-Mart protests draw hundreds nationwide http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/23/news/companies/walmart-protests/index.html Walmart walkout: Protesters arrested at Paramount location http://www.dailynews.com/ci_22054148/walkmart-walkout-protestors-planning-arrests-at-paramount-location Wal-Mart Black Friday walkout: How bad will it be? http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/1119/Wal-Mart-Black-Friday-walkout-How-bad-will-it-be-video Empty Embrace… Hurricane Sandy Victim Upset After Being Played By Obama http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/empty-embrace-hurricane-sandy-victim-upset-after-being-played-by-obama-video/ http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/19/no-country-on-earth-would-tolerate-missi Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Moraga (California) school district http://www.alternet.org/12-year-old-rape-victim-called-negligent-and-careless-school-district-legal-papers Idiot Extraordinaire: Lori Phillips http://www.wbtv.com/story/20189948/mom-young-daughter-got-disturbing-book-from-elementary-school This Week’s Quote: “As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.” —Joycelyn Elders

Bogosity Podcast for 19 November 2012

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:00:15 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:25 - “Coca-Cola” Model for Delivering Malaria Meds is a Success, Should be Continued, Say Public Health Expert http://www.princeton.edu/research/news/features/a/?id=8912 “From Financing to Fevers: Lessons of an Antimalarial Subsidy Program,” Science 338(6107):615-616, DOI: 10.1126/science.1231010 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6107/615 2:45 - Man tasered by police while trying to save burning home http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/282664/4/Man-tasered-by-police-while-trying-to-save-burning-home 5:00 - Woman ‘denied a termination’ dies in hospital http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/1114/1224326575203.html 7:20 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jillian Berman http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/papa-johns-obamacare_n_2123207.html Breaking Down Centi-Millionaire ‘Papa’ John Schnatter’s Obamacare Math http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/11/12/breaking-down-centi-millionaire-papa-john-schnatters-obamacare-math/ 12:00 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324556304578122632560842670.html Hostess to Liquidate, Lay Off 18,500 After Crushing Union Fight http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2012/11/16/hostess-brands-moves-to-wind-down-operations-sell-assets Hostess Brands closing for good http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/ This Week’s Quote: “Given the results of the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, if the government starts a War on Abortion, in five years men will be having abortions.” —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 12 November 2012

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:00:37 +0000

News of the Bogus: Italian scientists guilty of manslaughter in 2009 earthquake http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/10/22/italy-earthquake-scientists-trial.html Quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant creates just 400 jobs http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/29/hiring-stats-elusive-in-latest-energy-failure/ Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g9C6×99EnFVdFuXw_B8pvDRzLqcA?docId=CNG.e740b6d0077ba8c28f6d1dd931c6f679.5e1 Publisher Thomas Nelson decides to pull David Barton’s controversial book on Thomas Jefferson’s faith http://www.worldmag.com/2012/08/lost_confidence Electronic nicotine delivery systems, including electronic cigarettes http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/75811/1/FCTC_COP5_13-en.pdf World Health Organization Urges Countries to Ban Electronic Cigarettes Because They “Normalize” Smoking http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/10/world-health-organization-urges.html Cop Tasers Little Boy http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/10/30/51809.htm Biggest Bogon Emitter: Peter Morici http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/economic-impact-hurricane-sandy-not-bad-news-150458002.html Silver Cluon Award: Julie Borowski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAkdHzpXXo0 Idiot Extraordinaire: Chris Matthews http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-matthews-goes-on-obnoxious-rant-against-idiots-who-vote-third-party-or-stay-home/ This Week’s Quote: “As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.” —Paul Craig Roberts

Bogosity Podcast for 29 October 2012

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:00:55 +0000

Election Special: Guest: Jonathan Loesche (FSBlueApocalypse) Free & Equal Presidential Debate: http://freeandequal.org/updates/rt-presents-final-us-presidential-debate/ The next debate: http://freeandequal.org/updates/winners-of-october-23-presidential-debate/ Candidates: 5:00 - Virgil Goode: http://www.goodeforpresident2012.com/ 15:10 - Jill Stein: http://www.jillstein.org/ Contributing supporter: Thomas Ricks https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kind-of-a-talk-show/id387824096 25:30 - Gary Johnson: http://garyjohnson2012.com Contributing supporter: Chiyen Chendra http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFz6eouUHNpjgHcbr5jqRlw 33:30 - Mitt Romney: http://www.mittromney.com/ 40:00 - Barack Obama: http://www.barackobama.com/ Contributing supporters: iluvatar003, 216trixie http://www.youtube.com/user/216trixie I.C.E.’s “How to Steal an American Job” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1d4xjU8DpQ This Week’s Quote: “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” —H.L. Mencken

Bogosity Podcast for 22 October 2012

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:00:54 +0000

News of the Bogus: Study finds pirates spend 30% more on music than non-sharers http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/17/study-finds-pirates-spend-30-more-on-music-than-non-sharers/ Nutrition Board Casts Net Far Beyond Paleo-Diet Blogger http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9589 Amtrak snack bars lost $84.5 million last year; $833 million in 10 years http://washingtonexaminer.com/amtrak-snack-bars-lost-84.5-million-last-year-833-million-in-10-years/article/2510864 Federal Spending by the Numbers - 2012 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012 Texas schools punish students who refuse to be tracked with microchips http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-school-id-hernandez-033/ Biggest Bogon Emitter: the Nobel Peace Prize Committee http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19921072 Idiot Extraordinaire: Robert Wright http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/why-i-refuse-to-refuse-to-vote-for-obama/263116/ This week’s quote: “Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil, and the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.” —Penn Jillette

Bogosity Podcast for 15 October 2012

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:0:25 Lunch lady slammed for food that is 'too good' http://m.thelocal.se/43656/20121006/2:45 Video shows naked student before he's shot http://www.chron.com/news/article/Video-shows-naked-student-before-he-s-shot-3940349.php6:30 Cops tase man for having seizure http://rt.com/usa/news/man-seizure-police-sheeley-049/8:45 Official: Pakistani teen blogger's shooting a 'wake-up call' to 'clear ... danger' http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/11/world/asia/pakistan-teen-activist-attack/index.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: 11:00 Bonnie Kavoussi http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/lies-about-the-federal-reserve_n_1948346.htmlM1 money stock graph: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1?cid=25''Money. Whence It Came, Where It Went'' by John Kenneth Galbraith http://www.scribd.com/doc/102379402/Money-Whence-It-Came-Where-It-Went-John-Kenneth-GalbraithSource for gas prices: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2012_fotw741.htmlSource for gold prices: http://www.kitco.com/charts/historicalgold.html''Has the Fed Been a Failure?'' http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/42040177HuffPo’s 11 Myths About the Fed, Refuted http://www.libertyclassroom.com/huffpos-11-myths-about-the-fed-refuted/Idiot Extraordinaire: 26:00 Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-house-science-committee-member-evolution-big-bang-%E2%80%98lies-straight-from-the-pit-of-hell%E2%80%99/This Week's Quote: ''But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.'' —Job 13:4

Bogosity Podcast for 8 October 2012

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Law coalition says it's busted ring moving $6 million in cocaine monthly http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21644868/ring-moving-6-million-cocaine-colorado-other-statesMarijuana Prohibition Turns 75, Feds Continue Attacks on Medical Marijuana http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/blog/2012/10/01/marijuana-prohibition-turns-75-feds-continue-attacks-on-medical-marijuana/Whoops-a-daisy: 'Significant' outdoor bust in Lethbridge history wasn't weed http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/10/02/whoops-a-daisy-significant-outdoor-bust-in-lethbridge-history-wasnt-weedKim Dotcom: Inquiry ordered into 'unlawful spying http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19699196Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patients http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121001/us-medicare-penalties/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Harvey Scott School Principal Verenice Gutierrez http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-racist_n_1874905.html‘White privilege’? Portland principal claims PB&J sandwiches could hold racist connotations http://www.theblaze.com/stories/white-privilege-portland-principal-claims-pbj-sandwiches-could-hold-racist-connotations/Idiot Extraordinaire: Ke$ha http://news.discovery.com/human/pop-star-claims-sex-with-ghost-120928.htmlThis Week’s Quote: “I really believe that our quarrel is not with the Republicans, it’s not with the Democrats, it’s not with George Bush, it’s not with this program or that program. Our quarrel is with the use of force. Our enemy is force—the idea that force can solve problems, because force doesn’t solve problems.” —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 24 September 2012

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:New Hampshire Jury Nullifies Major Felony Marijuana Case http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/12892-new-hampshire-jury-nullifies-major-felony-marijuana-caseJury clears NH man of felony pot charge, use was part of Rastafarian religion http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120919/NEWS03/709199941Parent-child events banned in Cranston http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/west_bay/parent-child-events-banned-in-cranstonACLU Prompts Cranston To Cancel Father-Daughter Dances http://bristol-warren.patch.com/articles/aclu-prompts-cranston-to-cancel-father-daughter-dancesCranston schools ban ''father-daughter'' dance after ACLU complaint http://630wpro.com/Article.asp?id=2535273&spid=37719Dramatic moustache causes man to flee hometown http://tribune.com.pk/story/435247/dramatic-moustache-causes-man-to-flee-hometown/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Ben ''Bubbles'' Bernanke http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomcpresconf20120913.htmIdiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-administration-fights-for-the-ndaa-2012-9This Week's Quote: ''We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.'' —Abraham Lincoln

Bogosity Podcast for 17 September 2012

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:School withholds valedictorian's diploma for saying ''hell'' http://kfor.com/2012/08/18/46913/Little Evidence of Health Benefits from Organic Foods, Study Finds http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120903221122.htmMan says hospital denied him treatment due to goth garb http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/says+hospital+denied+treatment+goth+garb/7215339/story.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: Anthony Gucciardi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmqUA8qfRQIdiot Extraordinaire: Ken Ham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxX11c1cSWUBill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOUGenetic Algorithms: http://www.obitko.com/tutorials/genetic-algorithms/Design by evolution: engineering biology in the 21st century http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGpMeJdvy08Robert Full: Engineering and evolution http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.htmlThis Week's Quote: ''Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question—to doubt—to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.'' —Richard Feynman

Bogosity Podcast for 3 September 2012

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Hand-gun fired: Nebraska school says deaf toddler’s name sign violates weapons policy http://rt.com/usa/news/nebraska-deaf-sign-gun-785/Sheriffs Deputy: Sailor I shot in her backyard ‘startled me’ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/22/sheriffs-deputy-sailor-i-shot-in-her-backyard-startled-me/US Attorneys Refuse to Assure Judge That They Are Not Already Detaining Citizens Under NDAA http://dailycloudt.com/voice/358/us-attorneys-refuse-to-assure-judge-that-they-are-not-already-detaining-citizens-under-ndaaLabor Department spends stimulus funds for ads during Olbermann, Maddow shows http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/21/stimulus-funds-spent-obama-ads-olbermann-maddow/Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000FDA Ensures Magic Rituals Are Done Properly http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/1807-fda-ensures-magic-rituals-are-done-properly.htmlLouisiana Lawmakers Object To Funding Islamic School Under New Voucher Program http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/louisiana_n_1593995.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: The Department of Homeland Security http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120720/02530219774/homeland-security-issuing-its-own-dmca-takedowns-youtube-to-stifle-speech.shtmlIdiot Extraordinaire: The Republican Party http://www.examiner.com/article/gop-glad-to-rid-themselves-of-ron-paul-supporters-the-move-to-libertarian-partyBoehner Booed at Convention as Chaos Erupts on Convention Floor Over Ron Paul Delegates http://www.theblaze.com/stories/boehner-booed-at-convention-as-chaos-erupts-on-convention-floor-over-ron-paul-delegates/RNC Bus Driver “Gets Lost” Forcing VA Delegates to Miss Crucial Rules Change Vote http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/08/29/rnc-bus-driver-gets-lost-forcing-va-delegates-to-miss-crucial-rules-change-vote/IOC to strip Hamilton of 2004 Olympic gold medal http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ioc-to-strip-hamilton-of-2004-olympic-gold-medalThis Week's Quote: ''Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his marketcare into a chariot of the sun.'' —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bogosity Podcast for 20 August 2012

