Tuesday, April 03, 2012

"That's Depressing!" - The (mostly) Podcast Edition

This American Life - Take the Money and Run for Office
"For anyone who has ever heard the term "Washington insider" and felt outside — we are with you. So this week, we go inside the rooms where the deals get made, to the actual moment that the checks change hands — and we ask the people writing and receiving the checks what, exactly, is the money buying?"
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Logical Insanity
"After many listener requests, Dan examines the issue of the morality of dropping the Atomic Bombs in the Second World War."
Paul Kingsnorth - Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
"It could be all that, but it probably isn’t. It’s probably me. I am thirty-seven now. The world is smaller, more tired, more fragile, more horribly complex and full of troubles. Or, rather: the world is the same as it ever was, but I am more aware of it and of the reality of my place within it. I have grown up, and there is nothing to be done about it. The worst part of it is that I can’t seem to look without thinking anymore. And now I know far more about what we are doing. We: the people. I know what we are doing, all over the world, to everything, all of the time. I know why the magic is dying. It’s me. It’s us."

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