Virtually Speaking

A special Netroots Nation Virtually Speaking Sundays: a celebration of our third year. Virtually Speaking was founded in conjunction with YearlyKos (now Netroots Nation) in Second Life.

We will have special content related to the first day of Netroots Nation

Political consultant and television political pundit Cliff Schecter joins Stuart Zechman of the blog Commentariat to discuss events of the week, progressive ideas and how we interpret the Constitution.

Justin is the cofounder of the Living Liberally franchise, with its cornerstone Drinking Liberally. There are Drinking Liberally chapters in every state, events where liberals can find fellowship. Justin will be talking about his new book, 538 Ways to Live, Work and Play Liberally Coming to us from Rudy's, the original home of Drinking Liberally.

Chris is a prominent diarist at DailyKos. Adam (no not THAT one) blogs at Blue Jersey. They will discuss this week's political news, and this week's edition of the morning talk shows misrepresent it.

Gulf Oil spill ... Riki Ott is a marine biologist and author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Fishgrease is a petroleum exploration expert who posts at DailyKos (Booming School). His diaries about the ineffectiveness of British Petroleum's attempts at cleanup and control have been picked up by The Rachel Maddow Show.

Jeffrey Kaye is freelance journalist and special Jeffrey and Jay discuss his book, Moving Millions:How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration

"what digby said" is a term of art in the liberal blogosphere. Avedon Carol's Sideshow has been snarking, and providing ripping good political analysis for as long as there has been a blogosphere. Mockery and thoughtful analysis will be featured.

Our three generations of feminists return to Virtually Speaking to discuss decisions and developments during the first 18 months of the Obama administration. Shelby, from Lubbock TX, is the award-winning producer, director and star of The Education of Shelby Knox. Lynn is an author, essayist and recovering comedian. Gloria, also from Lubbock TX, formerly chief executive for Planned Parenthood of America is an author and speaker.

The Sunday shows this week are gonna be filled with teh crazee, what with Republican leaders siding with a foreign corporation that has created the worst environmental catastrophe since Chernobyl.

Erica is working to create a practical progressive coalition, seeking to develop and find tools to create a more effective message for reaching the general public, through more effective presentation of material to the media, to reaching the public directly.

Joan is a contributing editor at Daily Kos. Stuart is a provocative member of the commentariat. They will discuss events current as of Sunday.

Marcy is the archetype of the blogger journalist, breaking and developing a variety of stories ranging from the Scooter Libby trial, the use of torture by US forces in the Middle East and the Toyota product scandal. She blogs as as part of the FireDogLake community. We will talk about Abu Zabadaya, organizing our discussion around Marcy's timeline of his capture, detention and interrogation.

CoT is the producer of the Bobblespeak Translations, hilarious and frighteningly accurate interpretations of the Sabbath Gasbags. Watertiger is a writer, blogger and comedian who worries about John McCain.

University of Michigan Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Juan Cole will join us to discuss Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. Juan is a highly regarded expert on the region, author of several books. He blogs at Informed Comment.