Virtually Speaking
Summary: Live & lively. Informal & informed conversations about politics, policy, economics, media, science and more. Sundays feature a panel of prominent members of the liberal blogosphere. Wednesdays dedicated to science, authors and practitioners with hosts Alan Boyle, Tom Levenson and Jennifer Ouelette. Thursdays, Jay Ackroyd talks public affairs, mostly with authors, mostly about progressive issues. , presented simultaneously through the 3-D Second Life communications platform.
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Podcasts:
Post midterms, what can we expect? How can liberals respond to the new political stage in Washington, and the States?
David Dayen and Jay discuss the entire home mortgage mess, from HAMP to foreclosure fraud, and what can be done about it.
On the eve of the election, Marcy and Avedon will talk about what they expect, and what we can do about it.
More on interplanetary science, with MSNBC's Alan Boyle and Robin Snelson (Rocket Sellers in SL), Executive Director of the Space Studies Institute with an update on the current plans for manned and unmanned space travel
Looming midterms will be on the Sunday teevee shows,and on our air at Virtually Speaking Sundays.
Darcy, of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee will talk about candidates who need support in the final two weeks before the mid term elections
Developments of the week will be discussed. The Gasbag atrocities will be documented. And any news stories that arise during the Sunday shows will be discussed.
Sam, formerly host at Air America, is a political satirist, author, radio host and comic actor. Sam and Jay talk about the direction the Democratic party is taking in the midterms.
Developments of the week are discussed. The Gasbag atrocities are documented. Prospects for the midterm elections in the midwest are a central topic.
Will Bunch is a fellow at Media Matters for America, and blogs on political issues at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/ We talk about his new book, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama
Culture of Truth & Chris Kendrick discuss the developments of the week. The Gasbag atrocities will be documented. And any news stories that arise during the Sunday shows will be discussed.
Leading feminist activist, former head of Planned Parenthood, Gloria Feldt, joins us to discuss her new book, No Excuses. "In No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power, feminist icon Gloria Feldt asserts that nobody is keeping women from parity—except themselves."
Susie Madrak and Avedon Carol discuss developments of the week, as raised by the morning talk shows, and then, as not raised by the morning talk shows.
Hugo and Nebula Award winning author David Brin will discuss his book The Transparent Society, and its implications in the 21st century, as well as the pros and cons of alien contact.
Markos and Jay discuss his new book, American Taliban, including the reaction of some literally minded progressives to the book's title.