(Blongs in Survival forum, but..)
npr/On the Media podcast


We're Not Very Good At This
NOV 9

America’s divisions are all the more clear after another frenzied news cycle. This week, we ask a historian and a data scientist whether we humans are capable of governing ourselves. Plus, the post-midterm prognosis on climate change, and how our media have often complicated our country’s founding spirit of self-reflection.
1. Brooke [@OTMBrooke] looks at the Shepard tone of anti-democratic news developments over the past week. Listen.
2. Kate Aronoff [@KateAronoff], contributing writer at the Intercept, on how climate change fared in this week's midterms. Listen.
3. Mary Christina Wood, University of Oregon law professor, on the public trust doctrine. Listen.
4. Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, on the enduring argument over the role of government in American life. Listen.
5. Joshua M. Epstein, director of NYU's Agent-Based Modeling Lab, on the computerized models that can teach us about how we behave in groups. Listen.



PS: at least the USSC didn't quash the suit, as well they Might Have.. so it goes ---> Forward to whatever final tissue-of-lies finally derails it.

Listem & weep for the perfidy of these Armani-suited bipeds/Congressional lemmings and their Corporations: spending more $Tens of millions to defeat [successfully] the Propositions in Colo and another one, re fracking etc.



As I don't believe we have time to bring-up-to eighth-grade level the jelloware of so huge a combined mass of feckless hooked-on-infotainment wretches, I remain solidly with Mike's general porgnosis:

We ARE too. fucking. stupid even to begin-to-Begin SYA at a leisurely trot ... never-mind how rapidly We. MUST.

Drumpf is just the ugly-sadistic-Turd atop a mountain of lemmings, in full thrall to exponentially growing Consumerism, their 'faith' in the myrid toads whose sole purpose in liff is feeding-the-greed-drug.

[Maybe if we speed-up that inevitable/as in over-Due continent-splitting earthquake a bit N. of here: would that be enough to de-lemmingize? Just a thought; logic fershure hasn't a Chance with lemmings..]

Carrion; while We ARE that; the other species DIE-alongside. forever unaware that the 'keepers of many of these as Pets'; shamelessly DID THEM IN, premeditatedly. May many of these get-a-clue and BITE the nearest perps/Nationwide (is my hope) there's little 'hope' amidst the humanoids in these parts (qed).