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1. Sad stats; GB&U, gaslighting, follow-ups; immigrant woes; terrorist Kahanists; Obit: Charles Van Doren; Cohen before Congress; misconduct per Mueller
2. more of Cohen denunciations; more of Caro on LBJ; Newsom moratorium will not stymie trial of Golden State Killer; AI & tech issues; non-existant Google technical support

1. GB&U, Azores story that a lot of bull, recycling tips, bad news for journalism especially in America
2. Briefing on the mighty hoax of Bigfoot; wikileaks and Russia; relatives of homo sapiens; one-way trips to Mars cancelled; new tech; fiber pollution; gravity waves

1. Art ahead of life - Jack Ma trumps Silicon Valley while life imitates art in Ukraine; Trumps dirty pool; Obit: Andrew Marshall, Robert Caro on how LBJ got on 1960 ticket from The Passage of Power
2. Obit: David Fetchheimer; Bill Turner on the FBI; the Mob; Israel and Netanyahu;

1. black hole photo, speedy stars, interstellar visitor, our sun & family, GB&U, stats, video game addiction, state enhanced gambling addiction
2. viewing California wild flowers; animals are like us; lying robots; Alexa eavesdropping, driving asleep; digital baby footprint; robo calling; groundfish on rebound; Toobin on Mueller

1. Restoring wildlife in South Bay; Khashoggi: Trump - golf cheater; GB&U; new atomic threat; college admissions scandals; Silicon Valley immortals
2. Congrats to the SN&R on its 40th anniversary, bad ideas: cashless stores, drones; spectacular fossil find? - by a nobody

1. April No-Collusion Fools Days, Theranos fools, Silicon Valley forces a march away from remote work, the rent control non-answer, surveilance tech challenge to democracy
2. GB&U; vaccines still do not cause autism; social prescribing; smelling Parkinsons?; space junk; more on meteors, dinosaur killer fossils?; death of almanac

1. Mueller meanders and Barr bars, Bill Barr history of burying bodies, drafting women, new internet critics Tim Berners-Lee & Vint Cerf, EU vs big tech, felling forests for carbon credits
2. Obits - Dick Dale, Hal Blaine, Birch Bayh & Lyndon Laroche, Chinese chicanery and Zuck sucks up, international bad politician round-up, Silicon Valley immortals

1. The egg, scholastic scandal, Gavin and the misuse of Eminent Domain, death penalty denial, Theranos documentary, bad robot bedside manner
2. GB&U, bird watching bozos, read the fine print, Boeing fails to fix engineering with software, the AI panacea, news about Hawaii, tiptoeing through the turnips

1. Happy birthday to The Periodic Table, Obit - Betty Ballantine, Jane Mayer on Fox Propaganda, Trans athletes, GB&U, Bob Costas is a stand-up guy, Newsom elevates his opinion over the law, snakes on a palm tree
2. The Periodic Table of the Elements, The Economist and New Scientist, we dispute everything above Americium

1. Skiing news, actor fakes assault, Parallax finally stumbles onto fashion, GB&U, Nest Guard - listening in
2. Mort Sahl - an American institution, a first-hand report, restricting fines, fees and fortitures, organic food, low-cal fast food, Chinese sci-fi

1. Trump cheating, lying and hysterical non-emergencies, do-gooders complicate life for domestic caretakers, Jane Mayer - Dark Money
2. GB&U, Tim Wu at the Commonwealth Club (our new Guilded Age and the need for anti-trust and why we need to break up FB) old SN&R article on the Evils of Amazon, Obit for the Opportunity Mars rover

1. Newsom and tunnel vision, no Spanish in Montana, Interview with Jerry Pollicoff (senior editor OpEd News, expert on JFK & the media)
2. More Jerry Policoff on new Truth and Reconcilliation Committee and old story of media coverage

1. Minor planets and so much more, tech cororate crybabies, tax pipe dreams, putting more old folks in homes, gun control realities, Chinese crystal meth, do not flush fluchable wipes, Chinese birth hotels
2. Archival fun, deep political musings, GB&U, Trump all in on AI, roboburgers, AI avades drug patents, thumps up on Stan & Ollie

