{"id":11196,"date":"2015-05-26T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T23:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2015-05-26T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:25:13","slug":"oil-toil-flooding-trouble-bradcast-5262015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11196","title":{"rendered":"Oil, Toil, Flooding & Trouble: ‘BradCast’ 5\/26\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news and bad today on The BradCast<\/em><\/a>. As is too often the case, mostly bad.<\/p>\n

We get the good news out of the way early. Namely, the overwhelming approval<\/a> by voters for a Constitutional amendment for marriage equality in the very Catholic nation of Ireland over the weekend. The mandate was loud and clear and, thanks to publicly hand-counted, hand-marked paper ballots<\/em> in Ireland, unmistakable.<\/p>\n

Then, horrific, deadly flooding in Texas and Oklahoma<\/a> on the heels of a years-long drought there. Mashable.com’s Science Editor Andrew Freedman<\/a> joins us to discuss the ongoing disaster and the influence of climate change on events like this — which we seem to be seeing more and more of…just as climate scientists have been warning for decades<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Also today, a report on our own weekend encounter with private security guards at the scene of the Santa Barbara, CA oil spill after the rupture of a crude pipeline owned by a company named Plains All American.<\/p>\n

An update<\/a> on charges now filed against Doug Hughes, the postal worker who landed his gyrocopter on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol in April to deliver a message<\/a> about the need for campaign finance reform (our full interview with Hughes from back in April is right here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

All that, and a few more items of note in today’s BradCast<\/i>!<\/p>\n

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