Virtually Speaking

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations - "What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Saying" - on the Sunday Talk Shows, then creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy. More, including text at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/culture-of-truth-ridiculous/2013/5/19/culture-of-truth

From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: digby & Joan McCarter- discuss developments of the week with Jay Ackroyd; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. Plus political satire from Culture of Truth. Follow @digby56 @JoanMcCarter @JayAckroyd Expect the latest on disappearing deficits, scandal-mongering...prospects for a Grand Bargain. Comments, questions here

Engaging the surveillance state, good news and bad. Editor, writer & social media consultant Ian Welsh - "The horizon is not so far as we can see, but as far as we can imagine" - comes by to continue his extended conversation with host Jay Ackroyd. Read Ian here  Follow @IWelsh @JayAckroyd More at VirtuallySpeaking.us

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations - "What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Saying" - on the Sunday morning traditional network 'news' shows, then creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy. Follow @Bobblespeak. This week: 'Magic Word' Text at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/culture-of-truth-ridiculous/2013/5/11/culture-of-truth

From the Virtually Speaking Media Pane,l David Dayen, Jay Ackroyd and guest Allison Hantschel aka Athenae discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media, Jay Ackroyd moderates. Lively, informal & informed. Follow @Athenae @DDayen @Bobblespeak Plus political satire from Culture of Truth. More at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/virtually-speaking-sundays/2013/5/12/david-dayen The Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Stuart Zechman  

Jennifer Ouellette hosts Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind on what we can learn psychologically speaking from Sherlock Holmes Follow @mkonnikova @jenlucpiquant More at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/virtually-speaking-science/2013/4/15/jennifer-ouellette-maria-konnikova-vs-science

Veteran campaign strategist, journalist & author Glenn W. Smith stops by to talk with host Jay Ackroyd about Texas as harbinger for the nation. Follow @GlennWSmith @JayAckroyd Read Glenn at Progressive Voices & Firedoglake More at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/virtually-speaking-with-jay-ackroyd/2013/5/7/glenn-smith-virtually-speaking-with-jay-ackroyd  

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations - "What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Saying" - on the Sunday morning traditional network 'news' shows, then creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy. Follow @Bobblespeak. This week: Radicals! Text at https://virtuallyspeaking.us/culture-of-truth-ridiculous/2013/5/5/culture-of-truth

From the VS media panel, Avedon Carol & Gaius Publius discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. Plus political satire from Culture of Truth. This week: Syria unpacked; Oslo (renewable energy as viable alternative to coal and oil); GOP, Benghazi & Obama; climate, Keystone & EPA; Hilary's possible 2016 candidacy. The Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Stuart Zechman  

Gaius Publius (AMERICAblog) and Jay Ackroyd discuss the basics of the climate crisis story from a lay perspective. They play a clip from Paul Wignall, author of Mass Extinctions & Their Aftermath Gaius Publius — Professional writer of stories, poems, and books on education & technology. Gaius has two political-themed works in process, one fiction and one non-fiction. Frequent writer and Contributing Editor at AMERICAblog.com. Occasional guest on Ring of Fire Radio, The Matt Filipowicz Show and other venues. Follow @Gaius_Publius. More eg charts, at VirtuallySpeaking.us

Alan Boyle hosts freelance science writer Brian Switek and vertebrate palaeontologist Tom Holtz about dinosaurs. Brian specializes in evolution, paleontology, and natural history. His blog Laelaps is part of the Phenomena "science salon" at National Geographic. Tom wrote Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages and was a scientific advisor for the Walking With Dinosaurs BBC series. Brian is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature. His new book - My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs - has just been published by Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations - "What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Saying" - on the Sunday morning traditional network 'news' shows, then creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy. Follow @Bobblespeak. This week: Rerun. Transcript here: https://virtually-speaking.squarespace.com/culture-of-truth-ridiculous/2013/4/28/culture-of-truth-rerun

From our media pane, Cliff Schecter & Dave Waldman discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. Plus political satire from Culture of Truth. Cliff Schecter - nationally syndicated columnist and political commentator — writes for Al Jazeera English and appears weekly on Take Action News w/ David Shuster and The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder. The author of the 2008 Bestseller "The Real McCain," Cliff is co-founder and part owner of Washington DC's independent progressive radio station, We Act Radio, 1480AM. Find his firm at www.libertasllc.com. Read cliffschecter.com Follow @cliffschecter Dave Waldman crutinizes the US Congress and hosts Kargro in the Morning for Daily Kos. Follow @KagroX The Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Stuart Zechman  

Toronto based social media consultant, editor and writer Ian Welsh  writes at IanWelsh.com. Formerly the Managing Editor of FireDogLake and the Agonist, his work has also appeared at Huffington Post, Alternet, and Truthout, as well as the now defunct Blogging of the President (BOPNews). In Canada his work has appeared in Pogge.ca and BlogsCanada. Ian and Jay talk about how the events in Boston illuminate the intelligence and military apparatus now operating in the US,  in support of an increasingly oligarchic system of governance throughout much of the OECD. 

Tom Levenson - author, filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - hosts Maryn McKenna. They talk about looming antibiotic disaster. A journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy, Maryn is the author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA and Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service.