On the 12th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, Cindy Sheehan is leading a peace action in DC and joins us to talk about it. Plus Bibi pulls an Emily Litella, another edition of "Mean People Suck". And for our Flashback Friday segments today, we'll hear my interviews with Jonny Lang from 1999 and Shelby Lynne from 2000 (including their performances)
Finally! Today marks the Vernal Equinox... or the beginning of Spring. Silly non-religious folks (like me) tend to celebrate these days- when we enter a new phase of planetary alignment with the sun- rather than religious holidays based on a book written a few thousand years ago. Yet somehow the pagans who join together to celebrate nature at Ostara Festivals around the world - and pre-date Christianity! - are considered the odd balls. Welcome to opposite world. It's somehow fitting that Fred Phelps, the founder of the hate-spewing Westboro Baptist Church, died on one of the biggest pagan holidays [...]