Welcome to my first Critical Thinker podcast. I am thrilled to be able to expand The Critical Thinker into yet another medium. There is the critical thinker blog, the critical thinker video blog, and now the critical thinker podcast.  The Critical Thinker is a spin-off of The Reading Circle a book talk radio show heard live every Saturday beginning at 6 a.m. ET on WP88.7 FM and is web streamed around the world at www.gobrave.org. My objective when posting to The Critical Thinker is to challenge you to critically think about the issues appearing in the blog. During each Critical Thinker podcast I will bring issues to you for you to ponder; thought provoking and in many instances controversial issues to jumpstart your thinking. The topics are usually things that you would not give any thought to unless it was brought to your attention. That’s what the critical thinker does; it raises your antennae and causes you to stop and pause…… to think. Many of the issues are taken from the sound bites you hear on the news and the question is asked, “Does that make sense to you?” The critical thinker really is for those who choose to move beyond the sound bites that are heard on the news each evening and the topics range from serious to silly to satire. For those of you who are old enough to remember Andy Rooney on Sixty Minutes and the sitcom Seinfeld, you will see that the Critical Thinker is a cross between the two. Here on the Critical Thinker, I ask you to give some thought to the issue at hand, triangulate information and come up with an informed decision or opinion for yourself.

In this podcast you will have the opportunity to hear the audio version of the Critical Thinker while the written version can be found at thereadingcircleblog.blogspot.com, so tune in frequently to see what the topic of discussion is for each broadcast. The tagline for the critical thinker is a quote from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. and the quote says "Nothing pains some people more than having to think." I challenge you to read the critical thinker blog, follow the critical thinker podcast and follow the critical thinker on twitter at thinkcritical01. Thank you and I look forward to sharing many thoughts in this podcast for you to critically think about. Again, I say welcome to The Critical Thinker.