Rarefied Airwaves

by Mark Steyn
Steyn on the Air
February 14, 2018

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If food be the music of love..: Mark goes in search of Valentine cusine on The Mark Steyn Show

Happy Valentine's Day to the many SteynOnline romantics around the world. I'll be spending Valentine's at a candlelit corner table with John Oakley on Global News Radio 640 Toronto, live at 5pm Eastern. Hope you can join us.

If that doesn't quite do it for you romance-wise, I hope you'll check out the love poetry, amorous songs and sensuous cuisine on the Valentine edition of The Mark Steyn Show.

This past weekend I was in Colorado for the 2018 Leadership Program of the Rockies retreat, and while there checked in with a couple of the state's radio hosts. If you click up top, you can hear Ross Kaminsky on KHOW sizing me up. (Re that Aussie PM he referred to, more here.)

Along with The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway, Congressman Jason Lewis and others, I also checked in with JImmy Sengenberger on KNUS. I crop up about 30 minutes in, but do listen to Mollie and Jason first, because they're both on great form. Click below to listen:

If you disagree with any of the above and you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club, please feel free to have at it in the comments. But do stay on topic and respect your fellow commenters.

Speaking of the Steyn Club, we'll be launching our latest Tale for Our Time this Friday, and it's a corker. For more information on The Mark Steyn Club and becoming a member, please see here - and don't forget our Gift Membership, which makes a perfect Valentine present for the love of your life and is sure to seal the deal more effectively than roses or Hershey's kisses.

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14 Reader Comments

Kate Smyth • Feb 15, 2018 at 08:36

The first guy's enthusiasm and admiration for Mark really radiate across the airwaves; clearly a career/ life highlight for him! A very interesting discussion in the second link on the fundamental "right to disagree", and reclaiming cultural territory that's been ceded to the left. Recent column by Matt Ridley on the "new Victorians" worth reading: no room for disagreement, as Mark mentioned in his recent SteynPost.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/censorious-millennials-are-the-new-victorians-b8875ggj5

Chris Hall • Feb 14, 2018 at 16:36

I just saw over at Anthony Watt's site, wattsupwiththat, that a judge has dismissed a long running law suit against Tim Ball by Andrew Weaver. That ought to cheer Mark up. However, at the same site, there is also news that Michael Mann has just received an award from AAAS for public engagement in science.

Charles Romer • Feb 14, 2018 at 09:17

I could not finish listening to this. After Molly Hemingway interview -which was good- commercials (?!) and no way to easily navigate to Mark's segment. I gave up.

And the player is about as poor as I've seen in many years. Surely, at a minimum, the commercials can be left out as in almost all other podcasts?

Laura Rosen Cohen

Charles Romer • Feb 14, 2018 at 11:13

I just scrolled along and I saw Mark's segment starts at 31:03, not bothering with any other parts...

BallBounces in Phoenix

Charles Romer • Feb 14, 2018 at 11:46

Did you try hovering over the time bar and selecting the 30 minute mark? I did that on Chrome browser and it worked fine.

Sol Cranfill • Feb 14, 2018 at 02:06

Good discussion with Jimmy. The quaint "battle of ideas" has been replaced with a mandate by the left to tear down what stands in their way. There is no mistaking this. The damage being done to California is visibly changing by the year. Homelessness, drug use, poverty, illegal immigration, crazy regulations, etc. are being infused into the state as rapidly as possible. Why? So they can replace the rules of a working society with a new set of crummy rules for a society their cruel selves control - the same thing that has ruined so many other parts of the world.

They have made us their enemy. So they're our enemy. We have to identify them clearly as that, and treat them that way, or we're going to lose.

Fran Lavery

Sol Cranfill • Feb 14, 2018 at 13:01

Not only is all of what you say true, Sol, the ones that have achieved all the destruction that they set their sights on in California and other liberal states are now moving into our state and getting themselves elected to local government positions to keep up their destructive streaking! Not what we needed in New Mexico, more liberal agendas piling on. Conservative candidates with no negatives are getting trounced. We're badly in need of a sea change. Where are those rising sea levels when you really need them?

David Coats

Fran Lavery • Feb 14, 2018 at 13:42

Sadly true. However, the accepted science of rising sea levels the left worships would only increase the flow of coastal elites scurrying for and infecting the higher ground of nearby western states like your NM. And their illegal immigrant indentured servants will follow them.

Giovanna Visconti

Fran Lavery • Feb 14, 2018 at 13:57

Fran, so glad you posted this comment.

This afternoon, Rush has devoted much time in the first and second hours to the Democrats quietly winning many local elections across the country. He says that Soros and others with large pocketbooks have been heavily funding elections at the grass roots level at least since at least 2015 (probably in Soros's case longer than that) and national "news" organizations--the MSM--along with the DNC, are keeping a low profile and not touting these wins the way they probably would love to do. This has nothing to do with the raft of Republican retirements from the House, and a few in the Senate. This is local attorneys general, probably sheriffs, etc.

His transcripts are available without a Rush 24/7 membership. Worth reading.

Michelle Dulak

Fran Lavery • Feb 14, 2018 at 15:59

Amen to that. We're CA refugees, but we aren't doing anything to turn OR into CA, just living in Salem exactly as we did in Novato (and San Rafael, and Rockridge, and Emeryville, and Berkeley).

