My Librul Dad

15: The Librul Archipelago


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Nick describes the problem with Daylight Saving Time when you've got a 2 year old. Dad urges folks to think about the sunrises on the winter and summer solstices before they disparage DST. Then Dad offers his technology enabled solution.

In follow-up Dad reports that Mark Zuckerberg posted a manifesto for his pivot to privacy as priority for facebook and Elizabeth Warren proposes busting the tech trusts. Nick reports his finding on the party affiliations of folks that depend on government assistance. He recommends the Pew Research Center's study on one hand and a Bloomberg article on the other. And Dad curses listener Joe for forwarding a sweet, sweet link to a great tool website.

The guys take a look at the current popularity of thinking we're headed for a civil war. Dad examines what our country was like back in 1860 and how war was waged. It becomes apparent pretty quickly that we don't have a situation anywhere close to the start of the original Civil War… but we might have something closer to the Cold War.

Then they take a look at a New Yorker report that Fox News is more of a political communications organization than a news organization. Was anyone surprised by this and can anything be done.

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