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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: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht’s Life Sentence http://motherboard.vice.com/read/unsealed-transcript-shows-how-a-judge-justified-ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence
• 15:02 – Doctors Without Borders wants airstrike inquiry http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/asia/doctors-without-borders-afghanistan-airstrike/
  • Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth time in four days  http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again
• 21:48 – Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates  http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates
  • At HLS, a conference on the free market mindset http://today.law.harvard.edu/at-hls-a-conference-on-the-free-market-mindset/

27:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Doug Saffir http://ctboom.com/connecticut-cracking-down-on-e-cigarettes-but-not-quite-enough/

34:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Francisco Rangel http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2015/10/02/venezuelan-governor-suggests-eating-fried-rocks-amid-shortages/

This Week’s Quote: “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be…Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself—educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” —Doris Lessing

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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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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-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

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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

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas, Dave Turcotte, and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 3:18 – Obama Is Still Hiding the Legal Cover He Used to Kill an American
  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/obama-still-wants-us-ignorant-about-why-he-thinks-he-can-kill-americans/361018/
  • The Al-Awlaki Decision: No Triumph for Transparency? http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/04/the-al-awlaki-decision-no-triumph-for-transparency/
• 14:21 – The attempted rehabilitation of Mike Nifong http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/04/21/the-attempted-rehabilitation-of-mike-nifong/
• 29:40 – Student records being bullied on iPad threatened with felony http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/14/special-ed-student-who-recorded-being-bullied-on-his-ipad-threatened-with-felony-wiretapping-charges/

41:28 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rand Paul http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/07/Rand-Paul-Does-American-Crossroads-Robocall-To-Thwart-Libertarian-Candidate

• Did Libertarian Lucas Overby Throw Florida Special Election to Republican Jolly? http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/12/did-libertarian-lucas-overby-throw-flori

50:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Unnamed Riverside County, CA Sheriff’s Deputy http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/17/calif-tv-station-films-dog-calmly-playing-with-kids-after-cop-shoots-himself-trying-to-kill-it/

This Week’s Quote: “The history of human knowledge is nothing more than the realization that yesterday’s pieties are actually shameful errors.” —Glenn Greenwald

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Co-Host: Tim Dyson

News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – Man Arrested For Drinking Iced Tea Could Get Probation, Community Service http://libertycrier.com/man-arrested-drinking-iced-tea-get-probation-community-service/
• 3:40 – Teaching grownups: Cancer charity says school can learn from girl banned for going bald http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/25/girl-barred-from-school-for-shaving-her-head-to-support-friend-with-cancer/
• 9:35 – Homeopathy product recalled over fears it may contain actual medicine http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/homeopathy-product-recalled-over-fears-it-may-contain-actual-medicine-9217206.html
  • Terra-Medica Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Specified Lots of Pleo Homeopathic Drug Products Due to the Potential for Undeclared Penicillin http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm389832.htm
• 15:32 – Creationists Complain Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘Cosmos’ Isn’t Giving Them Airtime http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/creationists-neil-degrasse-tyson-cosmos-unbalanced

20:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Debby Vadja https://www.change.org/petitions/jimmy-wales-founder-of-wikipedia-create-and-enforce-new-policies-that-allow-for-true-scientific-discourse-about-holistic-approaches-to-healing/responses/11054

28:01 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Don Lemon and Mary Schaivo http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-don-lemon-is-it-preposterous-to-think-a-black-hole-caused-flight-370-to-go-missing/

This Week’s Quote: “[It’s] not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 1:03 – Gibson Commemorates Fed Raid with Government Series II Les Paul http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/01/gibson-commemorate-fed-raid-with-governm
• 3:44 – School ditches rules and loses bullies http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/school-ditches-rules-and-loses-bullies-5807957
• 9:37 – Elementary school takes lunches away from students owing account balances http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/elementary-school-takes-away-students–lunches-due-outstanding-balances-on-accounts-174726995.html
• 11:22 – Kentucky Senate passes bill to let computer programming satisfy foreign-language requirement http://www.courier-journal.com/viewart/20140128/NEWS0101/301280100/Kentucky-Senate-passes-bill-let-computer-programming-satisfy-foreign-language-requirement

16:11 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: California http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/29/california-regulator-seeks-to-shut-down-learn-to-code-bootcamps/

19:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Suze Orman https://www.change.org/petitions/mandate-the-credit-bureaus-to-include-debit-card-holders-information-on-credit-reports

This Week’s Quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” —John F. Kennedy