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Blogosfear
Is the blogosphere sexist and uncivil? Writer and game developer Kathy Sierra got death threats after some of her posts, starting a huge conversation among bloggers. We’ll bring the online debate on air. Also, is a constitutional crisis inevitable over the Iraq war?
Westchester County Blues
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-86th) from Westchester County and State Senator Dean Skelos (R- 9th) from Nassau County on Long Island discuss the new state budget and education funding for their areas.
Congress and the White House at War
Wall Street Journal senior special writer Jackie Calmes discusses the looming constitutional crisis between the executive branch and Congress over the war in Iraq.
Success with an Accent
Steven Weinberger, a professor of Linguistics at George Mason University where he runs a web database called the Speech Accent Archive, talks about why how you speak affects how well you do in life.
Acting Out
Clive Thompson, blogger and contributing writer for Wired, says video games allow people to act politically incorrect.
Blogosfear
Andy Carvin, blogger for PBS and Internet Strategist for NPR, talks about the threats against fellow blogger Kathy Sierra and his work to end "cyberbullying," and Tristan Louis, who manages the TNL.net website, thinks that reaction towards the harassment of Kathy Sierra has gone too far.
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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