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White Christmas, the best selling song ever; the Saturnalia, hanukkah, fine anecdote about the Christmas Song
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GB&U; impeachent follies; blocking your view; fighting Chineses censorship, F/U on Breshnev assassination, Saudi verdict on Khassogi (not pre-meditated!); stadium madness attempt,
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The official foot, Trump impeached, Trumps Jewish gymnastics, the Afghanistan papers & the trillion dollar rathole, GB&U, the cultural imperialism of black friday
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Tech gone rogue: Kara Swisher article on how Silicon Valley revealed how safe internet is not possible; spyware helped Saudis murder while others track dissidents; we are the battlefield in the cyber wars; is there life on Mars?;
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Cannonball running, Burt Reynolds, astronomy, the underwear soil test; suspending Tim Ryan; SNL not-funny despite phony laughs, sad stats
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GB&U; fire festival fiasco, health quackery; Obit: Jonathan Miller; fact checking; counter-productive quantifying of scientists;
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Star Wars installment 9 and its ill-fated Xmas special; sunsets coming later; space x wants satellites - more than stars?; look back at Apollo 12; Obit: Gahan Wilson
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Obit: William Ruckleshouse; bio updates, milk, sponsored reportage
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Will Durst suffers stroke, memes, hearings on the impeachable Trumps, GB&U, Assange update, astro update, football betting oddity, fruit stand anecdote
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Peter Segal on vice; hi-tech culling of cats; Trump and perjury; selling our shopping; Saudi news; fruit stand story
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Roger Stone goes down; betting sports; Silicon Valley blood boys in real life; Trump looted his charity; report on how China has made payments automatic from travel agent Stan Godwyn
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Critics of Parallax; Peoples Almanac on unfavorable reviews of great art; sour view on San Jose banning natural gas heating - supposedly to make energy generation greener; oddball items; story of Mormons in Mexico; OK Boomer diss;
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Mercury transit, Neil Young stymied in US citizenship efforts, Brentwood stops developer, population growth slowing?, Andrew Marantz on social media manipulations on Fresh Air, GB&U, weirdly warm fall weather
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Obits: Robert Evans, Vladimir Bukovski; protesting governments - there and here; the book by anonymous, Trumps tax dodges, and requests of other intel agencies to counter US intel incriminating him
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Subcontacting murder ad infinitim; Thai concubine; star link to orbit 40,000 satellites?; busting mutton busting; Obit: Scotty Bowers;
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Return of Dougs high school poli sci teacher Mark Mattingly to talk up Impeachment
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Monster Mash in the Rock and Roll Hall, Obit of Harold Bloom, halting eco shame, auto brewerly snydrome, racist Sponge Bob, final Silicon Valley season, scary Amazon
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Talk radio fact checking; planet 9 a primordial black hole?; burger wrapper PFASs in your bloodstream; Clinton e-mail investigation ends; hi tech issues; scandal in Nigeria
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Fatally dosing on vitamins, and maybe social media; Trump web-meister now running campaign - to repeat 2016?; Anonmous author has book coming soon, but another whistleblower is the one gaining traction
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Obit: Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov; Mercury transit; trilobite update; pirarucu news, the not-fake emoluments clause; the mess in Syria; China bludgeons Hong Kong;
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Obits: Dr Robert McClelland, Dr Wang Shu Ping, Ginger Baker; GB&U, trouble in Iraq, Saudi Trump spending trumps murdering actions, Russian unit 29155 misbehavior
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James Brown PSA; James DiEugenio investigative journalist talks about the mysterious David Ferrie in the JFK assassination case
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Obit: Ambassador Joseph Wilson; GB&U; quark mysteries; science topics
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105 year old John Lisac talks about the 1936 Olympics and more
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Trip to Dark Skies Festival in Great Basin National park; book promotion: Pride & Prejudice; An American Way of Death, Stiff; oh yeah - Trump opens impeachment inquiry; other bad politicians; GB&U; college admissions scandal claims a Hollywood actress, but not old money elite
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Pretending to navigate the homeless, and using this ploy to bypass environmental regs on SF Bay; Clean Water Act at risk; Sierra Club selling out on water scamming?; questionable Kern Water bank privatization
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A second interstellar visitor, Niles Canyon hike & bike, GB&U, you cannot recycle garbage; bring back deposit bottles by passing bottle bills, and use glass vs plasic, fast food crows & cholesterol
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Steven Kinzer book on mind control; Stanley Gottlieb - the Dr Mengele of MK-Ultra; Obits: David Koch, Lee Iacocca, Rip Torn; manipulating public opinion - slanted to those with the big bucks example: puff piece on how jobs losses from robots and Ai and automation will cause no problems
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Olympic cheats; year zero; art follies; castorium alert; GB&U, Trump gets into the weather; Brazil bottoms; seemed like a good idea; the real zodiac
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Enjoying nature vs phone separation anxiety; tour of old town of Alvarado in East Bay and its surprises; hacking Twitter via sim-swapping; is privacy gone?
