This American Life: Must Hear Radio

This week’s episode on Climate Change changed my idea of how the Right processes this information. They don’t. But they will, over time. At a price. LISTEN HERE

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

Mother’s Day’s activist political roots. This year celebrate by taking action. Sign a petition, write a letter, donate to a cause. For this weekend’s LA Times. Great thanks to Wes Bausmith, Susan Brenneman, Sue Horton. click on image to enlarge

Aaron Swartz 1986-2013

Last January Aaron Swartz committed suicide. He had been hounded into a state of deep depression by an overzealous prosecutor in Massachusetts, who wanted to make a public example of a young man who devoted his life to making information free; a function, to him, of a strong democracy. The cruelty in this story is … Read more