The Columbia Journalism Review Daily's Gal Beckerman listened to our Monday interview with Peter Galbraith and says Galbraith--and WNYC--should have been more above-board about Galbraith's Kurdish connections:

"An advisor to the Kurds would be much less likely to look seriously at the complaints of the Sunnis, dismissing them, as Galbraith did on the Brian Lehrer show and in the Brooks piece, as just a bunch of disgruntled former Baathists."

["A Little Transparency, Please" in CJR]

[listen to our interview with Peter Galbraith]

What do you think? Click here to send us your thoughts.

Posted by leboheme at 04:21 PM

The challenger: Leslie Crocker Snyder

Posted by leboheme at 03:32 PM

And here's why their endorsement came today:

"we'd have waited until Friday to express our view, but the endorsement of his rival, Leslie Crocker Snyder, by the New York Times Tuesday, was so filled with error, ageism, and illogic that we don't mind advancing our schedule".

Bolding our own, of course.

Click here to read the other reasons The Sun likes Bob.

Click here to read The Times' endorsement of Leslie Crocker Snyder.

Leslie Crocker Snyder will be a guest on the Brian Lehrer Show today at 10:40 am.

Posted by leboheme at 08:52 AM

Andrew Sullivan is promoting it this morning, so why shouldn't we?

Anti-Iraq War Brit firebrand (and accused exploiter of Iraq's oil-for-food program) George Galloway will debate pro-Iraq war Brit firebrand (and accused exploiter of ex-friends) Christopher Hitchens at Baruch College September 14th, in what the Guardian is calling "The Grapple in the Big Apple".

George Galloway will be a guest on the Brian Lehrer Show Wednesday, September 14. (That's just eight hours before the big grapple).

Click here for more info on the event.

Click here to send us your questions/rants for Galloway.

Posted by leboheme at 08:45 AM

Remember last week's segment on vacation time, in which it was alleged that civil servants get more of it than the rest of us? [check out the segment]

Right after that, we got this note from an attorney who works for the city:

For those of you who think that government employees are living the good life in terms of free time, I am a City attorney who works more than private-firm-associate hours, for what private firm associates probably spend on drycleaning, out of misguided belief in what I do.

Here's a memo I received earlier this month telling me that it's my own fault for not better managing the leave time that I have accumulated, and at the same time telling me that if I'd asked for any more than the SIX days that I took off for the entire year last year, my request would have been denied.

NOTE: Out of concern for this individual's employment status, we took a picture of the memo off the blog. Trust us: it was gruesome. This attorney was told in no uncertain terms that they could not take the vacation they were entitled to under their contract.

What's your take? Tell us!

Posted by leboheme at 01:37 PM

BL blogger is reading Personal History, Katharine Graham's illuminating memoir of life at the Washington Post. It seems incredible today, but during the 1964 Presidential race, Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post, hung out with LBJ at his ranch in Texas for several days. Before returning to Washington to oversee the Post's campaign coverage, she told the President she supported him and would contribute to his campaign.

By comparison, Bush's recent pool party for the Crawford press corps, described here by the Washington Post's Dan Froomkin, seems positively proper and above-board.

Feedback!

Posted by leboheme at 08:54 AM

Here's the draft document for the summit happening on September 14. The US is pushing for 750 amendments according to the Washington Post and the newly appointed ambassador, John Bolton suggested scrapping the whole thing.

Posted by leboheme at 11:26 AM

Almost for years after it was passed, the much-feared clause of the Patriot Act that allows federal agencies to look at library records is finally being used to do just that.

"Suit Seeks to Bar FBI Library Data Access" (the Washington Post)

Posted by leboheme at 09:45 AM

This important piece in yesterday's Thursday Styles section on new fashions in men's pants in Copenhagen got us thinking about the uses of the word stovepipe.

