SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT: “Homeless In Hawaii” a 2-part show, will air Weds. and Thurs. [VIDEO & AUDIO]

UPDATE, 2013-APR-15: These are the shows from April 10 & 11

Homeless In Hawaii, Part 1 (Audio) https://thinkwingradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/thinkwing-radio-hawaii-homelessness-part-2-2013-apr-11.mp3

Homeless In Hawaii, Part 2 (Audio) https://thinkwingradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/thinkwing-radio-hawaii-homelessness-part-1-2013-apr-10.mp3

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Homelessness is a problem all over the world, and each place has it’s unique aspects.

Hawaii is a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific, meaning it’s surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean.

Most of us think of Hawaii as a paradise we would love to visit, even if just once. All the tourism guides tell us so.

Paradise must seem pretty good to a homeless person. But is the paradise they expect the paradise they find? Continue reading →

Some Feuds Never Die: Kirk v. Gorn. The Rematch [VIDEO]

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I admire William Shatner’s ability to embrace his reputation for hamminess. Here he doubles down for a rematch against his early enemy, the Gorn.

“That Thing You Do” is coming to Harvard’s Adams Pool Theater. This weekend only!

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Produced, directed and adapted for the stage by Grace Sunny Sun.

“That Thing You Do” is coming to Harvard’s Adams Pool Theater. This weekend only! http://thatthingyoudo.bandcamp.com/

“That Thing You Do”, on stage this weekend only!

“That Thing You Do”, cover by Harvard’s The Wonders

Shampoo Warning! DO NOT wash your hair in the shower!! [HUMOR]

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by Philip Simon

It’s so good to finally get a health warning that is useful!!!

DO NOT wash your hair in the shower!!

IT INVOLVES THE SHAMPOO, WHEN IT RUNS DOWN YOUR BODY WHEN YOU SHOWER WITH IT. WARNING TO US ALL!!!

Shampoo Warning! I don’t know WHY I didn’t figure this out sooner! I use shampoo in the shower! When I wash my hair, the shampoo runs down my whole body, and printed very clearly on the shampoo label is this warning, “FOR EXTRA BODY AND VOLUME.”

No wonder I have been gaining weight! Well! I got rid of that shampoo and I am going to start showering with Dawn Dishwashing Soap. It’s label reads, “DISSOLVES FAT THAT IS OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE.”

Problem solved! If I don’t answer the phone, I’ll be in the shower!

NYPD Battles Parts of Brooklyn. MSM reports nothing.

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As reported at Occupy.com:

Brooklyn Rises Up in Protest of Police Shooting

Fri, 03/15/2013 – 17:15

By RT

Eighteen have been arrested in Brooklyn’s East Flatbush neighborhood as New Yorkers came out for a third night of protest over the police killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, police reported.

The demonstration began at Brooklyn’s 67th Precinct in East Flatbush, the part of New York’s Brooklyn section where Gray was shot to death by police on Saturday. Witness and police accounts differ on whether Gray was brandishing a weapon before he was killed.

According to autopsy results, Gray was shot seven times – four times in the front of his body, and three times in the back. Continue reading →

10 Phrases Progressives Need To Ditch (And What We Can Say Instead), By Elisabeth Parker

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A thought-provoking article for Progressives, originally published at AddictingInfo.org.

The author notes, correctly, that words have power and do more than just ‘frame’ arguments. They subtly affect how we evaluate issues. Below, Ms. Parker makes some useful suggestions on how to re-frame some sensitive political issues in ways that don’t prejudice the audience. (Or, perhaps prejudice them differently.)

A link to the article is at the bottom. The take-aways are these:

(1). Big Business: (Also referred to as: Corporate America; Multinationals; Corporate Interests) Instead, try: Unelected Government.

(2). Entitlements: Instead, try: Earned Benefits.

(3). Free Market Capitalism: (Also referred to as: Capitalism, Free Markets, and Supply-Side Economics) Instead, try: Socialized Risk, Privatized Profits.

(4). Government Spending: (Also referred to as: Taxes, Burden, and Inconvenient) Instead, try: Investing in America.

(5). Gun Control: Instead, try: Gun Safety.

