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Ed Baxter: Find The Sports Thief

January 24, 2015 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says he wants to find the thief who has stolen some of the fun from sports. Serra High School, New England Patriots aren’t playing the true spirit of sports.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Balancing Civil Liberties

January 23, 2015 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter discusses the fine line between the right to demonstrate and the right of people whom the demonstrators disrupt.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Walk a Mile In a Cop’s Shoes

January 10, 2015 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter shows what can happen when a protestor goes through police training. Improving community relations and understanding is a key to race relations.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Afghanistan is Over … Really?

January 4, 2015 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter questions whether the war in Afghanistan is over. NATO has lowered its flag, but we still will have 10,000 people there.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Can We Make Sense of 2014?

January 2, 2015 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter looks back on the top stories of 2014 and ahead to 2015. He tries to make sense of what, if anything, we have learned: from Ebola to ISIS to the Sony Hack.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Lessons from York/Harbaugh Divorce?

December 30, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says Jim Harbaugh may have followed his dream. Jed York needs to sort out his nightmare. Either way – Harbaugh to Michigan.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: North Korea … To Laugh Or Cry?

December 28, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter tries to make sense of whether to laugh or cry over the North Korea/Sony film incident. Should the movie “The Interview” crisis be viewed as humor or sad? Kim Jong Un’s government says President Obama acts like a monkey.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: 2015 Could Be The Best Year Ever?

December 26, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter points out the things our government needs to do along with the things we need to do to make 2015 a good year.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Black Lives Matter

December 13, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter comments on Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco asking the congregation to wear black. He says the message is “black lives matter”.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: New York Mayor and Race Relations

December 7, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is very impressive in talking about race relations, community relations and racism.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Thanksgiving, Ferguson And Beyond

November 30, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says this Thanksgiving was a time for family, some shopping, and how to get along better as a society.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: 49ers Owner Is One Mean Tweeter

November 28, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter is trying to Make Sense of whether 49ers owner Jed York’s tweet was a good idea. Did he throw Jim Harbaugh under the bus?

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Jennifer Lawrence Accuses Picture Viewers of Being Sex Offenders

October 8, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says Jennifer Lawrence has spoken out on her hacked nude pictures. She says anybody who looks at them is a sex offender and that her boyfriend would have looked at porn if she hadn’t sent them.

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Real Baseball Excitement This Year

October 8, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter seems to feel there is really excitement for the Baseball playoffs this year. Angels, Dodgers, Nationals out. Giants, Cardinals, Royals Orioles in. Could be a wild card World Series?

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Label Her An American

October 6, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter talks about taking labels out of society. Raven Simone talks with Oprah Winfrey about not wanting to be labeled “gay” or “African American”. She says she wants to be known as an American.

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: President’s Political Foot in Mouth

October 4, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says the President has given the GOP a gift in their quest to pick up six Senate seats. As hard as it is to be President, he has made it harder.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Politics, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Giants Win…..Experts Shove It

October 4, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter talks about the Giants game one win over the Nationals. He says games are not played on paper.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Feeling Nuts for Testicular Cancer Awareness

October 2, 2014 1 Comment

Ed Baxter tries to make sense of whether this is a very worthy challenge like the Ice Bucket, or a cheap sophomoric publicity stunt.

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: More Anonymous Internet Access is a Good Thing?

September 28, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter tries to make sense of whether more anonymous email accounts is a good thing. There are companies like Bit Torrent and Guerilla Mail which protect privacy.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Science & Tech, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: We Are Confused Americans

September 27, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter tries to make sense of a new poll that shows three quarters of us are confused about the important issues. The AP GfK poll says those who know more are more confused.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Giants Hunter Pence Bleeping Inspiring

September 26, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter shares Hunter Pence’s celebratory/inspirational speech to the Giants after they win a playoff spot. There are a lot of bleeps.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Derek Jeter’s Storybook Yankee Stadium Finale

September 26, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter reports it couldn’t have been any sweeter for Yankee fans or for Derek Jeter in his final at bat at Yankee Stadium. Derek Jeter, man of class.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Emma Watson and He For She

September 24, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter details Emma Watson’s address before the United Nations on feminism. Also the threat against her to expose nude photos.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Forty Niner Emotional Basket Case

September 22, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says the Forty Niners have been out-coached and have lost their emotional cool. Niners lose to the Arizona Cardinals in terrible fashion.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Big Brown Endorsement

September 21, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter reports the Bay Area News Group has endorsed Jerry Brown even though it doesn’t agree with some of his major campaign issues. Baxter asks if that makes sense.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Politics, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: All Hail Alibaba…Hi Tech Turned on It’s Ear

September 20, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter discusses the Alibaba IPO. It is huge for Silicon Valley, Yahoo, Google, Facebook.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Finance, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Will Australia Wake Up the World on Radical Islam?

