There is a pretty good chance readers don’t know or care about this…
Harry Shearer is a comedian and writer who has had a weekend show on NPR for the past 30 years. It is created at KCRW in Los Angeles and distributed to a few stations around the country by NPR on Sunday night
http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?showid=3135
I remember Harry from the first seasons of Saturday Night Live, and he frequently talks with Dennis Miller. He is probably better known for his work on The Simpsons.
Harry discloses his deal with KCRW – he’s done the show for free for 30 years. He works for free and they agree to leave him alone. KCRW has apparently decided that’s too high a price. Shearer makes $300k per episode for the Simpsons, so it’s not like KCRW paying him $100 would be his motivation.
He very likely does the show in his own studio, so it will live on via NPR and podcast. The only change is it won’t be on KCRW
le Show is somewhat political, and mostly just Harry talking about what he wants to talk about. Harry is a moderately interesting person, his show less so.
For those that have seen the mockumentary ‘This is Spinal Tap’, Shearer will forever be remembered as bassist Derek Smalls. Perhaps his most famous scene being that of setting off a metal detector with a large cucumber wrapped in aluminum foil (the cucumber was crammed in his pants to enhance his little smalls). 😉
Truth can be stranger than fiction when trying to profit from the wars:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/07/businessman-bomb-detection-kits-golf
Those wands are not useless!
Once Chicago has 400 civilian checkpoints on the city streets, they will constitute probable cause to search your vehicle, of course
More innocent people died from the sale of those wands than from the bomb in Boston. Glad to see people like that caught and brought to justice.
Wands don’t kill people, magic spells do.
I think we should create a domestic security force and designate a volnteer on each block as the block captain and issue each of them a wand of security. Crime will become a thing of the past
Not just domestic security but health security. Since the 1980s it is been legal to look through people’s trash without a warrant, so we can look for big sugary drinks, and high sodium snacks. One than one a week can be a small fine to pay for education and crime prevention.