Conversation #36: Lightning Round and Remembering the Start of the Iraq War (March 25, 2018)

This week: we finished reading The Hobbit to the kids! And Paul started reading The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. We cooked an Indian feast! We have 4 short topics: the Uber self-driving car crash; Caitlin Johnstone on leaving social media; Slate on the rising cost of suburban housing; and the Stanford Graduate School of Business on how the workplace is killing people. Then, Paul reads excerpts from his blog from 15 years ago, when he was writing in protest of the start of the war in Iraq.

How to Listen

You can find the MP3 file here.

The Podcast feed is here.

The Podcast channel on YouTube is here.

More Information

Here is the page for Julie Sahni’s fantastic cookbook Classic Indian Cooking as well as her other books.

Here is the page for the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy X. Lee et al.

Caitlin Johnstone’s article on leaving social media is here.

The Slate piece on suburban housing costs is here.

The Stanford Graduate School of Business book review is here.

The book reviewed is Dying for a Paycheck by Jeffrey Pfeffer. Here is the page for the book.

You can find Paul’s old blog posts on the Iraq war here. Specifically, he read excerpts from these posts from March 2003:

• Et Tu, Daddy?

• Sleepless in Ann Arbor

• The Rhetoric is Flying

• Drums of Peace, Voices of Sanity

• Shock, Awe… Horror, Disgust… Business as Usual… and Deja Vu

• America Using WMD, Violating Geneva Convention, No Film at 11

Those posts contain many broken links. As time permits, Paul will try to reconstruct the posts with links to the Internet Archive or other sources.

This Week’s Music

The music is from Paul’s song “Leaving Ann Arbor.” There’s a video here and you can download the song here.