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The Dave Bowman Show

The Dave Bowman Show

著者： Dave Bowman
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After relocating to the PACNORWEST, Dave continues his look at the news, politics, trends, history, religion, sports and even entertainment of the day...Dave Bowman 政治・政府
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  • September 5, 2026 - Is This... Still College Football

    September 5, 2026 - Is This... Still College Football
    2026/09/05
    I love college football. I’m just not sure today’s college football is the game I fell in love with. NIL has turned recruiting into an auction. The transfer portal resembles free agency. Major programs purchase 51–0 “games” from schools that need the money, while smaller colleges face declining enrollment, rising costs and possible financial collapse. The football powers will survive, but will college football remain college football? That’s the question on this Saturday edition of Plausibly Live: The Dave Bowman Show.
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    27 分
  • September 4, 2026 - Taproom Tribbles in Tacoma and Thailand

    September 4, 2026 - Taproom Tribbles in Tacoma and Thailand
    2026/09/04
    There was once a useful boundary between public conduct and private conviction. You could buy bread, order coffee, or enjoy a pint without first demanding a political confession from the person behind the counter. That boundary is rapidly disappearing, particularly when activists can search public records, identify a business owner’s political contributions, and organize economic punishment without pausing to consider what the person actually supported. Today’s Plausibly Live begins at a Tacoma brewery whose owners contributed to a Washington ballot initiative campaign. Their money was specifically intended to help repeal the state’s capital gains tax, but political nuance proved inconvenient once activists discovered that the organization also supported another initiative involving transgender participation in women’s sports. The resulting controversy raises a question extending far beyond beer, taxes, or any single ballot measure: Can citizens still petition their government without placing their livelihoods before a self-appointed tribunal? From there, the show heads to Thailand, where two sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln managed to turn an ordinary night of liberty into an international headline. The official account describes a “drunken brawl.” Anyone who has served aboard ship may recognize something considerably less extraordinary: young sailors, a foreign port, an argument, and shore patrol arriving before matters became genuinely memorable. Dave draws upon his own Navy experience to explain how quickly “us versus them” can change after somebody insults the ship. Finally, a conversation about Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas wanders into dangerous cultural territory: tattoos. One lyric from the film has remained lodged in Dave’s memory for decades, and he is prepared to defend its wisdom despite knowing perfectly well what the response will be. Political surveillance, sailors ashore, craft beer, Dolly Parton, and an opinion almost guaranteed to generate angry email. It is exactly the sort of Friday journey one should expect from The Dave Bowman Show.
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    32 分
  • September 3. 2026 - Down with Socialism!!!

    September 3. 2026 - Down with Socialism!!!
    2026/09/03
    Congress has managed to discover socialism. This might seem encouraging until you remember that the national debt has reached $40 trillion, the federal government still lacks a genuine budget, and lawmakers apparently have plenty of time for nonbinding resolutions designed to produce campaign advertisements. House Resolution 1490 was presented as a condemnation of socialism. It could not create a law, reduce spending, reform an agency, or change the life of a single American. What it could do was force members of Congress to cast a politically useful vote. Republicans could declare themselves defenders of capitalism. Democrats could either oppose the resolution and be accused of supporting socialism, or vote for it and advertise their supposed independence from the party. That brings us to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democratic representative from Washington’s closely divided Third Congressional District. Her vote for the resolution has been celebrated as evidence of moderation and independence. Perhaps it was. Then again, principles that emerge shortly before a difficult election deserve closer inspection. Was she exercising the judgment Edmund Burke believed a representative owed the people, or mailing campaign literature through the House voting board? This episode of Plausibly Live examines the difference between representation and pandering. If a congressional vote carries no legal force and produces no policy consequence, what exactly are taxpayers purchasing? While Congress performs ideological theater, the debt climbs, budgets remain unfinished, and the difficult work of governing waits patiently outside the chamber. From there, Dave ventures into the darker corners of public irrationality, online discourse, and the peculiar humor people develop when ordinary language no longer seems adequate. It is an episode about politics as performance, social media as a carnival of certainty, and the increasingly strange ways Americans persuade themselves that uncomfortable realities need not be real. After all, Congress did condemn socialism. Surely that fixes everything.
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    29 分
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