The Samantha Clemens Show

2009-11-21 listen download	Have you been without a job? Do you know someone who has been? Palin - what does she mean for the Republican party? And why did she flip flop about the sexist media - whether Hillary should have spoken out about sexism (No) vs her talking about sexist media (Yes). Mammograms - If science shows that there is almost no medical benefit for doing mammograms before the age of 50, should Democrats include the procedure in the healthcare plan to counter Republicans cynically using it to scare people about coverage?
2009-11-14 listen download	Are you kidding me?? No coverage for abortions in the healthcare exchange??? Really??? We're supposed to go out and get supplemental coverage??? No matter if we end up married to a crazy man who doesn't believe in either birth control or abortion, yet wants to have sex? Even if there is birth control failure? Does anyone PLAN for an abortion? The women least able to have a kid (earning less than minimum wage*, for example), least likely to have employer-paid health-care coverage, and least able to afford birth control, are now not going to be covered for abortions in the exchange?? They have to go buy separate coverage?? THIS IS NUTS folks! And everyone who had needed an abortion, or knows someone who needed and abortion, understands this.... It's time to come out of the closet and deal with it folks!
2009-11-07 listen download	Fort Hood massacre. Florida massacre. The Dr. Tiller killing. Terrorism? Alienation? Religious? Hopelessness? What do they have in common? What is different? With unemployment is such bad shape, will there be more of these? What does it mean to be good? And, should it be encouraged? Or, does that make it a career move, something you do like file your taxes or wash your hands in a public restroom? British novelist Tibor Fischer talks about his new novel "Good to Be God." Yup, it's about a guy pretending to be God, a British guy no less, in Miami. Who is trying very hard to be good. From a review in the Guardian: "When was the last time you saw hardened drinkers pass around a novel that asks some big philosophical questions?"
2009-10-31 listen download	In honor of Halloween: Which of these are superstitions? Black cats are unlucky, Walking under a ladder is unlucky, Stepping on the foul line when running on to a baseball field is lucky (or not), The number 7 is unlucky, Fung shui helps improve life, Miracles happen, People have free will to choose to do anything at any time What is it that we LIKE about Halloween? Permission to delve into the dark corners of ourselves? What do you like?
2009-10-24 listen download	Do you fear census takers? Are you terrified of big government taking away your guns? Do you think all foreigners want to attack us because they hate our freedom? Then, why the heck aren't you afraid of Domestic Surveillance?? Carol Rose, Executive Director, ACLU of Massachusetts, explains what surveillance is taking place, how it started, and why you should care.
2009-10-17 listen download	Interracial marriage - justice of the peace refuses to marry interracial couples.... gee whiz, hmmm, I wonder, I just wonder what party he votes for??? so much for the color-blind party who wants everyone treated as equals. The ACORN sting - journalism, sting, or trap? what happened? are Republicans so holy that they can't be trapped? lure Republican men with promises of viagra-fueled debauchery with under-age girls, video-tape it and feed it to the media?
2009-10-10 listen download	Healthcare
2009-10-03 listen download	John Loretz, Program Director, at International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Nukes are in the news these days: Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Taliban, France... So, should we make more? Should we threaten, cajole, inspect, sanction??? Polanski. 13 years old. Oldest creepy justification in the book: she wanted it. (was that before or after the champaign and quaaludes, buddy?!). Whoopi? Are you kidding me?! Not a rape-rape???
2009-09-26 listen download	Moral obligation of pharmaceutical companies to make vaccines in case of a pandemic On-thestreet interviews with Europeans: Do they think we have the best healthcare system in the woooorrrrld? (Guess.) Tom Clark, Director of the Center for Naturalism and moderator of the Harvard Book Store Philosophy Cafe - Should there be an Economic Bill of Rights?
2009-09-19 listen download	Jerry Coyne, PhD and Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago and author of "Why Evolution is True" Race-baiting in the healthcare debate
2009-09-12 listen download	Obama's healthcare speech and Joe Wilson yelling "You lie!" Ken Rynne from Planet Washington Tony Schinella, publisher of Politizine.com, on the contenders for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
2009-08-22 L isten D ownload	Framing the conversation about healthcare - George Lakoff thinks the Democrats are losing the debate to Republicans - AGAIN! (for now, anyway) #ILOVETHENHS - Turns out the Brits hate the NHS until Yanks start criticizing it. We'll look into the Twitter "I LOVE THE NHS" campaign, AND, Barney Frank: "A rguing with you is like arguing with a dining room table ." LOL - gotta love the guy, dontcha?!
2009-08-15 Listen Download	Brooks Jackson of FactCheck.org joins us to sort through the lies, BS and, yes, the hooey. How much more exciting (and publicity-generating*) to talk about DEATH PANELS. Godwin's law - what is it, and how does it apply in these 'troubled times?'
2009-08-08 Listen D ownload	What do the Birthers, climate change deniers, the Town Hall bullies and the Flat Earth Society have in common? (Those krazy kids.) Samantha's got some ideas. (Don't miss this other take on the Flat Earth Society).
2009-08-01 L isten D ownload	"I am not a racist." says suspended Boston Police Officer after comparing Gates to a "banana- eating jungle monkey." (don't miss the last 10 minutes when Scott from the Cape sez white people are losing their place in society because of black people) George Mokray talks about HEET, a cool new way to get your house green without costing a fortune.
2009-07-25 Listen Download	Tony Schinella of Politizine.com and Professor Scott Brewer of the Harvard Law School joined us to talk about... THE GATES CASE (of course) - why do Bostonians go ape-wild over the issue of race? Why is the skin SO THIN? We talked about this topic so volatile that not only did the Prez get involved, but the Policeman's Union said he'll regret it.
2009-07-18 Listen Download	Dr. Susan Heilman, Museum of Science - 40th anniversary of moon landing, and bonus topic: lunar haiku (!) Steve Bloomstein, President of the Turimiquire Foundation - maternal/child health in Venezuela The Official Rules of Shotgun - what keeps us from being barbarians!
2009-07-11 Listen Download	Tibor Fischer, author, on 20th anniversary on events in Hungary leading to fall of Communism Sam on global business
2009 06 27 Listen Download	Craig Sandler, State House News Service - ethics, budget and Michael Jackson(!) Michael Jackson inspired by Manu Dibanko (?) British view of American Revolution
2009 06 20 Listen Download	Ned Holstein, Founder, Fathers and Families
2009 06 13 Listen Download	Sam on the Iranian elections people in the streets is this a poll or a revolution
2009 06 06 Listen Download	Rev Katherine Ragsdale, Episcopalian Divinity School - Tiller murder Craig Sandler, State House News Service - Mass Dem convention, Dimasi
2008 07 21 Watch	Sam appeared as a guest on *Mark Levine's TV Inside Scoop* Foreign companies buying American - are they taking over? The Obama fist-bump on the New Yorker? ugly smear or clever satire? Will the price of oil ever go down again? Is Obama a moderate pretending to be a progressive or a progressive pretending to be a moderate?