McCain on the Economy, Money by W.H. Davies; Geeknotes: Brad Wilson, SkydiverGirls, Chicago Cultural Center Literary Gallery; Open Mic Stage: "Sunday Afternoon" - Last November, Santa Barbara Theatre of the Air Promo, "Love Letter" - Blood Red Sun, "The Man From Harlem" - Cab Calloway, "Swollen Fortunes" - William Jennings Bryan, "Bad Cat" - Gert, "Be Still" - Five A.M., Young Turks Slam AIG, "Lets Feel Terrible Together" - Adam Balbo, "Shout" - Donna Lewis, Keith Olbermann on McCain-Palin Liars, "Democracy Tanks" - Gravitator; Map Room: Scientists Discover Method Of Powdering Methane Gas, Software Spots the Spin in Political Speeches, Vatican Says it Does Not Owe Darwin an Apology, New Carbon Material Stores Large Quantities Of Renewable Electrical Energy; Venue Verite: Obama on the Economy; Music Bed: "Island vs City" - Meso

Paul Bergala Calls A Liar A Liar, "Life Goes On" - Gert; Geeknotes: No Chicago Poetry Fest this year, but there is The Devil's Kitchen Literary Fest; Open Mic Stage: "Sails To The Wind" - Dirty Heads, Palin Praises Obama, "Chasing Rainbows" - Little Plastic Stars, "Addiction" - Peach Stealing Monkeys, Palin Scares Matt Damon, "Last Breath" - David Thornton, Palin Fails 1st ABC Interview, Whispers Radio Promo, "Pluto's Not A Planet Anymore" - The Ponsonby DCs; Map Room: Touch-Hear - Knowledge At Your Fingertips, Menstrual Blood May Save Lives, Excessive Thinking Will Make You Fat, Electricity From Dirt; Venue Verite: "Special Comment: 9-11,TM" - Keith Olbermann; Music Bed: "Whom" - Curious inversions

Hello Palin, "I Went With The Road" - Brian Vander Ark; Geeknotes: Verge of LA, Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest, Novel on Deadline; Open Mic Stage: "BO5" - mrandmrsmays, Brains Matter Promo, Dennis Kucinich at the DNC, "Deliverance" - Twilight Dementia, Noonan Speaks Truth, "What Does God See" - War Stories, "Eye Of The Needle" - Babylon Mystery Orchestra, CNN’s Campbell Brown Rips Palin, "And Now We Stand Up" - Leaving Richmond, Amy Goodman Arrested By Storm Troopers, "I Know My Rights" - the hipcola; Map Room: Space Cube - World’s Smallest Computer, Why Cannibalism Is Bad, Rosetta Spacecraft On Its Way To Meet Asteroid Steins, The Large Hadron Collider: how the press demeans science; Venue Verite: Velvet Revolution on Rove Cyber Vote Theft; Music Bed: "Zerochoice" - Tom Bragl

McCain: Dazed, Confused, and Bellicose, "Forty Five Remedies" - Tim Fite; Geeknotes: One Page Screenplay Contest, Skydiver Girls, Corsi - Unfit For Publication; Open Mic Stage: Nancy Pelosi Knows Her Job, "Reefer Song" - Fats Waller, "So It Goes" - Blood Red Sun, Ask Blackie Promo, Jack Cafferty on McCain - Say What? "Home This Year" - Virginia Coalition, Stuart Shepard of Focus On The Family: Please God, Rain on Obama, "Not Leaving" - Corey TuT; Map Room: Japan’s Styrofoam Dome Homes, MIT Developing Super Realistic 6-D Imaging Device, World's Largest Solar Energy Project Planned For India; Venue Verite: "Minnie The Moocher" - Cab Calloway, from Fleischer Brothers' 1932 Cartoon; Music Bed: "The Lotus Opus" - Chenard Walcker

