Next on ESPN: NCAA Quidditch??

Taking the Wisconsin State Journal at its word, Aldous Tyler reports on the newest sport to hit roughly 150 college campuses across the country: Quidditch! It’s apparently not just for witches and wizards anymore...

The Media Goes to Pot

Aldous Tyler illustrates exactly why TMI with Aldous Tyler is needed, as he shows how news coverage of a murderous rampage placed the blame for the hyper, manic behavior on marijuana use.  Aldous blows away the smoke that the media tried to obscure this story with, letting TMI be the Cure for the Common Media.

Nothing is Certain but Murder and Taxes

A recent murder in Janesville, Wisconsin has absolutely nothing to do with the 4/15/2009 Tea Parties that were supposedly put on to protest taxation and government spending... or did it? Aldous Tyler makes the link, and lets you see how these seemingly disparate things are all connected.

Wellstone, Coleman, Franken: Real Election Fraud!

Aldous details the actual history of the now-famous conflict between then-Incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman, his Democratic challenger Al Franken, and the often-missed link of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. If you didn’t understand what was wrong in Minnesota's 2008 (2009??) Senate race, you can’t miss this segment!

Torture Night Football: Is the War on Terror a Sport?

Aldous Tyler explores how right-wing defenders of torture… oops, "enhanced interrogation techniques"... seem to treat the War on Terror a lot like football, with help from a legend of sports broadcasting.

First Guest: Jon Elliott (pt 2 of 2)

Join Aldous as he welcomes TMI's first guest ever: Jon Elliott, host of "This is America with Jon Elliott", called "the fastest three hours in broadcasting", heard Monday to Friday from 3 - 6 PM Pacific and 6-9 PM Eastern on San Diego’s 1700 AM. Jon comes on to discuss TMI’s first episode, the state of conservative, progressive and mainstream media, and other items.  Part 2 of 2.

First Guest: Jon Elliott (pt. 1 of 2)

Join Aldous as he welcomes TMI's first guest ever: Jon Elliott, host of "This is America with Jon Elliott", called "the fastest three hours in broadcasting", heard Monday to Friday from 3 - 6 PM Pacific and 6-9 PM Eastern on San Diego’s 1700 AM. Jon comes on to discuss TMI’s first episode, the state of conservative, progressive and mainstream media, and other items.  Part 1 of 2.

TMI

What exactly is too much information? Imagine a picture of someone standing in an open field, all by themselves. It's a simple job to see them, what they are wearing, where they are looking, and get a fairly good idea what they might be doing. Now imagine that same picture, but now there are hundreds, nay, thousands more people and objects crowding the scene. Finding that one person we were looking at before now becomes very difficult, if not impossible. That is too much information - having so much data thrown at you that you can't quickly grasp what's important to you. This happens every day of our lives. What we really want to know (or need to know) gets tossed in the mix with so much other noise, that we often wind up hearing only half the story - or maybe an entirely distorted version of it. Sometimes it is accidental, as when something flashy pops up and grabs everyone's attention. Other times it is deliberate, with spin doctors and paid publicity experts throwing static right where it will blind...

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