Episode #128:
Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
First Broadcast: 10/6/97
A rant covering many things, including my opinions on the
now-defunct Micromax corporation (i.e., the people who
sold me my now-defunct 486 computer), and various
reports
from the
New York Post
and Fox News on the
alleged "Cyber
Psycho," a 15-year old kid who raped and killed an
11-year-old neighbor, in addition to having a
web site
like a few million other people on
AOL. I guess anyone
with a web site is a psycho, right? Hmm. Maybe all of
you are the wrong people to ask...
Episode #129:
Are We In Part 2 Yet?
First Broadcast: 10/13/97
The continuation of last week's rant, which branches out
into yet one more reason why
Rudy Giuliani should not be
the mayor of New York City for another 4 years.
(For those of you not in the know, Rudy wants to spend
$80 million to stop marijuana sales in Washington Square
Park, of all places. Great. Hippies have always
been the city's biggest drug problem, right? Jeez!)
Can't we
ever have someone elected who has
a reasonable
marijuana policy??? (Besides Thomas K. Leighton, the
Marijuana-Green candidate for Manhattan Borough President, that
is.
Here's
a questionnaire
he answered when he ran for Congress
in 1996 on Ralph Nader's ticket.)
Episode #130: Live And In Person
First Broadcast: 10/27/97
Hey! My computer works again! So, of course, I had to talk
about
the Justice Department's lawsuit against Microsoft.
Is Bill Gates the Devil? You decide.
Episode #131: Don't Vote For Rudy Giuliani
First Broadcast: 11/3/97
Aside from the straightforward plea in the title, tonight's episode
concerns itself with
the recent stock market plunge,
the incredible
wealth of Bill Gates, and
the child labor practices of Nike in
factories in China. So, who should you vote for mayor of New York?
Someone ELSE!
Episode #132: OTH.
First Broadcast: 11/10/97
The title this week refers to the
New York Times's designation of
"Marijuana-
Green"
candidate
(I'm not sure if he was affiliated with any of the "regular"
Green parties this year) for Manhattan Borough President, Thomas K.
Leighton, whose party designation was simply called "Oth." (meaning
"other") by the paper of record.
NY1 news was even worse with their
returns, reporting only on the Democratic and Republican candidates for
that office, even though at least six people were on the ballot. Why
do
candidates
who aren't Democrat or Republican
always get next to no
attention by the press (unless they happen to be billionaires spending
tons of their own money--and not even always when that occurs)?
I guess more people have a financial stake in keeping the "two-party"
system afloat than I previously thought. (Then again, I can see why
some people might be more hesitant to report about the surprising
number of Nazi-like parties in this country, which you can see for
yourself in this
all-encompassing list--which includes just about every American
party you can shake a stick at.)
Episode #133: Hey Bob
First Broadcast: 11/24/97
Once again, I tackle the issue of how
Iraq
and Saddam Hussein
are referred to by
"the mainstream media"
--which is: in a belittling
and condescending fashion, just because Iraq is the U.S. government's
enemy-of-the-moment. Why is it always "Clinton & Saddam," as opposed to
"Bill & Saddam," or "Clinton & Hussein"? Go ask
the Associated Press.
Episode #134: Eats The Cup
First Broadcast: 12/8/97
This time, I extol the virtues of Cane
Sugar Dr Pepper, in between thoughts about
irradiated beef,
Marvel Comics
flashbacks (including The Hulk), and--of course--
styrofoam. It's a wonder I ever got back to
the topic at all . . .
Episode #135: 30-Second Squoosh
First Broadcast: 12/15/97 Repeated: 11/30/98
This week was mostly a discussion of
movies and movie trailers, and how
most of the trailers lately sacrifice the surprise of watching a story
unfold for the first time for the sake of squeezing every last drop of
screen time out of whichever multi-million dollar star happens to
dominate the film in question. That, and how much
Alien
Resurrection sucked (at least, in my opinion).