On my leisurely drive to becoming a cranky old man, I've been listening to a lot of talk radio on the internet. Now, you can't get the hard right stuff on the internet because they're all about the bling-bling ultimately and that's not really what the internet is about. And anyway, they're boring. Much of the mainstream criticism of talk radio is that it is all neo-con, all the time. And that's relatively true if you only have a radio and not a high speed broadband connection.

So, first I set out to listen to the liberal or progressive alternatives, ya know just for a change of pace. I liked it okay because they weren't passive, but they tended to use the same non-logic rhetoric I hear the mainstream right-wing yakkers use. (generalizations, name-calling, focusing on only the tiny details or one-issue, etc.) Now, that said, some of the shows were interesting because they did, more so than I hear on the mainstream radio, allow opposing viewpoints and debated fairer.

Then, I was watching Trio on Wednesday, they showed a program called Secret Rulers of the World. The program focused on Alex Jones and his quest to film the Bohemian Grove meeting, a super secret camp for world leaders. Jones is a radio talk show host from Austin.

Check out his website here and here.

You can also visit the radio network he's on.

The radio network is an weird mix of conspiracy, isolationism, christianity, libertarianism and attacks on both left and the right and the one world order. There's even a farm-based program fighting corporate farms that named names of politicians here in Nebraska. Fascinating stuff from blue-eyed believers.

Do I believe it? I dunno, I already have trouble sleeping at night without further connecting more dots. However, as a fan of the loyal opposition in whatever form it takes and of the conspiracy subculture, it's good to hear.

As Harry Shearer said in the documentary, "These people (the conspiracy theorists) are the last, best storytellers America has."

Indeed.

7:46:41 PM    Oh yea! []

A head's up to a new program I like for OSX, it's Radiolover. I can record internet streams in a very itunes way. Not only that, if I'm listening to Radio Paradise, radiolover separates all the songs into single tracks.

Is this legal?

7:02:30 PM    Oh yea! []

The male menopause is a myth, the symptoms more likely to be caused by laziness and unhealthy living, say experts. [BBC News]

Male menopause?

11:10:43 AM    Oh yea! []