(6). Illegal Aliens: Instead, try: Undocumented Residents.

(7). Pro-Life: Instead, try: Anti-Choice.

(8). Right-To-Work: Instead, try: Anti-Union. Several readers have also suggested: Right-To-Fire (without just cause).

(9). The Environment: Instead, try: Shared Resources.

(10). Welfare: Instead, try: Social Safety Net:

The full article can be read here.

Old-fashioned ‘Shock & Awe’: French Trooper In Mali [Photo]

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Since ancient times, putting fear into the hearts of your opponents — essentially inspiring ‘shock and awe’ — as a way of weakening them mentally and emotionally have been standard tools of warfare. The photo below (explained in the linked article) would certainly be an excellent example of this practice.

Viral: Eerie photo of French soldier in Mali upsets military officials

Why this photo should “upset” military officials is beyond me. Frightening your enemies so they put up less resistance and even run away is an old, standard military tactic. It’s even, perhaps, ‘kind’ in the sense that scaring them away may be more merciful than killing them in the field (unless you choose to slaughter them in retreat, of course).

In any case, given the bloody butchery inherent in war, scary masks should be the least of any military’s concerns. Heck, maybe the French should even consider using this as a recruiting poster.

What is the role of a U.S. Marshal?

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Donald V. Crowley created the painting “Justice” as a tribute to the U.S. Marshals Service’s 200 anniversary in 1989.

We see and hear about them all the time in movies and TV shows about the Old West, but what are they in modern terms?

Click here to learn about the responsibilities of U.S. Marshals in modern America, and their place in law and law enforcement.

Cat Soothing Crying Baby To Sleep [VIDEO]

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Cute as hell, but I don’t recommend trying this at home:

Petting Charts For Cats And Dogs

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Petting Charts For Cats And Dogs

Dusty, the Klepto Kitty [VIDEO]

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I’ve become one of THOSE people. Cat videos.

I’ve learned of this one from a caller at KPFT-FM 90.1 Houston. He even has his own Wikipedia page.

“Dead” Satellites Can Be The Newest (And Nearest) Valuable Resource To Harvest From Space [VIDEO]

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In an era when companies are seriously talking about mining asteroids, there is an enormous untapped resource in space which is as close as low Earth orbit (LEO), and which is otherwise classified as ‘space junk’: Dead satellites. Continue reading →

What Bill Clinton Wrote vs. What Bill Clinton Said

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Bill Clinton & Barack Obama (2012-Sept-5)

One of Bill Clinton’s most (in)famous speechifying moments was in 1988, when he got his biggest cheer for the statement, “… In conclusion…”

At the Democratic National Convention, on September 5, 2012, Bill Clinton gave one of the greatest speeches of his life, and perhaps one of the best in political history.

Maybe one of the most remarkable aspects of that speech is how much of it was not in the prepared remarks.Yes, Bill Clinton may not be a great believer in Shakespeare’s quote that “Brevity is the soul of wit,” but nobody cared on that night of September 5th.

Below, I am belatedly adding my link to Atlantic Wire’s painstakingly detailed article showing where Bill Clinton departed from the prepared text, and what that text actually said.

It’s long (as befits Bill Clinton), but fascinating and incredibly impressive.

What Bill Clinton Wrote vs. What Bill Clinton Said (Dashiell Bennett, Sep 6, 2012. The Atlantic Wire)

People of the Lake – Al Jazeera English [VIDEO]

The Aral Sea, located between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, was once the fourth-largest lake in the world – an immense body of fresh water covering a surface area of 68,000 square kilometres.

Two port cities were located on it – Aralsk in Kazakhstan and Moynaq in Uzbekistan. Both featured thriving fishing communities and the lake itself held some 22 different varieties of fish – four of which could only be found in the Aral.

“This is a crime against nature. The drought of the Aral Sea is a man-made tragedy.“– Sergei Azimov, a film producer

But then the Soviet Union decided to boost cotton farming by constructing dams

on the two large rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya rivers.

This diverted these two giant rivers away from the sea into the deserts further south to irrigate large tracts of land. It proved disastrous for the Aral Sea.

