SHARON returns to PID Radio this week for a look at developments in the Middle East. Isn’t it interesting that the location of the confrontation between Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and British Royal Marine sailors and marines took place near an island called Abadan? Does Tehran want to force a war, or are the mullahs hoping [...]

Iran Ups the Ante [60:00m]:
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OUR guest this week paid a visit to the Rent-a-Bunker: Taylor Kent, AKA the Snarky Avenger of the Snark Infested Waters podcast. His mission: To spread the gospel to the legions of comic book, graphic novel, science fiction, horror movie, and computer game fans. It’s an interesting community, and it’s one that’s been pretty much [...]

The Snarky Avenger [60:00m]:
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WE DON’T usually get out to first-run movies, but we made an exception this weekend for 300. The movie is beautiful, but what’s the message? “Freedom isn’t free”? “Persians are evil”? Read Sharon’s review of the movie at Connecting The Dots. Links: Feds test new data-mining program Conyers: FBI PATRIOT Act abuses ‘potentially without limit’ [...]
SHARON picked up on something this week: The timing of the release of the new movie 300, which presents an artistic vision of the epic Battle of Thermopylae, corresponds to a present-day showdown with a modern Xerxes, President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Does this make President Bush our King Leonidas? We also talked briefly with Beth [...]

Ahmadinejad = Xerxes? [60:00m]:
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