The Dave Bowman Show

There’s both good news and… better(?) news this morning, depending on your view. The USWNT did not advance at the Women’s World Cup for the first time in a long time. On the other hand, Kim Jong Un scored an impressive 100% electoral victory in his campaign for Dear Leader. You should write that down. The great Plastic Straw ban may or may not have been successful, once again, depending on your po...

A recent tweet by Rob Reiner… yes… “Meathead”… reminds me that somehow or another, the meaning of words, or at least the understanding of those words, has been surreptitiously modified. This was followed by a Tick Tock user explaining to me that anybody who is NOT mentally ill under a capitalist system, is de facto a fascist. But that’s not the actual definition of the word fascism. Or is it? In m...

By now you know that either Barbie or Oppenheimer, or possibly both, are the greatest movies ever created in the history film. Already people are talking about follow up films to tell what are known as “origin stories,” but frankly I couldn’t care less about the back-story of Barbie or Ken, or even for that matter Robert Oppenheimer. That said, there would never have been a film on Oppenheimer if...

The eternal argument over Term Limits got a… well… boost this week after a couple of geezers in congress that should have retired and/or died years ago managed to bring it to everybody’s attention. Should there be term limits, or at least age limits? Or, perhaps, cognitive test to determine if anybody is actually capable of serving in Congress? The overall mantra continues to be that by “supportin...

There is an old saying in the Civil Service: Never believe anything, until it has been officially denied. As the Biden Family crime story seems to be moving faster and faster every day, one of the things being postulated is that the President could issue a pardon for his son, Hunter. In fact, there are more and more people who are coming to believe that the President may have to issue one. And now...

Teenagers, man… Last night Ben and I took a walk. He has become quite the young man. He is smart, energetic and he has a lot, and I mean a lot, of opinions about the world and how things ought to be. And for really the first time since he became a teenager, he and I had a long conversation about the things that matter so deeply to him and to me. I rmemeber being a thirteen year old opiniionated kn...

As a general rule, I oppose the impeachment of elected officials (appointed officials are a different matter). The recent conventional thinking is that – in general – it’s a waste of time as neither side has the actual votes to impeach a given President. That did not stop Trump from being twice impeached, but, and I think that this is important, those were political moves that were less about Trum...

I am often bemused by so many wannabe tough people proclaiming on social media that they are here to “punch Nazi’s in the face!” More than once I have wondered if they would even recognize a actual Nazi if they were to see one in person? My own experience tells me that they would not, because in today’s world, the attitude is that “Everyone I don’t like is literally Hitler!“ That said, there was a...

Over the weekend, Cami was asking me if I was worried about the future of the country. I mean… yes, I am. I also tend to take the Mickey Rivers approach to life, which means that generally speaking, I try not to worry about things over which I have no control. Of course, that is counter-intuitive, as in a government of, buy and for the people, I should have some control so now I am back to wonderi...

WARNING: Much Use of Adult Language, including AI produced "Best Cuss Words." If language offends you, don't listen to this episode or Jason Aldean songs The Rabbi has had a stressful weekend, and today isn’t getting any better. It’s the kind of stuff that has him saying (deleted). The big question this week is whether or not the understanding the we are gaining of AI effects or changes the way we...

Everybody knows *that* guy. You know.. the one who has to keep asking weird questions or making absurd pronouncements when the meeting is wrapping up and everybody wants to leave. It’s almost like they are utterly oblivious and definitely not reading the room. It terms of the Constitutional convention, *that* guy is named George Mason. And while the Convention has a scheduled eleven day break, sta...

Is it weird to anybody else that Dylan Mulvaney’s nipples were blurred out in the newspapers pictures of him last week? Or… is it possible that some AI (it’s fancy… first off it’s two letters and it means “artificial intelligence”) came up with the idea of his dress and to blur our the offensive nipples? Other people watching Netflix have said that the whole AI concept “scares” them, to the point...