1. Super Bowl, archival items, quips, Maduro no go, GB&U, Psy-ops, border patrol tries to reverese engineer reality for benefit of Trump
2. Eco-tips, FB at 15, how much of internet is fake, The Secret War behind Amazon reviews, meteor strike on moon, its raining on Titan (sort of), mulling minor planes, cubewanos

1. Roger Stone, more weasely then ever (ask Malcom Nance) Macedonian muddle, meandering California, Counter Spin backs Maduro, China feeds Drug War, Reefer Madness revived
2. Dark Money teaser, drone dummkopfs, GB&U, Oracle kneecaps workers, Newsom like Huntington housing, tech companies create housing crunch then demands others repair damage - Apple saturates market, drilling fof water on Mars

1. Lunar eclipse, copepods and not kosher, David Talbot speaheads effort to re-open JFK case, recycling update, Trump messes up missiles
2. GB&U, avoid stealing Mexican gas, punting Trumps emoluments issue, Multilevel marketing scams, bad ides on drones, cashless economy, brain reading headbands, tidyness (disorderly does not mean disorganized)

1. Carol Channing, archival items, new rules, misc file, Bob Cutler, GB&U, Obit for Herb Kelleher
2. Help from The New Yorker, Anthony Bourdain and Mark Burnett (the man who invented Trump)

1. Thumbs up for Free Solo, Do not park in San Rafael, Thumbs up for Vice, FB spying on your phone, Bob Einstein, Mean Gene and Trump
2. Charity vs greed, Dave Barry Year in Review, retro tech Woodstock, soil microbes, stopping global warming, fake robots, the complete meal

1. King tides, animal econ, "moderate Islam in Saudi, endless war, poll data
2. PACE loan scams, Geo. Will slams ruling elite, Mr/Mrs Larry Page: owing your e & DNA data, rehabilitating fat and ties, image fakery, tech addiction

1. End 2018 musings, 50 year lookback, "Earthrise", Science controversies, math madness, selfie silliness, stadium scams
2. Death if RFK, FB futzing the Philippines, Tech in 68 (Englebart stunned the world), looking at 1918, GB&U, Cuban craziness, organic food

1. Astronomy near & far, GB&U, ionic airplanes?, ant spider, mono and MS, China and opiods
2. Tech: Robot Mexicans, robit hand, nanny spying, tracking your purchases, Chinese Middle Class, facial recogniton, more FB lies, the Bob Ross toaster

1. An interview with atrronomer Phil Plait , columnist for Syfy.com on about cool things we are learning about curious objects in deep space
2. More from Phil, more space news, than a return to planet earth

1. Obits: radio host Ray Taliofero, magician Ricky Jay and the grand wimp of the GOP George H.W. Bush
2. News round up, and our usual fare including a look at tech

1. A look at "Bohemian Rhapsody", Trump in denial of global warming & a Saudi murdering prince, our local smoky air, Alpha House
2. Good, Bad and Ugly, diverless car woes, auroras on brown dwarfs, AI to help status quo

1. A bit on Harvey Washington Wylie, Cold War espionage, food, Tom Jaego Obit, rogue planets; Good, Bad & Ugly, Alpha House, Jane Mayer, ballparks are a bad deal, William Goldman
2. More from author Vince Palamara on the Scecret Service; oddballs in the SS, the fatal breakdown with JFK

1. Oumuamua, A man who wants his body sent to deep space - we meet Graham Arthur MacKenzie , our sun can set off military mines (and do worse)
2. US Secret Service expert Vince Palamara talks to us about remarkable instances of Presidentlial Protection

1. Hawaiian chronicles, travel tips: bath plug, compact flouresents, batteries; a quote from Bourdain relevant to xenophobia, election fallout, Trump ravings, Cruz survives, vote suppression and altertation continues, House goes blue, quotes from Dark Money
2. Double GB&U, voter supressor loses, Anthony Levandowski and the self-driving car follies