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Great quotes, Calvin Trillin bit from New Yorker, GB&U backlog, Obits - that rascal Robert Mugabe, that mensch Bob Fletcher, Trump tarifs impact Bible production - from China
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Kakapoo on rebound?, most food expiration dates are just PR, homeopathy is a fraud, Obit: Liane Russell, dubious hi tech
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Tribute Program for France Senecal Kassing; France interviews Chalmers Johnson for KDVS
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France Kassing on Capital Public Radio program Insight talking, about Howard Zinn
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A look at ancient Rome; interview with Professor Barry Strauss , author of Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
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Barry Strauss , part 2
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Charlie Chaplin tour; Monterey whale watching; Hawaiian anecdote
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GOP funding of Maryann Williamson; GB&U; gaming Google Maps; test of Google - they pass; monkeys join apes & man as tool user; croc teeth and snake ribs, insect apocalype, carbonation surprises
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American gay president - in 1857?, American big pharma nonsense; lowering cholesterol with food vs incentivizing docs to Rx drugs; anti-cholinergic drugs & dementia
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GB&U; tourism out of control in Venice and elsewhere; Hong Kong rebellion continues; Obit: Lee Ra Hee; Huawei under suspicion for Chinese spying as Silicon Valley sucks up to China; dance crazes
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No-wash clothes, toothpaste via drone, high points of low tech, google gluttony, uber inanities, AI curveliance & ideo analytics, GB&U, a look back at Joe McCarthy, 3 anecdotes
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A look back over the decades at what a personss high school Poli Sci teacher might say about developments, courtesy of a visit with my high school Poli Sci teacher Mark Mattingly
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The world going govern-MENTAL; political party circuses; the Dems and the Whigs
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more early American politics; anti-slavery leads to the GOP and civil war; the banana party in Brazil; Bosco the dog mayor, GB&U; debating Dems
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Gut bacteria may influence development of autism, close supernova may have affected earth, shyster lawyer gets some get back, slave ship Clotilda found - see prior show in Baracoon, NPR misses point on NORAD story, Gabbard only Dem taking a stand against Military Industry, forget the 10,000 steps
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The Mystery of Expertise; census question not likely to help more vote - duh; government yawns at prospect of foreign intervention in 2020 election; Mitch McConnel lied about his actions to stop Garland SCOTUS nomination; heavyweight title to Mexican-American; Silicon Valley eyes Central Valley water
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The extremely stable genius in action, and maybe in love; stats; US parrots; Mt Everest stupidity, a prime minister surgeon, shyster indicted, GB&U
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Reignig-in robo calls; Roundup - bad Rx; false flag ops; student housing in the flight path; Obit: Herman Wouk; old articles; convice with values - facts will not work; Trump eco rollback - frontal assault on science
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The smart speakers gets eyes, Obit: Doris Day, art replaces cocaine as a sign you have too much money, Gavin Newsom to cure homelessness via task force and help fish by removing water, Chinese Green Wall may be failing, energy costs
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Australia hits reverse on climate change action; Murdoch empire bad news - for most of us; plutonium speculations; ignoring global warming in school; sunscreen toxicity; Denisovan jawboning
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SF bans facial recognition; Fred Trump was also a jerk; visiting Santa Catalina; saving giraffes, GB&U; The Donlad lost more money than anyone else in recent history; GOP legislatures continue to limit voting and halt all abortions - despite Roe v. Wade
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Economist notes Trump has committed impeachable offenses; do carbon dioxide levels impede your meetings?; Exxon predicted our present global warming level - in 1982 - but rather than change business model, launched PR campaign; US blocks artic nation cooperation vs climate change; longevity factors; valid anti-ageing Rx coming?; phone addiction and tech mischief; making AI accountable;
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Sad stats; GB&U, gaslighting, follow-ups; immigrant woes; terrorist Kahanists; Obit: Charles Van Doren; Cohen before Congress; misconduct per Mueller
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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
