Here’s my first attempt at posting a private podcast. Let’s see if it works.
(If I link to it like this, you should be able to right click on it and download the file.)
With special guest, Noman, Pigweed and Crowhill take a look at Jack London’s Sea Wolf, an exciting book that introduced the world to the interesting character, Wolf Larsen. Captain Larsen is an amoral, materialist monster.
While the book is good in general, a particular passage caught Crowhill’s eye, because it dealt with the “race” of the Norwegians, and the “race” of the Italians.
Huh?
Crowhill called on his friend Noman to discuss.
This episode discusses the concept of race and racism, whether stop and frisk was racist, and several other interesting points.
Be warned. Noman sings a slightly inappropriate song in the middle of this podcast.
Hate podcasts I can’t download. Volume control is so much easier on my laptop when I can use a 3rd party or built in app to listen as opposed to the damn browser window and having to use windows system controls that jack with overall volume.
Aren’t you able to download this file?
Nope. Can’t download. Can stream, but not download. I guess this new player at least has a volume control. Libsyn one did not.
Crime went down everywhere. Malcolm Gladwell mentions it in his book. It wasn’t some magic result of stop and frisk and break the 4th amendment which is ok because it’s just black kids and Giuliani’s a genius.
Conservatives…ok with stop and frisk for no reason, but god forbid ask them to wear a mask when there’s a pandemic.
Please try to right click on the new link I put in the text above and see if you can download the file.
QUOTE: Conservatives…ok with stop and frisk for no reason, but god forbid ask them to wear a mask when there’s a pandemic.
@smitemouth, seems odd some would make such an issue of this when it’s been demonstrated it can help slow the spread of Covid-19. Seems Alabama’s and Texas’ conservative governors have recently surrendered to this realization. Yet, particularly strange is Georgia’s Governor Kemp, suing Atlanta’s mayor for enacting a mask mandate and returning to Phase I pandemic city ordinances. Ironically, she’s done what was recommended specifically for Georgia by the White House Coronavirus Task Force (headed by VP Pence). Their recommendations included:
• Mandate a statewide use of masks.
• In all counties with positivity greater than 10%: close bars, require strict social distancing at restaurants, close gyms and limit gatherings to 10 or fewer people.
• Allow local jurisdictions to implement more restrictive policies.
Kemp says the Atlanta mayor’s mask mandate cannot be enforced and her decision to shut businesses undermines economic growth and is devastating. According to the mayor, this action is voluntary for Atlanta businesses. Their local government hasn’t forced closure of any business. As well, these actions were taken based on recommendations from a local task force comprised of local business leaders and medical professionals. Seems the local Atlanta task force and the White House task force were in sync relative to recommendations. Also, to date, the local police force hasn’t raised enforcement issues with the mask mandate.
Notably, Savannah enacted a similar mandate and Kemp’s hometown of Athens did the same, but it wasn’t until Atlanta did this that Kemp filed a lawsuit. No legal action has been taken against the other cities (to date). Interestingly, Kemp is suing the mayor and the city council personally, not the city government. I guess he didn’t take too kindly to the mayor calling out Trump for violating the mandate when he was in Atlanta. The law and order president not following the law??? Yikes!
Lastly, Kemp’s actions seem to fly in the face of typical conservative rhetoric of allowing for more local control in government. Seems he’d much rather spend taxpayer funds to play politics and fight against something that could assist with mitigating the spread of Covid-19, hospitalizations, and deaths.