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I understand why a group of Islamic fanatics would systematically plan and execute the slaughter of scores of totally innocent, unarmed, civilian people. Seen that before, right here in New York City.  I get it.  I mean, that's why we call them terrorists.  That is what they do.  That is why they are international outlaws, subject to arrest (if they're lucky), or death by gunfire (if they're not).  I am horrified, but not mystified.

I am utterly baffled as to why 2000 potential shoppers, early on Friday morning, were so eager to buy discounted electronics at Wal-Mart for Christmas that they surged forward through the opening doors and trampled to death the young worker who opened them. 

Happy Thanksgiving, folks!  Ron's out today pardoning-slash-slaughtering turkeys, so we are delighted to have as our guest host Nancy Skinner, radio-host-turned-politician who ran against President-elect Barack Obama in the Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary in 2004.

She's been a radio host since 1997 when she got a show on on WLS in Chicago, and has appeared frequently on CNN, MSNBC and the Fox News Channel.  After her loss to Obama, Nancy returned to her home town of Royal Oak, Michigan and was the morning host on 1310 AM Detroit’s Progressive Talk for a year before challenging a 14-year incumbent, Republican Joe Knollenberg, for congress in 2006.  She surprised many with a near upset, losing only 48 to 52%.  

We've got tons to talk about today, and we want to hear from you, too!  Leave a comment below or call in to 866-303-2270.

Since Ron is disappointed that the coffee machine isn't working, and potentially going to skip his daily (and awesome) blog post, we here at Doing Time thought you'd be interested in hearing what's on our minds!

While we've been nattering on about some guy in our office who feels the need to douse the bathroom with a suffocating amount of Lysol spray, we'll, for the moment, not bore you with those details.... Instead! Check out this ridiculous story from CBS News.

Right here is where we tell you what's coming up on today's show,
but that daily blog post has been cut from the budget. Actually no, but
we're a bit behind schedule today, since every completely brilliant
guest idea we had fell through. But we will bring you another round of
Kuby v. Kuby regarding the story about parents arguing over whether it's wrong for kids to dress up as pilgirms and indians. Call us to take a side. Also, are you a cyberchondriac?
Well join the party! Call us with your ailments, and we'll give you
completely irresponsible medical information, straight from the
internet!

Well this is an open thread, so tell us what's on your
mind. Take a side on Kuby v. Kuby, list your medical ailments, or just
tell us what you had for lunch. We're here. So are you. Let's talk.

At this point it seems clear that nobody knows what will fix the economy. Conservative Bill Kristol admitted as much today. Obama introduced his economic team a few hours ago, and assured us that they would fix it, just as soon as they decide how. And in the absence of a coherent plan, the government continued to throw billions of dollars at the banks that helped get us into this mess. I wish I was a bank.

Of course when experts, politicians, and pundits all throw up their hands, there’s only one place to turn – psychics. Yes, more and more people are turning to psychics to work out their economic woes, so today we’ll interview one such forecaster. Hey, she couldn’t possibly be more wrong than this guy.

We’ll also talk to Brandon Boyer from the tech blog BoingBoing about Kevin Werbach, who’s helping to lead a review of the FCC for the Obama transition team. Turns out Werbach loves to play World of Warcraft. That may not be exciting to you, but it’s EXTREMELY exciting to nerds. We’ll find out why.

Ok, so last week we riffed on ABC for consulting a psychic about the economy, and rolling that into a feature for sweeps week.  Who knew they were actually cutting edge? 

Sunday's New York Times Styles Section has an in-depth feature on the booming business of psychics consulting Wall Street traders.  And not just psychics--astrologers, tarot-card readers, palm readers and an odd miscellany of other future-predicting hucksters are doing great.