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Reunited

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It's a special Saturday edition of the Ricochet Podcast, and it's special not only because of the day (April Fool's Day!), but because we get to welcome back our regulate host, TV's Rob Long. We cover the all the news of the past six months, Peter's quest to buy a new TV, what it's like to take over a network TV show in mid-season, take some questions from the chat room and from the Member Feed (thanks V The K), and just have some fun. Hey, it's Saturday.

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Discussion (28)

  • JcTPatriot

    The worst White House ever, including the Clinton White House?

    The Clinton White House immediately began breaking laws and committing ethics violations, starting with making up false charges against the Travel Office and getting them all fired, ruining their careers, and installing their own cronies. It went downhill from there.

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say you just have a poor memory.

  • Rightfromthestart@Rightfromthestart
    I'll add to that, in my memory every incoming Republican Administratuon is described as 'faltering' 'trying to regain footing' , 'backpedaling ' ' in disarray' 'chaotic' and all the rest, I could have predicted these headlines before Christmas. Remember adding arsenic to the water? Uncle Cheney was really running the place ? Etc
  • Caitlin Cameron@CaitlinCameron
    In my small town in the lower Midwest, Pence's rule is pretty normal--one of those basic pieces of marriage advice, like having a "date night" to keep your marriage healthy. I was baffled the first time I heard it. It seemed paranoid to me. At the time, I responded "My husband is a professor, so he spends his days with 20-year-olds, and if I felt that I constantly had to worry about that, I'd be a wreck." That was 20 years ago. Since then, I've come to see this rule as completely reasonable. It's not about paranoia or lack of control. It's not about the man having to restrain his masculine sexual aggression or other women being inherently provocative. Rather, it's an acknowledgement that in most marriages, husband and wife are generally pulled in opposite directions by daily life and have very separate social circles. Home life might be a pretty small slice of time or be stressful because of small children or other factors. That's why date night is considered such an important practice. The Pence Rule says, "lead me not into temptation": physical temptation but also the temptation of a close emotional relationship outside of but similar to marriage. My young adult children and their friends frequently struggle with this when they start a new relationship and have to deal with their boyfriend/girlfriend's "best friend" from way back, who is an opposite sex best friend.
  • Aaron Miller@AaronMiller

    Good to have you back, Rob.

    Humility can lead anyone to the conclusion that it is often better to avoid temptation than to trust in resistance. We are emotional beings with impulses that sometimes overcome our honestly held principles. No person lives perfectly according to one's own rules of good behavior. The good try.

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