Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Common Sense With Dan Carlin
Loud, fast-talking and deceptively funny, this politically-independent "forward-thinking pragmatist" looks at the events shaping ...
Show 140 - The U.S. of Earth
Should a global government replace the many nation-states that make up the modern world? Dan tries to defend his irrational, ...
Show 139 - Evasive Action
The early appointees to the Obama administration prompt a discussion of Competency versus Change. Also: The political consequences of the ...
Show 138 - Permanent Division
The partisan blazes kindled during the campaign continue to intensify after the concession speeches. Dan talks about this and a number of ...
Show 137 - A Vote For None
It's election time, and once again Dan is left wishing he could cast a legitimate vote for No One. Also: Another troubling policy change ...
Show 136 - Confronting the Hydra
The USA's budgetary 3-headed Hydra is Dan's target in a monologue that sounds like it is really part two of show #135's monologue. Also, ...
Show 135 - The Imperial Invoice
Could there be an eventual upside to the current economic crisis? Dan thinks there might be. He also spends a lot of time feeling ...
Show 134 - Immediate Gratification
Was it just plain Greed that led to the recent bloodletting in the U.S. financial sector or was there more going on? Dan has some Martian ...
Show 133 - McCain's "Hail Mary"
Will John McCain save his campaign with the unorthodox choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate? Dan suggests a little candidate swap that ...
Show 132 - Biden Time
Barack Obama chooses a running mate that seems the antithesis of his message. Is Joe Biden the "Change we have been waiting for?" Also: Dan ...
Show 131 - Intoxicated Priorities
A tragic mistake in an anti-drug raid has Dan questioning our priorities in the Drug War. Also: It's the Revenge of the Former Communists ...
Show 130 - The New Median
This show is mostly about things related to the current global economic situation. But Dan drags Paris Hilton, the "Chicken Little Gene", ...
Show 129 - Kaputt
Is the U.S. political system broken? If so, Dan believes Americans need to be obsessed with fixing it. Everything from Impeachment to ...