Virtually Speaking

Stuart Zechman offers commentary on how President Obama and NARAL sold out women in a move that erases even more of the 1st Amendment's protection of religious liberty. Follow @StuartZechman

Avedon Carol posted the text: http://avedon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/z-files-separation.html Follow @Avedon_Says

From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled 'Skin in the Game' ... Follow @Bobblespeak

Read the Bobblespeak Translations at http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/meet-press-september-16-2012_23.html

Jay visits with Glenn Carle, 23 year veteran of the Clandestine Services of the Central Intelligence Agency and author of The Interrogator, an Education, in which Glenn tells the story of one of the most secret and sensitive CIA interrogations during the US War on Terror.

They discuss the upcoming Senate bill on intelligence practices.

Links

http://glenncarle.com/

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2012/05/04/virtually-speaking-with-glenn-carle

Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with Maggie Koerth-Baker, Science Editor at Boingboing.net and columnist for @nytmag. Maggie is the author of Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before it Conquers Us.

Hosted in Second Life by Cal Tech Virtual Astronomy Group

Follow @maggiekb1 @TomLevenson

Links

http://boingboing.net/tag/science/

http://www.boingboing.net/author/maggie_koerth_baker

http://www.maggiekb.com/books/

http://www.maggiekb.com

http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/for-a-good-time-on-the-tubes-boing-boing-editionself-aggrandizement-alert/

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/09/19/for-a-good-time-on-the-tubes-boing-boing-editionself-aggrandizement-alert/

From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled Bibi ... Follow @Bobblespeak

Read the Bobblespeak Translations at http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/meet-press-september-16-2012.html

In an alternative to the Sunday morning 'news' shows, two members of our media panel discuss current political and cultural developments from a progressive perspective.

Avedon Carol is an American-born feminist, anti-censorship and civil liberties campaigner and researcher in the field of sex crime. She writes about politics and culture at the Sideshow

Gaius Publius is a professional writer and Contributing Editor at AMERICAblog.com/.

Culture of Truth satirizes the Sunday Morning 'news' shows at the Bobblespeak Translations. Each week, he provides us with the most ridiculous moment from that Sunday.

Follow @Avedon_Says @Bobblespeak @Gaius_Publius @AmericaBlog

Links: http://www.americablog.com/

http://sideshow.me.uk/

http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/meet-press-september-16-2012.html

The VS Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, Dave Dayen, Dave Johnson, Dave Waldman, Digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler and Stuart Zechman.

Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News White House reporter, gives us an update from the campaign trail as we enter into the high season of the Presidential and Congressional races. Follow @OKnox

Links:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/?SR=sr3_51435177_go

Prof. Matt Strassler (Rutgers U.) and The Quest for the Higgs Particle

A new Higgs-like particle has recently been observed at the Large Hadron Collider. The quest to find this particle goes back nearly 50 years.

Slides at http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~strassler/QuestHiggs.pdf

More at http://profmattstrassler.com/

Matt leads us through this epic journey, explains why the mysterious Higgs field is so crucial to our existence, and how finding the Higgs particle now gives us a tool with which to try to understand the nature of the Higgs field. After covering some of the big puzzles in particle physics, he explains how and why many scientists are expecting to find other types of particles at the Large Hadron Collider over the coming decade, and why their absence would have profound but confusing scientific implications.

Presented by the CalTech Virtual Astronomy Group

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Stuart (@stuart_zechman) and Jay (@jayackroyd) discuss mendacity: its role in this year's presidential campaign--and in the centrist media narrative.

From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled Allies.

Read the Bobblespeak Translations at http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/meet-press-september-9-2012.html

Follow @Bobblespeak