By SueN
- Guests:
- Jacob Sullum, a senior editor at Reason Magazine.
- Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America.
- Dr. Scott Barbour of Docs 4 Patient Care.
- Topics:
- Is taxing unhealthy food more effective than subsidizing healthy food?
- Do guns and alcohol mix? They do in Virginia!
- Shouldn’t our health care be about safety and security and not about some people getting rich and others getting screwed?
- Bumper Music:
- Take a Minute, K'Naan.
- Rawhide Frankie Laine.
- Hold On, Hold On, Neko Case.
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- Wild Wild West, The Escape Club.
- Bright yellow gun Throwing Muses.
- Live and Let Die, Guns 'N Roses.
- Bad Case Of Loving You, Robert Palmer (video).
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our Patients and that much worse for the fishes." ~ Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, MD.
- Article: Bernanke Recommends Congress Take Up Immigration.
"There are a lot of things Congress can do…there’s tax policy, there’s immigration policy, trade policy. [...]
I think frankly, this is a topic that I can never get much traction on — I think our immigration policy which restricts severely the number of highly-trained skilled immigrants is a problem because bringing those kind of folks in helps our high-tech industries develop more competitively — become more competitive."
- Member of the day was Barbara, who won a copy of "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class – And What We Can Do About It" for her call about health care.
- Article: Three More Senators Join Public Option Effort by Ryan Grim.
"Sen. Casey thinks that all options should be considered for moving forward legislation to insure more Americans, crack down on insurance company abuses, and get a handle on health care spending that is raising the deficit and threatening our economy," said Casey spokesman Larry Smar."
- an example of kinesthetic language.
