Radioparallax.com Podcast

NSA follies: new laws needed, Snowden's cat & mouse, snooping in our mailboxes; developers to cut down old trees in West Sac

Current Events, reviving the Dea Sea, you know your denounced when its done by the North Korean News Agency; Will Durst on the NSA's snooping on gamers

More of the Mandela story: not a saint (perhaps) but a genuine hero - to a world that could use more of them

Our obituary and tribute to the late-great Nelson Mandela, the man who kept South Africa away from disaster as white rule was changed

Current Events, Chinese driving - on the moon, the miracle of the Nigerian boat rescue

Twin spy writer obits: William Stevenson (non-fiction) and Tom Clancy (fiction); a chat with local business writer Roger S. Peterson about his special to the Bee on why the Warren Report is not credible

SN&R's Nick Miller gets duped by a developer-paid-for Environmental Impact Report, Dennis McEwan former respected biologist tells a ridiculous tale about the Twin Tunnels water grab (and the Bee published it!)

Current Events, for-profit college rip offs continue, is UC awarding slots to more foreign students out of budget concerns (since they pay a lot more tuition?)

Thanksgiving clarifications & humor; the "Newseum" sells out to Paramount's "Anchorman"; Elk Grove - tourist Mecca? planet earth's newly discovered most common biologic entities!

Sac Bee blows the call on "McVillage" development, we salute their Tom Knudson for his award on "Wildlife Service" exposes, Sac Bee then bloviates on JFK; a chat w/ plumber Ivo Kovacevich on how "flushable wipes" might, correction: probably will, clog your toilets

Current Events; new Mars probe and what it might teach us

Continued solving of the puzzle, or trying to anyway, in part 2 (with more role reversal)

We opine on the puzzle of what happened to JFK part 1 (Steve Alexander becomes the questioner and the host tries to answer the big questions)

Current Events (shortened version of our usual opening)

Will Durst on lame Obamacare rollout, no amnesty for Edward Snowden, What is a hybrid eclipse?

Interview with author/reporter Jefferson Morley about his fine book "Our Man in Mexico, Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA"

Current Events, actual travel complaints, glut of JFK TV shows

Obit: Lou Reed, some comments (from William Goldman's writings) about the movies, and mention of some bad ones

Jim DiEugenio on JFK's foreign policy and the enemies it made, hair raising tales from The Economist on how science is not checking its work and possibly producing bogus studies (yikes!)

Current Events, more Fish & Wildlife boneheadedness - this time in Africa with ivory