Thanks for listening.​Back in January of this year, we got Fire and Fury from Michael Wolffe, a pretty entertaining and damning expose of the first year or so of the Trump White House along with his campaign leading up to his election.   It was viewed as an interestingly accurate picture of the administration, but that picture was viewed as more of a caricature than a portrait.  Since that time there has been a slew of administration books coming out, seems like everyone that le [...]

Thanks for listening.​For the last 3 years, we have been engaged in an ongoing discussion about sexual violence.  What started with the popularization of the term rape culture moved into street harassment and then transitioned into the #metoo movement.  But it’s all still a part of rape culture.  Throughout all of this change, we have seen women coming forward in record numbers to talk about their experiences.  We have focused, rightfully so, on empowering women and remov [...]

Thanks for listening.​Earlier today China released a white paper regarding its position on the trade frictions with the United States.   The Information Office of the State Council for the People's Republic of China released the report In order to clarify the facts about China-US economic and trade relations, clarify China’s stance on trade friction with the US, and pursue reasonable solutions.With America and China having the largest economies in the world and with China’s Econo [...]

Thanks for listening.​Earlier this month a new documentary appeared on Netflix entitled Reversing Roe.  Having seen a slew of documentaries on abortion I went into it very sarcastically expecting to be bombarded with pro-life rhetoric and biblical messages.  I hadn’t heard of the documentary and judging from the title I fully expected it to be a pro-life endeavor.  What followed in the next hour and a half is what we are going to spend the next half hour talking about.  I [...]

Thanks for listening.​Here in North Carolina, we are continuing to recover from Hurricane Florence.  A 400-mile wide behemoth that crawled across the Carolinas at a whopping 10 miles per hour.  The storm dropped records amounts of rain and here in Charlotte we experienced rain fail for nearly 30 hours straight, people died and the flooding is catastrophic.  Not to be outdone by Americans, China and Hong Kong experienced even more brutality at the hands of the weather over the sa [...]

With the hurricane pending here.  We are preparing to evacuate and as such there will not be a show this week from Lessons from the Screen.  Thank you for your listener-ship and support.  Keep us in your prayers and we look forward to returning next week.  No Show Message for 9-11.mp3File Size: 280 kbFile Type: mp3Download File [...]

Thanks for listening.​Congress has a duty to advice and consent.  This duty of Congress to Advice and Consent has been and will probably continue to be under the limelight with every appointment made by a president following President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.  A nomination that the Senate simply refused to Advice and Consent on leading to him not even getting a hearing.  Today on lessons from the screen we are going to be looking at Advice an [...]

Thanks for listening.Since 2013 Ipsos has been releasing a yearly report on how well informed people are about the societies they live in.  It’s a yearly survey of over 50,000 people from 38 different countries being asked to give their opinions on various issues and situations within their country.  The last one was done in November of 2017 and a composite book being released about the surveys and the data that is due to come out September 6, 2018, which would be Thursday.  But [...]

Thanks for listening.This show is just Patrick talking candidly about mental health in the community.  It's a short off the cuff monologue to bring the month to a close.  LftS Mental Health Close Out.mp3File Size:9101 kbFile Type:mp3Download File [...]

Thanks for listening.​Last show we talked about stress and its impact on us and throughout the month we have gone through various components of mental health.  But one still remains, Biology.  Sometimes your mental health fails or begins to deteriorate and there actually is a biological component causing it.  During this show we are going to be talking about what that could be, and if there is anything that we can do about it.   LftS Mental Health Biology.mp3File Size: [...]