Svelte, stylish, Scandinavian

[check out the fashion spread]

During the Cold War, each spy service developed its own mission, budget and bureaucracy. Over time, the agencies were divided by bitter rivalries and cultural clashes. They communicated in vertical "stovepipes" that funneled critical information up to managers but rarely across internal lines or to other U.S. agencies.
-Los Angeles Times, 5/16/05

We tend to remember distant wartime campaigns in soft focus, with a noble president -- think Lincoln in his stovepipe hat or FDR in his navy cape -- rallying the people to his side.
-The Washington Post, 10/29/04

GSW Jackes-Evans Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of GSW Industries of Delaware, has chosen Eastman Advertising, St. Louis, as advertising and pr agency for SuperChimney Twenty-one and Superpipe 6 products. The company makes stovepipe and chimneypipe.
-Adweek, 2/9//87

Surrounded by his wife, Lois, and three of his four children, Mr. Lautenberg stood before a stone fireplace and took the oath of office administered by Judge Zita L. Weinsheink of Federal District Court in Denver. Also present were Senator John Glenn, Democrat of Ohio, Senator Rudy Boschwitz, Republican of Minnesota, who appeared in a stovepipe hat, and about 30 other guests.
-The New York Times, 12/28/82

What's your favorite stovepipe?
Tell us!

Posted by leboheme at 08:53 AM

It's in the NYT Arts section, so it must be true! Brian Williams, NBC's nightly news anchor, has a blog.

Williams is not the only member if the NBC family to share his thoughts online. Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews have blogs too.

And on her blog, Fox News' Greta Van Susteren takes on the critics who say she's spending too much time in Aruba.

What's your favorite talking head blog?
Tell us!

Posted by leboheme at 09:35 AM

You see, there's an ad on the cover of this morning's am New York. So in case you were wondering what's really inside, BL blog takes you there...Or you could just pick up Metro for most of the same wire stories in a different font.

Outside

Inside

Posted by leboheme at 09:06 AM

Just what we wanted to know! Gothamist keeps you updated on Marc Ecko's Getting Up party, getting underway right now in Chelsea.

(courtesy Gothamist)

[Read Gothamist's latest post]

[listen to our 8/23 segment on the planned party]

Posted by leboheme at 02:54 PM

Two of them are profiled in this week's Irish Echo. Click here to read the article.

(couresy of the Irish Echo)

Posted by leboheme at 02:48 PM

The pollster gives his advice for Karen Hughes

Posted by leboheme at 02:34 PM

The NYT's Donadio explains nonfiction's ascendancy

Posted by leboheme at 05:38 PM

"It's certainly not hurting cats, I love cats, always have."
-Trent Lott, BL Show 8/23/05, clarifying the title of his new memoir Herding Cats.

Hurting Cats is by Lott's successor as Majority leader, Bill Frist.

Check out Brian's interview with Trent Lott

Posted by leboheme at 12:26 PM

Anthony, Freddy, C. Virginia and Mike are mama's boys and girls. As the campaign for mayor has heated up recently, the number of mentions of mom has shot up. Suffering women haven't been so hot since Hillary's "Living History".

Anthony Weiner is a particularly bad offender. If you don't know that his mom is a public school teacher called Fran, you just aren't paying attention. Visit his website to view an ad that shows her at work in the classroom.

Gifford Miller, on the other hand, has been mum about his mom, Lynden Miller, a longtime activist for parks and in Democratic party circles, and reputedly an important catalyst for his interst in politics.

Some recent examples:

That’s why I have a specific plan to provide a 10-percent tax cut for anyone making less than $150,000 a year, to cut waste and to give teachers, like my mother, who is a 31-year school teacher, a raise.
-Anthony Weiner, in the second Democratic debate, 8/21/05

Look, I grew up in a five-story walkup that didn't always have heat and hot water in the wintertime. My mother had to work from time to time two jobs just to be able to afford that.
-Fernando Ferrer, in the first Democratic debate, 8/17/05

Father, a laborer, died of cancer when I was 12; mother struggled to make sure that the youngest of five children were able to get a good education.
-C. Virginia Fields, in the first Democratic debate, 8/17/05

I come from a community like this one, a little bit more suburban in Medford, Massachusetts. My mother still lives in the house I grew up in.
-Mayor Bloomberg, on NPR, 5/10/05

What's your take?
Tell us what you think!

