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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:29 – Legal Pot Slips Through a Loophole http://reason.com/archives/2015/01/07/legal-pot-slips-through-a-loophole
  • Florida’s 5th congressional district http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_5th_congressional_district
  • North Carolina’s 12th congressional district http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_12th_congressional_district
• 4:37 – Black Market Private Schooling in the Third World http://jaypgreene.com/2008/10/23/black-market-private-schooling-in-the-third-world/
  • Public School Spending. There’s a Chart for That! http://www.cato.org/blog/public-school-spending-theres-chart
• 10:27 – EPA’s Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2014/01/29/epas-wood-burning-stove-ban-has-chilling-consequences-for-many-rural-people/
  • Ask your elected representatives to pass DownsizeDC.org’s “Write the Laws Act” (WTLA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/
• 18:24 – Skiplagged founder fights lawsuit from United and Orbitz http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/12/31/skiplagged_founder_fights_lawsuit_from_united_and_orbitz.html
  • Skiplagged vs United & Orbitz by Aktarer Zaman – GoFundMe http://www.gofundme.com/skiplagged

25:28 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Harvard professors http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html

• House GOP chips away at Obamacare, voting to redefine full-time work http://www.latimes.com/nation/healthcare/la-na-obamacare-republicans-20150109-story.html

31:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The British Advertising Standards Authority http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/06/uk-censors-mind-the-thigh-gap

This Week’s Quote: “Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.” —Stephen Fry

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2014 Year in Review

0:39 – Silver Cluon Recipients:

• 13 April Silver Cluon Award: James Wilson and Perry Willis https://secure.downsizedc.org/blog/the-untold-truth-about-the-mccutcheon-decision
• 26 May Silver Cluon Award: Tyler Vigen http://www.tylervigen.com/
• 7 July Silver Cluon Award: The Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.dailydot.com/politics/blimp-nsa-utah-eff-mass-surveillance/
• 6 October Silver Cluon Award: Mark Daly and nVidia http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/debunked/
• 8 December Silver Cluon Award: David Mazières, Eddie Kohler, and Peter Vamplew http://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam

Idiot of the Year Nominations:

• 12:25 – The WHO
• 14:28 – Matthew Yglesias
• 16:08 – The Obama Administration
• 19:58 – Food Babe http://foodbabe.com/2011/09/02/what-a-miracle-food-wheatgrass-bali/
  • Michael Shermer » Wheatgrass Juice & Folk Medicine http://www.michaelshermer.com/2008/08/wheatgrass/
• 24:12 – Dr. Mehmet Oz
  • Research confirms it: Dr. Oz dispenses a lot of medical advice with no scientific grounding http://qz.com/315813/research-confirms-it-dr-oz-dispenses-a-lot-of-medical-advice-with-no-scientific-grounding/
• 26:06 – Jonathan’s nomination: Lena Dunham http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/investigating-lena-dunham-sexual-abuse-claims/
• 30:23 – Daniel’s nomination: ShirtStorm
• 36:17 – Charles’s nomination: Sony
• 44:58 – Dave & Travis’s nomination: Michael Mark Cohen http://gawker.com/douchebag-the-white-racial-slur-we-ve-all-been-waiti-1647954231
  • Unedited version: http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/Dave%27s%202014%20Nomination.mp3
• 57:09 – Tim’s nomination: Gaming Journalism

58:28 – Idiot of the Year

“What do you think science is? There’s nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?” —Steven Novella

