Good news and bad today on The BradCast. As is too often the case, mostly bad.
We get the good news out of the way early. Namely, the overwhelming approval by voters for a Constitutional amendment for marriage equality in the very Catholic nation of Ireland over the weekend. The mandate was loud and clear and, thanks to publicly hand-counted, hand-marked paper ballots in Ireland, unmistakable.
Then, horrific, deadly flooding in Texas and Oklahoma on the heels of a years-long drought there. Mashable.com’s Science Editor Andrew Freedman joins us to discuss the ongoing disaster and the influence of climate change on events like this — which we seem to be seeing more and more of…just as climate scientists have been warning for decades.
Also today, a report on our own weekend encounter with private security guards at the scene of the Santa Barbara, CA oil spill after the rupture of a crude pipeline owned by a company named Plains All American.
An update on charges now filed against Doug Hughes, the postal worker who landed his gyrocopter on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol in April to deliver a message about the need for campaign finance reform (our full interview with Hughes from back in April is right here).
All that, and a few more items of note in today’s BradCast!
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Watched Bernie Sanders give his acceptance speech about an hour ago. He’s talking this blogs language. Says he’s going to fight for “one person, one vote”!
Go Bernie!
Larry –
You may be getting ahead of yourself there. I don’t believe that was his “acceptance speech”. Not yet anyway. 🙂 I believe that was his formal announcement that he’s running for the Dem nomination, however.
Oops! Never bad when somebody corrects you.
Are you sure that wasn’t his inauguration? 🙂
His farewell address after his second term, perhaps? 🙂