Posted by leboheme at 09:31 AM

Walter Kirn, in for Andrew Sullivan at andrewsullivan.com, has an equal-opportunity, non-partisan good government proposal we really like:

The next time a presidential candidate makes his ritual drug confession, I think they should be given a choice: serve out the prison term or pay the fine that applied when they offended or recuse themselves and their administration from enforcing the same laws.

Posted by leboheme at 02:51 PM

Bloomy still doesn't know if he'll get to keep Gracie Mansion as a party space for the next four years, but the creators of the World Mayor Award have included him in their short list of 65 candidates.

[vote now]

Other noteworthies: Gavin Newsom (San Francisco), Anthony Williams (Washington, DC), Wang Qishan (Beijing), Ken Livingstone (London), Patrick Ramiaramanana (Antananarivo), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Tehran, and soon President of Iran).

Posted by leboheme at 02:34 PM

From today's Daily News:

"Suit" as in lawsuit. No, the mayor will not switch from golf shirts-and-khakis to hip hop fabulousness

Posted by leboheme at 03:52 PM

Why does back-to-school season come as such a rude slap in the face every year? We didn't really help things by inviting Seth Flicker, a teacher at Brooklyn Friends School, on the show today. But Seth wants to help, and has provided these resources:

First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher
Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong

Understanding by Design
Grant P. Wiggins / Paperback / Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve / March 2005
Our Price: $23.06

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8
JoAnn Portalupi / Hardcover / Stenhouse Publishers / April 2001
Our Price: $18.50

Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K through 8
Ralph J. Fletcher / Paperback / Stenhouse Publishers / September 1998

Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy
Gay Su Pinell

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
Esme Raji Codell / Paperback / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / June 2001

Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12
Heidi Hayes Jacobs / Paperback / Association for Supervision & Curriculum

About Teaching Mathematics: A K-8 Resource
Marilyn Burns / Paperback / Math Solutions Publications / August 2000

Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools
Linda S. Levstik, Keith C. Barton

Some websites

discoveryschool.com
brooklynfriends.org - My school's website
http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/ - PBS new catalog of excellent online courses
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/ - BBC's excellent education website
teachers.net
http://www.rny.nysed.gov/rindex.shtml - Rediscovering NY, a program via the Bd. of Education.
http://www.lasw.org/ - Looking at Student Work
scholastic.com
www.gothamcenter.org - NYC History Education

Posted by leboheme at 12:52 PM

"Who I am is the child of a middle-class family in Brooklyn. My mother was a school teacher for 31 years. My father a neighborhood attorney who literally hung a shingle outside our home."

Check out Weiner's realtime running estimate of Mike Bloomberg's spending on the campaign

The tally, as of 4:31 pm, 8/17/05

What would you like to ask Anthony?
Email us!

Posted by leboheme at 04:19 PM

Outside the debate: lots of campaign posters, hordes of kids (high $chooler$?) chanting "Giff-ord! Giff-ord!"

Posted by leboheme at 04:17 PM

Reviewing the debate, the Post's John Podhoretz has harsh words today for Newsday's Dan Janison and WNYC's Andrea Bernstein:

But Ferrer really wasn't the worst person on display last night. There were two far more disgraceful performances, but they weren't by politicians. You want to know why people hate the media? Because of reporters like Newsday's Dan Janison and WNYC's Andrea Bernstein.

They were — how to put this? — unbelievably obnoxious.

["Miller Time" (The New York Post)]

Posted by leboheme at 03:43 PM

Check out the Gifford Miller blog, authored by bro Marshall Miller, for the official Miller family take on last night's debate:

But it wasn't just that Gifford had the best ideas. Gifford also won the debate by focusing on his record. From living wage legislation, to passage of the historic Earned Income Tax Credit, to forcing the Mayor to restore $1.3 billion in cuts to schools, Gifford is the only Democrat with a real record of results for all New Yorkers.

