Ep 112: UFOs and alien visitation

P&C drink and review O’Hara’s Irish stout, then talk about UFOs.

Is there some great conspiracy to hide evidence that aliens have come to earth, or is it just a big nothing-burger?

P&C discuss the Fermi paradox and the Drake equation, and review some of the arguments that aliens have visited earth — and find them wanting.

On the duty to read banned books

Liberals have always been advocates of freedom of thought. The left, not so much.

I’m old enough to remember when liberals said people had a duty to buy and read banned books. For example, see this 1999 article from The Baltimore Sun.

There’s a civilized duty to buy and read banned books; Even the youngest reader — especially the youngest — is nourished by the forbidden mystery.

Powells, which is a famous lefty bookstore in Portland, celebrates Banned Book Week, and has a page devoted to banned books. But for some crazy reason I can’t find When Harry Became Sally on their site. It is, as you probably know, the book Amazon doesn’t want you to read.

The left in America used to be controlled by liberals. Now it’s controlled by authoritarian progressive wackos.

Ep 111: Erasing the Past

P&C drink and review a double IPA from Bell’s, then discuss the 3-headed hydra of cancel culture: canceling the present, erasing the past, and banning people for the future. We’re starting to see examples of the media editing old stories to change the past. It’s literally Orwellian.

There are new initiatives to erase literal crimes to give someone a fresh start, but thought crimes from decades ago still ruin lives.