My hero, and yours.

NEWS REPORT:

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REMIX v1.0:

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The SMARTS and STRENGTH of Antoine Dodson
Read this Washington Post review of this multi-dimensional web celebrity.  And check out his Q&A!

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• And check out the DubStep Remix HERE.

It’s all the same on the low-end of the socioeconomic spectrum.

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To help, we must learn.  To learn, we must listen.  Hear the music, twin.

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The Channel Guide – Episode ONE

Not by deliberate design did the media we assemble for our first broadcast collude to produce a theme.
But it’s easy to detect.

In our interviews and excerpts, there emerges a call to take responsibility for history’s course.  To combat “the paralysis of inspiration, the romantic celebration of small-minded bureaucracy, the feverish tyranny of the status quo, the staggering poverty of ambition.”

CONTENTS:

“STAND UP!  Start challenging this corporate slave state. Resistance is not futile.”
“There’s got to be a genuine awakening . . . of individual responsibility, to use every means of communication.”
“The community must be given the chance to express itself.”
“But this morning, I felt as strong as a bolt of lightning…”

SET LIST:

• 1:25 – Intro & Welcome
• 2:43 - MC Sniper ft. Outsider – “Better Than Yesterday’
• 5:40 – Anderson Interview, Part 1
• 7:54 – Lalibela – “Look Lord”
• 9:07 - The Channel Guide’s Week In News
• 10:24 – Randy, Josiah, & Jesse
• 12:46 - Anderson Interview, Part 2
• 17:04 - CollegeHumor’s Battle Rap
• 18:14 - INTERMISSION
• 19:35 – Snakes – “This Ain’t A Love Song (This Is A Like Song)”
• 22:51 - Californication
• 23:28 – Public Service Announcement on behalf of The Smile Train
• 24:47 – Anderson Interview, Part 3
• 27:27 – Waking Life
• 29:15 – Snelling Interview
• 33:38 – Outro & Goodbye
• … and until 38:00 – Backyard Band – “Sick of Being Lonely”

ABSTRACT:
In this inaugural broadcast of The Channel Guide, we interview the Honorable John B. Anderson, 1980 third-party Presidential candidate and 10-term Congressman from Illinois.  He speaks of his deep regret for supporting the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the demise of his former Republican Party, his role in passing the Civil Rights Act, and the duties of our millennial generation.  Presented in three installments.
(Read Time Magazine’s 1980 article on Anderson’s historic race, and check out his campaign commercial.)

We also offer rhythms from around the 38th, kicking off with South Korean sensation MC Sniper, whose “Better Than Yesterday” features Korea’s poetic prodigies.  Hold your breath for Outsider… you’ll both need it.

There’s a track from up-and-coming hip hop sensation Snakes,* a slam from the lovely lady Lalibela, and a show-closing musical massage by DC’s very own Backyard Band.

We’re also proud to present the CollegeHumor Battle Rap starring In the Heights prodigy Lin-Manuel Miranda, along with relevant commentary from a few less-than-recognizable media speaks.

The rest unfolds serenely, interwoven throughout our studio banter:
Comedy.  News.  Politics.  Community Organizing.  Trust.

Word to the Lady Michelle.

The following interview with DC’s Ward 5 City Council candidate Delano Hunter has been divided into fifteen two-to-four minute clips.

It was broadcast in March 2010 on WESU, Middletown, WRBB, Boston, WCDB, Albany, and online at WVAU.org.

Excerpts from this interview will appear in Episode 2 of “The Channel Guide” radio program pilot, to be released at this URL on September 11, 2010.

• 1 – Intro – Delano Hunter explains why he’s running for DC City Council
• 2 – On Age, Experience, D-Day
• 3 – Mechanics, Campaign Team, Wisdom of the Crowd
• 4 – Name Pronunciation, Raising Funds, Grass Roots Support
• 5 – Raising Funds, Campaign Tactics, Folks’ Response
• 6 – Getting Involved in Governance, Office Hours
• 7 – Advisers and Team, Mistakes, Learning Curve
• 8 – Website, Platform, Special Interests
• 9 – Honesty, ‘Niece’, Thoughts on Obama
• 10 – Innovative Solutions, NIKE story, “This Is Your Calling”
• 11 – H Street Corridor and Gentrification
• 12 – DC Voting Rights
  
• 13 – Gay Marriage
• 14 – Medicinal Marijuana
  
• 15 – HOW to Get Involved, WHY to Get Involved – Signoff
  

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Launching fall 2010

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Thank you for your feedback on this initial concept.

Source: AFP

A drug that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said Tuesday.

Women who took the drug flibanserin when it was being tested as an anti-depressant said it didn’t help them beat the glums, but did give them “an increase in libido that they liked,” John Thorp, one of the investigators analyzing data from three clinical trials of the drug, told AFP.

Lack of desire is the most common sexual problem in women aged 30 to 60, just as erectile dysfunction, for which Viagra is one of a choice of treatments, is the most common sexual disorder among men in the same age bracket, Thorp said.

“Men remain interested but can’t act or perform properly and women lose interest,” said Thorp.

“So where Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medications work in the blood supply, flibanserin works in the brain,” he said.

In the light of the women’s reactions to flibanserin, the German drug company that had first tested the drug as a treatment for depression, Boehringer Ingelheim, several years ago began exploring the possibilities of it being the active ingredient in the female answer to Viagra.