Call me biased - but I was pretty proud of my older brother's victory tonight.

Other points of view:

Ben Smith: In any event, the series of rapid-fire questions did manage to knock the candidates a bit off their talking points and generate some real contrast; they revealed, among other things, that Gifford has thought a bit more about the logistics of actually being Mayor -- how do you get to City Hall? -- than the others, and that Anthony is less haunted by the specter of Rudy.

Bob Hardt: the first official Democratic mayoral debate last night showed that there – GASP! – are actual differences among the four candidates.

Gothamist: there's nothing like seeing City Council Speaker Gifford Miller get all pissy when asked if he would send his kids to public school (they attend private pre-K now). Former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer tried to redirect criticism from himself to the Mayor, Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields was the only candidate to eagerly say she wanted the Reverend Al Sharpton's endorsement, and Weiner came away with the best one-liners.

What's your take?
Tell us what you think!

Posted by leboheme at 03:05 PM

A BL blog correspondent sent in this pic (taken a few days ago with a photo camera) revealing the machinations behind the Times' A1 photo of Gifford Miller.

The skyskrapers make me look taller, right Bob?

Bingo!

Does anyone else think it's odd that Miller elected to be photographed in front of an art work that's on temporary exhibit in City Hall Park, largely due to Mayor Bloomberg's zeal for public art?

[Read "Mayor's Thorn on City Council Is Used to Low Expectations"]

Tell us what you think!

Posted by leboheme at 03:10 PM

Our segment with Anneli Rufus today provoked an avalanche of emails about the inappropriate emotions we sometimes experience around someone's death. Here's a sampling:

Subject: DeathWhen my brother died suddenly, my first thought was, "At least that's one funeral where he won't show up drunk." At my sister's funeral, he stood up and argued with the minister. Later he similarly disrupted other family funerals and weddings. All this while insisting on a myth of family togetherness. I was glad in a way to have that particular struggle over with.
-ABP

Subject: the farewell chronicles: comment
Just last week I attended the funeral of my 86 year old grandfather,
who died of cancer and in a sever stage of alzhiemers. this topic is very real for me right now. One thing that I found most difficult about the funeral was how to responds to the sympathy of others when I felt more relieved than anything else about the entire situation. i think it is ironic that as soon as the person passes away, that the death becomes more about the feelings of the people left behind than the person that died.
-CP

Subject: Re. Program on Death
From my experience, sometimes people hold back from talking to someone grieving about the person they've lost because they are afraid of the impact it can have on that person to bring up feelings of loss. Maybe they are afraid of their own feelings, But it's not necessarily out of insensitivity or indifference.
-FA

Subject: dying
when my mother died from cigarettes it was the end of my mourning, and i had let go of my disappointment and anger, accepting that she had chosen her own path. however much i don't endorse that, i also insist on being left alone to live my life as i choose. how can i do differently for another?

at her funeral i took some control. instead of letting the canned ceremony grind along meaningless for me, i chose to read a bit from Passages, and spoke about the need for my siblings and me to let go of whatever we didn't get from her, it's too late. instead, recognize and embrace the parts of her that are in us. it must be a part of the tribal life, so why not ours?
-AA

Subject: Death!
Orson Scott Card wrote a series of sci-fi novels known as the Ender Series. This was a book about a boy who was raised to destroy a whole race of alien species who attacked the human race.

I hope that when I die, people will rise to the occasion to speak my death in this manner, and not hide the nastier parts of my humor simply because they deem it inappropriate, or impolite.
-CF

Posted by leboheme at 12:16 PM

The Times' David Carr picks up where the Observer's Ben Smith left off a few weeks ago, trying to figure out what's up with the Post's hot-and-heavy embrace of Senator Clinton (the paper seems to prefer Hil to Jeanine Pirro, with a sensational cover story today on Al Pirro's "love child").

What's your take?
Tell us what you think!

Posted by leboheme at 04:05 PM

Jeff has now written up his BL appearance on Buzzmachine. View it here. (Debra Burlingame has also been on our show, btw- here's the episode).