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:NASA's Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedownMars Landing Videos, and Other Casualties of the Robot Wars https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/mars-landing-videos-and-other-casualties-robot-warsBritain refuses to give Assange safe passage, despite Ecuador's asylum offer http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/15/britain-threatens-to-storm-embassy-to-arrest-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-says/UK police descend on Assange's embassy refuge http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/uk-police-descend-on-assanges-embassy-refuge-20120816-249pe.htmlJulian Assange extradition: Ecuador 'willing to co-operate' with Britain http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/17/julian-assange-extradition-ecuador-embassyLatin America Leaders Unite to Decriminalize Drugs for Personal Use http://www.escapefromamerica.com/2012/07/latin-america-leaders-unite-to-decriminalize-drugs-for-personal-use/How Obama's healthcare reform boosted abstinence-only sex education http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/15/obama-healthcare-reform-boosted-abstinence-only-sex-educationThe Read the Bills Act https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/rtba/General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy--Again http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2012/08/15/general-motors-is-headed-for-bankruptcy-again/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Prosecuting Attorney Michael Valentine http://freekeene.com/2012/08/15/what-happens-when-a-prosecutor-declares-legal-war-on-the-press-telerecording-police/Jury Deems Ademo GUILTY of Wiretapping for Seeking Accountability http://www.copblock.org/19254/jury-deems-ademo-guilty/Idiot Extraordinaire: AlfonZo Rachel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvYDC32IrdU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzdVZV1nEVoConstitution Lecture 9: Separation of Church and State http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWBG8byqqUIThis Week’s Quote: “I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.” —Benjamin Disraeli

Bogosity Podcast for 13 August 2012

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:City Shuts Down Teen's Hot Dog Vendor Cart http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17274Boy Whose Hot Dog Cart Was Shut Down by the City of Holland Now Homeless http://www.mackinac.org/17372International Failure: Are We Going to Let Countries Disenfranchise the Visually Impaired? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/international-failure-visually-impairedInterview regarding the Dmitry Sklyarov case http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/1484378.stmSocial Security not deal it once was for workers http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2018851583_apussocialsecuritygooddeal.htmlHonoring America's Veterans Act Signed By Obama, Restricting Westboro Military Funeral Protests http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/honoring-americas-veterans-act-obama_n_1748454.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/opinion/krugman-debt-depression-demarco.htmlIdiot Extraordinare: Pat Robertson http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/pat-robertson-atheists-are-to-blame-for-sikh-temple-shooting/news/2012/08/06/45696This Week’s Quote: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” —Evelyn Beatrice Hall (not Voltaire)

Bogosity Podcast for 6 August 2012

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-loot-with-artists-120728/Rock Stars Say Google Supports Music Piracy http://www.dailygossip.org/rock-stars-say-google-supports-music-piracy-4096Music piracy - who’s on the moral high ground? http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18892655Kansas' evolution debate just keeps evolving http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-kansas-schools-evolution-debate-20120729,0,6048606.storyEvolution big issue in Kansas school board races http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Evolution-big-issue-in-Kansas-school-board-races-3744571.phpNext Generation Science Standards http://www.nextgenscience.orgBiggest Bogon Emitter: Chick-fil-A http://i.imgur.com/zpmeA.jpgChick-Fil-A Recalling Jim Henson Kids' Meal Toys As Partnership Severed Over Anti-Gay Donations http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/chick-fil-a-jim-henson-toy-recall-gay_n_1699597.htmlIdiot Extraordinaire: Boston Mayor Thomas Menino http://consumerist.com/2012/07/heres-the-letter-where-boston-mayor-tells-chick-fil-a-to-stay-the-cluck-out-of-his-town.htmlLegal eagles cry fowl over politicians' plans to block Chick-fil-A http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/26/politician-plan-to-block-chick-fil-is-unconstitutional-legal-experts-say/This Week's Quote: ''As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.'' —Eddie Izzard

Bogosity Podcast for 23 July 2012

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - Clearwater, Florida May Ban Sitting on Sidewalks http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/clearwater-florida-may-ban-sitting-sidewalks Clearwater considers 'sitting' ban to curb homeless http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2012/jul/16/2/clearwater-considers-sitting-ban-to-curb-homeless-ar-433351/ Clearwater says homeless should go to shelters, but most have no space http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/clearwater-says-homeless-should-go-to-shelters-but-most-have-no-space/1236931 4:14 - What may be the world’s first cybernetic hate crime unfolds in French McDonald’s http://io9.com/5926587/what-may-be-the-worlds-first-cybernetic-hate-crime-unfolds-in-french-mcdonalds 6:07 - Pirate Bay block effectiveness short-lived, data suggests http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18833060 Pirate Bay bans not working http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/17/pirate-bay-bans-not-working/ Pirate Bay Crackdown Fails to Halt File-Sharing http://www.infopackets.com/news/piracy/2012/20120717_pirate_bay_crackdown_fails_to_halt_file_sharing.htm 8:47 - Confidence in TV News at New Low http://ivn.us/2012/07/18/confidence-in-tv-news-at-new-low/ Americans' Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low http://www.gallup.com/poll/155585/Americans-Confidence-Television-News-Drops-New-Low.aspx 11:20 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/13/remarks-president-campaign-event-roanoke-virginia President Obama Campaigns on Two-Day Tour of Virginia http://www.c-span.org/Events/President-Obama-Campaigns-on-Two-Day-Tour-of-Virginia/10737432307/ Federal Income Taxes on Middle-Income Families Remain Near Historic Lows http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3151 I, Pencil http://www.fee.org/library/books/i-pencil-2/ 28:50 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Diana Carew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJzBGNQbHwc This Week’s quote: “I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.” —Petronius

Bogosity Podcast for 16 July 2012

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Evangelical radio host: ‘Tax the atheists who don’t go to church’ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/06/evangelical-radio-host-tax-the-atheists-who-dont-go-to-church/Woman Sues FDA Over Sperm Donation Rules http://www.openmarket.org/2012/07/09/woman-sues-fda-over-sperm-donation-rules/What You Should Know - Reproductive Tissue Donation http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/TissueSafety/ucm232876.htmUniversity sues student who 'studied too fast' http://www.thelocal.de/education/20120703-43517.htmlUniversity sues over early graduation http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/07/03/University-sues-over-early-graduation/UPI-72791341335821/Government-Sponsored Study Destroys DEA’s Classification of Marijuana http://libertycrier.com/government/government-sponsored-study-destroys-deas-classification-of-marijuana/Medical Marijuana: Clearing Away the Smoke http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358713/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Texas GOP http://truth-out.org/news/item/10144-texas-gop-declares-no-more-teaching-of-critical-thinking-skills-in-texas-public-schools2012 Texas GOP Platform http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012Platform_Final.pdfIdiot Extraordinaire: Scientologists http://www.businessinsider.com/read-the-panicked-email-the-church-of-scientology-is-circulating-to-censor-the-tomkat-break-up-2012-7Scientologists Think Tom Cruise Has Telekinetic, Telepathic Powers http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/scientologists-think-tom-cruise-has-telekinetic-telepathic-powers-2012107This week’s quote: “If you give a good politician the power to do good things, you automatically give a bad politician the power to do bad things.” —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 9 July 2012

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:00:00 +0000

ObamaCare SpecialThis Week’s Co-hosts:Jonathan Loesche (FSBlueApocalypse) http://www.loesche4fl.org/Tim Dyson (Lord T Hawkeye) http://www.youtube.com/lordthawkeyeReferences:The actual, honest-to-FSM Supreme Court ruling: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdfThe actual, honest-to-FSM full text of Obamacare: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdfEfforts to implement ObamaCare law raise concerns of massive government expansion http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/03/efforts-to-implement-obamacare-law-raise-concerns-massive-government-expansion/US Debt Clock http://www.usdebtclock.org/This Week’s Quote: “There was a time when health insurance was available to everyone at a modest price. But after 40 years of government intervention, insurance companies have had to restrict their policies and charge far more—which has led Congress to pass bills forcing insurance companies to do what they once did gladly.” —Harry Browne

Bogosity Podcast for 2 July 2012

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:$9 Billion in ‘Stimulus’ for Solar, Wind Projects Made 910 Final Jobs--$9.8 Million Per Job http://cnsnews.com/news/article/9-billion-stimulus-solar-wind-projects-made-910-final-jobs-98-million-jobUtah girl jailed and strip searched for hair-cutting prank http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/23/utah-girl-jailed-and-strip-searched-for-hair-cutting-prank/Children taken from mom in pot raid inflame Butte County ballot debate http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/30/4524455/kids-taken-from-mom-in-pot-raid.htmlOroville mom's hearing opens with testimony about husband's pot plant production http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/12/4554873/oroville-moms-hearing-opens-with.html#storylink=cpyTop doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.htmlElderly patients 'helped to die to free up beds', warns doctor http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9343428/Elderly-patients-helped-to-die-to-free-up-beds-warns-doctor.htmlNHS must come clean over use of 'death pathway' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8930951/NHS-must-come-clean-over-use-of-death-pathway.htmlNHS “Heading for an Iceberg” Warn Hhealth Officials http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/327772/NHS-heading-for-an-iceberg-warn-health-officialsA group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6133157/Dying-patients.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman (two in a row! Nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/a-mythical-anniversary/Idiot Extraordinaire: Accelerated Christian Education (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/how-american-fundamentalist-schools-are-using-nessie-to-disprove-evolution.17918511 This Week's Quote: “It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.” —Richard Feynman

Bogosity Podcast for 18 June 2012

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Newspaper that helps homeless is thriving http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2011/dec/24/4/paper-that-helps-homeless-is-thriving-ar-340169/ Tampa Epoch homeless newspaper to keep publishing http://www.examiner.com/article/tampa-epoch-homeless-newspaper-to-keep-publishing In 8-0 Ruling, U.S. Supreme Court Allows Immunity Protections for Secret Service, Law Enforcement to Trump Free Speech Rights of Americans https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/us_supreme_court_allows_immunity_protections_for_secret_service_to_trump_fr Scores in N.C. are legally 'innocent,' yet still imprisoned http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-13/innocent-incarcerated-prisoners/55585176/1 Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman (again!) http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/estonian-rhapsdoy/ President Of Estonia Slams Paul Krugman: 'Smug, Overbearing & Patronizing' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/estonia-krugman-toomas-hendrik-ilves_n_1575937.html Idiot Extraordinare: Rachel Maddow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta7kLhnx_Uc Gender Wage Gap Final Report http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf What Do Wage Differentials Tell Us about Labor Market Discrimination? http://www.nber.org/papers/w11240.pdf This Week’s Quote: “There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.” —Elinor Ostrom John Stossel, summarizing Elinor Ostrom's opinion