Fran Lavery

David Coats • Feb 14, 2018 at 16:30

I can't for the life of me understand why they get away with this rising sea level narrative. They've been allowed to, I guess. The glamorous movie stars making the same tired old man-bad-causing-climate-anomalies appearances. The truth must get out during this administration or it might never get out. Write to President Trump at the White House site and tell him respectfully we must get started immediatley on the Blue vs. Red Team climate debate. We have some local retired scientists working very hard collecting data to disprove what the so-called accepted science is. The red flag for everyone from the get go should've been the word "consensus." Science is about accurate data collection, a lot of it, and accurate data reporting. Some of these agencies supporting man-made climate change contradict their own government's data.

There may not be another administration in our lifetime that will make this happen. The tide gage at Battery Park has not shown any increase in the rate of tidal rise in over a hundred years, and the only reason why it appears to be rising in places like Miami and Jakarta is that the foundation of those two cities are sand. Development continues, I believe, although I don't live there to vouch but if they continue to erect high rises in Miami and tear down trees in Jakarta and pump water out of the sandy foundations below the cities, you're going to have to expect the fish and garbage will be swimming alongside of you in the fishmarkets.

Fran Lavery

Michelle Dulak • Feb 14, 2018 at 17:20

Michelle, my only suggestion is remain vigilant and be engaged in your new community and try to find out what concerns your neighbors. A lot of really good people are too timid to come out of the woodwork. If you're younger than me, early sixties, think about getting involved at least by attending city council and county commissioners meetings. I wish I had started sooner but I was busy with homeschooling children then moving, also, a few children's weddings flung around the country and grandchildren caused me to take my eye off the ball. But they are real eye-openers to hear what people say at the microphones both from the floor and from the board's chair. Why shouldn't the elected officials hear from all sides?

Our progressive liberals here are so organized; as an example, they brought busloads in from the north to push for the National Wilderness Monument in which about 700,000 acres was to be given back to the Feds. I was going to attend to hear what Congressman Pearce had to say and the woman who headed Obama's Interior Dept., but they closed the doors there were so many outsiders who showed up. I think they were insane, as we don't really have much developable land around our town to spread out into because there's a huge mountain range to the east with ranches full of cattle, a bone dry desert mesa to the west and a narrow farming area squeezed in between. But as it is in a county almost half the size of Israel and with I believe only 8% of the county having dwellings and businesses and infrastructure, the environmentalists convinced the community here that giving all that land back to the Feds would be in our own best interests.

When I asked a daughter's former boyfriend why he was behind it, the answer was something about preserving it for posterity. It's land that has been here almost completely unaltered for 2,000,000 years or more. For Pete's sake a ten-year-old boy accidentally kicked some sand off a mastodon's dental work two years ago out hiking with his parents! The entire beast was intact! There's a whole herd of them still waiting there to have the sand blown off. That's pretty untouched, I would say. Who are they saving it for exactly? Mr. Ryan Zinke did not listen to any of our pleas to have the deal overturned, except maybe they agreed 500,000 acres was enough to take. It was so popular a project among the Progressives I hear they had been at this among themselves for the last couple of decades. No growth is what they wanted, no growth is what they're going to get. No high schoolers heading off to college want to move back here. No jobs! It's very sad because if it weren't for the lop-sided political climate, this would be an ideal place to live.

Fran Lavery

Giovanna Visconti • Feb 14, 2018 at 17:28

Giovanna, I listen to him daily, on Maharush 24/7, but I wrote that message to Sol before I turned on Rush. I too, heard a caller from Arizona talking about exactly this. I know there's no point in fabricating stories here, I wouldn't even know where to begin, not that imaginative for starters, and everyone would see right through it, anyway.

You know, people think conservatives are in a Rush echo chamber but what they don't realize is Rush talks about what we fly over "yokels" are actually seeing on the ground. Same happened with Mark Steyn's conversation on the radio show segment taped and aired from Colorado today. He said some important things that people are getting painfully aware of in their home towns and states. I tune in because there is no other place to hear your thoughts surfacing in the airwaves. It keeps carrying you forward to know you're not some nut imagining the world has gone mad before your eyes and you're out there all alone looking in from outer space.

Giovanna Visconti

Fran Lavery • Feb 14, 2018 at 19:30

Glad you heard the show today, Fran! He added a bit more on this same subject in hour three. Glad he did so since this issue is flying under the radar.

I certainly don't think of the America between the two awful coasts as "fly-over country" peopled by "yokels!" :) I'm in New York City! Can you imagine? So Rush is essential listening here not to help with "carrying forward," but quite literally for fresh air! The only place worse than NYC right now, judging by news reports, is probably California! The whole damned state! Not to worry, though...we'll catch up.

Meantime, this idiot Cory Gardner of CO has just thrown a huge spanner into the works putting forth an amnesty bill with Colorado's senior senator, Democrat Michael Bennett--one of the original members of the "Gang of Eight." Worse, Gardner is the GOP Senate Campaign Manager for 2018!

The Republicans aren't called The Stupid Party for nothing!