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Senate Bill Prohibits Government-Mandated Backdoors http://www.informationweek.com/government/cybersecurity/senate-bill-prohibits-government-mandated-backdoors/d/d-id/1317926
• 4:20 – In the ‘global struggle for Internet freedom,’ the Internet is losing, report finds http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/04/in-the-global-struggle-for-internet-freedom-the-internet-is-losing-report-finds/
• 9:02 – Did Rep. Moran Read 1,648-Page Defense Bill? ‘Are You Kidding?’ http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/did-rep-moran-read-1648-page-defense-bill-are-you-kidding
  • The Read the Bills Act (RTBA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/rtba/
• 17:02 – Another reason to avoid reading the comments http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-another-reason-to-avoid-reading-the-comments/2014/11/28/b37a9f30-7722-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html
  • Vinegar valentines: An old tradition of sending mean cards anonymously http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/13/vinegar_valentines_an_old_tradition_of_sending_mean_cards_anonymously.html
• 24:34 – A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-acts-just-got-banned-in-uk-porn-9897174.html

31:06 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: US Government http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-is-not-a-fugitive-court-hears-141209/

38:13 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Kevin Sabet http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/12/10/new-anti-pot-argument-dont-legalize-monsanto-gmos/

This Week’s Quote: “I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I’m sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.” —Stephen King

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Co-Host: Dave Turcotte

Side Project Live #143 http://sideproject.radiofubar.com/?p=324

News of the Bogus:

• 0:42 – Secret Malware in European Union Attack Linked to U.S. and British Intelligence https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/24/secret-regin-malware-belgacom-nsa-gchq/
  • Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/regin-top-tier-espionage-tool-enables-stealthy-surveillance
  • The Regin Platform: Nation-State Ownage of GSM Networks https://securelist.com/files/2014/11/Kaspersky_Lab_whitepaper_Regin_platform_eng.pdf
• 4:18 – Under Pressure From Uber, Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/upshot/under-pressure-from-uber-taxi-medallion-prices-are-plummeting.html
• 8:52 – U.S. states’ pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/12/us-usa-drugs-un-idUSKCN0IW1GV20141112
  • Uruguayan Presidential Election Result Safeguards Marijuana Legalization http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/latest-national-news/57234-uruguayan-presidential-election-result-safeguards-marijuana-legalization.html

12:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/week-sen-kirsten-gillibrand-interview-20916422

24:32 – Silver Cluon Award: David Mazières, Eddie Kohler, and Peter Vamplew http://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam

30:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matt Bruenig http://gawker.com/actually-riots-are-good-the-economic-case-for-riots-i-1663629918

This Week’s Quote: “The people on the ground today, protesting in Ferguson, have legitimate grievances that long predated Michael Brown’s death. But…Threatening lives and property of innocent third parties creates enemies out of would-be friends and supporters, while plays into the hands of those who value the protestors as political tools, dependable votes, and nothing more.” —Christopher Westley

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

0:28 – More Election Results: http://alibertarianfuture.com/2014-election/libertarian-issues-won-2014-including-marijuana-legalization/

News of the Bogus:

• 6:13 – Italian Appeals Court Overturns Guilty Verdicts in Earthquake Trial http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/world/europe/italian-appeals-court-overturns-guilty-verdicts-in-earthquake-trial.html
• 9:28 – The Netherlands built a bike path entirely out of solar panels http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7193737/solar-power-bike-path-netherlands-solaroad
• 15:03 – Beyond Silk Road 2.0, over 400 ‘dark web’ Tor sites seized by FBI http://www.zdnet.com/beyond-silk-road-2-0-over-400-dark-web-tor-sites-seized-by-fbi-7000035604/
• 21:19 – DeBoer v. Snyder http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/14a0275p-06.pdf
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeBoer_v._Snyder

32:49 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jonathan Gruber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adrdmmh7bMo

37:26 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Food Babe http://bogosity.tv/bogus_archive/the_article_food_babe_doesn't_want_you_to_see.html

• Sahara – Humidity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara#Humidity
• When You Drink Too Much Water Too Fast, What Can Happen? http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/water-intoxication
• Monosodium glutamate – Safety http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Safety

This Week’s Quote: “There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.” —Bertrand Russell

