Curmudgeon’s Corner: Princess of Whales

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan’s main topics are the San Bernardino shooting, Election 2016, and Climate Change. The show gets rounded out with smaller bits about math homework, new Apple products, political correctness, and more!

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Recorded 2015-12-03

Length this week – 1:46:28

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Show Details:

• (00:00:10-00:19:12) But First
  • Pi!
  • Agenda
  • Ivan’s Carbon Footprint
  • Math Homework
  • Education Reform
• (00:20:44-00:39:05) Shootings
  • Deja Vu
  • Do motives matter?
  • What would laws do?
  • High Profile Events vs Overall Murder Rates
  • Reaction different if “terrorism”?
  • Disgruntled Employee?
  • Knee-jerk Reactions
  • Framing the Problem
  • Long Term vs Short Term
  • Prayer Shaming
• (00:40:13-1:09:27) Election 2016
  • Establishment GOP freaking out over Trump
  • Would Clinton crush Trump?
  • Current polling
  • Candidate Odds
  • Establishment still on sidelines
  • Trump pastor event
  • Trump and truth
  • Gaming out the primaries
• (1:10:31-1:26:29) Climate Talks
  • Odds of 3rd Party Run
  • Nice but not enough?
  • Adaptation: Poor vs Rich
  • Speed of Changes
  • Geoengineering
  • Scale of changes
  • Renewable Resources
  • Long term concerns vs freedom now
  • Solar Power and Personal Nukes
• (1:27:08-1:46:08) Lightning Round
  • Chennai Flooding
  • Mac App Store Fail
  • iPad Pro
  • New AppleTV
  • Movie: Son of Kong (1933)
  • Movie: The Peanuts Movie (2015)
  • Political Correctness / Safe Zones / Free Speech