Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
Blue Yeti ·
March 17, 2011 at 2:02am
It's been a dramatic week and with guests Pat Sajak and Jonah Goldberg, we cover it all on the podcast: Japan, nukes, budgets, questionably named hotels, and crystal balls, all while battling the Skype Gods. It's worth it though.
Come hell or high water, we bring you the links:
- First, the really important stuff: The Presidential Brackets, brought to you in part by the Official Ricochet NCAA Bracket Pools. Fill yours out today (or before Thursday at 9AM PT).
- Jonah's Los Angeles Times column is here.
- Fark.com is a geek oriented website that is fond of pointing out the absurdity of new coverage and commentary. They missed it on this one, though.
- Friend of The Podcast Harry Shearer's tweets about using the ocean to power electricity generating turbines seems --oh how do we say this-- optimistic and even quaint.
- The China Syndrome was released in 1979, just 12 days before the event at Three Mile Island. The title refers to what would happen if the core of a nuclear reactor got so hot that it would melt a hole all the way to China. We're interested to find out what title the movie was released under in the Far East.
- Here's the story about the reactor engineer who quit 35 years ago (!) because he disagreed with the way the reactors had been designed. What a whistleblower!
- John Podhoretz's item predicting the demise of nuclear power. Ricochet contributor Mike Murphy's tweet lauding the Obama administration's continuing support of nuclear power.
- Hey Rob -- you can already get a cell phone planted in your head. Hello? HELLO?
- James Lileks' Ricochet post "Goodbye To Dependable Juice" is here.
- The Farmer's Daughter Hotel is located in fabulous West Hollywood, CA. You can check out anytime you like...
- Jonah's piece for NRO on the hysteria over Japan’s nuclear reactors is here. His post on The Corner about The GOP Presidential Funk is here.
- It's true: Meghan McCain did endorse Mitt Romney for president. National Review called it "the kiss of death."
- Our own Peter Robinson wrote about George Will's man crush on Mitch Daniels last month.
- Here's Rich Lowry's piece on Obama that metaphorically compares him to a show horse.
- No, we're not going to link to Martini Shot for a third consecutive week. Not gonna do it.
Music from this week's episode:
- This Is Why We Fight by The Decemberists
- Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest
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May '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
Blue Yeti
A game called Homefront was released yesterday, just days after Japan's earthquake and in the midst of all this nuclear reactor hoopla. The game's story, written by John Milius, is a historical fiction involving a series of events leading to an invasion of the United States by North Korea.
Throughout the game, the player can run across newspaper clippings which flesh out the events leading to the invasion. I was surprised to read one describing how North Korea infiltrated Japan's nuclear reactors and sabotaged one to cause a meltdown. By threatening to cause further nuclear meltdowns and thereby spoil the country, North Korea succeeded in conquering Japan by scaring them into submission.
March 15 has been the game's scheduled release date for a long time. It turned out to be timely.
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
Man, if the Yeti would just post this list of links BEFORE we do the show, it would be so much easier; we'd know what to say. Thanks again for a great list, and a round of applause for his tireless work in annotating our palaver.
Dec '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
If somebody is killed by radiation, is he more dead than somebody who is drown?
Jun '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
No! but the former glows nicely in the dark.
May '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
Ah... someone knows his Bach.
Not only should you read Tim Blair's blog, you need to get Tim Blair to blog on Ricochet.
Thanks for thinking of us, James...
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
Thanks for listening, Lilium - Tim's a friend. At this very moment I am writing from a table under which he drank me a few years ago.
Aug '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
So if a 8.9 earthquake hit a solar panel plant or wind farm what would be the outcome? The solar panels would be destroyed and the windmills would fall down. After working for companies like Applied Materials and destroying silicon wafers after laughing at Ben Bernanke's latest comments how I can believe green power is the solution? I guess the 12 century technology of wind power could be the future of the human race.
I hope the name of the movie would be "The DC Syndrome" where the socialists and squishy Republics would are destroyed. We could only hope.
Jul '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
Lilium:
Thanks for thinking of us, James... · Mar 16 at 9:28pm
Yes, thanks James. Though I did think it was instructive that none of the other Ricochet regulars had anything to say when you mentioned the antipodean carbon tax shenanigans . I mean really, why should anyone care - we emit 1.4% of the global carbon footprint, and our illustrious PM, who recently visited your shores and made John Boehner cry, wants to reduce our output by a whole 5%, at a very high cost to our economy, particularly our resource exports.
We are constantly regaled with talk about how we need to lead globally on this issue, because getting out in front will mean we are "early adopters": set up for success, like Microsoft or something. Yes, really. Our "elites" desperately want to be noticed by the big boys.
May '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
Which resulted in a memorable Bleatcast. <sigh> Happy Days.
Jan '11
Re: Ricochet Podcast #61:The King of Segues
That "general feeling of dyspepsia" about the GOP presidential field comes from watching too much CNN, et. al. The pundits have already set their Pro-Obama, strawman narrative in motion - naming Huckabee, etc. then saying Obama doesn't have to worry about those guys beating him in the election. It's a psych play and too many TV watchers are falling for it.