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

2014 Election Special:

• 0:27 – With a Big GOP Wave, Americans Voted for More Gridlock—And They Knew What They Wanted http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/americans-voted-to-end-gridlock-with-big
• 2:05 – North Carolina Senate Elections – 2014 Midterm Elections News & Results http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2014/NC/senate/exitpoll
• 7:13 – Virginia Senate Elections – 2014 Midterm Elections News & Results http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2014/VA/senate/exitpoll
• 8:40 – Voters Approve Marijuana Legalization in Two States and D.C. http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/voters-approve-marijuana-legalization-in
• 12:23 – Anti-GMO Initiatives in Oregon and Colorado: Science Wins in Centennial State – Science wins in Beaver State Too! http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/05/anti-gmo-initiatives-in-oregon-and-color
• 18:26 – Arizona Voters Approve Prop 122 to Reject Federal Acts https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2014/11/05/arizona-voters-approve-proposition-to-reject-federal-acts/
• 24:45 – Arizona Terminal Patients’ Right to Try Referendum, Proposition 303 (2014) https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Terminal_Patients'_Right_to_Try_Referendum,_Proposition_303_(2014))

News of the Bogus:

• 26:41 – Police can demand fingerprints but not passcodes to unlock phones, rules judge http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/11/03/police-can-demand-fingerprints-but-not-passcodes-to-unlock-phones-rules-judge/
• 28:53 – A Selfie in the Voting Booth? We’ve Got a Felony For That http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/04/a-selfie-in-the-voting-booth-weve-got-a
• 32:26 – AP Exclusive: Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media https://apnews.com/article/674886091e344ffa95e92eb482e02be1

36:33 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Newington, Connecticut Elementary Schools http://rare.us/story/this-town-just-canceled-halloween-to-appease-the-pc-police/

40:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ezekiel J. Emanuel http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/

This Week’s Quote: “I long to believe in immortality. I shall never be able to bid you an entire farewell. If I am destined to be happy with you here — how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality — I wish to live with you forever.” —John Keats

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – FCC To Consider Rule Change That Could Help Restart Aereo http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/237167/fcc-to-consider-rule-change-that-could-help-restar.html
  • Tech Transitions, Video, and the Future http://www.fcc.gov/blog/tech-transitions-video-and-future
• 13:57 – Police Chief Accuses Secret Service Of Misconduct http://www.jrn.com/newschannel5/news/newschannel-5-investigates/Police-Chief-Accuses-Secret-Service-Of-Misconduct-279207151.html
• 20:25 – Months after new regulations imposed, pedicabs struggle http://nocronies.com/months-after-new-regulations-imposed-pedicabs-struggle/

29:36 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: E.R. Dickson Elementary School http://rare.us/story/you-wont-believe-what-happened-to-this-kindergarten-student-after-she-drew-something-that-vaguely-resembled-a-gun/

36:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Political “Moderates” http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/10/political-science-study-shows-that-moderates-usually-have-a-mix-of-extreme-opinions-of-the-left-and-right/

• How Ideological Moderation Conceals Support for Immoderate Policies: A New Perspective on the “Disconnect” in American Politics http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~broockma/ahler_broockman_ideological_innocence.pdf

This Week’s Quote: “Those words, ‘temperate and moderate,’ are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.” —Thomas Paine

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and (briefly) Dave Turcotte

Update: SunRail ridership lags, system to rehire ambassadors http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/traffic/os-sunrail-ridership-ambassadors-20141003-story.html

News of the Bogus:

• 3:06 – Entrepreneur’s private toll road welcomes 100,000th vehicle http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11149220/Entrepreneurs-private-toll-road-welcomes-100000th-vehicle.html
  • Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3960066,-2.4196838,356m/data=!3m1!1e3
  • Kelston Toll Road (@KelstonTollRoad) | Twitter https://twitter.com/KelstonTollRoad
  • What is the cost of constructing a mile of highway? http://www.railstotrails.org/resources/documents/whatwedo/policy/07-29-2008%20Generic%20Response%20to%20Cost%20per%20Lane%20Mile%20for%20widening%20and%20new%20construction.pdf
  • Ask a Paving / Asphalt Superintendent anything http://jobstr.com/threads/show/4514-paving-asphalt-superintendent
  • Asphalt Facts http://www.alasphalt.com/asphalt%20facts.htm
• 15:26 – Why Did the Supreme Court Sidestep Sentencing Dispute http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202673758615/Why-Did-the-Supreme-Court-Sidestep-Sentencing-Dispute
  • Supreme Court Considers Two Drug Dog Cases | Radley Balko http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-considers-t_1_b_2063820.html
• 18:43 – Anime fan convicted over illegal pictures of imaginary children http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/anime-fan-convicted-over-illegal-7958896

24:51 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Wendy Gittleson http://samuel-warde.com/2014/01/10-reasons-free-market-just-big-fat-blob-stupid/

51:32 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Tracie Harris and Matt Dillahunty (nominated by pretty much everybody) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXBre5woMw&start=1897

• Does the Internet Prove the Need for Government Investment? http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/does-the-internet-prove-the-need-for-government-investment

This Week’s Quote: “All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from the defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” —John Quincy Adams

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 1:02 – What Happens When All The Police In A Town Are Removed https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/10/1/what-happens-when-all-the-police-in-a-town-are-removed.html
  • Top 10 Reasons Why the Mafia is Better than the State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IErlI34-0so
• 5:33 – Santa Fe Springs Family Fights City To Keep Backyard Playground For Special Needs Daughter http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/10/07/santa-fe-springs-family-fights-city-to-keep-backyard-playground-for-special-needs-daughter/
• 10:03 – Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman’s Name http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/government-says-federal-agents-can-impersonate-woman-online
• 15:09 – TSA desecrates woman’s ashen remains during warrantless urn search http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/shannon-thomas-tsa-lawsuit/
  • 19th Airport Joins Screening Partnership Program http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/01/dropping-tsa-19th-airport-joins-efficient-private-screening-program/
  • Bradford’s History of ‘Plimoth Plantation’ by William Bradford – Free Ebook http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24950
• 24:36 – Manure fertilizer increases antibiotic resistance http://www.nature.com/news/manure-fertilizer-increases-antibiotic-resistance-1.16081
• 30:52 – Economists explain why they love Uber so much http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/9/30/6873389/uber-economists-poll-consumer-welfare-efficiency

35:32 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Dr. Oz http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/dr-oz-autism-and-gmos/
Spurious Correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/

45:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: European adult industry http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/05/sex-sell-decline-british-porn-xbiz-regulations-children

This Week’s Quote: “[W]e published a whole series of studies of regulation and its effects. Almost all the studies–perhaps all the studies–suggested that the results of regulation had been bad, that the prices were higher, that the product was worse adapted to the needs of consumers, than it otherwise would have been…I can’t remember one that’s good…There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad.” —Ronald Coase

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Judge won’t stop shut-offs, says no right to free water http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/09/29/bankruptcy-judge-expected-rule-water-shut-offs/16414323/
• 10:34 – Pirate Bay Goes To College: Free Textbook Torrent Downloads Soar Amid Rising Costs http://www.ibtimes.com/pirate-bay-goes-college-free-textbook-torrent-downloads-soar-amid-rising-costs-1692247
• 19:31 – Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/dark-net-drug-markets-kept-alive-by-great-customer-service/
• 30:50 – Brown Vetoes Bill Limiting Drone Surveillance http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/09/28/brown-vetoes-bill-limiting-drone-surveillance/

37:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.theskepticsguide.org/not-black-holes-do-not-exist-part-2

47:46 – Silver Cluon Award: Mark Daly and nVidia http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/debunked/

56:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matt K. Lewis http://theweek.com/article/index/268686/why-the-libertarian-boom-is-bad-for-traditional-conservatives

This Week’s Quote: “Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love…If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power.” —Carl Sagan