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GB&U, Azores story that a lot of bull, recycling tips, bad news for journalism especially in America
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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
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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
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Obit: David Fetchheimer; Bill Turner on the FBI; the Mob; Israel and Netanyahu;
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black hole photo, speedy stars, interstellar visitor, our sun & family, GB&U, stats, video game addiction, state enhanced gambling addiction
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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
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Restoring wildlife in South Bay; Khashoggi: Trump - golf cheater; GB&U; new atomic threat; college admissions scandals; Silicon Valley immortals
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Congrats to the SN&R on its 40th anniversary, bad ideas: cashless stores, drones; spectacular fossil find? - by a nobody
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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
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GB&U; vaccines still do not cause autism; social prescribing; smelling Parkinsons?; space junk; more on meteors, dinosaur killer fossils?; death of almanac
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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
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Obits - Dick Dale, Hal Blaine, Birch Bayh & Lyndon Laroche, Chinese chicanery and Zuck sucks up, international bad politician round-up, Silicon Valley immortals
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The egg, scholastic scandal, Gavin and the misuse of Eminent Domain, death penalty denial, Theranos documentary, bad robot bedside manner
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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
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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
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The Periodic Table of the Elements, The Economist and New Scientist, we dispute everything above Americium
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Skiing news, actor fakes assault, Parallax finally stumbles onto fashion, GB&U, Nest Guard - listening in
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Mort Sahl - an American institution, a first-hand report, restricting fines, fees and fortitures, organic food, low-cal fast food, Chinese sci-fi
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Trump cheating, lying and hysterical non-emergencies, do-gooders complicate life for domestic caretakers, Jane Mayer - Dark Money
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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
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Newsom and tunnel vision, no Spanish in Montana, Interview with Jerry Pollicoff (senior editor OpEd News, expert on JFK & the media)
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More Jerry Policoff on new Truth and Reconcilliation Committee and old story of media coverage
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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
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Archival fun, deep political musings, GB&U, Trump all in on AI, roboburgers, AI avades drug patents, thumps up on Stan & Ollie
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Super Bowl, archival items, quips, Maduro no go, GB&U, Psy-ops, border patrol tries to reverese engineer reality for benefit of Trump
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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
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Roger Stone, more weasely then ever (ask Malcom Nance) Macedonian muddle, meandering California, Counter Spin backs Maduro, China feeds Drug War, Reefer Madness revived
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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
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Lunar eclipse, copepods and not kosher, David Talbot speaheads effort to re-open JFK case, recycling update, Trump messes up missiles
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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)
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Carol Channing, archival items, new rules, misc file, Bob Cutler, GB&U, Obit for Herb Kelleher
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Help from The New Yorker, Anthony Bourdain and Mark Burnett (the man who invented Trump)
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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
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Charity vs greed, Dave Barry Year in Review, retro tech Woodstock, soil microbes, stopping global warming, fake robots, the complete meal
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King tides, animal econ, "moderate Islam in Saudi, endless war, poll data
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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