Nearly 2,000 pre-menopausal women were given flibanserin or a placebo for 24 weeks and asked to report back to researchers or make diary entries on six variables, including the number of satisfactory sexual encounters they had and their level of sexual desire.

The studies found that 100 milligrams a day of flibanserin resulted in “significant improvements” in the two variables.

Flibanserin is currently an investigational drug and is only available to women taking part in clinical trials.

This satirical take on developments at the border was submitted by one of our listeners.  Thanks for the contribution, Chet.

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How dare the Arizona legislature promulgate such discriminatory sanctions against the Catholics who courageously strive to embrace our great country, the land of the free?  SB 1070—Arizona’s shocking assault on this ancient religion—is a misdirected and hysterical overreaction to the institutionalized pedophilia of the Catholic Church.  While the good people of Arizona have every right to be revolted by the papacy’s active encouragement of child molestation, to pass a bill that denies foreign Catholics—most of whom have never committed a crime against a child—the right to enter our country is patently unfair.  The First Amendment, applicable to the States through the 14th Amendment, prohibits such discrimination against a religious group.  Even one that operates like a paternalistic, hierarchical cult.

This bill renders criminal any Catholic immigrant who exists without an alien registration document.  It requires police to question him about his status if there is reason to suspect that he is a Catholic from “south of the border.”  Perhaps the police will start checking to see whether they have the crucifix around their necks.  Indeed, wearing the mark of Christ is now tantamount to inviting the same persecution He faced.

The bill imposes penalties for harboring undocumented Catholics—even family members.  Are the police to be stationed outside Catholic churches in an attempt to ensnair unsuspecting worshippers?  Under this bill, these “pilgrims”—who cross the remote desert of Arizona in search of a better life in America—are to be stopped, searched, and imprisoned.  When will the government stop the oppression?  When will this “War on Catholics” end?

It is entirely understandable that Arizonians would not want the Pope, a former Nazi and child-molestation-apologizer, to visit their State.  But to impose punishment upon all Catholics who wish to come to Arizona from southern areas is a form of group punishment reminiscent of the despicable Japanese internment camps.  When will the Tea Party condemn this oppression?  Where are the Republicans who proclaim their belief in the right of the free exercise of religion?  This legislation signals that the government knows no limits; the War on Catholics will soon expand to target Catholics from Ireland, Catholics from Poland, even Catholics from Italy.

Yet what it won’t stop, of course, is the child molestation.  And isn’t that the real reason for this bill?  Indeed, some in Arizona may try to justify this assault on Catholics as an attempt to stop Mexican immigration.  But Americans are smarter than that; they know the real effort is to stop the Catholics.  The last time a religious group was targeted in such a way, six million Jews vanished from the Earth.  America, beware.

If Arizonians really wanted to protect children, they would keep them out of Catholic churches.  They would not try to keep Catholics out of America.

Brother Ali – Uncle Sam Goddamn

Try and separate a man from his soul
You’ll only strengthen him and lose your own

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Black Violin

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Tasha – Black Happiness
Chronicling the struggles of the half-black, half-Korean

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Take Your Best HEADSHOTS:

• Lloyd C. Blankfein of Goldman Sachs
• Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase
• John J. Mack of Morgan Stanley
• Brian T. Moynihan of Bank of America

That I would take the time to write you about such a trivial matter reinforces all sorts of negative stereotypes of my generation, I’m afraid.  Yet I feel compelled to correct the historical record, as it is increasingly limited to that which appears on the first page of Google search results.

In your articles in U.S. News & World Report, you have in the past referred to my generation as “Generation Y.”  I believe the terminology is at best uncreative, and at worst incorrect.  I ask you to consider my argument below, and perhaps change your terminology going forward.  Forgive my self-importance.

My generation, roughly comprised of people born after 1980 and before 2001, should be referenced by the term that has gained increasing momentum throughout the last decade: “Millennial.”  We came of age during the first decades of the new millennium, and our experience/comfort with new technologies has defined a type of human reliance on digital machines that will extend well into the future.  That such developments are associated with the turn of the new century bolsters the arguments that we should be linguistically connected with these developments.

The term “Millennial” is one people my age often use to reference one another, yet older individuals still insist on using the term “Generation Y.”  That denotation has always annoyed me, because it (a) sounds as though it were designed to be a temporary label, (b) defines my age group in relation to the one before it—Generation X—which has been widely derided for a whole variety of reasons, (c) it denies the fact that people of this demographic have already proven themselves to be fantastically creative entrepreneurial forces, and (d) belittles the very serious problems we must address, and which we have inflicted on ourselves.

Indeed, the alternatives just don’t fit.  Generation Y says so little about us; it’s often wielded by people who don’t understand our situation.  Generation Next was a marketing campaign, utilized by the same soft drink companies responsible for fattening my peers up.  Generation Net refers to only one element of our existence, important though it might be.  Only “Millennial Generation” truly captures the full range of issues with which we’re confronted at this stage in history, while simultaneously pinpointing our place in the historical timeline.

I cite Wikipedia here solely because the included references are legit.  Please forgive me for such stereotypically lazy research work here.  I am, after all, a Millennial.

Generation Y

Note how the first use of “Generation Y” was first used to denote people born as early as 1974.  These people were WELL into adulthood by the time the two-thousand-aughts rolled around.  Also, look into the book discussed in this entry: Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, by William Strauss and Neil Howe, which use the start year as 1982 and end year of the generation as 2001.

I urge you to be a part of the solution.  Thanks so much for your tolerance and attention.