besides berkeley and madison, an arbor, san francisco, and the rest of this country is right wing. what does that mean in terms of what is happening? we have 7 million people in constructive custody. 7 million at this moment. jail, prison, probation, parole. last year, 80 million people were arrested in the united states. 1/3 of them were released in 26 hours. about 2/3 spent a day or longer in jail. we are incarcerating and solemnizing -- felonizing this population. you cannot discriminate by race, but you can buy criminal record. wisconsin was a police state, very liberal, right? it is against the law to have intercourse until you are 18 years old. but i just ask you this, this is san francisco, let me ask you this -- how many of you have smoked pot? [laughter] i ask this of my students every semester. how many of you have sexual intercourse before age 17? in my state, you are convicted felons. right? so i tell my students, i tell them that i'm going to take my university's 15,000, and going to take my students, and we're going to march down to the police station, and they are al

he is an experimental physicist in ann arbor. host: he said it is hard to predict what exotic phenomena on the device may find. atlanta,'s go to georgia, a democrat. good morning. caller: my opinion is that i think they need to call some kind of treaty nationwide to ban the shuttle program. we are coming up against some tough times. there are so many people who have experience situations that have been difficult. it should never be a chance for medicaid and medicare and other things that people truly depend on and to keep going to space shuttle that we're not getting results. if we can find a direct mission to go into space, then i can see us continue it. but to spend billions and billions of dollars on a program and we have all these problems with our roads and everything else in the world. i think it is a waste of money to spend taxpayer money this way. host: the papers are full of headlines about the tornadoes. here's "usa today." catastrophic.'" the terminator is injured thousands of people. 600 alone in alabama. that is tusc

an interesting story about the lack of success that the obama and administration had in convincing the public that there are good things about the health care bill. they referred to studies from ann arbor saying that people with his -- specific political opinions, confronted with facts contrary to the opinion, they may be reinforced into the wrong opinion. wrong opinions may be reinforced. you are talking about the amortization of the media, but on a political scale people want to read what they want to read. getting people to read something different is extremely challenging. how do you address that? how much responsibility the media -- responsible to its stockholders, to challenge the leadership to read something different? >> a really good question. i hate to fall back on the british model again, everyone loves british newspapers that because they are very lively and fun to read. they managed to figure out exactly where they are. they know their audiences in very seldom write anything against the conventional wisdom of their audience. american media, criticized rightly in some ways, they have a very large church that they address. "the washington post" is in 60% of washington househ