Twelve Years of 2016 - The Podcast

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Here’s what the inside of my brain looks like right now:

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Prequel:

Since I originally wrote and published this column last Tuesday, November 12, 2024, our new (old) President-elect has started nominating people for cabinet positions. A few of them make sense, but:

A Faux Gnus weekend anchor to lead the Department of Defense?

An accused sex offender and one of the least liked members of the House for Attorney General?

An inexperienced House member who used to be Vice Chair of the Democratic Party with, shall we say, an unusual view of the world, for Director of National Intelligence?

A multi-billionaire with no government experience to head up a so-far non-existent Government Efficiency department? I read somewhere today that it should be named the Department of Redundancy Department because we already have the Government Accountability Office for that.

And finally, so far, a guy from a political dynasty who has some good ideas (reduce chemical additives in our food and improve nutrition in the food schools feed our kids), and some that are completely whacko, i.e. there are no safe and effective vaccines. AND, he has a dead worm in his brain.

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Last week’s election did not go the way I’d hoped, to put it mildly.

It turns out that, in spite of the fact that I get my news and information from a variety if sources, including some I rarely agree with, I’ve been living in a liberal bubble.

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I do NOT watch Faux Gnus.

The folks I watch and listen to still live on Earth One but interpret things differently than I do. People like Justin Robert Young, who tries to analyse the balls and strikes of the horserace (to mix a metaphor), Andrew Heaton, who is way more libertarian than I am, but admits that he’s sure he’s wrong about a lot of things, he’s just not sure which things (me too) and Jennifer Briney, who’s Congressional Dish podcast digs deep into important legislation passed by the US Congress. Together the three of them have a podcast called “We’re Not Wrong”

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