Hammer Mill Days

Jesus, Marvin. When I told you to release the podcast, I didn't mean put it on the end of a stick and hold it over your head. I meant "release it" in a more modern, technical sense. Are you sure you're a robot? Oh, okay. That's news to you. Whoops. Well, it appears that Marvin (my personal robot assistant) has learned where his last name came from. Red letter day for him, at least. Me? I have to walk you through a podcast you probably haven't heard because my mechanical friend thinks the act of dropping an episode is something akin to playing lacrosse. No matter - push on! Here's what we have in this month's THIS IS BIG GREEN podcast: Ned Trek 36: Grope in the Fold - This installment of our now long-running Ned Trek series (a parody mashup of classic Star Trek, Mr. Ed, and that thing they call the Republican party) commandeers a second-season (1967) script entitled "Wolf in the Fold". Action includes some first-rate screaming, a grippin...

As I mentioned briefly last week, it has happened again. Another deranged shooter with a military-style weapon and a mountain of ammunition. This time the target was a high school campus in Florida; last time it was somewhere else that didn't expect it. The young people who emerged in one piece from that atrocity have demonstrated an emotional and intellectual maturity, an eloquence, and a remarkable facility for organizing that puts us all to shame. When I see them, I hang my head - we, the older generations, simply are not good. Let them take the reins. Our cheese-headed president had some of them over on Wednesday, along with survivors of other mass shootings, for a "listening session". What has Trump taken away from this heinous remake of previous atrocities? Well, he is telling Beauregard to look into banning bump stocks, again. That is something the Justice Department has been working on for months, since the Las Vegas massacre. The problem is that the administrat...