I host and produce a ‘news’ show, and once in a while I can turn the news into a game. With the popularity of the ‘public apology’ as a way for celebrities and politicians to attempt to recover from controversy affecting their careers (some faring better than others), and the ...
Read MoreUnfortunately I was right….
The case of Rom Houben, the Belgian man in a coma for 23 years who was reported to have been communicating, made a great Thanksgiving tale. At the time, though, I wasn’t convinced after seeing the videos of his finger being moved around a special keyboard by a ‘facilitator’, and ...
Read MorePat Robertson on Haiti
Televangelist and 700 Club host Pat Robertson is making news again with his controversial theory on why Haiti was hit with a devastating earthquake earlier this week. Here I take 2 minutes to react to his comments. Listen here.
Read MoreUganda anti-gay after visit by western evangelicals
This is my reaction to the news that Uganda was considering a bill urging the death penalty for homosexuals after a conference held by three evangelical speakers visiting the country. Thankfully the country appears to be backtracking on the bill after international outcry. Press play below to listen. (11 mins.)
Read MoreComa guy is NOT communicating!
Yes, it was a great Thanksgiving story: a Belgium man, thought to be in a vegetative state for 23 years, discovered to be fully conscious and communicating via keyboard. Except for the fact that the finger he’s using to type he’s not actually using at all: it’s being moved around ...
Read MoreA wine tasting
Listen here as I taste another fine wine for your enjoyment, and describe in vivid detail – perhaps too vivid – what it tastes like. Three and a half minutes.
Read MoreSex-for-seats is illegal. Why?
Susan Finkelstein, 43, was arrested this week for allegedly offering sex acts in exchange for tickets to the World Series. She says she is innocent, having been misunderstood by the undercover cop who busted her. But if she really was offering ‘sex for seats’, is that really something that should ...
Read MoreThe Family: Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Meet the most powerful religious organization you’ve never heard of. The Family are a secret group of influential, affluent and powerful people in America, comprising senators, congressmen, businessmen. They help to run the country, and want to run the world. They compare themselves to a Christian Mafia, and base their ...
Read MoreBurlesque protest
Burlesque performers protest in London at being forced to have an ‘adult entertainer’ licence, placing them in the same category as strippers. I don’t think either a burlesque performer or a stripper should need a licence. (3 mins)
Read MoreThe man who lives without money?
Daniel Suelo lives on “zero money”, according to his website, blog, and some of the news articles which have covered his story. And he’s done so for the past 8 years, living in a cave in Utah, without farming or trading in any way, or accepting government handouts. See any ...
Read MoreTake us to the moon or we’ll put you in jail!
Is that a fair assessment of how the space program works? After all, the space program is paid for by taxes, and taxes are collected at gunpoint under threat of jail if necessary. Even so, I think the space program is pretty cool. But wouldn’t a private sector space program ...
Read MoreTopless coffee shop burns down
In this clip I react to this news story in which a coffee shop with topless waitresses was burned down in an act of arson, presumably by someone opposed to its existence.
Read MoreJohn sees a UFO
From California to New Mexico, people reported seeing an object in the sky. Before reading some of the news stories from across the southwest on the subject, I set the mood by recounting my own observation of it the night before. See one such news report here.
Read MoreLiz Lacy on Seasteading
Ever get so fed up with government bureaucracy, stupid laws or high taxes that you just wish you could take to the high seas and form your own little country? That is, essentially, exactly what The Seasteading Institute is proposing. Here is my chat with Liz Lacy, TSI’s Director of ...
Read MoreWas Jefferson a deist?
Although he never described himself that way, Thomas Jefferson was a deist, not a traditional Christian. Here, I respond to the conservative ideas that America was ‘founded on God’ by men like Jefferson, arguing that Jefferson’s beliefs would not remotely resemble today’s evangelical conservatism. He didn’t believe that Jesus was ...
Read MoreIf I ruled the world: online gambling
Both the political Left and Right have their favorite freedoms to support. People on the Left wish to keep drugs and sex free, people on the Right wish to keep guns and earnings free. But both infringe on liberties by wishing to curtail the freedoms of the other side. That’s ...
Read MoreChris Eyre: We Shall Remain
We Shall Remain is a five-episode miniseries chronicling American history through Native American eyes. It’s part of the American Experience series on PBS, using the format to reject two-dimensional clichés of American Indians and explore the real, three-dimensional history of the tribes. Were they aggressive savages? Or were they noble ...
Read MoreHeathen America on Easter?
Easter Monday is a public holiday in the following countries… Albania (Eastern Rite Easter), Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria (Eastern Rite Easter), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada 4, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Cook ...
Read MoreSanta requests bailout: audio
I recorded this spoof news story for my radio show and thought you’d like to hear the outtake.
Read MoreInterview: black minister Dozier says Obama is wrong for America
Interesting tidbit here, from an interview I did on air last week with O’Neal Dozier, a black minister from the Worldwide Christian Center of Pompano Beach, Florida who says that Barack Obama may have left the church of Jeremiah Wright but not its theology, and thus is not right for ...
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