It’s been a while since I did one of these, so here goes.

• In his latest episode of Common Sense, Dan Carlin marvels at the grass-roots effort to convince Congress to not support the President’s plans to strike Syria.  He mentions that he can’t remember an event like that in recent history,  but I have to disagree.  Just this past spring, gun rights supporters made their voice heard loud and clear, and they did it mostly through the power of emails, letters, phone calls, and visits to offices.
• In the 9/21 episode of Dark Secret Place, Bryan suits has good advice on the mindset to have when gathering in large places where a lot of people are to be had, such as malls, in light of the attack in Nairobi.  In the 9/28 episode, he does an excellent job dressing down a cartoonist who used an image of a suicide bomber to criticize the Tea Party.
• Mike Duncan is back with another excellent history podcast series, Revolutions.  If you liked his History of Rome series, then you should like this one.