Bogosity Podcast for 4 June 2012

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:School Nurse Denies Inhaler, Watches Student Lose Consciousness http://news.yahoo.com/school-nurse-denies-inhaler-watches-student-lose-consciousness-183100040.htmlSchool Nurse Refuses To Give Inhaler To Student Having Asthma Attack http://www.dreamindemon.com/2012/05/23/school-nurse-refuses-give-boy-inhaler-asthma-attack/Some Schools Don't Let Kids Carry Asthma Inhalers: Policies run counter to law, place children at risk, experts say http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_124582.htmlNine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes http://grist.org/list/nine-year-olds-lunch-blog-shames-school-into-making-changes/LimeWire Being Sued for $75 TRILLION! http://uber-facts.com/2012/05/20/limewire-being-sued-for-75-trillion/Occupy livestreamers detained at gunpoint by twelve Chicago police cars http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/20/livestreamers-detained-at-gunpoint-by-twelve-chicago-police-cars/Biggest Bogon Emitter: National Center for Homeopathy http://www.nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/content/homeopathy-its-not-just-vodooWhat's the harm in homeopathy? http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.htmlIdiot Extraordinaire: Unnamed Fort Worth police officer http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/05/28/3991473/owners-of-dog-killed-by-officer.htmlFamily dog shot and killed after Fort Worth police officer responds to the wrong house http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-family-dog-shot-and-killed-after-fort-worth-poice-officer-responds-to-the-wrong-address-20120527,0,2162589.storyThis Week's Quote: ''I'm sorry if you're into homeopathy--it's water! How often does it need to be said? It's just water...'Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years.' Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine,' and the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri. So knock yourselves out!'' --Dara Ó Briain

Bogosity Podcast for 28 May 2012

Sun, 27 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Feds threaten to disrupt summer concerts http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/05/feds-threaten-disrupt-summer-concerts/626621Post-It Note Prank At Cascade High School Leaves Students Suspended, Janitor Fired http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/post-it-note-prank-cascade-high-school_n_1521649.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003Republicans block Rep. Norton from testifying on anti-abortion bill for her own district http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/16/republicans-block-rep-norton-from-testifying-on-anti-abortion-bill-for-her-own-district/Congress could kill rocket builders' new space race http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20120513/COLUMNISTS0405/305130045/John-Kelly-Congress-could-kill-rocket-builders-new-space-raceFederal judge: Terror law violates 1st Amendment http://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-terror-law-violates-1st-amendment-233222966.html Federal court enjoins NDAA http://www.salon.com/2012/05/16/federal_court_enjoins_ndaa/singleton/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Maryland Court of Appeals http://marylandreporter.com/2012/05/22/appeals-court-rejects-ballot-access-petitions-for-libertarians-greens/Idiot Extraordinaire: Tanya Dixon-Neely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjpWaESn_9gNC Teacher Screams at Student: It's Criminal to Criticize Obama http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/20/NC-teacher-screams-student-ObamaClassroom debate over Obama goes viral; teacher suspended http://salisbury.wbtv.com/news/politics/73239-classroom-debate-over-obama-goes-viral-teacher-suspendedThis Week’s Quote: “Politicians and ‘people of god’ are useless, stupid creatures that need to get real jobs and contribute to society like everyone else.” —Abbie Smith http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/05/15/why-ask-scientists-for-ideas-w/

Bogosity Podcast for 14 May 2012

Sun, 13 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:16-year-old diabetic blames TSA for breaking her insulin pump http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/08/11604317-16-year-old-diabetic-blames-tsa-for-breaking-her-insulin-pumpOpting-out of Advanced Imaging Technology and the Pat-down Doesn’t Fly http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/11/opting-out-of-advanced-imaging.htmlCop Kicks Pregnant Woman In Stomach, Dept. Says He Was Within Policy http://loop21.com/life/cop-kicks-pregnant-woman-stomachAustin Government Officials Seize Man's Home because he had a Bunker http://offgridsurvival.com/governmentofficialsseizebunkerhome/Man sues city over seizure of house with underground shelter http://www.statesman.com/news/local/man-sues-city-over-seizure-of-house-with-2345041.htmlBullied student faces expulsion, fired stun gun mom gave him http://www.indystar.com/article/20120502/LOCAL/205020317/Does-he-deserve-to-be-punishedSan Diego student's 5-day ordeal in DEA jail sparks outrage, anger http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/04/4464320/san-diego-students-5-day-ordeal.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/05/06/michigan-secretary-of-state-says-she-wont-print-gary-johnsons-name-on-the-november-ballot-as-a-libertarian/Idiot Extraordinaire: David Ellerman (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.abolishhumanrentals.org/human-rentals/labor-theory-of-property/This Week’s Quote: “The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.” —Milton Friedman

Bogosity Podcast for 30 April 2012

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Egan-Jones Downgrades U.S. to AA From AA+ http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/2012/04/05/egan-jones-downgrades-us-to-aa-from-aa/Egan-Jones Cuts US Credit Rating to 'AA,' Citing Debt http://www.cnbc.com/id/46970602SEC takes action against rater Egan-Jones http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/us-eganjones-sec-idUSBRE83I1BQ20120420Egan-Jones' Lawyer Accuses SEC Of Bias Against Independent Firms http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/04/24/egan-jones-lawyer-accuses-sec-of-bias-against-independent-firms/Police officer shoots mans dog after responding to the wrong address http://libertarianreview.us/2012/04/16/police-officer-shoots-mans-dog-after-responding-to-the-wrong-address/Austin Police Chief Apologizes for Shooting of Cisco the Dog http://abcnews.go.com/US/austin-police-chief-apologizes-michael-paxton-dog-shooting/story?id=16163996Police handcuff Ga. kindergartner for tantrum http://news.yahoo.com/police-handcuff-ga-kindergartner-tantrum-112459850.htmlEconomists: Cybercrime Estimates Are Wildly, Ridiculously Overblown http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/economists-cybercrime-estimates-are-wildly-ridiculously-overblown/255960/Wired Opinion: Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/yellowcake-and-cyberwar/Moving too fast on cybersecurity http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/222783-moving-too-fast-on-cybersecurityKids Say Fresno Cops Tasered & Drowned Dad http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/04/10/45478.htmDeath of Fresno Man After Police Use Taser Spurs Lawsuit http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/death-of-fresno-man-after-police-use-taser-spurs-lawsuit-54335247.htmlLong Range Acoustic Devices to be Used on Chicago Protesters http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/12-3Biggest Bogon Emitter: News Media http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-coca-cola-habit-cited-death-161323721.htmlNew Zealand woman's Coca-Cola habit cited in death http://news.yahoo.com/zealand-womans-coca-cola-habit-cited-death-061953874--finance.htmlIdiot Extraordinaire: The Vatican http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/us/vatican-reprimands-us-nuns-group.htmlThis Week’s Quote: “I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.” —William S. BurroughsDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1433

Bogosity Podcast for 16 April 2012

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Co-host: Jonathan LoescheLibertarian candidate special:Debates:South Carolina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exep0tHbQ18Florida http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsr0VCb8wUGeorgia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nreumAId020Texas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg7ryvUh9ooRoger Gary http://rvgary2012.com/Scott Keller http://www.keller2012.com/Leroy Saunders http://saunders2012.org/Home_Page.phpJames Ogle http://usparliament.org/google2012.phpCarl Person http://carlperson2012.com/Gary Johnson http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/Appearance on Stephen Colbert: http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/mon-april-2-2012-gary-johnsonR. Lee Wrights http://wrights2012.com/30-second spot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agu1mGhaJB0Million Vote March: http://www.millionvotemarch.com/This Week's Quote: “The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.” —Eugene McCarthy

Bogosity Podcast for 9 April 2012

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: 0:26 - Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html Truth About War http://truthaboutwar.org/ 2:35 - Report slams denied ambulance call death http://www.thelocal.se/39930/20120327/ Heart attack victim dies after ambulance denied http://www.thelocal.se/39656/20120314/ Boy's call about fatal fire dismissed as 'prank' http://www.thelocal.se/39494/20120305/ 17-year-old dies after ambulance no-show http://www.thelocal.se/39022/20120209/ Man dies after ambulance call went unanswered http://www.thelocal.se/38842/20120201/ 7:15 - Trolling Could Get You 25 Years in Jail in Arizona http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona 8:45 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: C0nc0rdance (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oygQVhu30s Butt-tax blowback http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/butt_tax_blowback_QC2Bti6DW6m4Fe9mmF4iVI The Political Interests Paradox http://www.downsizedcfoundation.org/blog/the-political-interests-paradox 23:30 - Idiot Extraordinaire: NYC Department of Education http://io9.com/5896836/nyc-dept-of-education-wants-to-ban-the-word-dinosaur-from-standardized-tests This Week's Quote: “Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.” —John Alexander Smith

Bogosity Podcast for 2 April 2012

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Bloomberg Strikes Again: NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/Facebook says it may launch legal action against employers who ask for user passwords http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/03/23/facebook-says-it-may-launch-legal-action-against-employers-who-ask-for-user-passwords/Protecting Your Passwords and Your Privacy https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-and-privacy/protecting-your-passwords-and-your-privacy/326598317390057ICANN Confirms That It's Going To Make It Easier For Governments To Seize Domains Around The Globe http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120320/17474318177/icann-confirms-that-its-going-to-make-it-easier-governments-to-seize-domains-around-globe.shtmlICANN Ethical Conflicts Are Worse Than They Seem http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1072&doc_id=240923Scopes Monkey Trial Revisited: Tennessee Is Still Officially Anti-Evolution As Science Education Bill Passes (VIDEO) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/tennessee-evolution-scopes-education_n_1368636.htmlEvolution 'debate' bill is religion, poorly disguised http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120321/OPINION01/303210097/Evolution-debate-bill-religion-poorly-disguisedMexican Drug Lord Officially Thanks American Lawmakers for Keeping Drugs Illegal (satire) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-henry-sterry/mexican-drug-lord-officia_b_179596.htmlJoaquin Guzman Loera: Net Worth $1 B As of March 2012 http://www.forbes.com/profile/joaquin-guzman-loera/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Wisconsin State Sen. Glenn Grothman http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/glenn-grothman-wisconsin-law-single-parenthood-child-abuse_n_1316834.htmlBill: Blame single parenting for child abuse http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/bill-blame-single-parenting-for-child-abuse/article_4b3e6d74-6718-11e1-a1e0-001871e3ce6c.htmlIdiot Extraordinaire: Wisconsin State Rep. Don Pridemore http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/142161793.htmlThis Week's Quote: “I do not mean to suggest that scientific differences should be settled by universal suffrage, but I do conceive that solid proofs must be met by something more than empty and unsupported assertions.” —Thomas Huxley