Posted by leboheme at 03:53 PM

We had a call this morning from blogger and frequent BL guest Jeff Jarvis, weighing in against controversial art on the former WTC site.

Check out Buzzmachine for these excting stories:

>a possible Google effort to spread wifi access
>knitting blogs
>open source automobiles

Feedback!

Posted by leboheme at 11:38 AM

A listener writes regarding Thursday's nerdcore segment:

Don't know if you've seen but I googled on nerdcore and it turns out
there's actually an entry about nerdcore in wikipedia, with some links
to other nerdcore rappers. Thought you might want to check it out or
even add it to your webpage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerdcore_hip_hop

Which got us wondering...does the Brian Lehrer Show have a Wikipedia page?

Well, kinda! There's a Brian Lehrer entry, but no discrete entry for our show.

So...if, this weekend, in the words of Bananarama...
The city is crowded
My friends are away
And I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle
So I got to get up and go

why not start an entry for The Brian Lehrer Show?

Posted by leboheme at 03:43 PM

Somewhere in the 90s, a woman's looks stopped being the main criterion by which to judge her as a politician. Around the same time, the physical appearance of male pols began to matter in a way it never had before. Today we have John Bolton, who “desperately needs a haircut” and Mitt Romney, who looks “like the actor Ted Danson...only handsomer and more wholesome.” Is it getting out of hand?

I hear there are lots of great barbers in New York

Danson is an actor, I'm the real thing

Today guest host Mike Pesca speaks with two of the culprit-journalists, Sridhar Pappu of the Atlantic Monthly and Robin Givhan of the Washington Post

Tell us what you think!

[hottestussenator has some ideas]

Posted by leboheme at 10:25 AM

Norman Siegel has gamely accepted our offer to put up the link any public advocate's opinion piece (as we did earlier this week for Andrew Rasiej's Huffington Post piece). So, here it is, "It's the People's Park", an editorial that appeared in the Daily News in May.

Feedback!

Posted by leboheme at 02:32 PM

We've think we have an admirer....or we'd like to, anyway.

The Local has been live blogging the BL Show commentary slams. Where can we send your t-shirt, local?

Tell us!

Posted by leboheme at 02:02 PM

Subject: Nerd Core Rapper
Your guest is just using "white ebonics". Of course, this will be all the rage for white kids and programs on MTV. However, when black people use slang, we are castigated in the media. But when white kids use "Valley Girl" talk, or "nerd rap", it's all the rage...for white people. Why the double-standard? It's just another example of white people co-opting black culture...to their benefit. Can't white people do anything culturally orignal without copying or ripping off black people?
-RM

Posted by leboheme at 01:42 PM

I'm MC Frontalot and I'm here to say...

Posted by leboheme at 01:39 PM

The Polticker crinkles yesterday's Post into a terrifying new creation: Pillary.

The next senator from New York?

Posted by leboheme at 09:53 AM

A listener sends us this study from the Bay Area Center for Social Research, ranking America's most liberal and conservative cities.

Summary: Detroit most liberal, New York is in place 21 on the liberal list, Provo most conservative, Allentown, PA 12th-most conservative and the nearest (geographically) in the top 20 to New York.

Food for thought: did Michael Moore's literal or metaphoric heft give Flint, MI a boost to become tenth most liberal?

Feedback!

Posted by leboheme at 09:45 AM

Let's face it: the difficulty of getting a decent lo mein in Baghdad is definitely one of the most pressing problems facing Iraqis today. Nevertheless, was anyone else puzzled by the Times' decision to a story about Dragon Bay restaurant above the fold, and relegate to page A 10 the news that Baghdad's Mayor was ousted Tuesday by an Iranian-trained militia?

Hmm...things really are not going well in Iraq!

Oh, maybe I'll catch that story on NPR sometime...

Tomorrow guest host Mike Pesca gets the lowdown on what's going on at Baghdad City Hall from former Coalition Provisional Authority advisor Larry Diamond...and if there's time we'll ask Larry about his favorite lunch special at Dragon Bay.

