Hammer Mill Days

Wait, shhh... Did you hear that sound? Yeah, that sound. That's the sound of another podcast being posted. Praise be. What's in the program this month? Well.... pretty much anything we could find lying about the Hammer Mill. Bits and bobs, as they say. Is it lame? You be the judge! My lips are sealed on the quality issue. But I will talk about what's in the bulging box that is THIS IS BIG GREEN - OCTOBERCAST 2012 . An hour and twenty of sheer audio madness, featuring: Mr. Ned, Romney's Talking Horse - Episode 3: Ned Trek. The most ambitious in the Mr. Ned series yet, Romney's famous talking dressage horse takes Willard on a journey through a space/time wormhole to an alternative dimension of television mediocrity. Yes, Mitt is made commander of the starship Free Enterprise, and he and his crew of neocons take on an extraterrestrial threat that only a cash-starved special effects department could conjure. Hi-jinx ensue. (Special guest appearance by former presi...

In our monthly podcast, it's my job to do a cheap (dirt cheap) imitation of Mitt Romney. (Matt's got the heavy lifting - he has to talk like a horse.) And I think you can tell if you listen to more than one episode, my impression of him is shifting. But I think you might agree that Willard's own impression of himself has mutated a hell of a lot faster than anyone would have imagined a few months ago. We are truly living in a post-modern age of political rhetoric. Romney has a massive right-wing orchestra to blow hard on every note that passes his lips. He makes a claim, and it gets chorused incessantly by FoxNews, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and countless others like them to millions of Americans. Together they create such a storm surge of bullshit that it pushes far inland to where the mainstream corporate media lives. They who spend most of their time trying to disprove the canard that they are radical leftists feel compelled to report on whatever's being tossed up,...