Bogosity Podcast for 19 March 2012

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Update: Ban on father seeing daughter alone is lifted http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-17354975News of the Bogus:Marine says he won't follow 'unlawful orders' from Obama http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/03/marine-says-he-wont-follow-unlawful-orders-from-obama/1‘Homeless hotspots’ program at South by Southwest slammed by critics, but marketing firm BBH Labs defends idea http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/homeless-hotspots-program-south-southwest-slammed-critics-marketing-firm-bbh-labs-defends-idea-article-1.1037475?localLinksEnabled=falseThe Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/03/the-damning-backstory-behind-homeless-hotspots-at-sxswi/Critics of South by Southwest's Homeless Hotspots Haven't Met Jonathan Hill http://www.good.is/post/the-critics-of-south-by-southwest-s-homeless-hotspots-haven-t-met-jonathan-hill/Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/13/study-confirms-governments-produce-the-buggiest-software/Biggest Bogon Emitter: North Carolina State Government http://www.ncsbe.gov/GetDocument.aspx?id=2525Idiot Extraordinaire: Joseph A. Califano Jr. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/why-pat-robertsons-pot-plan-is-a-bong-pipe-dream/2012/03/09/gIQAroRr1R_blog.htmlThis Week's Quote: “Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!” —George WashingtonDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1390

Bogosity Podcast for 12 March 2012

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Man banned from seeing daughter alone after downloading child porn instead of Slash album http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/62483 Council bans daughter contact over child images http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-17274848Colleges and Employers Now Requiring Applicants' Facebook Passwords http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116209-Colleges-and-Employers-Now-Requiring-Applicants-Facebook-PasswordsGasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2012/02/22/gasoline-prices-are-not-rising-the-dollar-is-falling/Gas Prices Explained http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40hNSJEKUgoBiggest Bogon Emitter: Leon Panetta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkDyKHYPO7gSilver Cluon Award: Jonathan Corbett http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/1b-of-nude-body-scanners-made-worthless-by-blog-how-anyone-can-get-anything-past-the-tsas-nude-body-scanners/The TSA Blog: Viral Video About Body Scanners http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/viral-video-about-body-scanners.htmlIdiot Extraordinaire: Joe Arpaio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaajbOEWpkPROOF!!! Alex Jones's ''Experts'' Are Incompetent Boobs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arBLUCO8_gMThis Week's Quote: “If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories.” —Karl PopperDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1383

Bogosity Podcast for 5 March 2012

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:FDA’s New Claim: “Your Body Is a Drug—and We Have the Authority to Regulate It!” http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-new-claim-body-is-a-drug/Reply brief in support of plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.hpm.com/pdf/blog/GovernmentSupportforSummaryJudgmentMotion.pdf&pli=1Weinstein Co. considers leaving MPAA over ''Bully'' rating http://news.doddleme.com/news-room/weinstein-co-considers-leaving-mpaa-over-bully-rating/Change.org petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/mpaa-dont-let-the-bullies-win-give-bully-a-pg-13-instead-of-an-r-ratingInflation: Not as low as you think http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505144_162-57387655/inflation-not-as-low-as-you-think/Shadow Government Statistics http://www.shadowstats.com/Virginia House Passes NDAA Nullification 96-4 http://chrisinmaryville.net/virginia-house-passes-ndaa-nullification-96-4.htmlHB 1160 Unlawful detention of U.S. citizens; prevents any agency, etc., from assisting in investigation. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+sum+HB1160Toolkit: State and Local Resolutions Opposing the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) http://www.aclu.org/national-security/toolkit-state-and-local-resolutions-opposing-2012-national-defense-authorizationBiggest Bogon Emitter: Robert Parry http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/13/the-rights-inside-out-constitution/Virginia Resolutions of 1798 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Virginia_Resolutions_of_1798Report of 1800 http://www.constitution.org/rf/vr_1799.htmMadison's 1811 veto http://www.constitution.org/jm/jm_estab.htmVeto of federal public works bill http://www.constitution.org/jm/18170303_veto.htmIdiot Extraordinaire: Bob Morris http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/20/bob-morris-indiana-law-ma_n_1289489.htmlThis Week's Quote: “I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves...feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.” —Julia SeranoDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1376

Bogosity Podcast for 20 February 2012

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/13/feds-shut-down-amish-farm-selling-fresh-milk/print/FDA and CDC Remind Consumers of the Dangers of Drinking Raw Milk http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2007/ucm108856.htmU.S. v. Pakistan on transparency and accountability http://www.salon.com/2012/02/13/u_s_v_pakistan_on_transparency_and_accountability/singleton/Maine GOP to consider counting late caucus votes http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/13/maine-gop-to-consider-allowing-late-caucus-votes-to-count/Waldo County GOP Votes for Censure of State Chairman http://www.wabi.tv/news/27694/waldo-county-gop-votes-for-censure-of-state-chairmanNanny state report: NC school officials confiscate preschooler’s homemade lunch http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/14/nanny-state-report-nc-school-officials-confiscate-preschoolers-homemade-lunch/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/13/technology-lawful-access-toews-pornographers.htmlShould police have access to ISP customer data without a warrant? http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/02/should-police-have-access-to-isp-customer-data-without-a-warrant.htmlIdiot Extraordinaire: Liz Trotta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGcF1id1PMThis Week's Quote: “The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.” —Will Rogers

Bogosity Podcast for 6 February 2012

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Active duty cop: ‘The war on drugs is a war on people’ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/27/active-duty-cop-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-people/Law Enforcement Against Prohibition http://www.leap.cc/Barack Obama Dodges Online Marijuana Questions http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/290934/20120201/president-barack-obama-fails-questions-marijuana-legislation.htmFBI Uses Chainsaw In Raid On Wrong Fitchburg Apartment http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/31/fbi-uses-chainsaw-in-raid-on-wrong-fitchburg-apartment/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Javier Martinez (nominated by Jonas Betzendahl) http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/archiv/aehnliche/archiv_article/ARTICLE98503-Spanish-bishop-legitimates-rapeIdiot Extraordinaire: Tony Perkins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-dX2Q4kdOUThis Week's Quote: “No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” —P.J. O’RourkeDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1343

Bogosity Podcast for 30 January 2012

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Preservationists decry alteration, sale of UCLA Japanese garden http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2012/01/ucla-japanese-garden-sale.htmlBankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/bankrupt-solyndra-caught-destroying-brand-new-parts/Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57364330-281/judge-americans-can-be-forced-to-decrypt-their-laptops/Supreme Court rules cops need warrant for GPS tracking http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-police-gpstre80m1e1-20120123,0,2630523.storyBiggest Bogon Emitter: OK Sen. Ralph Shortey (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/oklahoma_goper_proposes_bill_to_outlaw_aborted_hum.php?ref=fpbIdiot Extraordinaire: East Haven, CT Mayor Joseph Maturo (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfeyg9G5Ov4After East Haven arrests, rights group seeks stronger Penn Act http://www.ctmirror.org/story/15175/after-east-haven-arrests-rights-group-seeks-stronger-penn-actThis Week’s Quote: “The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.” —Lord ActonDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1330

Bogosity Podcast for 23 January 2012

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

0:52 - State of the Union Commentary News of the Bogus: 9:26 - Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-19/megaupload-feds-shutdown/52678528/1 12:15 - Wikipedia traffic surged during SOPA blackout http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10185978-wikipedia-traffic-surged-during-sopa-blackout The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won’t Stop Us! http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-pipasopa-wont-stop-us120117/ SOPA & PIPA: The Pirate Bay Worried About The Internet, Not Itself http://www.webpronews.com/sopapipa-the-pirate-bay-worried-about-the-internet-not-itself-2012-01 15:08 - German courts are bucking the trend, ruling that ISPs shouldn’t block illegal websites http://thenextweb.com/eu/2012/01/14/german-courts-are-bucking-the-trend-ruling-that-isps-shouldnt-block-illegal-websites/ 16:10 - Plymouth-Canton school district banning books http://michiganradio.org/post/plymouth-canton-school-district-banning-books 18:30 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The MPAA (nominated by Dave Turcotte) SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an ''abuse of power'' http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesand-mpaa-calls-protests-an-abuse-of-power.ars SOPA and PIPA - Learn more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more 20:55 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Matthew Yglesias http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/01/what_is_austrian_economics_and_why_is_ron_paul_keep_obsessed_with_it_.html This Week's Quote: “Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.” —F. A. Hayek Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1314

Bogosity Podcast for 16 January 2012

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:The Pirate Bay Shows Futility of Domain and DNS Blocks http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-shows-futility-of-domain-and-dns-blocks-120109/Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16367042WTF?! Filesharing Religion 'Kopimism' Recognized by Sweden http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/180849-wtf-filesharing-religion-kopimism-recognized-by-sweden-Wrongfully jailed: Records detail more than 500 mistaken-identity arrests in Denver in seven years http://www.denverpost.com/investigations/ci_19697991N.H. voters had dozens of choices http://www.eagletribune.com/newhampshire/x594872259/N-H-voters-had-dozens-of-choicesBiggest Bogon Emitter: Lamar Smith http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/sopa-sponsor-rep-lamar-smith-to-sopa-opponents-you-dont-matter/Idiot Extraordinaire: Pope Benedict XVI http://atheistuniverse.net/forum/topics/pope-same-sex-marriage-threatens-humanity-itself This Week's Quote: “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” —Galileo GalileiDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1307

Bogosity Podcast for 9 January 2012

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95836Why Accused Baby Killer Costs Taxpayers http://www2.wjtv.com/news/2011/dec/09/why-accused-baby-killer-costs-taxpayers-ar-2838089/US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law https://torrentfreak.com/us-threatened-to-blacklist-spain-for-not-implementing-site-blocking-law-120105/Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media (Iowa Caucus coverage)Iowa caucus results: Where does Ron Paul go from here? http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2012/0104/Iowa-caucus-results-Where-does-Ron-Paul-go-from-here-VideoIowa Caucus Epilogue: The Paulbots 15 minutes are up http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/jan/6/iowa-caucus-epilogue-paulbots-15-minutes-are/Iowa Caucus Results: Ron Paul Vows 'We Will Go On' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/03/ron-paul-iowa-caucus-results-2012_n_1182348.htmlWhy Eric Dondero, Former Aid, is Smearing Ron Paul: He is a Rabid Islamophobe and Sharia Conspiracy Theory Nut http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/01/why-eric-dondero-former-aid-is-smearing-ron-paul-he-is-a-rabid-islamophobe-and-sharia-conspiracy-theory-nut/Idiot Extraordinaire: Pierre Dukan http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-rt-us-slim-kids-markstre8051n1-20120106,0,3915996.storyThe skinny on the Body Mass Index (BMI) http://www.dbskeptic.com/2009/02/08/the-skinny-on-the-body-mass-index-bmi/Bogosity.TV discussion on this issue: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1282This Week's Quote: “Yes, there are incompetents in this world—just as there are evil-doers and frauds. That's why we must reduce government to a fraction of its current size—to take away the power that enables incompetents, evil-doers, and frauds to run our lives.” —Harry BrowneDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1287

2011 Wrap-up

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:US government urges scientists to censor findings on new strain of bird flu http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/21/bird-flu-mutation-nationa-securityOutrage in Oildale after crash http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x1836507341/Names-of-pedestrians-struck-and-killed-by-patrol-vehicle-releasedDeputy in fatal crash was responding to stolen vehicle call http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x1836507401/Deputy-in-fatal-crash-was-responding-to-stolen-vehicle-callSaudi Woman Beheaded for 'Witchcraft' http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/saudi-woman-beheaded-witchcraft/story?id=15145041NDAA's CIA, military targeted killings of innocent Americans http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/ndaa-s-cia-military-targeted-killings-of-innocent-americans2011 Year in ReviewIdiot of the Year: Bill O'Reilly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3AFMe2OQYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHzhtARf8MBill O’Reilly: tidal bore http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/01/31/bill-oreilly-tidal-bore/s)Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1273

