Topics

1. Nagging Question: Can You Really Make a Boat out of an Old Bathtub??​​
2. Flowers of Disgust Ethics Panel: Duck Tales, Allowance Day (1989) wherein Scrooge’s nephews trick him into thinking it’s a day later than it really is, so he will give them their allowance money early, before a certain bicycle sale ends, but the plot backfires after Scrooge’s vast influence among the finance sector causes a ripple effect in which everyone in town becomes convinced it’s a day later – including the bike store! SEGMENT POSTPONED
3. How Many Bills Can We Name?
4. Serious Discussion: Is American Democracy Doomed? A Serious Discussion of Matthew Yglesias’ American Democracy Is Doomed (Vox Magazine, 2015)

Songs

• Miniskirt
• Comin’ Home Baby
• Shineth Not the Sun

Further Research / Deeper Learning:

• Image search for “bathtub as boat”
• American Democracy Is Doomed (Matthew Yglesias, Vox)
• Animal Cops – “Horse Rescue”
• John McLaughlin Obituary
• Nice building. Bad roof. Good parking!