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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 2:46 – Leaked Comcast Docs Confirm What Everybody Knew: Broadband Usage Caps Are About Profit, Not Congestion https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151108/11154432757/leaked-comcast-docs-confirm-what-everybody-knew-broadband-usage-caps-are-about-profit-not-congestion.shtml
• 9:03 – Classified Report on the C.I.A.’s Secret Prisons Is Caught in Limbo http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/classified-report-on-the-cias-secret-prisons-is-caught-in-limbo.html
• 14:00 – FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

27:53 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/08/hillary-clinton-most-charter-schools-dont-take-the-hardest-to-teach-kids-or-if-they-do-they-dont-keep-them/

• National Alliance Releases Statement in Response to Secretary Clinton’s Comments About Charter Schools http://www.publiccharters.org/press/national-alliance-releases-statement-response-secretary-clintons-comments-charter-schools/

40:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article44080464.html

This Week’s Quote: “More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – Crips, Bloods Call Truce, Not to Harm Cops But to Protect their Community from Violence & Looting http://thefreethoughtproject.com/crips-bloods-called-truce-protect-community-attack-cops/
• 8:03 – We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
• 20:09 – 3D Printed Copyright Creep https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150427/10532430809/3d-printed-copyright-creep.shtml

29:43 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: ESPN
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150427/11334530812/espn-sues-verizon-trying-to-give-consumers-what-they-want.shtml

34:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Senators Dianne Feinstein and Susan Collins https://simpleunhookedliving.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/lawmakers-want-fda-to-crack-down-on-soap-makers/

• Text – S.1014 – 114th Congress (2015-2016): A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of cosmetics. http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=445a9268-4964-4de0-89f9-4caf577099f2

This Week’s Quote: “The Democratic and Republican parties [are] two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.” —Ralph Nader

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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