Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby  https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/jack-ruby-shot-oswald-1963/

A better angle:

The Chicago Plot to Assassinate Kennedy

Good Summary – http://22november1963.org.uk/jfk-assassination-plot-chicago

Original article – https://ia800504.us.archive.org/30/items/TheChicagoPlotToKillJfk/ChicagoPlot.htm

Testimony of Abraham Bolden, Secret Service agent – https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=800#relPageId=261

Kennedy’s Love of Convertibles Made Him An Easy Target

CORRECTION: The Cuban Revolution was in 1953

CORRECTION: The CIA Director Joe can;t remember was Allan Dulles. Public Futility regrets Joe’s stupidity

The CIA was behind the Bay of Pigs

Episode 9 (1:17)

Charlottesville and Racism

Don’t conflate two issues

Racism is indefensible

Has this caused us to talk about “how we talk about racism”?

Gut Fauna and Hookworm (starts: 24:13)

Extinctions in our gut fauna.

On NPR

Hookworm your allergies away!

Helminthic therapy (what?)

Radiolab piece here

Buy your own!  Please don’t.

* BONUS: Hookworming is not just a first-world problem (NPR)

Sometimes, there’s not enough toilets.

We cure nothing. Not even Peter Thiel‘s herpes.

Facebook is evil (starts: 50:20)

Not-so-hidden power of Facebook and Google

Hidden viewpoint “bubbles” and confirmation-bias

You are the product

* BONUS: Facebook is reluctant to reveal anything about the Russian Pro-Trump Ad Spend (DB)

* BONUS 2: Russia’s $100,000 ad spend could have reached up to 100 million Americans (BI)

Trump, the World and Whether We Care

Why Is Donald Trumo So Horribly Witless About The World? (New Yorker) 

Would You Even Care If He Was Guilty?(Fox News)

If we don’t care what does that say about us?

Security Theater (starts around 31:00)

Bruce Schneier’s blog:  Schneier On Security

Homeland Security 2017 budget: $40.6 Billion (DHS.gov)

TSA 2017 portion: $7.6 Billion (TSA.gov)

What do we get for all this investment in security?

Waste of money? The TSA is a waste of maney that doesn’t actually save lives and might actually cost them. (Vox)

15 Years after 9/11, the TSA is still falling short. (USNews)

Pyramid Schemes and MLM’s (starts around 50:00)

 

How’s Sasquatch doin’ these days?

Sasquatch 101

So, what’s the evidence?

Bigfoot Maps! (Download The Google Earth Overlays)

* Patterson-Gimlin film Pretty good original Stabilized

Lots and lots of remote land in the US

https://www.westernwatersheds.org/watmess/watmess_2002/2002html_summer/article6.htm

* Or just ask Google

“Big Foot Prints”, Grover Krantz

* BONUS AUDIO – They hung a microphone in a tree, out near Yosemite.

* Sierra Sounds 1 (YouTube)

* Sierra Sounds 2 (YouTube)

Sasquatch v Crop Circles

Compelling Videos

Other video #1 – Sasquatch tearing across a ridge-line with an impressive leap

Other video #2 – – The Freeman VIdeo from 1994

* BONUS VIDEO  Thermal Images of a typical PG type sasquatch 

* BONUS VIDEO – Marble Mountain CA

* BONUS VIDEO: Carbondale PA – Close Up!

* BONUS VIDEO: Tatra Mountain, Poland

* THe above videos come from an incredible video analysis page on facebook – Facebook Find Bigfoot

Where’s the body?