September 19, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter wonders if the world will finally wake up about Radical Islam after the threats of public random beheadings in Australia.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Nice Divorce, Nice Tweets, and It’s Not One World

September 17, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter shares stories on Jewel’s constructive divorce, $5000 paid for virginity in China, woman arrested for driving in Saudi Arabia, and Lady Gaga’s positive tweets.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Miss America Fun Again?

September 15, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says he thinks the Miss America pageant has become fun again. It is more than just bust lines and at measurements. Miss New York performed with a red plastic cup to Pharell Williams Happy.

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Won’t Stop Talking About Domestic Violence

September 14, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter responds to an email from a man who wants him to stop talking about domestic violence. 1 in 3 women in the U.S. is a victim. Baxter says the NFL needs to change as does society as a whole.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Are We at War with ISIS?

September 13, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter points out there is a difference of opinion within the Obama administration about whether we are at war with ISIS.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Compare Bush to Hitler?

September 11, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter reports on homework assignment that had middle schoolers comparing George W. Bush and Adolph Hitler.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Baxter: 9/11 Needs to be Remembered

September 10, 2014 2 Comments

Ed Baxter says we can’t forget what happened on 9/11. He and his wife visited Ground Zero and he says there are messages we have to remember.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed & Rosie: Ray Rice Cut By Ravens

September 8, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter and Rosie Allen disagree about the punishment handed to Ravens’ Ray Rice. He has been cut from the team for hitting his wife.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: President’s Immigration Delay Makes Sense?

September 8, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter tries to make sense of the President’s delay on immigration reform. He says it seems to make Latinos angry, fuel Republicans, and make Democrats hide.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Hacked Celebrity Nude Art Exhibit

September 4, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter discusses whether it makes sense to put up the hacked nude celebrity nude photos in an art exhibit. He says it is to make a privacy point.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: ISIS Beheading

September 2, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter quotes Dianne Feinstein in saying President Barack Obama is “too cautious.” Is it time to send in Marines?

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Stolen Nude Photos of Celebrities

September 2, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says the FBI and Apple are trying to find out how the nude pictures got hacked. He also says private information can’t be guaranteed to be safe on those sharing sites.

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Pot and Domestic Violence, Michael Sam, Donnie Wahlberg

September 1, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter in Broken News checks Pot and Domestic Violence, Coffee plus a nap, Michael Sam cut, your house’s smell, Mark Wahlberg to Donnie and Jenny McCarthy “sorry not going to wedding.”

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Humor, Who's Talking

Ken Dito & Ed Baxter: 49ers Today and Yesterday

September 1, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ken Dito and Ed Baxter ask the question would the Forty Niners be having these kind of legal issues in the Bill Walsh days.

Filed Under: Ed Baxter, Ken Dito, Sports, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Some Very Strange Ironic Stories

August 29, 2014 Leave a Comment

Broken News is a collection of stories like a Maserati painted like a police car, pretending you dog is a cat, how much are we working, binge TV watching, our bacteria follows us. Ed Baxter hosts.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Miley Cyrus Was Right?

August 29, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter says he has changed his mind about Miley Cyrus taken the homeless man to the MTV music awards. She was trying to help runaway children.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Needing Burial Life Insurance?

August 28, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter asks what Burial Life Insurance is? Is it life insurance or death insurance? What is auto insurance? Is health insurance actually sickness insurance?

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Sophia Vergara Emmy Brouhaha

August 27, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter discusses the social media buzz after Sophia Vergara got up on a pedestal and was turned around in a circle. The question was whether she was objectified.

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Airline Fight Over Knee Space; Howard Stern Ice Challenge

August 26, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter details an altercation over the use of the Knee Defender. A man says he didn’t want his laptop crushed. Also, Howard Stern Ice Challenges Casey Kasem.

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Biggest Traffic Idiot?

August 25, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter asks who is the biggest idiot: the aggressive fast driver or the driver who drives 65 in the fast lane and won’t move over?

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Quake Magnitude Perspective

August 24, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter details the difference in strength between the Napa Quake and the Quake of 1989. A 7.0 quake is 10 times stronger than a 6.0.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Plastic Bag Ban in California

August 21, 2014 1 Comment

Paper or Plastic? Calfornia has a new piece of legislation it is considering which bans single use plastic bags. Ed Baxter looks at the arguments.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Different Views on Racism Between Races

August 19, 2014 1 Comment

Ed Baxter discusses the Pew Research Poll on whether race is getting too much attention in the Ferguson, Missouri discussions. Ed feels there is a large disconnect between races and that everybody needs to understand.

Filed Under: Current Events, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

Ed Baxter: Fighting Breast Cancer

August 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

Ed Baxter details the Friends of Faith Breast Cancer Challenge. Ed talks about Rosie Allen’s involvement and how you can walk and fight Breast Cancer.

Filed Under: Culture, Ed Baxter, Who's Talking

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