"Lullaby" - Twilight Dementia; Geeknotes: Chicago Poetry Neutral Zone, G Tom Mac Contest, SlamIdol Contest 22, Obamaphobia; Open Mic Stage: The Force Field Promo, Obama tire guage comeback, Jack Cafferty on McCain, "Wish You Well" - G Tom Mac, "Insomnia" - Inca Maya, "Hiroshima" - Harry Truman, "Shut The Sun Out" - Donna Lewis, "Jesus had Breakfast in Bed" - Last November, PickUp Podcast Promo, "You Can Leave Your Hat On" - Lin McEwan; Map Room: Dutch Town To Be Paved With Air Purifying Concrete, Orgasms ‘with the Touch of a Button,’ MIT Working to Create the $12 Laptop, Obama Delivers Space Policy Speech in Florida; Venue Verite: Olbermann: John Dean Confirms Suskind’s Book On Impeachable Crimes; Music Bed: "People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too" Compilation

"Of the Center" - Kati Mac; Geeknotes: La Sauce Inattendue, Brad Wilson August Calendar; Open Mic Stage: "Just Say Anything" - Five A. M., "I Never Say Goodbye" - Jimmy Lloyd, "Beyond Elections" - Mumia Abu Jamal, "McCain Love" - Media Matters Ad, "All That She Needs" - Della Valle, "Low Road" - Obama Ad, Rachel Maddow Pwns Pat Buchannan, "Voice Mail (from the blues)" - Booze Monkey; Map Room: Chip Developed That Makes Internet 60 Times Faster, N-Prize Competition, Houston Doctors Say They May Have Found A Way To Destroy HIV, Cheap Catalyst Could Turn Sunlight, Water Into Fuel; Venue Verite: Breaking News: Water on Mars; Music Bed: "The Slip" - Nine Inch Nails

Obama Speech, 'Promise'; Geeknotes: Author Nation Promos, Firefox 3? Not So Much...; Open Mic Stage: "Good News" - Mass Marvel, Fox Busted at the National Conference of Media Reform, "Sly Fox" - Nas, Desperate McCain, "Booby Trap" - Jeremy Gratton, "Like a Fox" - Imaginitis, "Traitors of the Lost Ark" - Easton Legacy, "Talk Shit" - Hostile, "Introit" - Mister Ed; Map Room: Next Gen Wind Energy Design, Toy Rocket Inspires Variable-Speed Bullets, Potentially Serious Security Flaws Found In Most Bank Websites, Rumor: Apple to Launch MacBook Touch; Venue Verite: Obama Speech, 'Walls'; Music Bed: "Small Suburban Heartbeats" - Alkor

"Solar Acid" - The Serotonin Anvil; Geeknotes: Brad Wilson, Viva Ponata, ParEcon; Open Mic Stage: The Sunday Talk Promo, Obama's Foreign Policy Speech, "Heroin Skinny" - The Heroin Skinny, "Heroin Blues" - Snoball Johnny, "Cracky Pipe" - Dislocated Boner, Selling Geek Promo, "New Wave Coke" - Matadors; Map Room: Magnetic Nanotechnology Used To Capture Cancer, Growing Neural Implants, Women Shifting to Cyber Sex, 1960s documentary: Self-experimenting with magic mushrooms; Venue Verite: Al Gore Issues Major Energy Challenge; Music Bed: "Cool Off Chill Out" Compilation

"Bill of Rights" - Blowin Chunks!; Geeknotes: Three's A Crowd, hot online erotic serial by Leslie Lee Sanders, "Killer Poet" Movie, 'Fox Attacks' Petition; Open Mic Stage: "O Freedom" - Billy Bragg, The Bad Apples Promo, Obama's latest ad, on "New Energy," "La Baja" - Su Round, "Big Mistake" - Tim Fite, Senators Spector and Feingold Debate FISA, DHS Contractor Proposes Airline Passenger Shock Bracelets, "I Know My Rights" - Jim Tyrrell; Map Room: Peak Metal, Amazing Dolphin-Boat Submarine, New Self Destructing Vaccine, Scientists Prevent Brain-Cell Suicide to Keep Birds Singing; Venue Verite: Countdown with Rachel Maddow - Russ Feingold on FISA Cave-in; Music Bed: "Cool Off Chill Out" Compilation

