Our featured guest is Mark Rice. Mark is Professor and Chair of American Studies at St. John Fisher College in Rochester where he specializes in the history of photography, twentieth-century American culture, and transnational American Studies.

Mark and I will discuss his blog “Ranking America” – a treasure trove of information on how the USA matches up to other nations on a vast variety of topics. He is the author of Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s and several scholarly articles. If time permits we will hear a bit about his most recent work on the USA colonial regime in the Philipines.

Mark Rice has been a contributor to Forbes magazine and to Newsweek International and increasingly The Huffington Post.
http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com
Ranking America (on Twitter as @RankingAmerica)

And …we will also speak with our Senior Florida Correspondent, Steven Wiehe.

For our music … blues slide guitarist from SW Louisiana, Sonny Landreth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Landreth
http://www.sonnylandreth.com