Episode 200: The Long Defeat

[kmo]

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-04-07T00_56_32-07_00

In this 200th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO blends content from Corey Olsen (AKA the Tolkien Professor), James Howard Kunstler, and Doug Lain of the Diet Soap podcast to

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[warnwood]

I went to a meeting of our local neighborhood council Monday evening. Neighborhood councils are essentially politically powerless entities created in Los Angeles after the San Fernando Valley threatened to secede from the rest of the metropolis in 2002 and take its tax base with it. Neighborhood councils are populated by the same sorts of civic busybodies who like to run for seats and pound gavels on the tables of condo boards and homeowners associations, but they do occasionally get the ear of the local City Councilperson, who actually showed up this past Monday evening to deliver some good and bad news

[l33tminion]

(You missed a "http://" on that Diet Soap Podcast link.)

An excellent episode. And congratulations!

Coincidentally, I'd just started working my way through the Diet Soap Podcast archives, so the content of this episode was well timed.