"Let Freedom Ring" - Flocabulary; Geeknotes: Summer Break!; Open Mic Stage: "Summertime" - Greg Spero Trio, "Freedom" - GILES, "Right and Wrong" - Theresa J, "Eyes Shut" - People Like Jack, Frederick Douglass's July 4th 1852 Speech; Map Room: Summer Break!; Venue Verite: JFK Reading the Declaration of Independence, Plus, the true fate of the signers, from Snopes.com; Music Bed: "One thousand Years And One" - Mikael Fyrek

"Radio Radio" - Elvis Costello on SNL; Geeknotes: Summer Break!; Open Mic Stage: Funkadelic - Get Off Your Ass and Jam, The Word Fuck, Funplex - The B-52's, Mediaopoly - SNL's Conspiracy Theory Rock, Benazir Bhutto's Censored BBC Clip, Jack Kerouac on The Steve Allen Show, "The Wind Cries Mary" - Jimi Hendrix on "Top of the Pops," "Pagan Poetry" - Bjork, "Seven Words" - George Carlin; Map Room: Summer Break!; Venue Verite: JFK on Freedom of Speech; Music Bed: Street Sounds

"The Weary Blues" - Langston Hughes; Geeknotes: Beach Poets 2008, Brother Love in Nashville; Open Mic Stage: Namaste Stories Promo, "From Def Poetry" - Jill Scott, "The Scarecrow Rests" - Harem Arms, "Pray For Rain" - Blood Red Sun, Olbermann and Turley on Kucinich Impeacment Resolution, "Civil Revolt Part 1" - Kou Chou Ching, "Bukowski: Poetry and Motion" - Charles Bukowski, MyMac Magazine Podcast Promo, "Poetry and Jazz" - Benny Hill, "These Are Illusions" - Wolfkin, McCain called his wife a Cnt, "House of Cards" - Citizens Of Contrary Knowledge; Map Room: Batch of “Super-Earths” Found, Old Muscle Becomes Young Again, Cybertecture and the Egg in Mumbai India, Are Trees Warm-blooded; Venue Verite: "The Poetry Technical Support Line"; Music Bed: "Material" - Craque

Hillary suspends, Essential Club Anthems Remix - Positiva Records; Geeknotes: CD Baby and Amie St. Promotion, Poetry from Obama at 19; Open Mic Stage: "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" - Emily Dickinson, "A lonely tree" - Amahla, "The Instinct of Hope" by John Clare, "Enemigo" - Amelia, Keith Olbermann - Bush lied, "Easier" - Blood Red Sun, Keith Olbermann - Worst Person In The World; Map Room: Electrolux Sunny Solar Heated Water Front Loader, UroClub Makes Peeing On The Golf Course A Private Affair, The Coke-Mentos Booby Trap, A Whole New Tiny World, as Microscope Resolution Doubles;Venue Verite: Hillary Clinton Suspends Her Campaign; Music Bed: "Yako Emulator" - Kenny Beltrey

"The Movies" - Florence Kiper Frank, "Doomsday Weapon" Scene from "Dr. Strangelove"; Geeknotes: Cram Vol. 2 and 3; Open Mic Stage: "Speech" Scene from "The Manchurian Candidate," "Alice" - The Horse You Rode In On, "NYTimes" Scene from "Three Days of the Condor," "Statements" - 4Tunes, "The War Films" - Henry Newbolt, "Roach" Scene from "Apocalypse Now," "NSA" Scene from "Good Will Hunting;" Map Room: The NanoBrewMaster, Plastic Lasers In Our Future, Pentagon Unveils the M-18 Elite, How Are Humans Unique?; Venue Verite: "Riot" Scene from "The Spook Who Sat By the Door," "Money" Scene from "Bulworth"; Music Bed: "We Fade Away" - Reii

