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April 7, 2022

Ohio Republican’s Supermajority of Bigotry

Elections matter and when you can hold a super majority in the state legislature you can feed your every factless conspiracy theory fever dream and let your bigot flag fly.

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March 11, 2022

Gun Violence Isn’t Always About Gangs And Drugs

Violent crime has spiked recently. Are we wasting time and money with more policing? Can having children be immoral? And where are the vigils and memorials for the thousands who died in the pandemic. One political party has blood on its hands and its initials are G. O. P.

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February 22, 2022

In GOP-land, Ignoring Racism Is The Ideal

We take a look at Michele Tafoya’s white fragility enabled by Tucker Carlson then we look at the Ohio GOP trying to pick their own voters.

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January 27, 2022

Bari Weiss Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

In this episode Doug looks at Bari Weiss’s appearance on Bill Maher’s HBO show and why her flippant Pandemic of Bureaucracy is both childish and dangerous to us all. Then we look at a recent church and state case over a Boston flag pole that was heard at the US Supreme Court. It doesn’t look good for secular people or for more than 40 years of settled jurisprudence.

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January 14, 2022

Can Polarization Be Reduced By Exchanging Cookie Recipes?

In this episode, Doug takes a look at political polarization, which many people feel is a threat to our democracy. We take a look at two projects that think talking things out will lead to shiny happy people, rainbows, and unicorns.

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December 31, 2021

Protecting Rapists Seems To Be Ohio AG Yost’s Thing

In this episode, we wonder why, at the request of no one, Ohio Attorney General David Yost inserted the state into a local case and tried to prosecute a rape victim instead of the rapist. And a Federal judge tells parents they don’t have a constitutional right to avoid school mask mandates.

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