This is a true Geezercast — capturing my thoughts for the grandchildren 50 years from now. I was at the ICANN meetings in Cairo the night of the election, so I have a few stories to tell about that too.
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Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
GC050 — Obama wins, I celebrate in Cairo
Monday, November 10th, 2008GC049 — Chicago Tribune Endorsement of Barak Obama
Sunday, October 19th, 2008The Chicago Tribune has NEVER endorsed a Democrat for President. Until today, when they endorsed Barak Obama. I was so entranced I decided to read the endorsement into the Geezercast record – so the unborn Grandchildren can hear it. Here you have it — 11 minutes of me reading the Chicago paper to ya.
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GC045 – Obama and biofuels
Friday, February 8th, 2008Couple things on my mind today. I’m pleased with how things are going with Barack Obama’s campaign and like the implications for you my unborn grandchildren. And Marcie just forwarded an interesting piece from the Times that supports my view that biofuels are dumb — at least the way we’re approaching them right now.
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GC041 — I 35 w Bridge Collapse
Sunday, August 5th, 2007This is a note to my unborn grandchildren — it’s a good plan to maintain your infrastructure. Otherwise, bad things happen like they did here in Minneapolis last week. Oh, and there’s a rant about cheapskate politicians in there too.
GC036 — Rich gets booted off the air
Sunday, March 4th, 2007Yep, another milestone — son Richard and his collegues got their radio show (Tea Time at 12) booted off the air this week. Makes a fella proud.
GC030 — Success at the farm, and the recent elections
Sunday, November 12th, 2006This is the GeezerCast where I am hoping to forever depart from the “howcum the polls are so out of step with the government” ploy that I’ve been using. Darn nifty election, you bet. I also recount a few farm implement adventures, which also turned out just fine.
GC027 — Politics: the polls have me perky
Sunday, October 15th, 2006Usually I read you the polls and scratch my head. This time I read the polls and express hope that maybe we can do something to change the policy direction in Washington.
GC025 — Ray’s Song
Monday, September 25th, 2006Ze Frank has all us Sports Racers (check out The Show to find out more, or if you’re really into it check out his whole site — well worth the journey) mashing up a cool vocal track by a mystery guy named Ray. There are some interesting issues that have arisen now that it’s looking like Ray is an inner-city black preacher in St Louis who has trouble with Jewish people. I play the tracks I made up, and explore those issues, in this podcast.
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Click here to get the first (big-band, swing) version of Ray’s Whipass tune
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GC021 – Bug in the ear, pedophiles and Nashville Democrats
Monday, August 21st, 2006Summer’s winding down and the Geezercast quotient is rising as farm activity starts to move indoors. A few things in the NY Times caught my eye — a story about pedophiles that paints a perfect road-map for people are looking for support in that activity (I’m wondering whether the author really realized what he was doing) and another piece about how song-writers with Democratic political points of view are being shut out of country music (with implications that make me grumpy).
Not to mention the story of getting a dang bug caught in my ear. How can you resist all that??
Geezercast 17 — Internet and phone privacy
Sunday, May 14th, 2006I was going to do another one of my “see, I’m in the majority” rants based on the current polls. But I came across one where I’m in the minority — a majority (admittedly skinny — 51 to 49%) of Americans think it’s OK for the administration to rummage through our Internet traffic and phone calling records in the name of fighting terrorism. I was so struck by that number that I decided to devote a Geezercast to the topic.
Plus, there’s a new version of Jamstix out and I dropped a new theme song into the show as a result.