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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 2:31 – Police: Finding Pirate Bay Documents is Too Expensive http://torrentfreak.com/police-finding-pirate-bay-documents-expensive-140824/
• 8:47 – What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings http://gawker.com/what-ive-learned-from-two-years-collecting-data-on-poli-1625472836
  • Ferguson Turns Lens On Police-Involved Killings, But Some Facts Are Few http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342228794/ferguson-turns-lens-on-police-involved-killings-but-some-facts-are-few
• 23:27 – Overtaxed and over there http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21587815-loopy-tax-rules-spur-expats-renounce-their-american-citizenship-overtaxed-and-over-there

31:34 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The WHO http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/11056964/Ban-toxic-e-cigarettes-indoors-says-World-Health-Organisation.html

40:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13774/20140823/white-house-cybersecurity-leader-proudly-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-cybersecurity.htm

This Week’s Quote: “It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Cops Aren’t Stopping the Looting in Ferguson, So the Protesters Are http://thefreethoughtproject.com/protestors-stop-looters-ferguson-police/
• 7:20 – Rules prevent solar panels in many states with abundant sunlight http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html
  • A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting. http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
• 14:33 – Georgia county won’t pay medical bills for toddler burned by grenade in botched drug raid http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/19/georgia-county-wont-pay-medical-bills-for-toddler-burned-by-grenade-in-botched-drug-raid/

19:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/san-francisco-bans-sale-plastic-water-bottles-climate-change

• Bottled Water Companies Could Be Contributing to California’s Drought http://www.sfweekly.com/foodie/2014/08/14/bottled-water-companies-could-be-contributing-to-californias-drought

Idiot Extraordinaire: Summerville (SC) High School & Summerville Police http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-student-arrested-after-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment

This Week’s Quote: “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” —Ben Franklin

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – Ferguson police fire teargas and rubber bullets at Michael Brown protesters http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown
  • In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
  • ‘Overkill’: Images from Ferguson protest show cops treating city like a war zone http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/13/overkill-images-from-ferguson-protest-show-cops-treating-city-like-a-war-zone/
• 10:51 – New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/politics/u-s-new-leaker/index.html
• 13:47 – South Carolina Mom Calls Cops On 15-Year-Old Son After Finding Porn http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/mom-finds-porn-on-tv_n_5659487.html
• 17:23 – Burger Robot Poised To Disrupt Fast Food Industry http://singularityhub.com/2014/08/10/burger-robot-poised-to-disrupt-fast-food-industry/
• 22:08 – For Obama, Iraq Move Is a Policy Reversal http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-obama-iraq-move-is-a-policy-reversal-1407470613
  • Obama Vows ‘Long-Term’ War in Iraq http://news.antiwar.com/2014/08/09/obama-vows-long-term-war-in-iraq/
• 27:15 – Tempe City Council Bans E-Cigarettes In Public Places http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/tempe-city-council-bans-e-cigarettes-in-public-places/

33:56 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Michael Yaki http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5810

38:11 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Michael Mulgrew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU6fLz7Fgg

• The Next Generation Science Standards http://www.nextgenscience.org/implementation

This Week’s Quote: “Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.” —Bertrand Russell

Sorry, folks, technical difficulties + me being sick = no podcast this week. But on the plus side, here’s another video in my How To Argue For Statism series:

How To Argue For Universal Health Care

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 1:45 – Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12138/abstract
• 7:33 – World Health Organization Calls for Drug Decriminalization and Broad Drug Policy Reforms https://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2014/07/world-health-organization-calls-drug-decriminalization-and-broad-drug-policy-reforms
• 11:43 – TLC Wrongly Accused Hundreds of Being Illegal Cabbies in Past Year http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140721/long-island-city/tlc-wrongly-accused-hundreds-of-being-illegal-cabbies-past-year

20:32 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Verizon http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/verizons-accidental-mea-culpa/

• Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/why-is-netflix-buffering-dispelling-the-congestion-myth
• Level 3’s Selective Amnesia on Peering http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/level-3s-selective-amnesia-on-peering
• Verizon made an enemy tonight http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Verizon-Fios-Netflix-Vyprvpn.html

37:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Steve Shives (nominated by Jason Fennec) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOtMo1Z9NM0

• When Rhode Island accidentally legalized prostitution, rape decreased sharply http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/17/when-rhode-island-accidentally-legalized-prostitution-rape-and-stis-decreased-sharply/

This Week’s Quote: “Feminism has betrayed its roots and deteriorated into spurious artificial engineering. Rather than campaigning to help women, feminists today are more likely to be picking fights on Twitter, or dressing up petty grievances as proof of rampant ‘sexism’…If I ever was a feminist, I can’t be now…so ashamed and depressed am I by a once-laudable movement…I think any sensible woman will join me in feeling saddened by how irrelevant and niche modern feminism has become.” —Angela Epstein