[To read this entire article and see the video, click on link: People of the Lake – Al Jazeera World – Al Jazeera English]

Interesting insight: “A Chinese Web censor snaps, goes on public rant” (WaPo)

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Washington Post blogger Max Fisher discusses the personal struggles of a Chinese web censor, and how the censor’s arguments could make perfect sense in the Chinese media context. ~ Mike

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Posted by Max Fisher on January 9, 2013 at 6:00 am

This is Weibo, interrupted. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Spare a moment for the Chinese censor, stuck between a Communist Party that demands strict control and a few million Web users who increasingly expect the ability to speak their minds online.

As controversy over a censored newspaper grows into one of China’s biggest and potentially most significant free-speech fights in years, party officials are likely seeking greater control at exactly the moment that outraged Web users are making that task most difficult. At least one censor on Weibo, the popular Twitter-like service that often serves as the closest China has to a public national conversation, seems to have snapped.

A rant was posted from a Weibo account belonging to @Geniune_Yu_Yang, which is identified as belonging to a Weibo manager, about the pressure from government officials and complaints from regular users. To be clear, he’s not a state employee: Weibo self-censors, employing folks like @Geniune_Yu_Yang to implement the party’s ever-evolving guidelines on what is and isn’t allowed.

The message, translated into English by Global Voices blogger Oiwan Lam, indirectly explains the mechanics of Weibo censorship. He compares Chinese government censorship to a famous scene in the 1988 Italian film “Cinema Paradiso,” in which a priest watches a movie before it can be shown in public, ringing a small bell to indicate scenes that the theater staff should censor. [Read the full article here]

The Cat On The Rack Meows Back [Photo]

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Okay, this looks like a modern case of the Feline Inquisition, but it’s actually a common medical procedure for dogs and cats. It just looks creepy as hell.Read on. ~ Mike

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NPPA [Photo] award winner

In the photo, volunteer Cameron Tarzwell, 13, cleans loose hair that has been shaved from an anesthetized cat, Princess, in preparation for an operation.

La Shinda Clark, photographer at The Philadelphia Inquirer and 1995 Scholar, won third place for feature photos in the National Press Photographers Association 2003 Best of Photojournalism contest. In the photo, volunteer Cameron Tarzwell, 13, cleans loose hair that has been shaved from an anesthetized cat, Princess, in preparation for an operation. Tarzwell has been assisting a veterinarian for four years. The photo was one in a picture story on a spaying and neutering program in Chester County in Pennsylvania.

The Evolution of Asian Eyebrows: A (Dia)critical Contemplation, by Jana J. Monji

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by Jana J. Monji

January 3, 2013

After watching “Cloud Atlas” and reading the many comments posted on Roger Ebert’s Facebook page, I found myself reflecting on circumflexion and the evolution of the yellowface East Asian eyebrows in cinema, particularly in regards to men. As a former copy editor, I developed this into a diacritical reflection on circumflexion.

A Hovering Accusation of Racism Shadows ‘Cloud Atlas’

I don’t know about you, but I’m have so little body hair that I don’t need to shave my legs, I never worry about waxing my moustache and my eyebrows are so thin I pencil them in. If I didn’t my eyebrows would be little more than en dashes over my eyes. Diacritically speaking, my eyebrows and eyes could be represented as a inverted semi-colon.

I know many East Asian guys who can’t grow more than a dirty-lip look facial hair and should wax and tweeze instead of shave. Their eyebrows might be more like an em dash. This isn’t how East Asian male eyebrows are drawn in for yellowface.

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Why Good Writing Matters [in Science and elswhere], by Kathleen Taylor

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A woman after my own heart. ~ Mike

“In the fierce competition for readers’ attention, clarity is crucial — and clarity comes from using language well. Ease of reading is also important, because I (and I suspect most readers) are less inclined to struggle through an abstract, let alone a whole paper, if the authors make it hard work. I like to read in a smooth, fast flow, sucking up meaning without having to stop and think about how to interpret every sentence; if I wanted that kind of intellectual workout I’d read French. Translating from science into English can be quite hard enough even if the writing’s limpidly transparent, given the jargon and surfeit of acronyms.” ~ Kathleen Taylor, “Why Good Writing Matters” (January 9, 2013)

http://neurotaylor.com/2013/01/09/why-good-writing-matters/ Continue reading →

SNL: The Undecided Voter (Video)

