Not The Attorney General
It's Sunday night, November 24, 2024, 22:35, and I've updated this Web page with the link to the archive of the program and with information about this Matt Gaetz character. More to come. The original top of this page follows the arrow. ⇒ Another rush is on here. I fell asleep after I got the program done. I plan to add to this page, maybe even later today. It might be worthwhile to check back for the updates.
You can now listen to this program on the official WBAI Archive.
The next regular WBAI LSB meeting will be held on Wednesday December 11, 2024, at 7:00 PM. That meeting will be held on ZOOM, even though ZOOM compromises privacy and security. That will be the first meeting of the 14th WBAI LSB. I won't be on it because will term out in December.
This past week's meeting was the final meeting of the 13th WBAI LSB, and it was my final LSB meeting as a voting member. There are term limits on the Pacifica LSBs and I will hit my term limit when the December meeting starts. This past week's meeting saw people trying to get more meetings crammed in. It also saw the same people complaining about wasting time on the agenda while wasting time on an alternate agenda that they never even bothered to propose to the meeting. And then they complained about how long things took even though they were the ones delaying everything and forcing roll call votes on routine matters, thereby making something that should have taken maybe two seconds take about five minutes or more. Yeah, not with a bang but with a whimper.
Some years ago the WBAI LSB voted to hold its regular meetings on the second Wednesday of every month, subject to change by the LSB, so we have the following schedule:
These meetings are set to begin at 7:00 PM.
WBAI has a program schedule up on its Web site. The site has gotten many of the individual program pages together to provide links and such, so check it out.
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Here is WBAI's current Internet stream. We can no longer tell if the stream is working without testing every possible stream. Good luck.
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WBAI is archiving the programs! WBAI has permanently switched to yet another new archive Web page! This one is more baffling than the previous one. For some time I was unable to post archive blurbs, then I could, and then I couldn't again. Now I can again and there are a whole bunch of archive blurbs up there now.
This is a link to the latest version of the official WBAI archive. The archiving software appears to have been at least partially fixed. To get to the archive of this program you can use the usual method: you'll have to click on the drop-down menu, which says Display,
and find Back of the Book on that menu. We're pretty early in the list, so it shouldn't be too difficult. Once you find the program name click GO
and you'll see only this Back of the Book program. Management has fixed some problems that we'd been having with the archives.
For programs before March 23, 2019, we're all out of luck. The changes that took place once WBAI Management took control of the WBAI archives seems to have wiped out all access to anything before that date in March. You'll have to click on the same drop-down menu as above, which says Display,
and find Specify Date
, it's the second choice from the top. You are then given a little pop-up calendar and you can choose the date of the program there. Then click GO
and you'll see a list of programs that aired on that date. For those previous programs you can get the audio, but nothing else, since I can't post anything to those pages anymore. Good luck.
Since the former General Manager banned Sidney Smith from WBAI he's not alternating with us on the air. As of November 2020, Back of the Book airs weekly.
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Gaetz bails! With even some of the Trump toadies refusing to vote for this asshole Gaetz to be the Attorney General of the United States of America Gaetz was forced to acknowledge that he had to drop out of contention for the office of Attorney General. A question remains, however. He ran for reelection and won. If he comes back on January 1, to fill the newly elected seat can the investigation details be divulged to the House members? Hmmm, maybe he won't want that hot seat now.
UPDATE: After this program aired Gaetz was being quoted as saying that he will not try to return to the House seat he'd vacated. He will instead go the route of fellow Republicans George Santos and Rudy Giuliani and charge people for audio greetings sold on a Web site. I have to conclude that he figures that if he were to get back into Congress that he'd be facing the real possibility that the information about him that had been developed by the House Ethics Committee would be disseminated to the rest of the House members. I don't think he wants that to happen.
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Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi are reported to have left the United States of America and to have moved to a new home in southwest England. Ellen is quoted as saying that they were very disillusioned
with Trump's getting elected again and felt that they had to, get the hell out,
according to the TV show TMZ. Ellen DeGeneres had enthusiastically endorsed Kamala Harris for president in July.
I think that actually moving out of the country is pretty drastic, but I can understand it. I'm feeling pretty bad these days from a number of things, not all Trump related. I can see how a pair of high profile lesbians might think that they aren't safe in a country that has a convicted criminal as its chief executive. I mean, we had neo-Nazis marching through the streets of Columbus, Ohio this last week! Yeah, that's the state where the Vice President Elect comes from. It will be a difficult four years.
The two of them plan to sell their house in Montecito, California. I'm reading that their previous house sold for a something like $96 million. Wow! Well, they're not the poor lesbians with whom I'm so familiar.
I'm reading about what was referred to as many celebrities
who are moving out of the United States of America because of the results of this election. I hope that doesn't actually happen, and I hope that Ellen and her wife will feel that they can move back here in four or five years. Meanwhile, I'm staying and will fight it out as I can.
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There are a lot of issues that are considered hazardous to talk about on the air at WBAI, even though the gag rule was lifted in 2002. However, there is the Internet! There are mailing lists which you can subscribe to and Web based message boards devoted to WBAI and Pacifica issues. Many controversial WBAI/Pacifica issues are discussed on these lists.
One open list that no longer exists was the WBAI-specific Goodlight
Web based message board. It was sometimes referred to on Back of the Book as the bleepin' blue board,
owing to the blue background that was used on its Web pages. This one had many people posting anonymously and there was also an ancillary WBAI people
board that was just totally out of hand.
In June 2012, I ended up having to salvage the bleepin' blue board, and so I was the moderator on it for its last seven years, until it got too expensive.
Sometimes we used to have live interaction with people posting on the Goodlight Board
during the program.
Our very own Uncle Sidney Smith, whose program Saturday Morning With the Radio On used to alternate with us, has a blog these days. You can reach his blog here.
There used to be a number of mailing lists related to Pacifica and WBAI. Unfortunately, they were all located on Yahoo! Groups. When Yahoo! Groups was totally shut down in December 2020, all of those mailing lists ceased to exist. One year earlier their file sections and archives of E-mails, had been excised leaving only the ability to send E-mails back and forth among the members. Now it's all gone. Older Back of the Book program Web pages tell a little more about those lists.
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