The Bogosity Podcast

News of the Bogus: 18:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Meta 24:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Bluesky This Week's Quote: “Americans live under the delusion that enterprise here is both private and free. It may be nominally private, but it's anything but free. Unfortunately, most people don't know what freedom is. So they are unfazed when they […]

News of the Bogus: 22:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The AMA 29:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Texas This Week's Quote: “In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore—in short, to play.” —Darell […]

News of the Bogus: 19:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Shanon Burgess 32:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: New York Times This Week's Quote: “The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.” —Richard Feynman

News of the Bogus: 18:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The American Cancer Society 25:58 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Donald Trump This Week's Quote: “If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.” —Thomas Sowell

News of the Bogus: 18:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Google 25:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Joe Biden and Donald Trump This Week's Quote: “Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it […]

News of the Bogus: 25:46 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Wall Street Journal 31:19 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Speaker Mike Johnson This Week's Quote: “A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the […]

News of the Bogus: 15:22 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: RFK Jr. 20:00 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Marco Rubio This Week's Quote: “The professional soldiers and sailors don't want to disarm. No admiral wants to be without a ship. No general wants to be without a command. Both mean men without jobs. They are not for disarmament. […]

News of the Bogus: 19:04 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media 30:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: District Court Judges This Week's Quote: “I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the […]

News of the Bogus: 21:08 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Judge James Boasberg 30:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The RIAA This Week's Quote: “It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.” —Thomas Sowell

News of the Bogus: 16:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Perkins Coie 27:11 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Donald Trump This Week's Quote: “How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?” —John Stuart Mill

News of the Bogus: 15:57 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Gavin Newsom 20:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Daniel Clarke-Pounder This Week's Quote: “Eventually, the immoral use of government violence, when things goes badly, will be used to justify an individual's ‘right' to do the same thing. Neither the government nor individuals have the moral right to initiate […]

News of the Bogus: 17:57 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Perkins Coie 23:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Donald Trump This Week's Quote: “The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.” —P.J. […]

News of the Bogus: 18:13 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Mozilla Foundation 25:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Supreme Court This Week's Quote: “We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of […]

News of the Bogus: 16:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tennessee Supreme Court 23:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Russia This Week's Quote: “Thanks to the Internet, words can travel at the speed of light, and no amount of censorship can stop the flow of information.” —Newton Lee

News of the Bogus: 18:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Google 23:14 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Chuck Todd This Week's Quote: “The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.” —Ray Bradbury

News of the Bogus: 19:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Democrats and the News Media 28:38 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The New York Times This Week's Quote: “I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.” —Milton Friedman

News of the Bogus: 20:01 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: YouTube 24:44 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Register This Week's Quote: “Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.” —Robert A. Heinlein

News of the Bogus: 18:47 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: National Review 25:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Spain This Week's Quote: “Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.” —Eric S. Raymond

News of the Bogus: 17:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media 22:26 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Biden's Department of Justice This Week's Quote: “People need to understand that prosecutors are lawyers, and like my grandmama once told me, a law degree is a license to lie.” —Christopher Darden

News of the Bogus: 14:24 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Elizabeth Warren 22:14 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris This Week's Quote: “Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, […]

News of the Bogus: 16:18 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Juan Merchan 25:21 – Silver Cluon Award: Mark Zuckerberg 30:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Fani Willis This Week's Quote: “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good […]

0:00 – Intro 0:46 – Year In Review 16:30 – BBE/IE Winners 43:25 – Silver Cluon Winners 45:12 – Idiot of the Year: Robert Reich This Week's Quote: “It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights—the ‘right' to education, the ‘right' to health care, the ‘right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. […]

News of the Bogus: 21:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media 32:42 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez This Week's Quote: “It's easy to reject the initiation of violence against one's neighbor but it's ironic that the people arbitrarily and freely anoint government officials with monopoly power to initiate violence against the American people—practically at […]

News of the Bogus: 23:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rep. Dan Goldman 31:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Fani Willis This Week's Quote: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral […]

The podcast is off for Thanksgiving this weekend, so please enjoy five segments from previous editions of the Bogosity Podcast about Dr. Mehmet Oz—just a small taste of this lunatic's pseudoscience!

