Offered today as a brief respite, of sorts, from the all-too-real events of the last several days…
I had great fun as a panelist, once again, on The Young Turks’ show, The Point early last week. My fellow panelists included the hilarious and whip-smart comedian Lee Camp, broadcaster Mark Thompson, and TYT co-host Ana Kasparian, with an assist from video contributors Thom Hartmann and Naomi Klein.
We taped the discussion on 12/12/12, prior to the horrific events in Newtown, CT. Obviously, the topics we covered weren’t nearly as serious (unless you consider the coming apocalypse to be serious). We discuss the Mayan Apocalypse Myth, over-population, ‘disaster progressivism’, and the myriad ways the world could end, both real and imagined … and of course, the famous Doomsday Preppers of history. From Lee’s ‘obesity exchange program’ to ‘redneck paradise’, we also dissect whether it’s “politicizing tragedy” or “learning from experience” by responding, politically, to tragic events like Hurricane Sandy and the Aurora movie theater shooting (about :30 mins in).
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My daughter will be skipping most of December 21st by flying from the USA to China and crossing the international dateline. Smart woman.