A mish-mosh of items this time around.  Lisa returns to help Steve discuss the Green primaries, Wal-Mart, Jenna's wedding, the Orioles, the U.S. Patent Office, the D.C. Madam, Fox Noise, and conspiracy theories.  And all this without getting into women's clothing!  (Well, okay, Lisa did.  And we think Mark Penn did, too, but don't hold us to that.)

• MSNBC: Kansas firm sells candid Wal-Mart videos.  Comedy gold!  In drag!
• NYT: Questions on the validity of 46 judges.  Remember that thing called "The Constitution"?  Whaddevah happened to that, anyway?
• Wikipedia: Controversy surrounding the circumstances of her (the D.C. Madam's) death.
• Crooks and Liars (not Think Progress): Working class = Low-class

Plus, some great music from Black Nite Crash (and not from an '80s movie).  Go there, and buy their new album, Array!  (It's available soon!)

It's a solo effort by Steve this time - which is enough to make anyone want to break out the chainsaws. In this episode:

• Green Party press release on how the election's going so far (not that anyone watching the MSM would know...)
• Philadelphia Daily News: Would Obama prosecute Bush administration officials?
• New York Times: Behind TV analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand by David Barstow
• Leo Strauss at Sourcewatch
• Baltimore Sun: Guess who's coming to town?
• BG&E (remember that "&"!) hikes rates yet again...and a graphic to prove it

Plus, get with the sounds of New 2 the Brain and Moral Decline! The first is self-described as "music for your brain", which we can definitely get down with; the second is...let's say "music for your gonads".

And we hate to do this, but, okay...WARNING! Moral Decline uses some of the Seven Words You Can't Say on TV in this song...and it also has the potential to cause widespread moral panic in these here United States, and may even make people stop watching reality television and start using their brains for something other than a hat rack.

"Mah Gawd, Ethel! What'll those subversive, pinko Greens think of next??"

And leave comments, people! Mahalo.

Sound samples used under a Creative Commons license from The Freesound Project:

• By Halleck: pre-show_chatter.flac
• By hazure: timber.wav

The base image used has previously been released into the public domain by Pearson Scott Foresman.