Feedback!

Posted by leboheme at 03:55 PM

Now that we're in the two-digit dates, it's officially "mid August", that time when most everyone of any importance at all--Brian Lehrer, your congresspeople, even respected bloggers (ie, not lebhoeme) go on vacation.

Some of the enjoyable subsitutions taking place in the blogosphere right now:

Dan Savage is in for Andrew Sullivan at www.andrewsullivan.com
Holly Martins is in for Ana Marie Cox at Wonkette
A whole host of people are in for Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit
Jessica Bruder just wrapped up for Ben Smith at The Politicker

Feedback!

Posted by leboheme at 10:28 AM

The Campaign Finance Board website includes this photo, oddly remeniscent of the photoshopped flyer that got mayoral candidate C. Virginia Fields into some campaign trail doo doo a few weeks ago:

Clip art can even reflect the fabulous mosaic that is New York

Posted by leboheme at 04:37 PM

Frequent BL Show guest Noah Feldman makes an appearance this week on New York Magazine's "Most Beautiful New Yorkers" list.

Yeah, that's me between Uma and Derek. In your face, David Boies!

[Noah Feldman in the "Most Beautiful New Yorkers" list]

[listen to Noah Feldman's most recent BL Show appearance]

Editor's note: WNYC "talent" generally declines photo ops in order to keep up that sexy voice-thing. Bloggers, however, are exempt from that rule ;)

Who do you think is the sexiest BL Show guest? Tell us!

Posted by leboheme at 02:50 PM

Did you catch public advocate candidate Andrew Rasiej on our show last week? Or in Tom Friedman's column? Now he's in the Huffington Post too...[read it]

Note to Betsy Gotbaum, Norm Siegel, Michael Brown, Damon Cabbagestalk, Jr., Bernie Goetz, Jay Golub, Jim Lesczynski, Danniel Maio, Eric Ruano Melendez, and any other public advocate candidates lurking out there: we don't mean to be unfair, please send us any articles you write, too!

Note to Damon Cabbagestalk, Jr.: any relation to Lt. Col. William Turnipseed?

Posted by leboheme at 02:05 PM

Forget Afghanistan. The terrorists have taken their training camps to the internet, write Susan Glasser and Steve Coll in a three-part series in the Washington Post. Errol Louis speaks with Susan Glasser this morning.

Check out their excellent interactive web feature, called "e-Qaeda" (Flash Player required).

Posted by leboheme at 10:06 AM

Subject: bohemian index
Has your guest been to London or Paris lately? What's happening in New York now, has already happened there. The creative culture, (not to mention the people who service the cities), has been pushed out of the city. Glasgow is the new Soho ...
-JMS

Subject: *Manhattan* is *becoming* unaffordable for...
Becoming? As a creative (photographer/writer) I left *Brooklyn* -- after
having already fled Manhattan because literally all of my neighbors went
from being artistic, etc. to Nanny-raised kids and banker parents.
-Jangly

Subject: This morning's 10:00 program
I heard your guest make a very good point. That is, that America is the great country it is because of the immigrants who arrived from Italy, Germany, Eastern European countries etc. in the early 1900's. However, "Jewish" is not a nationality or a country and should not be listed as a separate group. Jews who arrived in America came from the same countries as your guest's Italian
grandparents and others who arrived from those nations he listed. It is wrong and outdated thinking to list "Jewish" as a separate entity.
-RS

Posted by leboheme at 04:21 PM

Mike Pesca in the host seat today

Posted by leboheme at 02:01 PM

Preemptivekarma and Crooksandliars both pick up on Brian's interview with Senator Rick Santorum yesterday.

Posted by leboheme at 08:15 AM

Listener Jeremiah Murphy has created the first-ever music video to the BL Theme ("Solid" by Soulive).

[watch the video]

Posted by leboheme at 08:04 AM

Public advocate candidate and wifi apostle Andrew Rasiej

Charter revision chief Esther Fuchs

Housing honcho Sean Donovan

Posted by leboheme at 01:56 PM

Senator Rick Santorum

This afternoon we recorded an interview with family values firecracker Senator Rick Santorum on his new book, "It Takes a Family", parenthood, and his gay communications director.

