Brain Trust Live

BTL #136 - CONCEDING TO GOOD IDEAS - 12/22/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Obama establishes full diplomatic relations with Cuba, angering conservative Floridians everywhere.  Because nothing says “conceding to tyranny” like diplomatic relations!

2. Governor Andrew Cuomo finally confirms what everyone with flammable drinking water has known for ages, bans fracking in New York

3. Remember that movie that you weren’t going to see with your family on Christmas, The Interview?  You can now carry on with that plan guilt-free after Sony pulls it over possible North Korean terrorist threats. 

4. NY Mag follows in Rolling Stone’s lazy footsteps by not checking any sources in Stuyvesant student’s fake $72 million dollar stock market fortune.

5. Mitt Romney still leads republican presidential polls?  Thankfully Donald Trump looks to challenge him in a battle for the nomination, and title of most out of touch uber-rich old white man in America.

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BTL #135 - PRESSING ITEMS OF NATIONAL INTEREST - 12/15/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. CIA torture report proves that a) we’ve been in the grasp of a huge sneaking evil for years and b) Dianne Feinstein has an ounce of fight left in her after all.

2. Dick Cheney’s new heart only new in the literal sense.  His metaphorical heart is just as evil and unfeeling as it always was.

3. New UN climate deal nixes the pledges and opts for the helpful non-binding suggestions way of dealing with major polluters.

4. Pig diarrhea among the many pressing items of national interest addressed by the new, amendment-laden house spending bill.

5. Much of the left is now Ready for Warren.  Either none of or all of the right is ready for Jeb.

6. Ferguson Eric Garner Protests still going strong

7. Angelina Jolie and Amy Pascal share a hug (and grimace) heard ‘round the world in Sony leaks aftermath.

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BTL #134 - #ICANTBREATH - 12/8/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Protests erupt in cities nationwide over...cigarette taxes?  No, wait, that’s not right... #icantbreath

2. “Uninspiring but mistake free” campaign crushes an uninspiring but stupidity-filled Landrieu campaign in Louisiana runoff

3. Obamacare proves, yet again, that simple math and logic have evaded GOP politicos, even in regard to a plan they thought up

4. Rolling Stone fact-checkers set anti-campus rape activist back one zillion years.  Should somebody call Aaron Sorkin?  It sounds like Rolling Stone editors need an ethics monologue.

5. Enthusiasm about fake economy’s fake good news is not a good enough reason to blow your cash on Christmas gifts

6. North Korea’s tourism website proves that they weren’t responsible for the Sony hack

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BTL #133 - SHOP TO VOTE - 12/2/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Serious question: Should we move election day to Black Friday?  At least that’s a day 

people like to leave their houses.

2. Ferguson non-indictment rightly leads to the opposite of hugs and rainbows.

3. Chuck Hagel glowers through most aggressively awkward resignation ceremony in history.

4. Republican panic over their own Benghazi report proves that even they know what they don’t know, but facts are so boring.

5. Who is Jim Webb?  Answer: Not the president.  Also, not anybody.

6. Teen criminal turned GOP know-it-all implores Obama daughters to act classier, forgets that she’s the one who’s been arrested for stealing from a Belk department store.

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