I heard an excellent podcast of “On Point” last year that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the debut of Waiting for Godot, and they had actors performing scenes as audio interludes. It was very effectively done.

really happy to hear Chris again, and thankful for podcast (no broadcast in Bay Area)

Muslim Jew hatred. Some of the material can be very funny in a weird sort of way. For example:

“Denmark’s offensive Jewish cookies

By Yigal Romm in Copenhagen Updated: 06/Dec/2005 19:09″

http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/4479

“A group of Danish Muslims refuse to eat traditional “Jewishâ€? cookies because they feel offended by the name.”

I enjoy the effort you folks make. Chris, the staff, and the guests are always excellent.

Best…

Listening to your esteemed colleague Terri Gross yesterday as she interviewed Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on their book “Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy”, I could not help but wish that you too would have these guys on. They are very articulate but more importantly I think this is not just another issue. We are witnessing the destruction of our democracy. The people are not being represented;our government is losing it’s checks and balances. The two party system is not working because one party has managed to grab the power.

“The Destruction of Our Democracy” as depressing as that sounds, would be a good series.

Also I second the suggestion about Jimmy Carter on his new book. I know he is all over the media now— but so what when it’s good.

from the link below:

……A nonpartisan coalition representing 25 California election integrity groups held a press conference Monday outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Sacramento, where the “Voting Systems Testing Summit” was convened by Republican California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson.

The State appears to have skewed presentations in favor of electronic voting, with advocates far outnumbering critics. Some panels contain exclusively vendors of electronic voting equipment and representatives of testing labs chosen by these vendors.

……”Diebold and other vendors selling electronic voting equipment have been invited to attend, along with all 400 members of the California Association of Election Officials,” she said. “It costs one hundred and seventy five dollars a ticket and will be picked up by the state.”

…….Some of the conference’s other panels are also weighted in favor of e-voting advocates. A presentation of state election officials titled “What Happens Now” includes Paul Craft, Nick Handy, Dr. Brit Williams, and Connie Schmidt.

Craft, an officer in the Florida Secretary of State’s office, previously headed Florida’s Bureau of Voting Systems Certification and was responsible for ensuring accuracy of new voting machines during the 2000 presidential election debacle.

Craft resigned from the state’s Division of Elections to start his own consulting company, which advises other states on purchase of election equipment. He has also served on a Technology Guidance Committee appointed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), where he solicited testimony from vendor engineers resulting in a vote to delete new standards.

Williams has been an outspoken defender of electronic voting. As an NIST participant, he stated that “adding a paper ‘receipt’ could have an adverse effect.” He also served as a state evaluator of Diebold machines in Georgia, where he allowed installation of a patch not certified by testing labs. BBV later revealed a “rob-georgia” file which contained “3,700 files of instructions to replace files that were on the machines.” Williams later admitted, “Some of the things we did, we probably compromised security a little bit.”

More here:

a California summit

This could be part of the Race and Class series… related to my above suggestion about the honesty of our elections.