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I’m pretty excited about this! Join Steve, Emily and me on Sunday from 4 – 6 P.M. eastern time for the live broadcast & stream of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio’s 100th episode. Special guests joining us during Sunday’s broadcast/stream include…

MSNBC political commentator and analyst, Rachel Maddow
Comics writer and illustrator, Brian Wood
Political blogger, Matt Yglesias
Actress and web video [...]

I was totally thrashed by the flu last week. I taught class a week ago Monday, despite feeling under the weather (mistake) and then for the next five days I couldn’t stand up for more than a few minutes at a time and had a very bad chest/head situation. There was no high fever, which [...]

…and congratulations to Steve Benen for making AtlanticWire’s list of The Atlantic 50 — the 50 “most influential commentators in the nation.” Wow. Nice job, Steve.
Here’s how they arrived at the list, on which Steve is listed as #44 — one higher than Lou Dobbs. I think Steve should consider this alone a personal and [...]

For the first time in my life, I am canceling something nerdy in favor of a sporting event. There will be no Poli-Sci-Fi Radio this Sunday because Emily and I will be watching the US national soccer team take on Brazil in the Confederations Cup Tournament final that afternoon. The game actually ends before PSFR [...]

I’m off work this week and I have a couple of good blog posts burning holes in my brain, but I have family in town for a another day so they’ll have to wait another 24 hours or so. Stay tuned. I’ll be posting a Poli-Sci-Fi Radio today though, if you’re curious about a Star [...]

Star Trek opens TODAY. Pinch me. I am waiting until Saturday to see it so I can take my mom for her birthday so nobody spoil anything for me!
Word on the street is that this is far and away the best Trek movie yet (not too high a bar to reach in this Star Trek [...]

This week’s episode of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio featured a discussion inspired by last Friday’s episode of Dollhouse, in which a woman who was murdered is brought “back to life” in the body of Eliza Dushku because she’d had the foresight to scan all of her thoughts and memories before she was killed and then after her [...]

Check out this interview with yours truly on the new local radio show, The Browser. We talk all about “social media” and a bit about VCAM and futurism and democracy and a bunch of other crap. Listen to me bloviate at length at your own risk. Thanks to Jonathan for having me on.

My Poli-Sci-Fi Radio co-host, Steve Benen, wrote a short piece for Variety that’s out today (coinciding with the beginning of BSG season 4.5) about the fact that Battlestar Galactica is the most overtly political TV show since The West Wing.  He writes…
no program in recent memory has covered such explicitly political ground. It features a [...]

Steve tells Bill his “big secret,” and Emily finally reveals her secret alien love child. Also, special guest star Gerry Canavan will be with us talking politics and SF. Listen live at 4:00 P.M. or get the podcast of the show tomorrow.