Making Sense with Don L

In case you are wondering why we are here, it seems that the “mainstream media” is not so main stream, the “liberal media” is not so liberal, and the “conservative media” is not really conservative. Rather than reporting news that affects the overwhelming majority of Americans, the media has put profit before substance. And sometimes, it is really boring. One of our guests, Gil Smart, said that the major news networks have become dinosaurs and the new media, podcasts and blogs, are the mammals evolving at their feet. Give us a listen and evolve with us.

Episodes

“Sleep with a stranger and save $150!”

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:36:22 +0000

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Click to listen: “Sleep with a stranger and save $150!” That’s one of the many come-ons used by the white folks who wanted to “reclaim the civil rights ‘moment’” on 8/28/10, the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, to increase their attendance. Seems you saved money if you accepted a [...]

The car probably deserved it.

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:28:06 +0000

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Click to listen: This week in local news, a pair of pit bulls attacked and damaged a car. Of course, this was a Very Big Deal, and the hysteria surrounding it was based entirely on public ignorance and sensationalism by the press. This is the local version of the news that a “Victory Mosque” is [...]

Synonyms for “exactly.”

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:04:46 +0000

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Click to listen: Apparently, she’s been saying “exactly” too often, so Don “Roget” LeVasseur has provided his co-host with a handy list of alternative affirmatives – and we both have plenty of reasons to use them as we share listener comments about the non-peaceful traits of the Amish and reveal who’s truly being disrespectful regarding [...]

“… to a knife fight with library books.”

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:05:39 +0000

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Click to listen: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, as Anthony Weiner (D-NY) so eloquently put it, the “Democrats come to a knife fight with library books.” What did he mean by that? We’re letting the bottle-necking, filibustering GOP beat the legislative cr@p out of us, because we keep wrongly assuming that logic and reason will rule [...]

A dangerous dose of news.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:26:57 +0000

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Click to listen: Glückwünsche! Did you know Germany’s kicking economic @ss compared to other countries? They do it by spending wisely, while remaining generous to their citizens. Of course, here in the USA! USA! we’re being distracted from the real news by utter nonsense about Obama’s allegedly hostile environment for business (yeah? so how come [...]

Above the Fold

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:03:34 +0000

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Click to listen: Let’s take a look at the news… A certain quitter governor from a state with a great view of Russia found out her daughter’s getting married… Hey! Wait a minute, is that actually news? We think not. So this week’s show – as our shows always have been, but we’re rededicating ourselves [...]

July 12th, 2010

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:41:48 +0000

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Click to listen: Back after our Independence Day festivities break, we’re making sense of the absurdities served up this week by all the usual suspects – BP, the Party of No, the wealthiest 2% (a.k.a. The Haves), the pundits – as well as some new ones, including our entrance into the Age of Austerity (stay [...]

June 26th, 2010

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:40:57 +0000

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Click to listen: Back in the studio this week, Don and his co-host ponder the contradictory ethics of the Party of No, check out some charts that show us when everything started to go to hell in a hand-basket (anyone remember who was in office in 1981??), and try to make some sense of BP’s [...]

June 19th, 2010

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:50:46 +0000

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Click to listen: This week’s show, recorded live at the Lancaster Pride Festival, finds Don and his co-host discussing “factional” books, the latest atrocities in the Gulf (including some more slime that bubbled up during the BP hearings in Washington), and some surprising fun facts about right-wing hypocrisy, rhyming pundits on CNN, and an exciting [...]

June 12th, 2010

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:28:55 +0000

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Click to listen: You didn’t even have to wait a week for the new show! This time around, we’re making sense of some ongoing stuff: the ever-increasing flow of oil into the Gulf, and the ever-decreasing flow of aid to Gaza. We’re also taking a sensible look at immigration, and casting our completely clean and [...]