Trump Update

Trump visits France and the Macrons

Machismo and cat-calling

Trump Jr. emails

Promised picture of Rob Goldstone (the intermediary)

Fake News, For Real  (Starts around 34:00)

150 Pro-Trump sites in a single Macedonian Town

How Donald Trump Is Making Money For Macedonia’s Internet Entrepreneurs (DW)

It was actually $91 million that the Trump campaign paid to Parscale

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-brad-parscale-russia-digital-guru-637322

 

WE GIVE THANKS TO: The Linus Pauling Quartet, The Wild Unruly Ancestors of Our Domesticated Fruits, Our-Yet-To-Be-Born Super Mutant Overlords (Let’s note future tyrants, that I was the first to pay obeisance)

(Once again presented for your consideration — the worst title in history. One of us — I won’t say who, insists on titles drained of all life and interest. It’s like our podcast episodes are titled by a rogue AI… that has only listened to our podcast)

Eye Contact (27:51)

Joe expresses discomfort with eye contact

Can you opt-out of the eye contact game?

Staring contest with your dog

Joe vs. humans (Joe 1 Humans 0)

 

Brainstorming Doesn’t Work (25:27)

Alex Osborn, the father of Brainstorming!

Little evidence that brainstorming does work

The pitfalls of brainstorming

Critical thought vs brainstorming

Geek Warning: We talk a little bit about this in relation to software development.  But that’s OK.

Alternatives

THANKS, YOU: Linus Pauling Quartet , Time Off From The Podcast Grind

Episode 4

Good things about Trump (29:53)

Unfiltered language

Trump Travel Ban Starts Thursday (Bloomberg)

The humor of Trump

It is surprisingly controversial to think Trump is funny.  

10 times Trump Was Funny (WIRED)

What is a leak? (11:43)

What is a leak?

Recent use of the term

Did James Comey admit to leaking classified information? (Politifact) (SPOILER ALERT: No)

Amazing, single-spaced article about Valerie Plame that I won’t even read through (Stratfor)

Gladwell on Snowden, Ellsberg and Leaks (New Yorker)

THANKS: The Linus Pauling Quartet , Very Bad Wizards

Filibuster and Obstructionism (46:33) Recorded April 8th, 2017

* Senate changes filibuster rules, some history and context

* “Historic levels of obstructionism”

* This may be a bigger deal than you think

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Filibuster_Cloture.htm (Senate.gov)

https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/the-history-of-the-filibuster/ (Brookings)

https://goo.gl/vw9GTi (Filibuster and Cloture in the Senate – Congressional Research Service)

Episode 2 – What to do with your whale carcass

Alt title: Whale carcass, Netflix and Star Trek (this is the 2nd worst title suggestion in history)

What to do with your whale carcass (length: 18:49)

* Washed up whale carcass? What to do.

* Ideas for disposal

* Joe asserts boats are hard to get

* Orca whales encountered on a journey to the north pole

Netflix and Queue Husbandry (start: 19:33, length: 9:07)

* There are two types of people

* Ok, maybe there is only one type of person

* Old Netflix vs. new Netflix

Original Star Trek Appreciation (start: 28:43, length: 24:19)

* The Ultimate Computer, The Omega Glory and Gary Seven

* Joe asserts the new movies are horrible as compared to the original series

* And then discovers he is a Trekkie (Trekker?)

LINKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQaDio772z8 (YouTube)

this fellow Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu has amassed a veritable Staffordshire Hoard of whale carcass videos in the past few weeks.

Recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs37RWIY8MM (SPINE!!)

Famous Exploding Whale – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_t44siFyb4

The Worst Journey in the World by one of the all-time British names Apsley Cherry-Garrard

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14363 (Project Gutenburg)

https://librivox.org/the-worst-journey-in-the-world-by-apsley-cherry-garrard/ (audiobook) (Librivox)

https://www.amazon.com/Worst-Journey-World-Apsley-Cherry-Garrard/dp/1619491877 (amazon)

THANKS: The Linus Pauling Quartet, FreeSound.org

Well, hi everybody! This is the first episode of PUBLIC FUTILITY – a conspicuous new audio event with Kevin and Joe.

This is a session we recorded in April, one of our first attempts, where we went through a pretty detailed timeline of Trump’s interactions with Russia. At the time, it was known that Kushner had met with Russia a lot, and hadn’t admitted to any of it, but in recent days we learned why.

A big thank you to the Linus Pauling Quartet for the intro song  ‘Victory Gin’