Bogosity Podcast for 12 December 2011

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Police Officers Find That Dissent on Drug Laws May Come With a Price http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/us/officers-punished-for-supporting-eased-drug-laws.html?_r=1Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) http://www.leap.cc/Tell Me What’s in My Genome! http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/11/genetic_testing_in_the_united_states_may_be_hurt_by_the_fda_s_confusing_policies_.htmlAre iPhone Taxes Too High? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=839HhppAomoSaudi Arabia to Give Australian 500 Lashes, Jail for Blasphemy http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150481Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama (again!) http://news.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/obamas-teddy-roosevelt-speech---full-transcript.phpPart 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLCeUkg5b94Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY5ehI6GxVcIdiot Extraordinaire: Rick Perry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgAThis Week's Quote: “The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration was needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.” —Carl SaganDiscuss at Bogosity.TV http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1243

Bogosity Podcast for 5 December 2011

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Kansas teen won't apologize to governor's office for Twitter post http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/us/kansas-high-schooler-tweet/index.html?hpt=hp_c23Emma Sullivan Apology: Kansas High School Student Not Sorry About Sam Brownback Tweet http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/27/emma-sullivan-apology-sam-brownback-tweet_n_1115382.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk2|115902Student faces U.S. extradition over 'pirate-TV link' website http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/student-faces-us-extradition-over-pirate-tv-link-website/13370UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Shawn C. REIMERDES, et al., Defendants http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6767201706448209578&q=273+F.3d+429&hl=en&as_sdt=2,5Pizza as a Vegetable? Congress Proposes New School Lunch Bill http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/17/pizza-as-vegetable-congress-proposes-new-school-lunch-bill/Did the Reagan-era USDA really classify ketchup as a vegetable? http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2517/did-the-reagan-era-usda-really-classify-ketchup-as-a-vegetable'Eat More Kale' trademark flap more complex than simple slogan http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111124/BUSINESS08/111240307/-Eat-More-Kale-trademark-flap-more-complex-than-simple-sloganChick-fil-A: Stop Bullying Small Business Owners http://www.change.org/petitions/chick-fil-a-stop-bullying-small-business-ownersBiggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/11/obama-us-has-gotten-lazy-about-foreign-investment/1Idiot Extraordinaire: The European Union http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.htmlDehydration - Prevention http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/tc/dehydration-preventionThis Week's Quote: “[T]oday we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups...unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power.” —Philip K. DickDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1231

Bogosity Podcast for 21 November 2011

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Michigan's 'Matt's Safe School Law' Allows Bullying With Religious, Moral Reason http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/michigans-matts-safe-schools-law-allows-bullying_n_1076494.html?ref=twChickenpox parties--just a Facebook friend away http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2011/11/chickenpox_parties--just_a_fac.phpWalnuts are drugs according to new FDA claim http://www.huliq.com/12079/walnuts-are-drugs-according-new-fda-claimFDA's warning letter to Diamond Food: http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/ucm202825.htmGoogle Scholar search on the health benefits of walnuts http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=walnuts+health+benefits&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C34&as_sdtp=onCherry industry chafes at FDA warnings http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-03-19-cherry-warnings_x.htmTech giants say SOPA piracy bill is 'draconian' http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/16/technology/sopa/Eshoo Letter SOPA http://www.docstoc.com/docs/103074743/Eshoo-Letter-SOPAFull text of SOPA http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-3261Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anti-Vaccers (yet again) http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/08/new-study-suggests-autism-starts-in-the-womb/?hpt=hp_bn10Idiot Extraordinaire: Christopher McGrath (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-faces-libel-allegations-over-amazon-book-review-6259431.htmlThis Week's Quote: “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.” —Mohandas GandhiDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1220

Bogosity Podcast for 7 November 2011

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Co-Host: Lord T Hawkeye http://www.youtube.com/lordthawkeye 0:35 - Discussion: Occupy Wall Street Gov. Gary Johnson Among the Occupy Wall Street Protesters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmW4uBYyFns Peter Schiff Speaks for 1 Percent at Occupy Wall Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGL-Ex1CD1c News of the Bogus: 11:20 - Ener1 Delisting Continues Energy Department Aid Woes http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-02/ener1-delisting-continues-energy-department-aid-woes.html 14:48 - It Wasn’t Government that Fixed Your Clock: How Two Private Citizens Developed Standard Time http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/it-wasnt-government-that-fixed-your-clock/ 23:10 - Aleksa Lundberg, Swedish Transgender Actress, Mourns Forced Sterilization http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/transgender-forced-sterilization_n_1071328.html 27:07 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Diederik Stapel http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=massive-fraud-uncovered-in-work 29:34 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ken Mercer http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us/105425/highlight-audio-clip-boiling-point-radio-august-20-2011/ This Week's Quote: “Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don’t deserve to control my life?” —Ashleigh Brilliant Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1204

Bogosity Podcast for 31 October 2011

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Judge blocks controversial N.C. abortion law http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/8414873-418/judge-blocks-controversial-nc-abortion-law.htmlHonour Killings Go Beyond Mere Homicide http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ayaan-hirsi-ali/honour-killings_b_1028920.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=falseA skeptical physicist ends up confirming climate data http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/a-skeptical-physicist-ends-up-confirming-climate-data/2011/10/20/gIQA6viC1L_blog.htmlClimate skeptic admits he was wrong to doubt global-warming data http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/10/climate-skeptic-woops-the-majority-is-right-on-global-warming.htmlBEST full data set and papers http://www.berkeleyearth.org/resources.phpBiggest Bogon Emitter: Herman Cain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdMNosv5dJUNo Need To Audit the Federal Reserve According to Herman Cain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiAkeFJXwUkGAO Report to Congressional Addressees: Federal Reserve System http://www.scribd.com/doc/60553686/GAO-Fed-InvestigationIdiot Extraordinaire: Joe Biden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4E57b-Z4KoAll Huffy, Joe Biden Stands By Rape Reference to GOP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxxotkX9ZOoCrime in the United States: 1991-2010 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl01.xlsThis Week's Quote: “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” —Carl SaganDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1195

Bogosity Podcast for 24 October 2011

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Ala. town's criminals get choice: Jail or church http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/23/national/main20110680.shtmlGod Squad: Mitt Romney Cult, Convicts in Church http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/god-squad-mitt-romney-cult-convicts-church-14699199Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches During Traffic Stops http://www.theblaze.com/stories/calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches-during-traffic-stops/Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data to U.S. Government http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_hands_wikileaks_volunteers_gmail_data_to_us.phpBiggest Bogon Emitter: Susan Greenfield http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/8825655/Video-games-can-alter-childrens-brains.htmlIdiot Extraordinaire: Eric Holder http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/10/13/the-terrorist-who-couldnt-think-straight/This Week's Quote: “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears as a protector.” —PlatoDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1180

Bogosity Podcast for 10 October 2011

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:ABC News reporter presses White House on Al-Awlaki assassination http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/312199Al Awlaki Dead -- Terrorists May Run But They Cannot Hide http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/30/al-awlaki-dead-terrorists-may-run-but-cannot-hide/US warns of revenge attacks after hits on Al-Qaeda http://news.yahoo.com/us-issues-travel-warning-hits-al-qaeda-192352850.htmlFeds to Gibson: Hand over more wood http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2011/09/28/feds-to-gibson-give-us-more-wood.htmlThe Pirate Bay Adds Domain to Bypass Court Order http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-adds-domain-to-bypass-court-order-111005/France: Copyright Is More Important Than Human Rights http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110902/15025715798/france-copyright-is-more-important-than-human-rights.shtmlPart of the PATRIOT Act ruled to be unconstitutional http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/8858-part-of-the-patriot-act-ruled-to-be-unconstitutionalBiggest Bogon Emitter: Judson Phillips http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/30/denying-vote-propertyless-makes-lot-sense-tea-party-nation-pres/Idiot Extraordinaire: NC Governor Bev Perdue http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/27/north-carolina-governor-suggests-suspending-elections-to-spur-economic/This Week's Quote: “In the eyes of anyone who has read history, disobedience is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.” —Oscar Wilde.Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1155

Bogosity Podcast for 26 September 2011

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Guest Host: Jonathan LoescheNews of the Bogus:On base, 'don't ask, don't tell' demise is cause for celebration http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44607673/ns/us_news-life/Troy Davis executed, supporters cry injustice http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/22/national/main20109976.shtmlNo Child Left Behind is leaving all children behind http://wrights2012.com/2011/09/no-child-left-behind-is-leaving-all-children-behind-2/Obama's Thought Police http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/20/obamas-thought-policeSantorum asks Google to clean up search results for his name http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/21/tech/web/santorum-google-ranking/index.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: The news mediaFaster-than-light Neutrinos could undermine Einstein http://www.slashgear.com/faster-than-light-neutrinos-could-undermine-einstein-23182223/Breakdown of the Theory of Relativity? http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/188550.htmlTiny Neutrinos May Have Broken Cosmic Speed Limit http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/science/23speed.htmlFaster Than Light Neutrinos? Not So Fast http://io9.com/5843112/faster-than-light-neutrinos-not-so-fastCERN's press release http://press.web.cern.ch/press/pressreleases/Releases2011/PR19.11E.htmlIdiot Extraordinaire: HeyRuka http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P158PfdN0gThis Week's Quote: “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” —Howard ZinnDiscuss at Bogosity.TV http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1139

Bogosity Podcast for 19 September 2011

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:00:00 +0000

9/11 Follow-up: Bin Laden: 'Your security is in your own hands' http://articles.cnn.com/2004-10-29/world/bin.laden.transcript_1_lebanon-george-w-bush-arab?_s=PM:WORLD Why Do Americans Hate Muslims? http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=64357&d=26&m=5&y=2005 News of the Bogus: In Britain, some schools banning skirts http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-britain-school-uniforms-20110911,0,3665458,full.story SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/52585552-68/scores-college-reading-students.html.csp Biggest Bogon Emitter: Seth Abramovitch http://gawker.com/5840024/ron-pauls-campaign-manager-died-of-pneumonia-penniless-and-uninsured Kent Snyder's obituary in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002937.html Free to Die http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/krugman-free-to-die.html Idiot Extraordinaire: Michele Bachmann http://jezebel.com/5839783/the-sex+hating-hysteria-behind-republicans-hpv-vaccine-debate Professors offer more than $10,000 for proof that Bachmann’s story about HPV is true http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/professors-offer-more-10-000-proof-bachmann-story-132647843.html Rush: Bachmann really jumped the shark on Gardasil http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/13/rush-bachmann-really-jumped-the-shark-on-gardasil/ This Week's Quote: “A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” —Carl Jung