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It’s worth waiting through the ad to watch the video. I promise. ~ Mike

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/undecided-voter/1418227/

SNL: Undecided Voter

KITTYCAM: What Your Sweet, Harmless Little Kitty Is Doing When You’re Not Watching [VIDEO]

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Your cat has a secret life when it’s outside. The Kitty Cam project is an attempt to see the world they way your cat does when you’re not watching. The videos are ‘rough’ (cats make poor cinematographers), but as a peek into an unknown feline world, are fascinating.

The National Geographic & University of Georgia

Kitty Cams (Crittercam) Project

“A window into the world of free-roaming cats”

http://www.kittycams.uga.edu/photovideo.html

Election Night Coverage (and Call-In) On KPFT-Houston

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I have the exciting privilege of hosting election night coverage tonight on KPFT 90.1 FM from 7PM to 10 (or maybe 11) PM CT. I’ll be joined by some smart and knowledgeable panelists (Charles Kuffner, Leo Gold and Geoff Berg). There will be race updates, interviews with some notable political personalities, and we will be taking some phone calls at 713-526-5738 to discuss people’s voting experiences whether you voted early, absentee, or on “the Day”.

You can also listen live on-line from anywhere in the country by clicking here: http://www.kpft.org/streamkpft_64.m3u

This is by far the most ambitious thing I’ve done on radio up to this point, so if you want to listen to a guy on a high wire without a net for 3-4 hours, tune in and give me a listen! Continue reading →

Election Night Coverage (and Call-In) On KPFT-Houston

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I’m excited to announce that I will be hosting election night coverage on KPFT (Houston) 90.1 FM from 7 PM to (at least) 10 PM CST. I will be joined by a panel of knowledgable and entertaining Houston personalities, and guests will include interesting and noteworthy personages.

You can listen and participate live from anywhere around the country by going to KPFT.org and clicking on “Listen Live“.

Tentatively scheduled panelists include Geoff Berg (blogger, and host of KPFT’s Partisan Gridlock) and Houston-based political blogger Charles Kuffner (OffTheKuff.com).

Currently scheduled guests tentatively include:

Lane Lewis: Chair of the Harris County Democratic Party
Gilberto Hinojosa: Chair of the Texas Democratic Party
Brad Friedman: Founder of The Brad Blog, an acknowledged expert on voting rules, systems, and suppression around the United States.
Robert Hooks: Actor, producer, and civil rights activist.
Amanda K. Wolfe: Activist for better mass transit in Houston, and greater transparency and accountability for how Metro’s dollars are spent.

One of the aspects of this show to which I am most looking forward is taking calls from listeners in Houston and around the country in order to hear about their election experiences. Whether you voted in Houston or Hastings-on-Hudson. Whether you voted on election day, or early voted, or absentee voted, we’ll want to hear from you. Was it easy or hard? Was the ballot easily understandable or almost unintelligible? Did you feel welcome at the polls, or were you bothered by poll watchers?

I hope you’ll be listening and participating.

Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig

"An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy."

Some Feuds Never Die: Kirk v. Gorn. The Rematch [VIDEO]

“That Thing You Do” is coming to Harvard’s Adams Pool Theater. This weekend only!

Shampoo Warning! DO NOT wash your hair in the shower!! [HUMOR]

It’s so good to finally get a health warning that is useful!!!

DO NOT wash your hair in the shower!!

What is the role of a U.S. Marshal?

Cat Soothing Crying Baby To Sleep [VIDEO]

Petting Charts For Cats And Dogs

Dusty, the Klepto Kitty [VIDEO]

“Dead” Satellites Can Be The Newest (And Nearest) Valuable Resource To Harvest From Space [VIDEO]

People of the Lake – Al Jazeera English [VIDEO]

The Cat On The Rack Meows Back [Photo]

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NPPA [Photo] award winner

KITTYCAM: What Your Sweet, Harmless Little Kitty Is Doing When You’re Not Watching [VIDEO]

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Kitty Cams (Crittercam) Project

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