Max and Stacy talking about National Security Agency and the Pentagon spying on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, but Americans too busy eating pie (see photo) to really care and/or education standards now so low that they don't really understand the significance of this spying; Max tells of the sad story on gold today and the equally sad story on the polar bears dying, but, again, the pie eaters don't seem to care; Stacy reads a BBC story about the warmest sea surface temperatures since records began in 1880, the year that saw the cash register patented, cocaine isolated from the coca plant and Thomas Edison founded Science, a journal for the advancement of science. We've come a long way as the religious right in America this week trades their support for a cut on food stamps for Jesus' favourite people, the poor, in exchange for a ban on abortion.