Bogosity Podcast for 29 August 2011

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Three Arrested for Selling Lemonade on 'Lemonade Freedom Day' http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2011/08/lemonade_freedom_day.php Coralville Police Shutdown Several Children's Lemonade Stands http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Coralville-Police-Shutdown-Several-Childrens-Lemonade-Stands-126592563.html Portland lemonade stand runs into health inspectors, needs $120 license to operate http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html Setting free the lemonade stands. Really? http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110819/WIRE/110819465/1070/opinion?p=1&tc=pg&tc=ar Obama White House Loses Secret Service Shield on Records http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/barack-obama-white-house-loses-secret-service-shield-records JW Beats Obama in Court on WH Visitor Logs http://www.judicialwatch.org/weeklyupdate/2011/33-jw-beats-obama-court-wh-visitor-logs#anchor1 Skyway could be torn down if ridership doesn’t improve—in next 25 years http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2011-08-26/story/skyway-could-be-torn-down-if-ridership-doesnt-improve-next-25-years#ixzz1WA3jDM7X Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Florida Sheriffs Association http://www.flsheriffs.org/newsroom/entry/media-statement-on-libertarian-party-and-tsa Libertarians Call On Florida Sheriffs To Arrest TSA Agents http://www.libertyflorida.org/?p=808 Idiot Extraordinaire: Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/irregular-economics/ Keynesian Economics vs. Regular Economics http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576516412073445854.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Dubya's Double Dip? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip.html Ron Paul on the Housing Bubble – July 2002 http://www.ronpaul.com/2008-09-26/ron-paul-on-the-housing-bubble-july-2002/ Early Stimulus Worries http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/early-stimulus-worries/ This week's quote: “Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.” —F.A. Hayek Discuss at Bogosity.TV http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1100

Bogosity Podcast for 22 August 2011

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Japan Tests Show Low Exposure in Kids http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903639404576515890556446756.html OK, climate sceptics: here's the raw data you wanted http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20739-ok-climate-sceptics-heres-the-raw-data-you-wanted.html 'Tortured' US citizens allowed to sue Donald Rumsfeld http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14453895 Court Advances U.S. Torture Victims' Case Against Donald Rumsfeld http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/8515-court-advances-us-torture-victims-case-against-donald-rumsfeld Montreal police make arrest in "Mabus'' case on online death threats http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110817/mtl_mabus_110817/20110817/?hub=MontrealHome Montreal police make arrest in Internet threats http://www.canada.com/news/Montreal+police+make+arrest+Internet+threats/5269623/story.html Case Study: How a notorious spammer was brought down via Twitter http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/case-study-notorious-spammer-brought-down-twitter-tumblr-social-media-mabus/ Biggest Bogon Emitter: Presidential Election Coverage http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/8609-has-the-media-suppressed-ron-paul-coverage Indecision 2012 - Corn Polled Edition - Ron Paul & the Top Tier http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/indecision-2012---corn-polled-edition---ron-paul---the-top-tier Idiot Extraordinaire: FSAthe1st http://www.youtube.com/FSAthe1st The NHS and Free Market Healthcare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkK7mK0rAIQ Waiting Times On the Rise (Pulse link) http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/12202663/waiting-times-on-the-rise Open letter from the Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/18/open-letter-federation-surgical Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977... Is it Constitutional? http://usconstitution.net/newforum/showthread.php?139-Foreign-Corrupt-Practices-Act-1977...-Is-it-Constitutional&s=e7ff24e06f5eb1f9cb9de4819c16d681 Jus gentium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_gentium Full discussion about the Law of Nations and the jurisdictional problems http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=uJQr3wHWnC8 This Week's Quote: “Against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain.” —Friedrich Schiller Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1088

Bogosity Podcast for 15 August 2011

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Post A Picture That 'Causes Emotional Distress' And You Could Face Jailtime In Tennessee http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110606/22513614573/post-picture-that-causes-emotional-distress-you-could-face-jailtime-tennessee.shtmlFull text of HB 300 http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0362.pdfLegislative history of HB 300 http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/TN/HB0300Feds silence scientist over salmon study http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Feds%20silence%20scientist%20over%20salmon%20study/5162633/story.htmlMiller, Kristina M. et al. ''Canadian Salmon Genomic Signatures Predict Migration and Spawning Failure in Wild,'' Science 331, 214 (2011) http://www3.carleton.ca/fecpl/pdfs/Science%20-%20Miller%20et%20al%202011.pdfArguing With Success: Eva Moskowitz's aptly named Harlem charter schools http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576496721594649538.htmlCharter School Clears Hurdle http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576505102264588520.htmlObama Gets a Blank Check for Endless War http://reason.com/archives/2011/08/08/obama-gets-a-blank-check-for-eiCasualties | Operation Enduring Freedom | Afghanistan http://icasualties.org/oef/U.S. Widens Role in Battle Against Mexican Drug Cartel http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/world/07drugs.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=ginger%20thompson&st=cseBiggest Bogon Emitter: Most politicians and the news mediaPresident Obama's Statement on Credit Downgrade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmMMHjD7yEsCNN says ''Don't Panic'' over debt downgrade - PANIC!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui832o0ycXYUnited States of America Long-Term Rating Lowered To 'AA+' Due To Political Risks, Rising Debt Burden; Outlook Negative http://www.standardandpoors.com/ratings/articles/en/us/?assetID=1245316529563S&P Explains Rating Downgrade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcyYZxY1tA8Idiot Extraordinaire: Michael Egnor http://egnorance.blogspot.com/2011/08/engineeringism.htmlTacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse ''Gallopin' Gertie'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnwThis Week's Quote: “As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.” —Martin Cruz SmithDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1065

Bogosity Podcast for 1 August 2011

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Near Elimination of Varicella Deaths in the US After Implementation of the Vaccination Program http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/07/21/peds.2010-3385.abstract Nobody runs for office in small N.C. town http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/18/nobody-runs-for-office-in-small-n-c-town/ Victory for evolution in Texas http://ncse.com/news/2011/07/victory-evolution-texas-006802 International Databases, LLC (the creationist supplements) http://internationaldatabasesllc.com/ Biggest Bogon Emitter: Dr. Richard Kent http://blip.tv/raydirector/dr-richard-kent-interview-about-evolution-2011-4880175 Silver Cluon Award: Myles Power http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsJq8RKcXts Homeopathic Nitric Acid http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-books-online/keynotes-homeopathic-remedies/nitric-acid/ Idiot Extraordinaire: Panelists of The Talk http://www.cbs.com/e/uYY6jHTAD9Nnj4bak1K2G3c1Bdr0rTyt/cbs/1/ This Week's Quote: “Homeopaths get on my nerves with their, ‘Sicence doesn't know everything!’ Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.” —Dara O'Briain Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1030

Bogosity Podcast for 25 July 2011

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Arkansas town seeks to ban free speech for residents http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/arkansas-town-seeks-to-ban-free-speech-for-residentsOrdinance threatens citizens' constitutional rights http://www.fox16.com/news/story/Ordinance-threatens-citizens-constitutional-rights/O85syUUHxU-b8MUO5w5hog.cspxLawyers say Gould ordinances violate Constitution http://www.fox16.com/news/story/Lawyers-say-Gould-ordinances-violate-Constitution/jqium_B2hkmo8NTLNcttdg.cspxMayor Nash Interview Part 1 http://www.fox16.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=2658312Mayor Nash Interview Part 2 http://www.fox16.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=2658335UN grudgingly admits wealth creation, not redistribution, driving reduction in global poverty http://www.canada.com/business/grudgingly+admits+wealth+creation+redistribution+driving+reduction+global+poverty/5068825/story.htmlAngelina County jury finds man guilty of evading arrest after being mistaken for burglar in his own home http://lufkindailynews.com/news/local/article_79700610-b30b-11e0-a4e5-001cc4c03286.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: The Baltimore Sun http://blogs.forbes.com/stevensalzberg/2011/07/17/the-baltimore-sun-sinks-deep-into-anti-vaccination-quicksand/Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant’s Immune System? http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/109/1/124.fullIdiot Extraordinaire: Gould, AK City Council Member Sonja FarleyInterview Part 1 http://www.fox16.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=2658478Interview Part 2 http://www.fox16.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=2658610This Week's Quote: “Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—‘No, you move.’” —Captain America (from Amazing Spider-Man #537)Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1019

Bogosity Podcast for 18 July 2011

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Update: Casey Anthony juror #3 breaks her silence http://www.woio.com/story/15078841/casey-anthony-juror-3-breaks-her-silenceThe miserable postscript for a Casey Anthony juror http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/10/7055601-the-miserable-postscript-for-a-casey-anthony-jurorNews of the Bogus:U.S. Prison Population is the Largest on Earth http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1529685/us_prison_population_is_the_largest.htmlOak Park Woman Faces 93-Days in Jail For Planting Vegetable Garden http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/julie-bass-of-oak-park-faces-misdemeanor-charge-for-vegetable-garden-20110630-wpmsAmerica's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta http://news.yahoo.com/americas-biggest-teacher-principal-cheating-scandal-unfolds-atlanta-213734183.htmlFamily Says Madison Deputies Interrupted Party, Used Tasers http://www.wapt.com/news/28444843/detail.htmlParty Goers Accuse Madison Deputies of Excessive Force http://www2.wjtv.com/news/2011/jul/05/party-goes-accuse-madison-deputies-disorderly-cond-ar-2070362/US ran fake vaccine project in hunt for bin Laden http://news.yahoo.com/us-ran-fake-vaccine-project-hunt-bin-laden-234609884.htmlMetro reviewing DNA cases after error led to wrongful conviction http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jul/07/dna-lab-switch-led-wrongful-conviction-man-who-ser/Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sens. Jay Rockefeller, Barbara Boxer, Frank Lautenberg, and Peter King http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/idUS20734472720110713 Idiot Extraordinaire: Sen. Mitch McConnell http://nation.foxnews.com/eric-holder/2011/07/11/holder-wants-try-terrorists-same-civilian-courts-let-casey-anthony-free This Week's Quote: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1012

Bogosity Podcast for 12 September 2011

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

9/11 Commentary:Harry Browne's prediction (15:00 in): http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PresidentialPolitics14Truth About War: http://truthaboutwar.org/News of the Bogus:Documents Show Feds Believed in the Yeti http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/09/02/documents-show-feds-believed-in-yeti?google_editors_picks=trueUS espionage investigation against WikiLeaks: PATRIOT Act order unsealed http://wikileaks.org/US-espionage-investigation-against.htmlSchenck v. United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_StatesBrandenburg v. Ohio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._OhioIf Wikileaks Broke the Espionage Act, So Did the New York Times http://gawker.com/5702397/if-wikileaks-broke-the-espionage-act-so-did-the-new-york-timesBig-Box Stores' Hurricane Prep Starts Early http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139941596/big-box-stores-hurricane-prep-starts-early?ps=cprsReport: Criticism of FEMA's Katrina response deserved http://articles.cnn.com/2006-04-14/politics/fema.ig_1_fema-s-katrina-national-response-plan-general-richard-l-skinner?_s=PM:POLITICSFEMA To Demand That Hurricane Katrina Victims Return Aid Money http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/01/fema-to-demand-that-hurri_n_869584.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: Creation Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZvdEhqhL8Penn's Origial Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhG-tkQ_Q2wIdiot Extraordinaire: Rick Perry http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/08/18/did-rick-perry-just-admit-to-violating-the-us-constitution/This Week's Quote: “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” —Hermann GöringDiscuss at Bogosity.TV http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1128