1. Caution on Economy, expert humor from Bruce McCall & Bertrand Russell, Kid Charlemagne leads us to Owlsley Stanley story then onto Silicon Valley, Shouts and Murmurs Social Media Guidelines, ignoring phone messages by millenials, texting 9/11 in San Mateo Co anyway, Smoot Hawley article from 2008 on how to make the economy worse
2. GB&U, Saudi prince a-murdering, Johnny Mathis segue from John Waters on Teri Gross, tech savvy people knew Russians were up to no good in 2016 a Jane Mayer article,

1. Trump and Kim bromance, Brent Kavanaugh sad saga, Elon and his cool rockets, the octopi & the ecstacy, gene editing to kill mosquitos,
2. Obit for Marty Balin, Steeley Dan tune Kid Charlemagne is about Owlsley Stanley & LSD,
3. SN&R talks up Dan Bacher, critic of CA water grabs, anchor babies are real, archives - 2007 collateralized debt obligations seen as house of cards by Steven Perlstein

1. Obituary for Alan Abel, a genuine Radio Parallax hero
2. Brent Kavanaugh faux investigation misleads public with mainstream media collusion, GB&U, motorcycle riders ageing, science topics, small body 2.5x the distance of Pluto but goes out to the Oort cloud and may affirm the hidden planet x, more plastic woes

1. Trump pens, Anthony Bourdain opinions, Serena Williams acting like an ass, Brent Kavanugh acting like an ass
2. Eagles vs Michael Jackson, stats, Afghan wishful thinking, miscellaneous, Wendell Wilkie

1. Time slips away, our favorite psychopath gets involved in a time travel film, New Yorker article on 1968 Presidential election recalls our talk with Senator Eugene McCarthy, autobio of Burt Reynolds on Betty Davis & Joan Crawford, and his Playboy interview, GB&U, lightening round
2. Bizarre Op-Ed assyres public that adults remain in charge of Executive Branch, dirty pool and nutty perspectives in SCOTUS politics, Milky Way has satellite galaxies, Smokey and the Bandit

1. Watergate-type follies with Manafort & Cohen, American judicial roulette, CA legislature designates state sport, plastic nanoparticles from 5 Asian nations
2. Lt Governor, Gavin Newsom on the way out, and a Tsakapolous daughter coming in?, Jerry Brown still trying to steal Delta waters, a joke, William Goldman quotes

1. Weird Science: bad Bosnian Archeology, Mars, exchange of genes, teaching happiness at Yale
2. Good, Bad & Ugly, Zimbabwe woes, Montenegro threatened, election tampering in the USA, has the internet failed us? Obit: Adrian Krounauer

1. How bad is The Donald?, he is, at least not headed to war, and why DO we have NATO?, wa not Ukraine, vitamins, PC mania
2. Croatia almost makes it

1. Invitation to participate, Neum on the Adriatic thanks to recently deceased Lord Carrignton, planet Mars in sky along with planetary peers, and they again find water there, Tin Tin beat Apollo to the moon and found ice first, excerpt from prior chat with William Hartmann on subject of water on red planet, WA state scablands mimic of martian flows
2. Mars; excerpts from our chats with Steve Squyers , Emily Ladwallah , more on the Earth terrain from mega waterfalls

1. Radio Parallax Oldies But Goodies, firecrackers for the 4th, an inventor of the rock fuzztone Glenn Snoddy passes, we strip mine Late Night Comic monologues,
2. Brief laugh over firecrackers being illegal & ubiquitous, review of Morocco trip,

1. Travel to Morocco, Trump screws Morocco, Trump apes Machiavelli, Silicon Valley antics, Obit - Dick Tuck, muffed series on Jack Parsons
2. Baracoon, the Last Black Cargo - a chat with Deborah Plant about the work of Zora Hurston to uncover the life story of a man taken into slavery in 1859