News of the Bogus: 18:17 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: US Secret Service 24:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: FDA (and Forbes, too) This Week's Quote: “Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point.” —Robert Anton Wilson ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

News of the Bogus: 21:23 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jack Smith 30:24 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Leftist Social and News Media Left-wing conspiracy theorists claim Elon Musk used satellites to ‘steal' US election https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/11/left-wing-conspiracy-theorists-elon-musk-satellites/ This Week's Quote: “In many of the nations of the Earth the real governing power has stood behind the throne, has suffered […]

News of the Bogus: 21:28 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tina Ansari 25:52 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The News Media This Week's Quote: “Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” —Potter Stewart

News of the Bogus: 17:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jena Griswold 31:59 – Silver Cluon Award: Mark Zuckerberg 34:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Jimmy Kimmel This Week's Quote: “A man's admiration for absolute government is proportional to his contempt he feels for those around him.” —Alexis de Tocqueville ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

News of the Bogus: 17:54 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Connecticut Attorney General 26:19 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Lucas Kunce This Week's Quote: “Not everyone in this country is a thief or corrupt. If I was, I would be a politician and be doing far better in life.” —Dušan Šestić

News of the Bogus: 26:40 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The New York Times 31:29 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Alex Proyas This Week's Quote: “You never change anything by fighting the existing. To change something, build a new model and make the existing obsolete.” —Buckminster Fuller

News of the Bogus: 21:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Apple 28:16 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Haitian Bridge Alliance/Chandra Law Firm This Week's Quote: “Whether they're wrong or right is irrelevant. They have a First Amendment right to speak out, even if they are wrong. And to criminally prosecute individuals for doing that is a violation of […]

News of the Bogus: 26:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tim Walz 32:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Godot Foundation This Week's Quote: “How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.” —Christopher Hitchens

News of the Bogus: 19:38 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Teamsters 24:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Donald Trump This Week's Quote: “Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons, and their object is the same—to prevent trade. The difference between the two is that blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek […]

News of the Bogus: 19:46 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, et al. 27:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Marco Rubio This Week's Quote: “Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.” —P.J. O'Rourke

News of the Bogus: 19:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: CDC and FBI 25:42 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals This Week's Quote: “Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.” —Learned Hand

News of the Bogus: 19:49 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Kamala Harris 24:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Boston Globe This Week's Quote: “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” —Bertrand Russell ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

Update: News of the Bogus: 19:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: University of Bristol 26:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Joe Biden This Week's Quote: “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” —Albert Camus ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

News of the Bogus: 21:17 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Texas (and seven other states) 27:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The UK This Week's Quote: “All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of […]

So, on the latest podcast, I did a story about Suno and Udio being sued by the RIAA. As an example of how this works, I had Suno create a song based on the prompt, “A folk song about the RIAA suing Suno.” It came up with a song that it titled, “Money Talks, Music […]

News of the Bogus: 23:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Christopher Wray 28:00 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Minnesota Supreme Court This Week's Quote: “There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.” —Lord Acton

News of the Bogus: 14:08 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Google 22:40 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Christopher Wray and Newsweek This Week's Quote: “I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.” —Christopher Hitchens

News of the Bogus: 28:36 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The EU 34:22 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Crowdstrike This Week's Quote: “On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?” —Eric S. Raymond ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

News of the Bogus: 22:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sony 28:21 – Idiot Extraordinaire: California This Week's Quote: “What you want is protection. You want to be safe. What the government does is to try to retaliate after the fact.” —Robert LeFevre

News of the Bogus: 23:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Louisiana 27:00 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Newsweek This Week's Quote: “Once more, alas, I find myself unable to follow the best Liberal thought: that a man engaged in combat with superstition should be very polite to superstition. This, I fear, is nonsense. The way to deal with […]

News of the Bogus: 20:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The New York Times 26:16 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Stability AI This Week's Quote: “Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation—and […]

News of the Bogus: 22:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Google 28:07 – Silver Cluon Award: Adam Conover 32:28 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals This Week's Quote: “I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown—in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability, and goodness of the overwhelming majority of my brothers […]

News of the Bogus: 29:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Senate Democrats 34:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: New York This Week's Quote: “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” —Benjamin Franklin ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

News of the Bogus: 18:54 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Joe Biden 24:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Benny Hinn This Week's Quote: “Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine, then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.” —Christopher Hitchens

News of the Bogus: 18:32 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Alvin Bragg 23:38 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Michael Cohen This Week's Quote: “People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.” —Terry Goodkind

News of the Bogus: 13:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: CNN 18:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Florida and Alabama This Week's Quote: “Competition is merely the absence of oppression.” —Frédéric Bastiat