Weekend America Series
Good News, Bad News, No News
Each week, a revolving panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had.
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Putin's Peeved, Swiss Black Holes
Our panel of non-experts reviews the week's news -- Red state writer Nancy French, comedian and overall funny guy Dana Gould and New Yorker magazine cartoonist Bob Mankoff.
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King Kong Covers, Young Gun Runners
Our panel of non-experts reviews the week's news -- former SNL writer and current New Yorker contributor Patricia Marx, talk radio crazy man (and former NPR reporter and host) Luke Burbank, along with essayist, journalist, and actor David Rakoff.
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Prostitutes, Feng Shui and Pink Pooches
Our panel of non-experts reviews the week's news. This week, comedian Dana Gould, "New Yorker" cartoon editor Bob Mankoff and commentator and political consultant Tara Setmayer talk about former Gov. Spitzer's prostitute problem, Geraldine Ferraro's comments about Barack Obama, feng shui at McDonald's and the legality of dyeing your pooch pink.
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Flus, Candidates and Fakery
Our panel of non-experts reviews the week's news. This week, conservative commentator David Frum, sex columnist Dan Savage and performance artist damali ayo talk politics, colds, fakes and chores.
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Fences and Mohawks
Our panel of non-experts reviews this week's most salient news. This week we hear from author and Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker, Yale literature professor Amy Hungerford, and journalist James Lileks, author of the blog, the Daily Bleat.
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Mitt-less-ness, Zell and Nature
Our panel, Yale literature professor Amy Hungerford, syndicated columnist Gustavo Arellano, and former NPR reporter Luke Burbank, who now hosts the Seattle radio show "Too Beautiful To Live," discuss the Mitt-less world, Sam Zell and nature.
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More on the Election
This week it's Super Tuesday, the Super Bowl and other things super. We hear from political commentator and writer David Frum, comedy writer Dana Gould, and conceptual and performance artist damali ayo.
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Yelling and Screaming
This week's panelists discuss a stimulus package, the fight between the Clintons and Obama and a very angry voicemail message.
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Unemployment, Life Skills and Cloned Food
Food from cloned animals, ditching physical education in school for teaching life skills, and no more clowns in hospital decor. Is all this good news, bad news or no news?
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Primaries, Conflicts and Sexual Similarities
The primaries, more conflicts with the government of Iran and we find our that Democrats and Republicans are similar, sexually, that is. Is all this good news, bad news or no news.
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Caucuses, CIA's Loss and Cocaine
This week Diana Abu-Jaber, John Ridley, Bob Mankoff talk about the caucuses, lost CIA tapes and making cocaine powerless.
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Fertility and Horse Death
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. This week, we have National Book Award Winner Sherman Alexie; columnist Dan Savage; and author and commentator Linda Chavez.
