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  • 82: “Give Us The Disk And We’ll Give You Your Life Back” – The Net

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    http://media.blubrry.com/when_we_were_young/www.themfp.org/audio/WWWY82.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:18:08 — 62.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSYou’ve got podcast! In our latest episode, we’re flashing back to the bygone days of floppy disks, away messages, and actually disconnecting from the world wide web sometimes. It’s a two-part When We Were Young Net-rospective as we reminisce…

  • 79: “We End Up In Bed Together” – The X-Files Part 2

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    http://media.blubrry.com/when_we_were_young/www.themfp.org/audio/WWWY79.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:15:21 — 61.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSSLast time on the podcast, we shared our own histories with the X-Files from back When We Were Young – so listen to Episode 78 for Part 1 of this conversation. Here in the second installment, we talk about…

  • Trump Isn’t Just Trump

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    Pointing to Trump as The Crazy Guy, and not the embodiment of an entire ideological worldview America needs to actively reject for good, is really hurting every effort to stop him. Donald Trump is like all the bad ju-ju of America converging in one pulchritudinous host. Trump is the bilge emanating from hundreds of years…

  • The Voting Rights Act and DOMA are Dead, and John Lewis is Alive

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    At the end of a resounding and thunderous two days for this country, I am reminded of a speech given in 1996 by civil rights hero and Congressman John Lewis. He helped form the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and was one of the Freedom Riders who publicly and peacefully defied segregation, and he was nearly…