The Dave Bowman Show

The SHOW NOTES

The SHOW NOTES

The SHOW NOTES

The SHOW NOTES

The Show Notes

The SHOW NOTES

The Show Notes

The two candidates have been selected. In keeping with the traditions of the day, their followers and friends hit the campaign trail on their behalf. Both sides have their platforms and both sides engage in the typical political mudslinging that we all know and love. But there is an added undercurrent. The Bourbon Democrats have made it abundantly clear that they have zero commitment to protecting...

A] new consensus has emerged in the press… that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. – Bari Weiss Remember when scientific truth wasn’t just ignored or laughed at, but instead, we threw a bunch of leading scientists and philosophers and thinkers into prisons? Or just burned them at the stake for th...

I saw Greyhound, the new Tom Hanks World War II story of the Battle of the Atlantic, yesterday. I would rate it as a 10. Without giving too much away, it is a fictionalized story � an amalgamation, as it were, of the experiences repeated thousands of times over from 1939 to 1945. it is a story, but it is based in reality and that story is one that is chilling, inspiring, scary, and thrilling. But...

By all indications, the Navy lost the USS Bonhomie Richard yesterday in a fire for which � as yet � it has not determined the cause. The name is one of the proudest in the history of the Navy. Her (probable) loss is a blow to the prestige of the Navy, but not the disaster it could have been. There were no deaths, a blessing that is hard to explain. And the America Class Amphibious ships are coming...

There is a commonly believed idea that the Political Parties of today at some point in the past "switched" with each other, kind of like the Chicago Blitz and Arizona Wranglers exchanged everything , including their uniforms, back in 1983. So now, we are told, "everybody knows," that the Democrats of today are the Republicans of the 2nd half of the 19th Century; and that the Republicans of today a...

There are those  who will tell you that "We have never been more divided." As I have long said,  they know nothing of American History. In the summer of  1876, a mere six years since the 15th Amendment had been ratified, a political movement known as the Bourbon Democrats set its sights on repeating their success the previous year in Mississippi . This time their target was South Ca...

Just a throwback to the day when  Dave & John along with Mazzy found out about the deadly Australian spiders invaded India and then argued about Sherlock Holmes quotes. Oh... also Richard  Dawson and Pedro Bourbon passed away. Since neither John nor Mazzy have actually filled out their ballots yet, a debate over the famed Prop-29 ensues...

A couple of weeks ago, the administration issued its long-expected Executive Order which purports to "protect free speech" on social media. Now, for many of us, the idea of forcing a private business to allow a takeover by political speech which it either does not support or doesn't like, to be something of an anathema. Oddly enough,  buried deep in the EO is a citation to a Supreme Court cas...

A recent Supreme  Court decision ( Bostock )  has many on the Political right proclaiming the death of the conservative movement. Their reasoning is rooted in a combination of dismay and what has to be some COVID inflicted loss of perspective, but in either case, there is a  great deal of anger and gnashing of teeth at Justice Neil Gorsuch, who not that long ago was the darling of t...

Dave is once again, unemployed.  So what does that mean for the show? At least he now reads eMails. And one from this week has him worried about the lack of critical thinking about anything,  let alone the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone... Constitution Thursday on Anchor

One of the life lessons that pretty much everybody learns, sooner or later, is that there is a difference between what you can do and what you should do. In the words of the illustrious Dr. Malcolm, �You were so busy thinking about whether you could that you didn�t stop to think about whether or not you should.� In the time of COVID, the Constitution has become a focal point for debates and argume...

Barely a week has passed since religious conservatives on the Atlantic Coast were celebrating their victory in the North Carolina District Court, overturning the Governors Executive Order�s ban on religious gatherings, calling it a violating of the free exercise clause of the 1st Amendment. Within hours of that ruling, the 9th Circuit Court met to decide whether a San Diego District Judges denial...

Two days after the Committee of the Whole accepts the 3/5th's Compromise and adds another four resolutions to the Virginian's Plan, it is now clear that the Virginian's mean to abolish the Articles of Confederation and establish a new government based on the principles of liberty and freedom. This presents a difficult moral challenge to them as a group and represents the apex of their ideas presen...

On May 21, 1702, Daniel Defoe, yes, *that* Daniel Dafoe, was arrested and imprisoned for his recently published pamphlet which, in keeping with Poe�s Law, failed to please the new Queen of England. This was not ancient history to the Framers of the Constitution, and they made sure that no one person could wield so much power that free expression of religion would become a punishable offense. Over...

In the 17th Century, one man had to make a choice. Should he stick to his religious dogma and ignore his own observations and computation, or accept a new reality. As a scientist, he realized that he could not ignore reality. Because of his discoveries, because he was willing to accept that his precious dogma was incorrect, the world changed. As we begin a new voyage into the universe of the US Co...

Step into the Wayback Machine and travel back to  1945. Listen to the radio as the War in Europe comes to an end. Every time I listen to this I imagine my Grandmother sitting in her living room listening and weeping with joy as she knows her brother, Bill, will be home soon...

Look, it doesn't really matter if you are pro or anti lockdown to me. What matters to me is that of which I was most afraid, is coming to pass. And no, it isn't the virus. From Day One of this that I had one question: When will the "emergency" be over? Today, after a lawsuit was filed asking exactly that question, the answer we got was not measured, calm, or even logical. It was, as I feared, hyst...

Down in Bakersfield a couple of Emergency Room Doctors held a press conference (BTW, that should have been the first red flag), at which they announced to the world that everything about  COVID-19 is wrong and that we should definitely, no doubt about it, not be shutting down our economy. On the Conservative Right, these two have become pure gold and celebrated with the typical fanfare and po...