Brain Trust Live

BTL #124 - WATCH OUT WORLD - 8/22/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. What do Ban Ki Moon, Bernie Sanders, and Sting all have in common?  They all went a’ climate marching this weekend!

2. We finally figured out what it takes to make GOP-ers fund the government: war resolutions.  Watch out world!

3. In Obamacare news, despite GOP scare-mongering, people can be trusted to pay for products they’ve purchased, just like has always worked in the past.  Hooray capitalism!

4. Secret Service combat training and sniper rifles are not enough to stop one Texas man with an important message about the sci-fi apocalypse

5. J.K. Rowling wins the day in an uber-expensive campaign against two obese Scottish lottery winners looking to buy a nation

6. Shonda Rhimes takes on the New York Times TV critic over a super un-clever play on words

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BTL #123 - LIPSTICK ON A TRACK - 9/15/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. The Palin family’s extracurriculars prove that you can put lipstick on a drunk shirtless man giving the finger to everybody, but it’s still a Track Palin

2. The US may or may not be at war with ISIS, but it’s definitely at war with itself over foreign policy semantics

3. Left-wing “money for schools, not for war” demand takes on bizarrely literal meaning

4. America learns an important lesson: refusing to acknowledge a political opponent named Zephyr Teachout is a fool’s errand

5. Hillary Clinton proves she’s running for president by pretending to believe “steak frys” are a real thing

6. CNN was right all along- you definitely will die of ebola

7. Like your 13 year-old cousin, Mark Sanford breaks up with his girlfriend on Facebook.

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BTL #118 - RIGHT TO REMAIN PARANOID - 7/29/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Israel so over it that Kerry’s not even able to set a date for his next meeting about a meeting

2. A heads up for deal-seekers: Algeria is another nation in the grips of a disappearing aircraft crisis

3. In VA reform fight, entirely reasonable bill supported by Socialists and non-Socialists alike makes its way into rainbow and healthcare-hating Tea Party territory

4. Obama will be impeached for doing productive things while being criticized for not doing productive things under new Ted-Cruz approved GOP plan

5. Sen. Chuck schumes his way into the primary jungle and pisses off the natives

6. Sarah Palin is launching a network offering countless images of an automaton with her face shaking hands with white people of all weights and ages

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BTL #117 - HOW MANY CALIFORNIAS IS ENOUGH? - 7/22/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. CNN granted new lease on life by the latest war-zone air-travel tragedy, now in a position to accidentally report real news.  

2. John Kerry taking his meeting-about-a-meeting diplomacy tour to Israel, plans to offer no concessions to anybody.

3. Granted YMCA camp sounds terrible, but not as terrible as not being able to tell the difference between laughing children and South American refugees.

4. Todd Akin returns just in time to legitimately rape the GOP’s 2014 election prospects.

5. Science finally proves what we’ve always hoped was true -- that conservatives are biologically different.  Too bad they don’t believe in science.

6. This week on Hillary Pillory: Hillary Clinton carries W’s famously compassionate conservative mantle at a true meeting of the minds - an Insurance industry confab.

7. Apparently Silicon Valley technology is now in the business of manufacturing voters to sign the 6 Californias petition.

8. Also, SINKHOLES.  So, like, that.

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BTL #115 - THE NRA-SANCTIONED ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE - 7/7/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. We apprehensively present you with good jobs news that we are in no way are convinced is real.  But Hooray! (?)

2. Isn’t it so totally awesome how running a business is exactly like running a government bureaucracy.  Except, like, the opposite of that.

3. McDaniel/Cochran is the gift that keeps on giving.  This week’s gift includes $1000 in exchange for evidence of voter fraud.

4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Polling proof that going into public is a major liability with all voting groups aside from women between the ages of 29 and 30 and non-Wal-Mart weekly shoppers

5. This week in stupid White House petitions, if Tim Howard can figure out how to stop ISIS, we’re game

6. Zombie Apocalypse preppers get entrepreneurial and women are super into it

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