Bogosity Podcast for 11 July 2011

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:NATO Admits Missile Hit a Civilian Home in Tripoli http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/middleeast/20libya.html?_r=1Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htmScientists Discover That Antimicrobial Wipes and Soaps May Be Making You (and Society) Sick http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=scientists-discover-that-antimicrob-2011-07-05401(k) Law Suppresses Saving for Retirement http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303365804576430153643522780.htmlBiggest Bogon Emitter: Dr. Cynthia Boaz http://www.truth-out.org/14-propaganda-techniques-fox-news-uses-brainwash-americans/1309612678Idiot Extraordinaire: Millions of Americans http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/us/06casey.htmlThe Innocence Project http://www.innocenceproject.org/This Week's Quote: “She’s cold, materialistic, unlikable, and it might bring you all pleasure to see her go to jail. But as for evidence to establish that she committed a murder beyond all reasonable doubt? It just isn’t there. The only possible route to a guilty verdict here is Schadenfreude.” —Alan Shore, from Boston LegalDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=995

Bogosity Podcast for 5 September 2011

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Courageous Illinois Man Faces 75 Years In Prison For Recording Cops http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNlJYSIzjoUDutch judge slaps ban on Samsung smartphones http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-dutch-sale-samsung-galaxy.htmlApple Says Samsung Plays Dirty http://www.mobiledia.com/news/105586.htmlU.S. Moves to Block AT&T Merger with T-Mobile http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-Moves-to-Block-ATT-Merger-nytimes-2904609364.html?x=0Scripted opposition to wireless merger raises credibility questions http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/25/scripted-opposition-to-wireless-merger-raises-credibility-questions/#ixzz1WeAnHKKlAT&T's Exaflood Acquisition Good for Mobile Consumers, Internet Growth http://www.forbes.com/sites/bretswanson/2011/03/22/atts-exaflood-acquisition-good-for-mobile-consumers-internet-growth/CWA Press Release http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/att_will_return_5000_jobs_to_u.s._on_completion_of_attt-mobile_mergerBiggest Bogon Emitter: Warren Buffett http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=2SOI Tax Stats - Individual Statistical Tables by Tax Rate and Income Percentile http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=133521,00.htmlLarge changes in fiscal policy: taxes versus spending http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/alesina/files/Large%2Bchanges%2Bin%2Bfiscal%2Bpolicy_October_2009.pdfIdiot Extraordinaire: Pastor Michael Stahl http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/08/atheist_national_registry_prop.phpThis Week's Quote: “If I am right, then religious fundamentalists will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.” —Isaac AsimovDiscuss at Bogosity.TV http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1115

Bogosity Podcast for 4 July 2011

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Too Much FDA Intervention, Too Few Drugs http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-21/too-much-fda-intervention-equals-too-few-drugs-ramesh-ponnuru.htmlTarget Field guard scolded lesbian Twins fans for kissing http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/06/target_field_gay_kiss.phpHigh court strikes down California video game ban http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43548265/ns/technology_and_science-games/?ocid=twitterThe decision: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1448.pdfWhat do you get when you put a terrorist inside of a brain scanner? http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2011/06/27/what-do-you-get-when-you-put-a-terrorist-inside-of-a-brain-scanner/Archive of the Washington Times article http://anti-state.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=printpage;threadid=4357Biggest Bogon Emitter: Robert Reich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb6Q2J5XqiMIdiot Extraordinaire: Pat Robertson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZnPYfpp4gIThis Week's Quote: “If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” —Samuel AdamsDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=983

Bogosity Podcast for 20 June 2011

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus:Chicago State's Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, Prosecutes Citizens Who Record Them http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/chicago-district-attorney-recording-bad-cops_n_872921.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl3|sec1_lnk3|69598Tong Ren Therapy - NBC 7 NEWS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I4r3FrzFBcReport: Students don't know much about US history http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110614/ap_on_re_us/us_history_testBiggest Bogon Emitter: Stella Morabito http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/06/why-libertarian-drive-repeal-doma-will-grow-leviathanIdiot Extraordinaire: President Barack Obama http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/43391550#43391550Bastiat's petition: http://bastiat.org/en/petition.htmlThis Week's Quote: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” —F.A. HayekDiscuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=971

Bogosity Podcast for 13 June 2011

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding homeless http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/crime/os-homeless-feedings-arrests-20110601,0,7226362.story Orlando Food Not Bombs - June 1st 2011 Arrests http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO0JdF48xsg Texas police find no bodies after psychic tip-off http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8562742/Texas-police-find-no-bodies-after-psychic-tip-off.html War on drugs has failed, report finds http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/02/drug.commission.report/index.html Kathryn Johnston shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston Drug Raid At Stratford High School http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_High_School_%28Goose_Creek,_South_Carolina%29#Drug_Raid_At_Stratford_High_School Cicada ice cream gets axe; Ice cream shop sold out of buggy flavor but health officials said no http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/food/2011/06/09/2011-06-09_cicada_ice_cream_gets_axe_ice_cream_shop_sold_out_of_buggy_flavor_but_health_off.html MASTIO: Dead bodies demand organic food moratorium http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/8/dead-bodies-demand-organic-food-moratorium/?page=all#pagebreak State audit ends school fundraiser http://www.shelbystar.com/news/shelby-55848-state-audit.html Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-11/news/ct-met-school-lunch-restrictions-041120110410_1_lunch-food-provider-public-school Biggest Bogon Emitter: High school biology teachers http://www.examiner.com/atheism-in-atlanta/biology-teachers-are-either-spineless-or-misled Idiot Extraordinaire: David Barton http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-founding-fathers-were-against-teaching-evolution-american-revolution-was-fought-slave This Week's Quote: “It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: it more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.” —Albert Shanker, former president of the American Federation of Teachers Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=957

Bogosity Podcast for 6 June 2011

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Albemarle Road church fined $100 per branch for excessive tree pruning http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/28/2333197/church-fined-for-improper-tree.html Charlotte Crime Data http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/nc/charlotte/crime/ Mobility Project - State-by-State Analysis of Future Congestion and Capacity Needs - North Carolina http://reason.org/news/show/126781.html Park Police investigates dancing arrests http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2403007 Video of the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUU3yCy3uI Dance Off: Court rules against birthday dance at Jefferson Memorial http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2386097 Federal regulations on parks: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/julqtr/36cfr7.96.htm Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/27/italian-scientist-charged-manslaughter-failing-predict-earthquake/ Biggest Bogon Emitter: World Health Organization http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/ Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case–control study http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/ije/press_releases/freepdf/dyq079.pdf Idiot Extraordinare: Sen. Rand Paul http://www.ronpaul2012podcast.com//2011/05/26/sen-rand-paul-on-sean-hannity-show-5262011/ Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=395&invol=444 This Week's Quote: “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” —H.L. Mencken Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=932

Bogosity Podcast for 30 May 2011

Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Supreme Court OKs Warrantless Searches http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015072154_scotus17.html Full ruling http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1272.pdf Doctors warn parents to keep newborns at home as whooping cough epidemic escalates http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/doctors-warn-parents-to-keep-newborns-at-home-as-whooping-cough-epidemic-escalates/story-e6freuy9-1226055946293 Desperate plea by grieving parents http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/desperate-plea-by-grieving-parents/story-fn6e0s1g-1226055829326 Treasury using federal pension funds opens up move to take 401K's http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/treasury-using-federal-pension-funds-opens-up-move-to-take-401k-s Council of Europe Seeks to BAN WiFi Wireless Networks and Mobiles in Schools http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2011/05/15/bad-science-at-the-council-of-europe/ Bad Science at the Council of Europe http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2011/05/15/bad-science-at-the-council-of-europe/ The Committee's working paper http://assembly.coe.int/main.asp?Link=/documents/workingdocs/doc11/edoc12608.htm Dr. Bob Park on cancer and cell phones http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN08/wn072508.html Cell phone + sperm = disaster http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20064779-501465.html Cellphones may harm male sperm quality http://m.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/conditions/sexual-health/cellphones-may-harm-male-sperm-quality/article2028775/?service=mobile Gupta: Cell phones, brain tumors and a wired earpiece http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/20/gupta-cell-phones-brain-tumors-and-a-wired-earpiece/ NHS Waiting times on the rise http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=23&storycode=4129557&c=2 Alternate link if above doesn't work: http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/12202663/waiting-times-on-the-rise Patients denied key treatments due to NHS cost-cutting, surgeons warn http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/18/nhs-cost-cutting-surgeon-warning Open letter from the Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/18/open-letter-federation-surgical Biggest Bogon Emitter: USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-05-24-Dont-believe-national-debt-hype_n.htm Idiot Extraordinaire: Justice Keith http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8532833/Mercy-for-witchcraft-girl-told-to-stab-mother.html This Week's Quote: “One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.” —Thomas Brackett Reed Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=929

Bogosity Podcast for 23 May 2011

Sun, 22 May 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Jesus Returning To Earth On May 21, 2011 http://www.flashnews.com/news/wfn05100730fn12605.html End of Days in May? Believers enter final stretch http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40885541/m/videos/ Science explains the end of the world http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/science-explains-the-end-of-the-world/2011/05/10/AFaLvBiG_blog.html Rajaratnam case puts big chill on insider trading http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11135/1146449-28-0.stm Is insider trading really a crime? http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Mises-Economics-Blog/2011/0516/Is-insider-trading-really-a-crime Indiana Supreme Court dispenses with Magna Carta, Constitution http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/indiana-supreme-court-dispenses-with-magna-carta-constitution Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html Lacey v. State of Indiana http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=In%20INCO%2020110510196.xml&docbase=CSLWAR3-2007-CURR Barnes v. State of Indiana http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=In%20INCO%2020110512237.xml&docbase=CSLWAR3-2007-CURR Biggest Bogon Emitter: The TSA http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/05/texas-house-of-representatives-seeking.html #w00tstock Seattle: Adam Savage says ''WTF, TSA?'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb4&t=01m06s Idiot Extraordinaire: President Barack Obama http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/17/statement-press-secretary-s-940 Gasoline Taxes Vs. Exxon Profit, Per Gallon http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2011/04/27/gasoline-taxes-vs-exxon-profit-per-gallon/ Current gas tax data: http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/upload/GASOLINE_TAX_MAP_MAY2011.pdf US gasoline consumption per year: http://www.eia.doe.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=23&t=10 This Week's Quote: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” —Niels Bohr Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=921