Tune in tomorrow at 10!

Posted by leboheme at 04:26 PM

Andrew Rasiej

Can a single-issue candidate get elected public advocate? Tom Friedman seems to think so. The guru of flat-worldism gets seriously local in today's Times, planting a big wet cyberkiss on public advocate candidate Andrew Rasiej and his plan to make New York wireless.

Questions:

Can a single-issue candidate get elected public advocate?

Is this the right single issue?

Would the city's wifi platform bankrupt local IPOs and even telephone providers (through VOIP)?

Could the pretty-much-powerless Public Advocate actually get the thing done?

Could Tom Friedman's endorsement mean more than almost every New York Democrat's?

How do you pronounce Rasiej?

Tune in tomorrow for Brian's interview with Rasiej.

[the other candidates]

Got questions for Andrew Rasiej? Send us yours!

Posted by leboheme at 02:21 PM

Subject: ANGRY at you -- Boring teachers?? (august 1st show) Teachers are forced to be boring . . . 2 examples

[check out this segment]

I love your show, but never have I been as angry as you as when you made the off-hand remark in a general question, asking what to do about 'boring teachers.'

Thanks a lot. By the way, I write on education as well as teach. I'll send you on an article about charters. Read the part about Jack Welsh.
-BF

Still awake and interested? Send us an email!

Posted by leboheme at 02:35 PM

Subject: Ibrahim Hooper and the Fatwa against terrorism.

[check out this segment]

I am an American Muslim, and I disagree with the Fatwas issued by Muslim leaders in Europe and North America for a few reasons.

A side note, to say that Muslims have not condemned acts of terror is absolute lunacy. I remeber driving through Main St in downtown Paterson NJ and seeing a banner that stretched accross the considerably wide street saying "Muslim's Condemn Terrorism" funded by the Islamic Center of Passaic County.
-BA

Feedback!

Posted by leboheme at 02:32 PM

A listener has written in to share this joke, relevant to today's segment on stay-at-home parents:

Brian,
I didn't have a chance to get this to you in time, but here is a joke regarding your show this morning: (I hope no one told it, as I just turned the radio on at
the end)...This dad comes home and the door is ajar. Concerned, he glances to the driveway, but the minivan is there. He enters the house to a horror. There are clothes strewn on the furniture, the pictures and paintings on the walls are askew, the children's toys everywhere but no sign of them. "Honey? Honey?" He calls, more and more frantically, running through the house and tripping over what appears to be old college notebooks and everything else they own. He rushes through the disaster of a kitchen, slipping on some butter and flour on the floor, and opens the side door, where he finds his two children in their underpants playing in the mud. "My G-d! Where is Mommy?" The children point to a big oak tree in the backyard. The dad goes to it and finds his wife eating ice cream and reading a book. "Honey, for the love of G-d! What's happened? What's going on?" "Oh," says the mom, "you know how you asked me what I do all day? Well, I didn't feel like doing it today."

Don't you agree it's so apropos? Have a fabulous day.
-LF

Posted by leboheme at 01:40 PM

BL Producers are nerds for news shows (local and national), and generally we try to keep our obsessions to ourselves (Did you know that Chris Matthews worked in the Carter White House? That Chris Wallace is Mike Wallace's son).

But Marcia Kramer's interview with Mike Bloomberg on WCBS yesterday morning (at Katz's deli) cries out for a mention. How to say this?...it recalled an interview inside The Actor's Studio with James Lipton.

Has being mayor changed you at all?
How do you blow off steam?
Do you have a motto that you live by?
What was the best father's day present you ever got?

Who do we have to blame for these cotton swabs of questions? According to the CBS website, the questions were submitted by email by CBS viewers!

No, Kramer did not ask the10 questions of Bernard Pivot.

[watch the video]

[Marcia Kramer's blog]

Feedback!

Posted by leboheme at 04:07 PM