Wry reflections by KD on American toilet-paper shortages current and past--including the original one of 1973. Plus capitalism's high-dollar solution to the current one: give bidets as Christmas presents to everyone on your list. Yes, they actually said this. And David Rovics' $2 alternative.
Plus a short, upbeat talk by Chris Hedges and--to celebrate installment #666--a few words on the number of the beast.
Chris Hedges video "The Miracle of Kindness," produced for the Emir-Stein Center, is available on YouTube
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "table") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
This installment is available--in MP3 and other formats--also on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/nwn-666-pandemic-3-192k
Details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: https://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.
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