Virtually Speaking

Cliff and David discuss the conventions, and the campaigns going forward in our post-truth era. Follow.@DDayen @CliffSchecter

Links:

http://news.firedoglake.com/author/dday/

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/profile/cliff-schecter.html

http://libertasllc.com/

Christopher Sprigman  (@CJSprigman) discusses The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation his book co-authored with Kal Raustiala on the importance of imitation in innovation, and the difficulties with the US "Intellectual Property" regime

Stuart Zechman uses representative quotes from politicians to clarify differences between liberal and conservative thinking about public policy. Along the way, he illuminates 'Third Way' Democrats as a distinct faction within the Democratic Party. Follow @Stuart_Zechman

Link to text: http://avedon.blogspot.com/2012/09/z-files-episode-14-04172012-third-way.html

Glen Ford - executive editor of Black Agenda Report

- talks with Avedon Carol and Jay Ackroyd about Barack Obama and the Democratic Party: recognizing what's happening and figuring out what to do about it.

Follow @blkagendareport @avedon_says @JayAckroyd

Links

http://blackagendareport.com/content/what-obama-has-wrought

http://www.blackcommentator.com/48/48_cover.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdPACwRgw04

http://sideshow.me.uk/

NBC Science Editor Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll about the Higgs boson and Sean's new book:

• http://www.amazon.com/The-Particle-End-Universe-Higgs/dp/0525953590/

• http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/05/13685122-what-lies-beyond-the-higgs-boson?lite

• http://preposterousuniverse.com/

Sean studies the theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation, learning about fundamental physics by studying the structure and evolution of the universe.

Stuart Zechman (@Stuart_Zechman) and Jay Ackroyd (@jayackroyd) discuss the tension in contemporary liberalism between individual freedom and desirable outcomes in seting public policy

Stuart Zechman describes how "false equivalence" has come to mean something very different during the Obama administration than it meant during the GW Bush administration. Follow @Stuart_Zechman

Link to transcript

http://avedon.blogspot.com/2012/09/z-files-episode-9-03132012-equivalence.html

Other links

http://stuartzechman.blogspot.com/

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

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

Transcript will be posted to the Bobblespeak Translations at http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com

Follow @Bobblespeak

Stuart Zechman deconstructs the 'be very afraid' meme of extremism used by political parties and the media, reminding us that crazy Republicans are nothing new. Nor are centrist Democratic policy positions.

Stuart Zechman comments on Swampland, Naked Capitalism and posts from time to time at Avendon's Other Blog, where, on Sept 3, 2012, he posted the text to 'Extremists.' Follow @Stuart_Zechman

Written Feb 28, 2012

Links

http://avedon.blogspot.com/2012/09/z-files-extremists.html

http://stuartzechman.blogspot.com/

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

Jay Rosen and James Fallows discuss the evolution of news media over the last 20 years, or so, focusing on changing narratives on the balance between security and liberty and 4th Amendment protections raised by the Transportation Security Admin (TSA) airport practices; WikiLeaks and the failure of the watchdog press; and 'village' thinking and the effects of 'conventional wisdom.'

Both wrote prescient books: respectively, What are Journalists For? and Breaking the News

Follow @JamesFallows @JayRosen_NYU @JayAckroyd

Recorded Dec 10, 2010

Links

• http://pressthink.org/

• http://www.theatlantic.com/james-fallows

• http://www.thenation.com/article/156647/tsastroturf-washington-lobbyists-and-koch-funded-libertarians-behind-tsa-scandal?comment_sort=ASC#

• http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/if-the-tsa-were-running-new-york/39839/

• http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/11/more-on-the-undercover-tsa-officers/29981/

• http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/12/23/wikileaks-analysis-and-speculative-fiction/