COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER!

After a crazy couple of days and some really great interviews with some truly wonderful people, I've FINALLY managed to get mixcloud updated, and the show with TAUNT THE ELEPHANT is now up on the Radio Page!

There's some more BIG NEWS as Rainbow has been picked up for syndication for the first time in the UK by Planet Brighton.

Coming up over the next couple of weeks, we've got some really great shows lined up. Tomorrow night, it's Pop-Country Singer-Songwriter Doug Strahm. Doug's got some really  moving music, and you can watch the videos for some of these on his YouTube channel.

Next week, on Tuesday night, we've got a very funny lady, stand-up comic Ashley Messer!

Then on Saturday, it's the big one: The DOCTOR, Clive Jackson, of Doctor and the Medics will be in the house. Take a listen to the station that Barbara set up!

We'll follow that up on the 15th by remembering to RE-STOMP THE GROIN! with Enter the Dojo creator Matt Page!

Saturday the 19th (Happy Birthday, Eddie!) will treat us to another amazing Sobel Artist, Eric Alán!

And finally (for now) on the 22nd we've got the beautiful and talented actress, model and author turned activist, Caroline Cossey, fresh off the re-release of the ebook version of her second autobiography, My Story!

 Hopefully you will be able to join us!

Minsinformers of the Year

This year, Media Matters has seen fit to award MULTIPLE "Misinformer of the Year" awards.  As evidenced by my own Hall of Fame (December's Inductee's coming soon) I LOVE this kind of thing, so for those who share my interest and would like to see just how bad the Right Wing Media gets, here are the Media Matters:

2011 Misinformer of the Year: Ruppert Murdoch and News Corporation
2011 Misinformer on LGBT Issues: Dr. Kieth Ablow
2011 Misinformer on Climate Issues: Rush Limbaugh
2011 Misinformer on FOX News: Fox & Friends

While all are well earned and richly deserved, ff particular note are Dr. Ablow's views on the transgendered in general, and Chaz Bono in particular, and Limbaugh's absolute gems on the Global Warming.  Mu favorite might just be (emphasis added):

LIMBAUGH: How did I know global warming is a hoax? 'Cause of who's behind pushing it. Liberals. They lie.

[...] If there ever is scientific proof -- and see, I don't need scientific proof because to me the people who are promoting manmade global warming are a bunch of frauds. They are liberals, they lie. It's not a generalization. It is an undeniable truth of life.

While the absolute absurdity of these statement is both undeniable and self-evident, I am tickled pink to see, once again, further evidence of what I always say:

WHEN YOU ARGUE WITH A LIBERAL, THEY'LL PROVE THAT YOU'RE WRONG.

WHEN YOU ARGUE WITH A CONSERVATIVE, THEY'LL PROVE THAT YOU'RE LIBERAL.

And? BOTH will in fact be right!

And over the years, I think that MMFA has done a good job of calling the person or entity that went above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to carrying water for the Right Wing Propaganda Machine.  Past MIY winners include:

2010: Sarah Palin
2009: Glenn Beck
2008: Sean Hannity
2007: Offensive and Degrading Speech (not just Imus!)
2006: ABC
2005: Chris Matthews
2004: Bill O’Rielly

Interesting reads all.  Well done MMFA. I hope that, in future, you will continue this new tradition of award not only an overall award, but awards based on smaller issues as well.

NOTE: In the next couple of days, should more of the issue-based award be named, I will updated this post accordingly.

A GREAT Article

THIS is a GREAT article. 

And the best part of it is the last part, so if you don't want to read the whole thing, skip to page 2 and scoll down to:

"How Will I Know When I've Become an Adult?"


It's a great question, and I think I agree with him 100%, both in theory and from looking at my own life when he boils it down to:

You know you're an adult, not just when you're able to put the needs of others above your own, but when you're able to do it without giving a single thought to what they "owe" you in return. You realize that, at some point you weren't even aware of, you became the tap instead of the bucket. And then you look back and hate your younger self for living under the delusion that somehow a world full of buckets could function.

And it is with that firmly in mind that I would like to tell all Republicans to GROW THE FUCK UP!!!

Joke of the Day (not political)

OK, so I've used this one before, but here you go, in case you missed it...