Bogosity Podcast for 16 May 2011

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Pwnage Olympics winner: edenscancer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sheM1XwGarY Mozilla stands up to U.S. government takedown request http://www.techspot.com/news/43674-mozilla-stands-up-to-us-government-takedown-request.html Mozilla general counsel Harvey Anderson's comments http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/homeland-security-request-to-take-down-mafiaafire-add-on/ The response from MAFIAAfire http://www.mafiaafire.com/quick_note2.txt Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm Medical marijuana patients top 30,000, number of pot providers drops in wake of raids http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/ec38126df019456295a8147e2bd10c6e/MT--Medical-Marijuana/ Chile's Private Social Security System Turns 30 http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/570629/201104291742/Chiles-Private-Social-Security-System-Turns-30.aspx Chile’s Privatized Social Security Program is 30 Years Old, and Prospering http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/south-america-mainmenu-37/7344-chiles-privatized-social-security-program-is-30-years-old-and-prospering Report: Chile Ranks as Top Latin American Destination Among Pension Managers http://www.ai-cio.com/channel/GENERAL_SURVEYS/Report__Chile_Ranks_as_Top_Latin_American_Destination_Among_Pension_Managers.html US prisoners refused all books except Bible http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/10/us-prisoners-refused-books-bible ACLU asks judge to block jail’s book-banning policy http://www.thestate.com/2011/05/05/1806095/aclu-asks-judge-to-block-jails.html#ixzz1MFFM4M4x Galveston County Doesn’t Want Prison Legal News In Its Jail http://www.texascivilrightsproject.org/?p=2341 Biggest Bogon Emitter: Washington Post Express http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2011/05/alternate-course-learning-practicing-homeopathy.php Idiot Extraordinaire: Kerry [last name redacted] http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mom-year-daughter-botox-young-young/story?id=13580804 Botox Mom Who Injected Daughter, 8, Under Investigation http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mom-gave-daughter-botox-investigated/story?id=13595955 This Week's Quote: “Nothing ruins a perfectly good ‘Drugs Kill’ campaign faster than a pothead who can win the Triathlon.” —Tim Slagle Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=895

Bogosity Podcast for 2 May 2011

Sun, 01 May 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Pwnage Olympics winner, Best Educational Pwnage: GrapplingIgnorance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TONWyYK8F1k Labor Board Tells Boeing New Factory Breaks Law http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/business/21boeing.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=dreamliner&st=cse False pretense for war in Libya? http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-14/bostonglobe/29418371_1_rebel-stronghold-civilians-rebel-positions Biggest Bogon Emitter: Power Balance, LLC http://bogosity.tv/files/StatementPowerBalance.jpg Richard Saunders demonstrating how Applied Kinesiology is done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piu75P8sxTo Placebo Band: http://skepticbros.com/store/ Idiot Extraordinaire: Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/17/jesse-jackson-jr-ipad-unemployment_n_850227.html The Economy Needs a ''Deregulatory Stimulus'' http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13030 This Week's Quote: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=874

Bogosity Podcast for 18 April 2011

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Another Air Traffic Controller Caught Sleeping on the Job: http://abcnews.go.com/US/air-traffic-controller-caught-sleeping-job/story?id=13317134 Double Standard for Doctors? http://www.webmd.com/news/20110411/double-standard-doctors Fight stokes Planned Parenthood: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52962.html Jesus crucifixion nails discovered, claims film-maker: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/12/jesus-crucifixion-nails-discovery After Fundamentalist Church Expose, One Pastor Is Unrepentant http://ca.jezebel.com/5791364/after-fundamentalist-church-expose-one-pastor-is-unrepentant Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rachel Maddow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yepI1Jz3OAE The Tenth Amendment Center's response: http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/04/14/toys-in-the-attic-strikes-again/ South Carolina Secession Declaration: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=432 Idiot Extraordinaire: Bill Donahue http://www.catholicleague.org/nytstraighttalk.php Vatican served with court papers naming pope, 2 others in decades-old Wisconsin abuse case: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5icsvx0mcrbR3n3_u9KDl33BZ_iBw?docId=6546589 Richard Dawkins calls for arrest of Pope Benedict XVI: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7094310.ece This Week's Quote: ''I find it quite ironic that some Christians would like to ban the Harry Potter books, in case their children turn to witchcraft and away from Jesus, as opposed to turning to Christianity, and even further away from Jesus.'' —Pat Condell Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=720.0

Bogosity Podcast for 11 April 2011

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: The Pigasus Awards: http://www.randi.org/site/jref-news/1260-pigasus-2011 Tax Freedom Day: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/ Income Tax compliance costs: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/1962.html A wrong decision by the Supreme Court on civil rights: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-connick-20110406,0,2117897.story Supreme Court Majority Rules DA is not Responsible for His Prosecutors’ Misdeeds: http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Supreme_Court_Majority_Rules_DA_is_not_Responsible_for_His_Prosecutors_Misdeeds_110407 Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sharyl Attkisson http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20049118-10391695.html Measels outbreak in Minnesota: http://autism-news-beat.com/archives/1541 Minneapolis Measles Outbreak Traced to Fraudulent Autism Study http://www.heartland.org/healthpolicy-news.org/article/29641/Minneapolis_Measles_Outbreak_Traced_to_Fraudulent_Autism_Study.html Whooping Cough in Roanoke, VA: http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/282367 Idiot Extraordinare: Jarrah White http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucvC7AAcj-M Astrobrant2's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Astrobrant2 This Week's Quote: “If you give a good politician the power to do good things, you automatically give a bad politician the power to do bad things.” —Harry Browne Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=720

DJ Shanek: Sylvia Browne Must Be Stopped

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +0000

The song featured in the most recent Bogosity podcast is reproduced here in its entirety, with permission. Here are the liner notes from DJ Shanek: Sylvia Browne is one of those fake psychics (well, okay, all psychics are fake) who'll talk to the dead, give medical advice, or whatever else she thinks her victims will buy. I've had a special hatred of her for years, as this entry on my personal blog shows. Now with the facts of the Sean Hornbeck case showing just how wrong she is (the perpetrator is not tall, does not have long hair and dreadlocks, is not dark-skinned, Hornbeck was not between two boulders, was not dead...), I was inspired to tear her apart musically. I figured I couldn't just use this one example of her being wrong, since her excuse that her manager has been telling everyone is that she's ''not 100% right.'' So I needed lots of examples, and there are plenty! But I found it was too awkward to play a recording of her reading, and then play something showing how it's wrong. So I focused on three examples where she is clearly wrong, just by listening to the reading. The first is just a funny case of her telling a caller to Larry King Live that her mother is dead when she's alive. The second, where a Montel Williams audience member is told to look for her boyfriend in water when he really died in the WTC attacks, makes me want to rip Sylvia's throat out. And the third one, where Sylvia tries to convince a grieving couple that their daughter was shot, just breaks my heart. The song is called Sylvia Browne Must Be Stopped, because, well, she must be stopped! Tying all of this together is her refusal to take James Randi's Million Dollar Challenge, which she agreed to take in 2001, agreed to the protocol for, and has been ducking it ever since. The song starts out with a recording of her telling Larry King she'll take the test, and then her manager telling Anderson Cooper that Sylvia won't take it because she has ''nothing to prove to James Randi.'' It ends with Randi and Sylvia's manager arguing about it, seemingly endlessly. John King wraps it all up with one quip that was just too good not to include. Here are all the voices appearing in this song: The Amazing James Randi The Pretty-Cool Anderson Cooper The All-Right-I-Guess Larry King The Questionable Montel Williams The Contemptible Linda Rossi The Total-Piece-Of-Crap-And-She-Knows-It-Plus-She's-Ugly-Too Sylvia Browne The Got-In-A-Very-Good-Quip-At-The-End John King Some Very Sympathetic Callers and Audience Members I should mention that none of these have given their permission or endorsed this song in any way. This is a parody of material (and thus fair use under USC 17 § 107) that really sends itself up. My voice does not appear because, well, how could I possibly add anything to that? I hope you enjoy it, I hope it breaks your heart, I hope you both laugh at and hate Sylvia Browne when it's all over, and I hope you'll agree that she must be stopped! You can keep track of all of her goings-on at the website StopSylvia.com.

Bogosity Podcast for 4 April 2011

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:00:59 +0000

News of the Bogus: Sylvia Browne has heart attack, didn't see it coming: http://www.hawaiireporter.com/psychic-author-sylvia-browne-hospitalized-in-hawaii/123 Stop Sylvia Browne: http://www.stopsylvia.com Local city shuts down Girl Scouts’ cookie stand: http://www.kmov.com/news/mobile/Local-city-shuts-down-Girl-Scouts-cookie-stand-118481664.html Shoeman ends Hazelwood Girl Scout cookie controversy, for now: http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Hazelwood-Cookie-Controversy-Update-118579354.html French vegan couple whose baby died of vitamin deficiency face jail for child neglect: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371172/French-vegan-couple-face-jail-child-neglect-baby-died-vitamin-deficiency.html Whistle-blowing witch grounded by TSA http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41959553/ns/business-us_business/ North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Ballot Access Requirement: http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/03/11/north-carolina-supreme-court-upholds-2-petition-requirement-for-ballot-access-for-minor-parties/ Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Federal Reserve Inflation worries push consumer confidence lower: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9M8UD7G1.htm US Cost of Living Hits Record, Passing Pre-Crisis High: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42130406 Fed chairman: No inflation worry: http://record-eagle.com/business/x642916566/Fed-chairman-No-inflation-worry iPad price remark gets Fed's Dudley an earful: http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/iPad-price-remark-gets-Fed-rsg-4151302271.html?x=0 Inflation Actually Near 10% Using Older Measure: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42551209 Idiot Extraordinaire: David John Wellman http://www.youtube.com/DavidJohnWellman This week's quote: "Keep in mind that the Nazis were elected in a full, free democratic election." --George Carlin Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=699

Bogosity Podcast for 28 March 2011

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Ann Coulter says radiation is good for you: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=11636 DoJ says bartering with silver is counterfeiting: http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/ce031811.htm An account of the trial: http://www.liberty4free.com/Liberty%20Dollar%20Trial.htm Blogger must pay $60,000 to fired community leader http://www.startribune.com/local/117805398.html Johnny Northside: ''Damn right we're appealing'' http://adventuresofjohnnynorthside.blogspot.com/2011/03/damn-right-were-appealing-all-way-to-us.html Air traffic controller asleep on the job: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-ronald-reagan-airport-20110324,0,2903141.story IATA Eagle Awards: http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2010-06-07-03.aspx Biggest Bogon Emitter: Pat Robertson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0nAq7BEnZY Silver Cluon Award: Randall Munroe http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/ Idiot Extraordinaire: Russell Blaylock The Skeptic's Dictionary on Russell Blaylock: http://www.skepdic.com/blaylock.html Blaylock blaming vaccines for obesity: http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/headline_health/Blaylock_Obesity_Causes/2011/02/18/376561.html Blaylock being an idiot about radiation: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/blaylock-radiation-us-japan/2011/03/15/id/389474 This week's quote: ''The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.'' --Doctor Who (''The Face of Evil'' by Chris Boucher) Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=685.msg7827

Bogosity Podcast for 21 March 2011 (Pilot)

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:00:00 +0000

News of the Bogus: Japanese nuclear disaster: Snopes article on the bogus fallout graphic: http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fallout.asp New York Times report on the USS Ronald Reagan: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/14plume.html?_r=2 Phil Plait's coverage of the event: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/14/the-japanese-nuclear-reactor-overreaction/ Scientific American article about the radiation from coal plants: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste 12-year-old suspended for being sick: 12-year-old suspended for failing a sobriety test: http://galvestondailynews.com/story/218002 The suspension is dropped: http://galvestondailynews.com/story/218202 UK libel reform: UK libel reform: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12749302 Simon Singh and the BCA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Singh#Chiropractic_lawsuit_and_backlash Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Corn Refiners Association: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0 Idiot Extraordinaire: VenomFangX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4RWeLfL2J0 This week's quote: ''I say you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only punish, only destroy. And I warn you: a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone that it touches--its upholders as well as its defiers.'' --Inherit the Wind

Discuss at Bogosity.TV: http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=663