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Tribute to a Friend I Never Met – Tom Magliozzi

November 4, 2014September 29, 2018 B. John 359 Views 0 Comments Car Talk, fun, Goodbye, laughter, Ray Magliozzi, Tom Magliozzi

One of the hosts of perhaps the funniest show on any medium, Tom Magliozzi, of Car Talk on National Public Radio (NPR) died earlier this week from complications associate with Alzheimer’s Disease. I was fortunate to come across National Public Radio very many years ago, somewhere around the early ’80s. Tom and his brother Ray had done a car repair call in show on the Boston NPR station for about 10 years, and then I first them as they started doing a brief regular segment on NPR’s Weekend Edition each week. The show went on NPR nationally in 1987 and was on Saturday mornings.

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Janet Mefferd Wants Right to Not Even Have to See Gay People

February 18, 2013March 5, 2013 B. John 273 Views 1 Comment

You read it right. Radio host Janet Mefferd says that it’s a civil rights violation (the right to freedom of religion) to not even have to “see” gay people. This is how over the top and vitriolic the krazy kristian kooks of the conservative right have become. Last week, a teacher at a school in Indiana decided that if gay and lesbian students were going to get to come to the prom, then there should be a separate prom for the “christian” children (that “c” is intentionally not capitalized). So Mefferd decided she had to weigh in on the topic.

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NPR Embraces Hate Groups

January 19, 2012September 29, 2018 B. John 407 Views 0 Comments AFA, All Things Considered, American Family Association, Barbara Bradley Haggerty, Bryan Fischer, Family Research Council, FRC, hate group, Joel Rose, Morning Addition, national public radio, Ombudsman, SPLC, Tony Perkins

Apparently NPR Religion Correspondent, Barbara Bradley-Haggerty, has decided that religious groups which claim to be Christian can’t possibly be hate groups. It also seems she makes decisions about who to interview for stories based on who returns her call the fastest.

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A Good Friend Who Doesn’t Know He’s a Good Friend

November 24, 2009August 10, 2015 322 Views 2 Comments Carl Kasell, Carl Kassel, Friends, life, national public radio, news, NPR

Carl Kasell is retiring from NPR as the Morning Edition news anchor after holding the job for 30 years since the inception of the program. I have never had the pleasure of meeting Carl Kasell, and I don’t think I’d ever seen a picture of him until his retirement was announced this week, but I knew that voice as well as that of my best friends.

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A Good Friend Who Doesn't Know He's a Good Friend

November 24, 2009 B. John 322 Views 2 Comments Carl Kasell, Carl Kassel, Friends, life, national public radio, news, NPR