David Carlyon tells Jim Fleming that Rice was once considered America’s greatest humorist. He was a talking clown, doing satiric commentary on current events.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Benjamin Kilham rehabilitates and studies wild black bears. Steve Paulson spent a day with him as he visited a mother bear and two cubs that he’s keeping an eye on.
Sean Penn reads a section of Bob Dylan’s autobiography where Dylan credits George as one of his greatest influences.
Philosopher Samuel Scheffler bookmarks "The Children of Men" by P.D. James.
Elisabet Sahtouris has no truck with Biblical creationists but thinks the standard story of evolution has major problems.
Who's the real Barack Obama? Biographer David Maraniss traveled around the world searching for answers. He says Obama's life is surrounded in mythology.
Bryant Urstadt is a freelance writer from Connecticut. He wrote "Imagine There's No Oil: Scenes from the Liberal Apocalypse" for Harper's Magazine.
Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
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