Another episode of the green-tinged podcast.

Talk:

• Jim thinks third-party candidates didn’t do very well in Massachusetts.
• Jim thinks Grace Ross should run for Worcester’s City Council.
• Mike thinks WCCA is awesome.
• Mike talks a bunch about community media and for-profit media. (If you read this blog, you’ve seen it before.)
• Jim watched some of the new English-language al-Jazeera.

Interview:

• Jim talks with Ann Hancock of the Climate Protection Campaign about greenhouse gases and ecobabes.

Sports crew:

• They talk about sports.

After a sleepless night riding the bus, and a long day hanging around a hospital, Mike summons the energy to phone Jim and record a podcast. They mostly complain about the Democrats.

Then Jim interviews Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern, and Anna Burger, the chair of the Change to Win Coalition.

After Mauro DePasquale’s song “In Your Hands,” the sports crew extolls the joys of tailgating.

Yes, another Saint Kermit podcast.

• Mike interviews Rand Wilson about the Working Families Party and Question 2.
• Jim and Mike talk about the gubernatorial debates.
• Jim interviews John McCutcheon about music, labor, and baseball. Featuring John’s song “It’s the Economy, Stupid.”
• More baseball from the sports gang.

[download the mp3 of "Saint Kermit #43: Frank Talk"]

We rant about:

• Kerry Healey calling Deval Patrick soft on crime
• Somebody revealing the skeleton in Patrick’s sister’s closet
• Rand Wilson, who is polling double-digits as “Working Families” candate for State Auditor
• Jill Stein, polling double-digits as “Green-Rainbow” candidate for Secretary of State

Interview: Barney Frank.
Music: National Carpet.
Sports: Sport.

Another week, another amazing episode of Saint Kermit.

[download the mp3 of "Saint Kermit #41:Healthy Activism"]

Rant topics:

• Worcester Public Library changes lending policy
• Kevin Ksen arrested, “COPS” kicked out of Worcester
• Globe calls for two-party debates. “Voters will definitely be best served if the next debate is for contenders only.”

Guest: Maine governor candidate Pat LaMarche.

Music: Rod Murphy.

Sports: Sports.

Pat LaMarche accepts the Green Party nomination for Vice President, 2004. Photo by Mike Benedetti.

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First, Jim Henderson and Mike Benedetti discuss poverty and race:

• Report: Data show one in eight Americans in poverty
• Rep. Chris “The Count” Chocola responds to the report
• Proposal: roll Mass. income tax back to 5%
• Coach Pat Williams incident
• Colorblinded: Walter Benn Michaels wants the left to stop obsessing over diversity and start worrying about economic inequality
• Massachusetts: Wages down almost 5 percent, report says
• Tom Cornell’s Labor Day sermon
• Michael Apted’s “Up” documentaries

Interview: Jean Hay Bright, running for Senate against incumbent Olympia Snowe in Maine. Jean Hay Bright has a diary at DailyKos. TIME on Olympia Snowe: “. . . she is also known as one of the most effective advocates for her constituents.”

Music: Ad Frank, “World’s Best Ex-Boyfriend”

Sports: The crew talks with Seth Mnookin about his book Feeding the Monster and the Sox.

Note: No, I am not going to blog every St Kermit from now on.