Bill still has a few choice words about this stimulus package - specifically, for the people who tried to gut it. And he has even more choice words for Kenneth Starr. WNEC Law School professor, and project director for GLAD, Jennifer Levi talks to us about what’s going on with Prop 8 in California. Then Carol Johnson and Rita Bleiman of Amherst Cinema and Pleasant Street Theater tell us about an upcoming gala fundraiser.

Bill offers a glimpse behind the curtain into the glamorous world of radio. Pay no attention to that huffing gas processing fat machine.

Then we talk to Rachel Simpson of Pioneer Valley Ballet about Cole Porter at the Academy of Music, and director Sheryl Stoodley (Serious Play) and playwright Milan Dragicevich about Milosevic at the Hague.

Kenneth Starr really is a tool. I mean, honestly - does he have nothing better to do than waste taxpayer dollars poking his nose into other people’s relationships?

If you want to add your name to a list of people who support the overturning of Prop 8, go here. We’ll be talking more about this issue Thursday with Attorney Jennifer Levi.

Anyway, in other news…we talk to Attorney Sabin Willett, counsel for Guantanamo detainees, who will speak Thursday night at Smith College. And then Northampton business owner Eric Suher stops by to give us his thoughts about the proposed Business Improvement District.

Don’t let Rush Limbaugh and his chuckleheads drive the economy over a cliff. Call you senator and voice your support for the Economic Recovery Package. Our own Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis has some great tips.

Then we chat with Carla Oleska of Women’s Fund.

Todd Robbins has strange hobbies, like eating glass and swallowing swords. It makes for a great (sold out) show at the Academy of Music as part of the Four Sundays in February.

Then Northampton City Councilor David Narkewicz stops in to give us the latest on the BID proposal and other goings-on.

Bill’s feeling his age, thanks to a surprise in the mail.

(portrait of the artist as a young malcontent)

Reverend Peter Ives and Gina-Louise Sciarra of First Churches have a gorgeous way to raise money for the roof repairs, and Tyler Bourdreau shares with us the proposal he recently talked about in the New York Times.

Bill and Jaz talk about all the Massachusetts and Connecticut marriages that have been torn apart because those states allowed gay marriage. All one of ‘em. Then we talk to Jaime Michaels of the Out for Reel Film Series, and State Senator Stan Rosenberg.

Golden Lumpkin is back! And not a moment too soon! Our scheduled guest was apparently too busy giving Northampton police a complete list of upcoming concerts that might get too rowdy (I’m looking at you, Primate Fiasco!), so Bill and Jaz talk about Michael Phelps’s amazing lung capacity, the California octuplets’ mom’s amazing womb capacity, and Joe the Plumber’s amazing stupid capacity.

Happy F-U-ary! Stupid groundhog.

We talk to David Michaels, author of Doubt is Their Product about the systematic diminishing of science, which he’ll be speaking about this week at Western New England College.

And then our favorite librarian/beekeeper/amateur lumberjack Adam Novitt stops by to tell us just how sexy clotheslines can be.

It’s the last Friday of the month, and once again we’re at Serio’s Market, once again parked near the produce, which has a whole new meaning thanks to PETA:

(uh, if it’s not safe for the Superbowl, it might not be totally safe for work, depending on where you work. Consider yourself warned)

Hunh…well…oh! Uhhh, where were we? Oh, right…our own Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis and Campaign for America’s Future talks about Obama’s first ten days.

Then, Valley Locavore Mary Nelen comes by with Garth Shaneyfelt of Green River Ambrosia to talk about mead, and the upcoming Winter Fare.