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A gun openly in texas and harder to smoke in hawaii where the legal smoking age is now 21. virginia improved access to voting for students but in north carolina where i live, 2016 is the year when it becomes harder to vote. heres one other thing we can be sure of in 2016. you, the viewers of nerd land will be letting us know what you think about our show in tweets, posts and snail mail. no doubt that you will let us know when you think we have succeeded or failed. and we hear at mhp will keep wo...

>> well take a break but im going to make you an offer. >> yes, maam. >> i actually think the question of having a big national conversation is an important one. just dont know if the president does in this moment. i on the other hand have a talk show and if you want to work with me to do some bipartisan week on this show over the course of the next year to talk about violence in a broader sense, im giving you the forum of "nerdland." up next, the presidents accomplishments on 2015. well talk ...

State officials were e-mailing each other over the summer about knowing lead rates in the water were rising. at the same time that they were assuring folks there was nothing wrong with the water. so theres a lot of stuff -- just a lot of stuff thats still coming to light here it the governor has appointed a task force to sort out some of this campability, figure out what happened. theres other efforts to look into it. i think this is all going to be part of a long process of figuring out whos to...

Marie hancock. thanks to all of you for being here for my l.a. debut of "nerd land." talk to me a little bit, what is it about california that allows it to be kind of a laboratory for these kinds of policies, not always progressive but recently quite progressive? >> well, first of all, it is not a new if he none that. this has been happening for a long time, and particularly in the 90s when we had a democratic majority and a democratic governor. toughest assault weapons ban. i was the author. he...

Contributing writer for the nation. so nice to have you all here. >> i now know why were here. great. i get it now. >> honestly, you know, we have been obsessed with this video in nerd land. we actually thought your take on it was the most perfect of all the many takes. so i just want to read this one part. in this video, youre seeing the confidence of someone who has been going to the same bar every other weekend for three years. its post-posturing. its when you show up in sweats at 1:00 a.m. b...

Thats right, nerd land went to new york comicon. >> hey nerd land, its me. im standing here at day one of new york comicon. you can see, the streams of participants coming in, the lines are all the way down the block. expected attendance over 150,000 people. the largest pop culture convention of its kind in north america. all of these folks are here coming to see over 500 exhibitors, panelists, actors, artists, everything around sci-fi, fantasy, comic books, all here for the next four days. new ...

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>> thank you. thank you so much. i really wanted it to be about me and my family and who i am because people naturally assume they know who i am because ive been out there since i was 18 years old but in the book you will realize you really dont know who i am and so i like to share this book. as african-americans we really dont pass stories down because of our painful past and i really wanted to be part of the cycle of really leaving my story there for people to read. >> you do not shy away from...

This week the september issue of vogue hit newsstands and none other than nerd lands favorite queen b faced the cover. beyonce did not grant "very long" an interview making her the only cover star in at least five stars to evade a "vogue" reporter. beyonce had an essay about her star power in a cover shoot video released on "vogues" website. the lack of an interview is not the only thing that makes it special. most "vogue" cover girls have been white. beyonce is only the third black woman to be ...

Days. your state is just one of four to require proof of citizenship at all and, surprise, the people most affected are low income kansans and, wait for it, african-americans. secretary kobach, enacting birter-inspired legislation to cancel 30,000 kansans right to vote will not help your party do better with minority voters. based on your actions maybe that isnt what your actual goal is anyway. sincerely, joy. and coming up, a volatile week in ferguson and why police took dna samples from some o...