Remember when the joke was actually a joke and everybody knew that it was a joke and even if you didn’t like the joke you still understood that it was a joke and so you just let it go? Yeah…that’s not the country we live in anymore. Now if you don’t like the joke, you go on the air and bitch about it until the worlds biggest entertainment corporation gives in to your little temper tantrum and chan...

I freely admit that I am a skeptic when it comes to the news. In fact, before I read any article, I check the “About” section of the articles host site. far more often than you would expect, it becomes very obvious that the site is “questionable.” That aside, a lack of source materials, links, footnotes and so on, always make me suss about a given article or report. Oddly, one of the effects of th...

Every now and then, I have one of those… moments when I think to myself, “Is that really what I mean when I say that thing? Many anthropologists and archeologists bemoan the fact that we have little understanding of the Yucatan peoples of the pre Columbus era. But you almost never hear a discussion of WHY we lack that understanding. As it turned out, the Mayans were quite literate and wrote down m...

In the context of “the United States,” what exactly is a “State?” Today, it seems obvious to us, but remember that in 1776 there were “States” that shared their governor. At least one of the “States” technically wasn’t a State at all, but rather a dubiously area of leased lands, that while it had its own legislative body, it was only because the State that “owned” the land didn’t like the people w...

It is an inarguable FACT that none in the United states has owned a slave since 1868. As of today, that was one hundred and fifty-five years ago, or, in other terms, an average of nearly eight generations. In my case, because I am old and my grandparents reproduced young, it was four generations ago. So why is Reuters, a news agency that is decidedly NOT American, running a major article about “so...

In an age of synthetic reality, how do we have any idea of what is real or what to believe? It was bad enough in 2016, but now? How many different ways are we being shown and told things that may or may not be truth? If a robot taxicab can be disabled with a traffic cone, and a female crocodile can parthenogenetically reproduce, is it possible for us to know what to accept as real and dismiss that...

Rabbi Dave is sick. He’s been sick all week, but has dragged himself out of bed because this is important. He and the Good Friar Rod are here because they are broadcast professionals who deserve a $20Million contract from Spotify and they will actually show up to work, unlike some people we could name (Harry and Meagan). The Titan thing still has Dave freaked out, mostly because we learned this we...

My voice is completely and totally gone. Barely a whisper right now… But I am learning to use… AI!!!!!

A few weeks ago, I asked the question, exactly which Framers’ values and principles should we “be getting back to?” As the Convention lurched into the sixth week, and the heat in Philadelphia grew hotter, the delegates were – at least verbally – at each others throats. while the myth of unity still held in the media and even in sermons, the truth was that the convention was literally held together...

I grew up with Star Trek as my inspiration for… well… pretty much everything. Yesterday I even got into a discussion about the ways that Star Trek has inspired much of my learning. in one of the climatic moments, Captain Kirk explains to the crew that “risk…. is, our, business” (you have to say it like Shatner). That said, when is risk too much? As AI looms and robots become more and more capable,...

Not that long ago, I was driving across North Dakota on I-94. At Mile 314, there is an exit sign that caught my attention. I don’t really know why. It just seemed to me to be the embodiment of being… well… normal. As we watch the circus that is our Congress and political system, maybe it’s time to take that exit?

The founder of OceanGate is on record as having said that he did not want to hire a bunch of “fifty-year old white guys” because we are “not inspirational.” He was specifically referring to submarine qualified people who know more about submarines than he ever wil. And far more than he ever imagined about how to safely operate underwater. I have said this before and I will say again… the ocean is...

Perhaps the best known Framer/Founder these days is Alexander Hamilton. But, as the case may be, not for the reasons for which he would have liked to had remembered or had sung about in a Broadway musical. Hamilton had been one of the men who had pushed hard for the Philadelphia Convention. He had also fully expected to be one of its leaders (a story oddly absent from the musical). What he had not...