"Charlie Brown, by Ghostface Killah (Guns N' Bombs Remix)" - Scion AV; Geeknotes: Computer Spring Cleaning, Fan Mail; Open Mic Stage: "I Want To Be Wrong" - No Use For A Name, "Stand I condemned for Pride" - Wm. Shakespeare, "Mercenary Man" - Firewind, "King of Pain" - Chris Greene Quartet, "Battle Porn" - Leslie Winer; Map Room: Not This Week...Writing...; Venue Verite: McCain's Pastor Problem; Music Bed: "What Tone Am I?" - Tom Bragl

"Union Of Concerned Scientists" - The Priddle Concern; Geeknotes: Brad Wilson, APP Group Feed, Two CPS Items, Shows 16-20 Back in Archive; Open Mic Stage: "Storm" - Hungry Lucy, Billo 'Inside Edition' Meltdown, The Scott Fuller Show Promo, "Discipline" - Nine Inch Nails, "May" - Helen Hunt Jackson, Osama Bin Laden Podcast Promo, "2 AM" - Slightly Stoopid, "Pale Fire (Ulrich Schnauss Mix)" - Dead Leaf Echo; Map Room: CCTV Boom has Failed to Slash UK Crime, How to Locate Pinhole Cameras, Motion-Capture Suits Will Spice Up Virtual Sex, Europe Recruits Astronauts for Possible Moon Missions; Venue Verite: Keith Olbermann: Bush Gives Up Golf for the War; Music Bed: "Interplanetary Materials" Compilation

Mother's Day - Fugly; Geeknotes: Flag Graphs, Cram Volume 2; Open Mic Stage: "A True Liberator" - 10K Poets, Mother Mind - Julia Ward Howe, NG Radio Promo, "Burden" - Mister Ed, "14 Days" - Science For Girls, UKotaku Promo, "Lack of Mama" - People Like Jack; Map Room: Survey: Women are Better Managers, Laser May Boost Search For Earthlike Planets, Perfecting An Artificial Pancreas, California: Veggie Oil-Powered “Grease Car” Owners Are Scofflaws; Venue Verite: Mother's Day for Peace; Music Bed: "Eros" - Crackle Creations

"Oh say can you see" - Theresa J; Geeknotes: May Day Labor Film Festival, Two Men Kissing, Mevio's OK; Open Mic Stage: The Other Clinton Terrorist Clemency Scandal, "Babado Bat" - Greg Spero Trio, "Lotus" - Mister Ed, Mevio Radio Promo, "Agama" - Franck Colman and Black Yovo; Map Room: New Map, Cold Plasma, CSI 2.0: Faster than DNA, Engineers find 'missing link' of electronics, Simple brain exercise can boost IQ; Venue Verite: "The Sacredness of Work" - Thomas Carlyle; Music Bed: "Compilation I" - Tapeworm Collective

"When Earth's Last Picture is Painted" - Rudyard Kipling, "Jimi" - Slightly Stoopid; Geeknotes: StudioTraxx.com, Podshow Becomes Mevio and Loses my Password; Open Mic Stage: N Carolina GOP's Anti-Obama Ad, How Hillary Can Still Win, "Jack Ass Brigade" - Fishbone, "Poor Earth" - Elinor Wylie, "Montreal Calling" - Mobile, SeoulPodcast Promo, "When Irish Eyes Are Burning" - The Ike Reilly Assassination; Map Room: Low Carbon Diet, Thirst Aid – On-The-Fly Water Purification, Scientists Figure Out How To Grow Plants In Moondust, Nurture Over Nature: Certain Genes Are Turned On Or Off By Geography And Lifestyle; Venue Verite: Father Michael Pfleger Pwns Fox News; Music Bed: "Human" - Hol Baumann

