Host Posts

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio:
Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern

Air America’s Sam Seder will be filling in for Mike Papantonio this week.

Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY) will join us to talk about why releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will help to temporarily lower gas prices.

Author Dan Gardner will be here to tell us about how our irrational fears cause us more harm than the things we actually fear.

Jane Mayer, author of the new book “The Dark Side”, will tell us how the Bush administration destroyed the constitution, and what we can do to get it back.

And author Thomas Madden will explain why he thinks that American imperialism is a good thing, in spite of what history has shown us about empires.

We’ll also be responding to your listener emails, so send your questions or comments to us at info@ringoffireradio.com, and if we pick yours, we’ll send you a free GoLeft TV T-shirt!

Find us at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/ and http://goleft.tv/

Very Well, Where do I begin?  My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium, with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.  My Mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Lionel Vision with webbed feet.

Headlines for July 23, 2008.

What to do about your hangover.

If there's a sprain, amputate. That's the neoconservative mindset.

David Bender of Air America's Politically Direct and GoLeft TV talks with California Secretary of State Debra Bowen at the Netroots Nation convention in Austin, Texas.  Debra has been leading the charge to reform California's voting systems so that we don't run into the problems we saw in places like Ohio in 2004.