1. Addendum to Ton Wolfe obit, Current Events round up, GB&U, accuracy in reporting, hourly pay declines, the mystery of Treasure of the Sierra Madre author B. Traven
2. Kimberly Guilfoyle, George Dukemejian, Alan Bean, the mystery of Bright Nights, Marilyn Vos Savant on negtive vs positive lightening, the scary power of Big Data, tech utopianism fades, pro-Trump bots perverted 2016 election, DARPA monitors social networks

1. We mourn the passing of literary giant Tom Wolfe
2. More commemoration of the great Tom Wolfe

1. Birthday for Karl Marx, collusion vs conspiracy, 3,000 Trump lies, Marx as a founder of socialism and communism, Greg Palast on GOP anti-democratic efforts in US elections
2. 200 years of "Frankenstein" and its modern version - Silicon Valley companies and their failure to reign in their perverse tech

1. Trump doctor admits his physical exam report was dictated to him by the Prez after which goons were sent in to remove his medical records, Obit: Chuck McCann, Michael Cohen under attack, the Golden State killer shows how our judicial system fails us, all the rapes are beyond the statute of limitations, though Bill Cosby has changed that for subsequent criminals
2. The Economists on not to trust economists, internet companies shirk taxes, students unable to use clocks, cursive abandoned, walking The Camino of Spain, the story of a goofy fad

1. Solar system near collision, Kosovo clocks, near human organ?, MLK+50, Death of Stalin and Putin antics, questionable Syrian attack reports, international injustice
2. Mark Evanier on the Stormy storm, Amazon droning on drones, whining/leaving Silicon Valley, Theranos fraud, GBU, fair inequality vs unfair equality

1. Radio Parallax to take a break in weekly production, Trump fails to rebuff North Korean overtures, CIA ads, GBU, when not if the driverless cars, Bannon amok, Bolivia wants a coast; backlash against evils from Google and Facebook,
2. Death cleaning in the USA, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook wrongdoing and lies, banks taking down corporations in the rotten story of private equity firms and how the destroy jobs and commerce

1. LA Times weighs in on controversy at Martins Beach, sad tale from The Atlantic on how corporations became people; H1B visas and Einstein visas, brief obit for Steven Hawking
2. dropping bowling balls on Japanese cars, is Trump demented?, Brit millenials flunk history, GBU, why is the Bible so badly written?, Henry the Navigator and religious battles

1. Brief Obit: Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, readers send us Borowitz, bad day on proxima centauri b, yet more tech stupidity; double dose of the good, the bad and the ugly; still more sex with The Donald, 120 million dollars to fight foreign meddling in US election goes unspent
2. Drought relief; Jane Mayer The Atlantic article on the Steele Dossier at some length

1. Reprise: Dr Ivan Schwab on the evolution of the eye
2. Dr Ivan Scwab continued...

1. Preserving Baikal, militarism, history of Paul Manaford per article in The Atlantic, more sex scandal with The Donald, GBU, measles returns
2. Poliical correctness again; Author James DiEugenio talks more about the late Robert Parry

1. GOP "fiscal restraint" borrows a trillion $, GBU, a trillion loose planets in one galaxy?, cutting edge science?,the dress that drove the slave trade
2. New Scientist weighs in on Trump, clarifying opioids, crazy tech and terrible applications, trusting AI

1. Sexual harrassment and criminal behavior vs gymnasts, Richard Spencer and demands for censorship, a look at free speech issues on campuses and across the country,
2. Brief Obit: Delores O Rearden, GBU, nuttiness with Greeks, Russians and doritos, who is Carter Page?, improving on "GDP", US oil is back

1. Brief current events, a chat with Quizmaster extraordinaire Dr Andy Jones about his new book Pub Quizzes, Trivia for Smart People, Dr Andy (always a listener favorite) tells how he finds questions with which to titillate contestants
2. Interview with James DiEugenio about The Post also a chat about the late Robert Parry

1. Obituary: Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News, and an investigative journalist we long admired
2. Talk with Dr Rodger Orman , operator of a pain clinic, about the "opiod crisis" which has been so much in the news

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