Episode 576: Oh Dear School Is Here

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school...well, public school...words as weapons, data centers in PA revisited, Texas wants a theocracy (yay Handmaid's Tale!), Cracker Barrel pretend Conservative whining, and Pamela Anderson apparently likes pickles? You can buy some and help a wildlife sanctuary!

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Show Notes:

• Discussion: teachers return to school. Yay.
• PBIS is not Pbis and Putthead. 
• New squeezie gel cube
• Teachers spent a lot of time reiterating stuff these idiots should have learned years ago. Or in a handbook.
• There's a custodian shortage in schools now too? 
• Weaponized Semantics... "woke", "clip", "magazine" 
• Texas can't force kids to view 10 Commandments posters in a school
• PA data center proposal causes distress to a mobile home park
• Cracker Barrel is the latest Eugenics Barbie. Release the Epstein files.
• Some interesting Snopes research on the term "cracker barrel".
• Editing/Notes Bart: There was some discussion about the origin of public education. I think we're all kind of wrong. Public education in the US seems to have origins in religious roots, and it grew from there as states defined requirements and society evolved. It's a topic unto itself.
• Want to buy some pickles from Pam Anderson's family recipes, for a good cause?  

Episode 575: MAGA is Slow to Learn

Bart and Norma discuss some feedback and what little news there is this week. My highlight is an article about the morons who actually thought Russia was a nice place to live until they criticized their lives there...big mistake, dumbass.

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Show Notes:

• Cats visit. Mainly Princess Meow Meow.
• One-hit wonders stuff. Sort of. 
• Amazon outsourcing deliveries (yes you can become an Uberazon Driver!) 
• Super old astronauts die under odd circumstances...
• Hurricane Erin won't be adding local drama
• MAGAts move to Russia and discover they are morons.  Is "MAGA" the new "Slow Learner"?
• A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear 
• Felony sandwich-throwing, but only if it's targeted at a MAGA SS goon squad 

Episode 574: Dean Cain as Homelander

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss zoo donations, nukes on the moon, Dean Caine now starring as real-life Homelander, the iPad as a laptop replacement, and that's about it, so...mainly crappy people who happen to be actors of fondly remembered characters?

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Show Notes:

•  Denmark zoo wants your unwanted animals
•  Next on the space race: nuke plant on the moon
•  Dean Cain: from Superman to Homelander
• Screen refresh rate discussion
• Norma wants to look at an iPad-as-a-computer-replacement 
• Justice Department fires spouse of app developer 
• Rapper claims Tesla disabled his vehicle remotely, Tesla issues rare denial 
• Silver Couch Surfer 

Episode 573: Friendship Goals and Leopards Eating Faces

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Disney, a new Star Trek story about Khan featuring Tuvok and Sulu, a Tennessee school district doesn't like the optics of teachers asking for supplies the school won't get for them, American Eagle is courting the MAGA Nazi crowd with their latest ad about superior genes, and a reminder that leaded gas was poisoning people for half a century because some companies loved their profit more than not killing customers...also, voting has consequences, you're experiencing them, please stop complaining about getting what you wanted.

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Show Notes:

• Shooting in NYC (mentioned last week, I think?)
• Fantastic Four
• George Takei  and Tim Russ reunite for the podcast Star Trek: Khan
• George Lucas and his artist museum
• Disney is a law firm that happens to make movies 
• Loni Anderson RIP, and aging actress surgery syndrome discussion 
• TN superintendent won't let teachers post Amazon wish lists because it makes them look bad; "People will think we aren't getting you supplies that you aren't getting."
• County that rejected installation of weather warning system, had the camp apply for exceptions to flood zone building, supported Trump cuts to NOAA and FEMA, now complains they aren't getting relief/disaster support and funds...
• American Eagle likes eugenics? Voretaq doesn't care. I think it's wrong to tacitly normalize Nazi tactics. But whatever, right? Some say it's just an ad, or you're reading into it,...this link makes the connection between AE CEO and Trump means it's a little less coincidence they're celebrating Aryan-appearing Sweeney as having the best genes.
• They knew leaded gas was a poison. It was also profitable. So...we had leaded gas. 
• Building 100% American