and it's probably not just a coincidence that alexander fleming the scientist who discovered the penicillin mold work just down the hall from frazier and walsh at st mary's hospital medical school back about that time now where's that salad with olive oil just. coming up it seems democrats and the gang of twelve have forgotten something. that still exist. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it through to the point made who can you trust no one who is you know view with a global missionary zeal where we had a state controlled capitalism is called session so when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. your take my take in the segment of the show when we answer your questions comments criticisms and opinions here on the big picture our first comments and ideas from the thom hartmann page on facebook picky wrote it's quite apparent that the republican party are not americans anymore as showing us they do not care at all about the people who put them in office to do a job that they're not doing how do they think we're going

. >> my math teacher and said, if they can take -- make penicillin, we can make something of you. become a comedian or an actor. he pushed me. i found an acting teacher and went to study with him. i started studying. i found myself there. i felt like, this is me. this is the thing i can do. i found the greatest teachers. i was the only black in kid in the class. they took me in and -- -- latin kid in the class. they took me in. tavis: how has the american dream been diminished? what is the dream for latin americans purses when you're coming out? >> it is interesting. we are in an interesting time. the recession create scapegoats. things had improved. they were improving for many people. we had jimmy spit -- smits on nypd blue. then you feel -- when i used to watch star trek, i did not think we're going to be in the future. now, we have lacked in directors, producers, -- latin directors, producers, immigrants are a scapegoat. it is a weird thing. like a schizophrenic situation. tavis: to you think we're making progress or falling back? >> i think we are making progress. definitely,

airplanes do fly and penicillin, i think, tends to make people better and television does show you someone in some far-off place. so technology works in an unambiguous way -- in the way that prayer, for instance, or even faith in god doesn't always work. i don't think all this began yesterday. in fact, in the book i try to show how beginning really in the 17th century, the faith that people had in a benign design, if you will, has weakened and in our own century seems to have been replaced almost in a religious sense by a faith in progress and progress through technology: we will reach heaven if we can produce bigger and better machinery and techniques. in fact, there are some people who even believe we can solve the problem of death through technology -- i think it's called cryogenics -- so that even that ultimate problem that human beings have always had to deal with and which our religious systems had always confronted. i mean, that was one of the most significant parts of our religious system -- to help us confront the idea of death. in a technopoly, we say, well, you don't have to rel

>> i'd like a seven-day course of penicillin and syrup to induce vomiting and a mint. >> i didn't understandmy tombstone. >> reporter: the "big bang theory" is up 10% and the fox's "new girl." >> this is caroline. >> care a lee? >> caroline! >> reporter: abc's "last man standing." >> just concern yourself with this area right here! >> reporter: and cbs breakout "two broke girls." >> why don't you just say yes to his friend request? >> because i never check facebook? some girl i worked with in 2005 says it's raining? >> it is kind of a bummer. mo rocca is along with us. and dalton ross, assistant managing editor of entertainment weekly. what is it about tv comedy so great right now? do we all need a laugh these days, mo? >> oh, gosh. i think the idea that the bad economy is driving us to sitcoms is an interesting idea. i wish it were true. i just don't think it is. >> what is it then? >> i think people are a little bit sick of procedural dramas and hopefully a lot sick of reality tv. it's cadavers and kardashian. we've had enough of them. >> that was kind of the reason a lot of sitcoms went b

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