Saturday, August 25, 2012

Things Fall Apart

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 34 -- August 25, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #234, August 28, 2012

Things Fall Apart


In brief

The economy ... American political democracy ... the climate ... the whole ecosystem--all seem to be collapsing at once. In a poem of 1920, W.B. Yeats noted, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." The show features a good routine on the very subject by George Carlin (early 1990s), music by James McMurtry ("Ruins of the Realm"), Yeats's poem, and somewhat-humorous reflections by K.D.


Notes, credits, & links

Color photos shown here are by Yves Marchant and Romain Meffre, from The Ruins of Detroit. See more here: http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html . The photos show (top to bottom) a peeling photomural of Detroit; the American Hotel; Fisher Body plant 21; and St. Christopher House, a public library. Click to enlarge.

The monochrome portrait is of William Butler Yeats.

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "unisex bathroom") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.


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  • September 4 -- (TBA)
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Good Guns, Bad Guns

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 33 -- August 17, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #233, August 21, 2012

Good Guns, Bad Guns

In brief

Reflecting on the Aurora murders, we consider the false distinction gun-control advocates make between "bad guns" (such as "semiautomatic assault weapons") and "good guns" (such as Uncle Jake's old pump shotgun).

We also consider a spate of killings by police of unarmed citizens--some while in handcuffs. Massive killing of civilians overseas in our "War on Terror." And a President who claims the legal right to kill anyone he chooses--even US citizens--without charges or trial. And does.

How can we condemn the retail violence in Aurora while supporting the wholesale violence at the heart of US domestic and foreign policy?

Includes nice articles by Amy Davidson (from The New Yorker) and Robert C. Koehler (from Common Dreams). Plus commentary by me.

Above: President Obama asserts that the Constitution grants him the right to kill any American citizen he chooses, without a trial or even even explanation. And he has done so.
Below: James Holmes--accused of acting Presidential in a crowded movie theatre.

Notes, credits, & links

Music added: Fred Eaglesmith, "Time to Get a Gun"

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "benign neglect") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Above: Chavis Carter, late of Jonesboro, Arkansas. Accused of marijuana possession. Arrested by police, frisked twice, handcuffed behind his back, placed in the rear of a police cruiser. A bullet from a handgun then penetrated his head, and Carter died. Police claim that Carter committed suicide.
Below: US citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. Born in Denver on September 13, 1995. On September 30, 2011, the US assassinated his father, US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, with a drone strike, in Yemen. Two weeks later, on October 14, the US assassinated 16-year-old Abdulrahman and his Yemeni cousin, while they were dining, with another drone strike.

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  • August 28 -- (TBA)
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Radio Great Jean Shepherd

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 32 -- August 12, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #232, August 14, 2012

Radio Great Jean Shepherd

In brief

This week we replay another of the earlier installments of New World Notes: #52, from February 2009.

We present a tribute to the ad-lib art of late-night radio storyteller Jean Shepherd. The program includes a condensed version of one of Shepherd's great monologues, from October 1965. It's a humorous tale of grenade-replica cigarette lighters, the real George Washington, crime in real life vs. on TV, and life among the rednecks in Covington, Kentucky, in the 1950s. Introduction by K.D..

For more pictures and more information, see our original page from 2009.

Notes, credits, & links

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "oppressive yoke") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

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  • August 21 -- (TBA)
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Friday, August 3, 2012

American Sex and Sexuality

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 31 -- August 3, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #231, August 7, 2012

American Sex and Sexuality:
The Sorrow and the Pity

In brief

This week we replay another of the earliest installments of New World Notes: #11, from April 2008.

With jaundiced eye and sometimes tongue in cheek, we survey the sad state of sex and sexuality in the US. Highlights include Helen Gurley Brown's 1963 advice to married men on how to conduct an affair, ... Pat McCormick's parody of a TV game show exposing adulterers, ... an article on Eliot Spitzer (the New York Governor who resigned following news exposure that he patronized prostitutes), ... and a monologue by KD.

Above: Helen Gurley Brown (early 1960s), publisher of Cosmopolitan magazine, author of Sex and the Single Girl and of the advice-packed LP, Lessons in Love

Notes, credits, & links

Music added: Cris Williamson, "Dream Child"; P.D.Q. Bach, Round: "Nellie is a Nice Girl"

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "bad influence") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • August 14 -- Radio Great Jean Shepherd
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(all times Eastern):
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