November 10 - Penn State and the Decline of Public Morality; Perry's Boot in the Mouth; "Physics on the Fringe"

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Part 1	We begin with the disgusting scandal at Penn State University that has resulted in the firing of the university’s president and the famous coach Joe Paterno which provoked a student demonstration in support of the disgraced football coach. The award-winning senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, Will Bunch joins us to explain the moral vacuum at the university and apparently among the student body, that allowed the activity of a serial pedophile to be covered up for so long and why students would demonstrate in support of those who covered up such appalling criminal behavior.
Part 2	Then veteran Texas journalist James Moore, who is writing a book about Rick Perry, joins us to explain the latest public display of political inadequacy from the Texas governor who could not even remember his own simplistic ideas. We discuss what Perry’s wealthy backers expected from him and why they didn’t even bother to find a candidate who could survive the less-than-rigorous softball questioning at audience-friendly highly-staged presidential television debates.
Part 3	Then finally science writer Margaret Wertheim joins us in studio to discuss her new book “Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything”. We discuss “outsider physicists” and fringe theorists who probe the cosmos in their own way and since all great truths begin as blasphemies, as Galileo learned the hard way, they might just end up being proven right.
	MUSIC: M. Ward - Poor Boy; Jim O'Rourke - Memory Lame; Born Ruffians - Retard Canard II; Neil Young - Heart of Gold