Today's Topics: Alyssa Milano calls for a sex strike to protest abortion laws! Harvard students request their faculty dean to be demoted because he's representing Harvey Weinstein in his legal case. Somerville City Counsel is pushing to ban facial recognition from being used by government agencies in an effort to protect minorities within their city. Famed actress Doris Day passes away today. Then a Home Depot delivery mix up in Maine causes some controversy. We discuss it all!
Actress Alyssa Milano proposes a sex strike to protest abortion laws like the one Georgia just passed called the "fetal heartbeat" law. She is calling on people to join the strike in an effort for women to gain more control over their reproductive rights and bodies. We ask you, what's your position in this strike?
Harvard has demoted it's faculty dean and professor of law after students take aim with him representing Harvey Weinstein. The school has backed the students wishes, and while it's first black faculty dean will not be fully gone, he will still teach, he will no longer be a dean come next month. Smart or stupid decision by Harvard?
VB, Waffles, and Lightning bring you their favorite sound from over the weekend. AOC has another gem and this time it's not about garbage disposals, but mustaches!
The Somerville City Counsel wants to ban government agencies from using facial recognition. Apparently there are too many incidents of mistaken identity among minorities that Somerville feels it is unfair to it's minority population. What's your take on it?
Today's topics: Ohio high school wants to do away with valedictorians because they want to do away with the school's "competitive culture", Jeff Bezos wants to colonize the moon, Chobani yogurt is swooping in to help bail out Warwick RI's student lunch debt, and a Sarasota dad had police called on him after he tried to pawn off his toddler as a joke gone wrong. We cover it all!
Scott Whitley of Wicked Bites talks to us about hot wings and the various levels of spice. Then Scott weighs in on the Lightning & Waffles debate over if coconut is good or not.
Chobani yogurt company is helping bail out Warwick, RI school district and their student's school lunch debt. Is this just enabling parents and students to further not worry about handling their bills because someone will swoop in and take care of it?
According to an article in the Daily Mail, there was a common knowledge test they used to give to students back in the 1920s and most millennials today could not answer all of them correctly. VB decides to create his own test comprised of questions that he thinks all millennials should know and he tests it out on Lightning!
A Ohio high school wants to do away with valedictorians because they feel it reduces a competition culture. Is this going too far or are they onto something? We discuss!