Today’s Bob and Elvis Show

Look forward to hearing the show. Still waiting for 5/27 and 6/3…..

The show is right up there. Just click the jolly candy-like orange button.For 5/27 and 6/3 click “Radio Show” above.

Aha! Thanks, Bob. Is this audio app Android 2.1 compatible?

I don’t know if it’s Android compatible.Anyone?

Air Hump story, hysterical “Bob: Like an Oompah Loompah…. Elvis: I’m not purple…I have some self respect…”Your takedown of Beck and his stoopid book was overall right on…except for giving him credit for being as good as Spinal Tap. The thing that was brilliant about Spinal Tap was that it was on purpose. I think Beck is not that smart….I think he’s an idiot that just doesn’t read or think deeply….he is like the teenager who is writing an English paper that looks through the dictionary and the thesaurus, cherry picking metaphors, phrases, cliches and cool sounding memes to string together into something that sounds cool. It’s all ‘sound and fury, signifying nothing’.Thanks for bringing up the bs Beck said about McCarthy being right, but his methods being wrong. When I heard him say that, I thought my head would pop off from rising blood pressure. Why doesn’t anyone address the fallacy in that kind of logic!!!!!One point re: the elevation of the douffery….for those who do know their American History (you both do, of course) but the Founders didn’t want career politicians. And some, like Adams were very anti-party as well. (As an aside: They also didn’t want “common man” politicians either….landed white gentry suited them best.) So the condescension toward “career politicians” is a long running theme in the American psyche. However, as a true liberal I don’t believe that we have to do everything exactly as the Founders intended and that the situation has changed, so that career politicians or people with some savvy and ability at it, are needed. So you’re point is well taken and partially true. The recent elevation of the right wing “common man” candidates is an “elevation of douffery”, but it is also a continuation of an early American mindset that didn’t see career politicians as needed and considered any system based on them as inherently corrupt.Did you see John Stewart night before last? He was going off on Obama for saying everything was “complicated”……even John is falling for the bs of “let’s keep it simple” and “make it easy” meme.Elvis, be careful what you wish for in re: to the sudden layoff…..my experience is that the Universe delivers on that shit.Bob, my Dad lives in Mechanicsburg, PA and was there when 3 Mile Island went tits up. I wondered why his hair went comletely white at the time.

@Irish Girl – I take your point vis-a-vis the Founders and their distaste for a permanent political aristocracy of career wonks, but as with All Things Foundery I think the requirements of the 21st Century require serious politicians with enough skin in the game to be effective.Prior to the 17th Amendment, U.S. Senators were precisely the sort of learned, toffee-nosed political wonks the Right detest today; they were nominated by State legislatures and were typically the cream of their community’s crops. The Golden Era of the Senate — from 1819 to 1859 — saw that chamber peopled with men like Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and my own ancestor Henry Clay, giants of political thought and accomplishment and installed not by popular vote but an equally toffee-nosed legislature eager to see the State’s business done by SERIOUS men. So while the lower House might be peopled with grass-chewing gentleman farmers and beer-chugging landed gentry, nothing they did could become law without their legislation smashing itself against the Learned Snob Wall that was the U.S. Senate.The 17th Amendment changed all that, and the Senate slowly eroded from a place of great oratory and compromise to just another glad-handing collection of special interest whores. But the Founders’ original intent remains clear: Let the House shuffle in and out at will, but send the serious “career” politicians to the Senate.