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When a simple fine won't do: many municipalities are resorting to "cybershaming" to penalize criminals. Posting the offender's name and infraction on the web is a cheap, effective way to single out menaces as diverse as tax evaders and sex offenders. Also on the show, the Afghan-born administrator of a mine-clearing program, greatboyfriends.com, and part three in our history of unemployment series.
Pepping Up An Old Bird
William Saletan, chief political correspondent for Slate.com on his Saddameter and this weekend's news.
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Listeners comment on who they would prefer to see on the 9/11 investigation commission.
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Shame on You
Kenneth Comeaux, assistant secretary of the Louisiana department of revenueand Lee Tien, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on communities shaming criminals on the web. On the flip-side, Ms. Eugene Carroll, advice columnist for ELLE magazine, on using the Internet to praise great boyfriends.
www.greatboyfriends.com
Shoulder the Blame
Investigative writer Paul Caffera on the threat to planes of shoulder-launched missiles. Read Caffera's article on Salon.com.
Vengeance Is Mine
Nahela Hadi, acting executive director of the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign, a program of the United Nations Association of the United States of America, on her organization’s efforts to clear landmines.
www.landmines.com
Involuntary Idleness
Alexander Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and author of Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (Cambridge University Press, 1986) on the history of unemployment
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