Virtually Speaking

Tom Levenson talks with Annalee Newitz, editor and time distortion field operator, io9.com  Author of 'Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction 

June Carbone & Naomi Cahn, authors of Marriage Markets, talk with Jay Ackroyd about the economics of family life, children, marriage, social structure.

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on the Sunday Talk Shows:  Meet the Press and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Using show transcripts, he creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. Text and links.

Avedon & Jay offer a counterpoint to the Sunday morning talk shows.Easter, the Beatitudes, and inequality

Legalization of marijuana policy and its significance. Jon Walker expects a large wave of states adopting legalization initiatives in the 2016 election. Given the drug wars big role in structural racism and growing evidence that legalization can significantly drive youth turnout, Jon argues that progressives  pay attention to marijuana policy. Jay Ackroyd hosts. Jon Walker has been reporting and advocating for marijuana legalization as senior policy analyst at Firedoglake’s Just Say Now campaign since 2010.

April 13, 2014 - Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on the Sunday Talk Shows:  Meet the Press and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Using show transcripts, he creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy and links here.  Follow @Bobblespeak

Transparency in gov't, the NSA, CMS and ICE edition. Commentary from Marcy Wheeler & Stuart Zechman. Jay Ackroyd moderates. Culture of Truth satirizes the top-down media. Links and bios here. Jay: "There's a common transparency theme with the NSA and CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).  There's the question of what missions are being served--neither seems primarily focused on the general citizenry, and acts in disdain, at best, for democratic processes.  Both topics require explanation--most people haven't heard of CMS or know the role it plays in price fixing. Likewise, while we know the NSA has been collecting exploits and back doors rather than publicizing and fixing them, that's something else most people are unaware of." The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  They set Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates, which are the basis for most insurance reimbursement rates. The 2014 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Allison Kilkenny, Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, RJ Eskow, Stuart Zechman

Jennifer Ouellette talks with astronomer Ray Jayawardhana, author of “The Neutrino Hunters”  about why these ghost particles are so endlessly fascinating to physicists, and why the Higgs boson is soooo 2012. Follow @JenLucPiquant @DrRayJay

RERUN: This is a rebroadcast of Greg Basta of New York Communities for Change, describing the Fast Food Forward initiative, and the importance of increasing the minimum wage, Follow Greg:  @GBNYChange

Culture of Truth offeres his weekly exegesis of the Suday Talk shows in the Virtually Speaking segment we call "The Most RIdiculous Thing that Happened This Sunday."  This week's episode is Even the Liberal..... Harold Ford, that is.

Cliff Schecter & Richard Eskow • VS Sundays topic tba

In one of a series of conversation on literature, film, brain function, historiography, hagiography and memoirs, Jay Ackroyd talks with Maria Dahvana Headley about fact & fiction in journalism & literature. Author of the  historical fantasy novel, Queen of Kings,. Headley is an American novelist, memoirist, and playwright.  We discuss the nature of narrative and story-telling in the writiing spectrum ranging from factual journailism to complete fantasy, like the Game of Thrones

Marcy Wheeler and Jay Ackroyd talk sports, NCAA, unions, Obama dragnet reforms and Ron Wyden. http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/ron-wyden/

One of a series of conversations about income inequality, economics and public policy, the 1%, plutocracy, income distribution and wealth distribution with Jay Ackroyd. A movement liberal, entrepreneur, technologist and public commentary organizer at legacy media political blogs such as TIME Magazine's Swampland; Stuart uses Twitter as a primary communications tool and posts on occasion at Avedon’s Other Weblog and Yves Smith’s Naked Capitalism. Follow @stuart_zechman @JayAckroyd Links at VirtuallySpeaking.us  

Mar 23, 2014 - Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on the Sunday Talk Shows:  Meet the Press and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Using show transcripts, he creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy at virtuallyspeaking.us.  Follow @Bobblespeak