A Perfect Metaphor for the State of the Modern Discourse, and Other Butt Stuff

This week CIB is cackling our way through the horrible news of the week, with riffs on college football, Dan Savage, Facebook, and a whole terrible variety of other subjects. Listen! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
2:00 — On the virtue of completely humiliating one’s opponents, and other thoughts on college football
14:35 — The NFL’s Red Zone channel, good or bad?
28:36 — Slate’s recent profile of sex advice columnist Dan Savage
49:00 — “Speaking of identity…” On the ongoing pronoun wars and the way social media encourages self-victimization narratives
59:44 — Opening up the WGAS Newsbag, lots of Facebook up top
1:09:07 — A couple stories about Questionable Taking
1:21:21 — The Swiss finally pick a side on the gay marriage issue
1:22:31 — Trump’s CYBER NINJAS finally weigh in on the Arizona presidential vote tally
1:26:48 — Oppressive voice assistants, but not how you’re thinking
1:30:45 — The sad fate of jihadists saddled with becoming civil servants
1:33:22 — A curious case from the Cureus Journal of Medical Science
1:39:48 — TV sucks!

Relevant Links
Jaguars return missed field goal 109 yards for the longest play in NFL history.
Ravens kicker makes NFL-record 66-yard field goal.
Slate’s Dan Savage profile.
Local news report on civil asset forfeiture at North Carolina airports.
The New Yorker on civil forfeiture.
The Atlantic on civil forfeiture.
Facebook’s propagandistic Project Amplify.
Apple wanted to kick FB out of the App Store over slavery concerns.
Internal FB report shows how harmful its apps are to children.
Sovereign citizens just claiming people’s shit as their own.
Switzerland on gay marriage and capital gains taxes.
Cyber Ninjas fail to find voter fraud.
NYT OpEd -- I am being oppressed by my voice assistant.
”All of my men, they love Jihad and fighting.”
This guy is ejaculating into his own ass.

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