Tonight's guests are
Senator Chuck Schumer on the Daily Show and
Rob Rhinehart on the Colbert Report.
Chuck Schumer is the senior senator from New York. Among the political topics they will discuss will probably be the mess at the VA.
Military veterans in and around New York City have been complaining about delays in seeing their doctors in the wake of the deadly Veterans Affairs health-care scandal, US Sen. Charles Schumer charged Sunday.
The New York Democrat said he’s worried about the 350,000-plus vets who live in New York City and Long Island and “need and deserve better health care.”NYPost.com
Apparently he is a graduation crasher.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a man long known for his eagerness to talk into any available microphone, likes to give commencement speeches. According to The Wall Street Journal, Schumer has spoken at eight ceremonies this year, and he has a "standing invitation" to address the graduating classes of at least two schools whenever he wants. "Many schools receive requests from the senator's staff about the timing and feasibility of his joining a particular ceremony, school officials said, though rarely with enough advance notice to put him on the program," the WSJ reports.Chuck Schumer Regularly Crashes Graduation Ceremonies So He Can Talk About His College Breakup
Rob Rhinehart is a software engineer who has created food substitute he calls
Soylent.
Posted by MattBors right here at Daily Kos Today.
Give the original diary some love.
Last August, I spent five days eating nothing but Soylent, the provocatively named liquid food product created by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rob Rhinehart. Five days wasn’t anywhere near enough to gain more than the briefest glimpses into how the stuff might affect my body—I wound up losing a couple of statistically insignificant pounds, and once I’d moderated my intake some and wasn’t over-stuffing myself, I felt fine. The biggest side effect from eating Soylent for five days was a truly epic amount of gas for a couple of days; my wife is a saintly creature who assures me she didn’t notice, but I recall crop-dusting from room to room, praying that the foul vapors I was venting didn’t kill our houseplants or set our curtains on fire.
The gas calmed down after a couple of days, though, and the experiment was a success. I didn’t die, and farts aside, I felt pretty good. In the months since then, Rhinehart and his coworkers at Rosa Labs have tweaked the Soylent ingredient mix, fine-tuning the substance and figuring out their supply chain in order to meet the truly massive demand generated by the product’s crowdfunding campaign. After months and months of delays, much of which is directly attributable to the rice protein supplier chosen to deliver the tiniest-possible particulate size, Soylent began shipping on April 25.Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down After a day on the final formula, we talk taste, texture, gas, and the future of food.
Tomorrow's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW
Th 6/12: Christopher Walken
THE COLBERT REPORT
Th 6/12: James Webb
Next Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW
Mo 6/16: Howard Schultz
Tu 6/17: Daniel Schulman
We 6/18: Kevin Hart
Th 6/19: Jennifer Esposito
THE COLBERT REPORT
Mo 6/16: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tu 6/17: David Boies & Theodore B. Olson
We 6/18: Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
Th 6/19: Jay Carney