"To Shakespeare After Three Hundred Years" - Thomas Hardy, "Serial Drama" - Children of a New Jazz Era; Geeknotes: Poetry Bomb, 20 Poems for National Poetry Month; Open Mic Stage: "Guess Who Killed My Twelve Lovers" - Harem Arms, Erk Pod Promo, "It's The Stare" - Goodnight Sunrise, "Cry The Sea" - Dead Leaf Echo, Bear Crawling Promo, Tim Robbins NAB Speech; Map Room: Scientists Take Drugs to Boost Brain Power, Laser Triggers Artificial Lightning, Curious Cloud Formations Linked to Quakes, Nuked Coral Reef Bounces Back; Venue Verite: "Shakespearian Pie" - The FuMP; Music Bed: "Tunga" - Meso

"Smooth Relaxation" - Sine; Geeknotes: Reinstate Randi, John McCain's Bottom 10, Chicago Poetry News; Open Mic Stage: "Routine and Dollar Signs (acoustic remix)" - Goodnight Sunrise, The Chillcast with Anji Bee, Science For Girls Feature, "Monkey Love" - The Horse You Rode In On, Randi Routine, Janeane Garofalo; Map Room: The Grid: Superfast Internet, Spy Camera Sunglasses, USB Digital Camera, Sweat Ducts May Act As Antenna For Lie Detection; Venue Verite: "Neverland" - Galway Kinnell; Music Bed: "Cosmic Chill Lounge Vol.2" - Sine

Resident Bush booed on Opening Day; Geeknotes: NaPoWriMo, Charles Bernstein on NaPoMo, Democrats.com picnic; Open Mic Stage: King on Malcolm X, Ten OTHER Things MLK Said, "Winning is Everything" - Ionia, Movies For the Blind Promo, "No One Ever Does" - Saul Williams, "Broken Hearts Sounds Like Breakbeats" - Los Campesinos, "Bohemian Financial Rhapsody" - Geoff Smith; Map Room: Tooth Regeneration, The Lynx - Rocket For Two, Daisies can Lower Triglycerides, Yuri's Night at NASA Ames Lab; Venue Verite: "The Future" - Lyn Hejinian; Music Bed: "z veseljem exported" - aaron goldbody vs. luke the wizard

"Tibet is Not Free!" - BBC via YouTube; Geeknotes: CD Baby hits 10, Toufee 2.0, China vs Tibet on YouTube; Open Mic Stage: Cadence Revolution Promo, "Robot" - Ame one, "Of Power and Empire" - Mumia Abu-Jamal, "Jar Wars" - The Jars, Former Ala Gov Don Siegelman Freed, "Motherless Child (MoShang No Place Like Home)" - Lovespirals, "The Marshall Plan" - George Marshall, from FIS,"Looking to Land" - Scott Siders, Map Room: Electrons Travel Over 100 Times Faster in Graphene than Silicon, Intel’s 60 Mile Long-Range Wi-Fi, Molly Ivins on Hillary, Tibet Once Ruled China; Venue Verite: "The Democrats of Lancaster County" - CQ Politics; Music Bed: "Somnium est imago mortis" - Jari Ylamaki

"Shock and Awe," Selena Coopa of Winter Soldier; Geeknotes: Chi News, Downtown Events, Kindle Store; Open Mic Stage: Barack Obama from the Mar 18 speech, "I Like It" - The Teenage Prayers, Winter Soldier Highlights, Mike Hucklebee on Obama, "Superjet" - Hydropods, "Garden" - Robjn, Barack Obama, cut 2, "Love Bug" - Royal Family, "Iraq and Other Wars" - Zeph Daniel; Map Room: Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor, Win Your March Madness Pool, Molecular Basis of Life Discovered on Extrasolar Planet, Final Thoughts from Sir Arthur C. Clarke; Venue Verite: Michael Leduc of Winter Soldier; Music Bed: More shock and awe!

"Death to Los Campesinos" - Los Campesinos; Geeknotes: "BStrings" Update; Open Mic Stage: Celtic Myth Podshow Promo, "Poem in Disconnected Parts" - Robert Pinsky, "New York" - Steven Alvarado, "Circa' 73" - Joe Gande,